Web 2.0 has gotten plenty of hype, obviously. I just can’t get over how wonderful of a resource that this is. This has given marketers so many opportunities and possibilities.
It is a wonderful resource for meeting new people and to network and even work out joint ventures. People are a lot more interactive and accessible than they are with just plain e-mail. You now have a face when you interact.
Web 2.0 also allows a person to get a ton of targeted traffic, lets face it, we all need it. It might be to your blog, web site, sales page or affiliate offer.
It allows you to get help from the search engines and to also get direct traffic. I love getting direct traffic because once you find a way to get it, it is pretty consistent and can be expanded on pretty quickly.
There are a ton of different ways to make money with Facebook. It is a great way to network and connect with other marketers.
I’ve met and connected with so many other Internet Marketers on Facebook. If I want to find someone in particular, I just search for them and see if they have a Facebook, the vast majority of marketers do.
One of the great things about Facebook is the groups. You can find marketers on make money online groups. You can also start your own groups in various niches and get traffic from these groups.
Getting Traffic From Facebook
Groups – I start groups and get people to join and get traffic to a squezze page, my own sales pages, CPA offers etc. I also network and joint venture with members.
From The Profile – I get traffic by simply putting up a link on my profile. I have almost 5,000 Facebook friends so I pick up some extra direct traffic from my profile.
Buying Ad Space – You can buy ad space and advertise on Facebook. It isn’t something that I’ve done before, but some people have had good results with it.
Facebook Resources
Facebook Friend Adder:
http://www.livelybrowser.com/screen/FacebookFriendAdder/FacebookFriendAdder.html
100 Tools and Tips:
http://www.insidecrm.com/features/facebook-marketing-toolbox-012308/
Twitter is something that I was slow to come around to. I started to use it and have gotten really good results. In the past couple of months, I have gotten over 11,000 targeted followers on my main Twitter account. I have several different Twitter accounts, also.
I’m getting sign-ups to my list every single day from Twitter. It is pretty much all automated. I make a few tweets here and there, but that is it.
If you want to know how powerful Twitter can be, a guy by the name of Perry Belcher just won Frank Kern’s affiliate contest, mainly with Twitter. He has over 100,000 Twitter followers. I should have that many followers on my main account by the end of the year.
Another great thing about Twitter is how easy it is to use. You can have a profile up and running with a custom background and everything in about ten minutes. Once you have that, it is just a matter of getting followers.
Twitter Resources
There are some great resources when it comes to Twitter. I use a ton of them and they make things a whole lot easier for a person.
This will help you get targeted twitter followers by following people who follow people in your niche:
http://wefollow.com/
This allows you to mass unfollow those who don’t follow you back:
http://huitter.com/mutuality/
This allows you to do a ton of different things with your twitter accounts. It allows you to send direct messages when someone follows you, allows you to automatically follow those who follow you and many other things:
http://www.tweetlater.com/
100 Twitter Tips:
http://www.twittinsecrets.com/
This will help you stay organized with Twitter:
http://tweetdeck.com/beta/
Customize your Twitter background:
http://www.twitterbacks.com/
A killer software that allows you to follow targeted people and automates the process. This software is just awesome:
http://www.livelybrowser.com/TwitterFriendAdder.html
Stumble Upon
Stumble upon is a really cool and unique site. It lets users go through and rate different websites, blogs, videos etc. When I discovered stumble upon, it was the first site that I had seen of its kind.
The big thing that you want to do with stumble upon is to focus on great free content. Make sure that you aren’t selling them on something, right away and provide great information.
Stumble upon is a great way to advertise your blogs. You can advertise on there and get a lot of traffic for free, but their paid advertising can be very effective and way better than Adwords, in most cases, in my opinion.
Make sure that the main theme of the blog is explained. Also, always remember that good free content is always king and if you can provide that, you’ll be in good shape.
Stumble Upon Resources
This Wordpress Plugin will encourage visitors to subscribe to your RSS feed:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/what-would-seth-godin-do/
This is a really good Stumble Upon resource, there is some great information about Stumble Upon on there:
http://www.mikebogo.com/ultimate-stumbleupon-resource.php
Exchange stumbles site:
http://www.stumblexchange.com/
Share stumbles with Internet Marketing Forum Members:
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/
http://www.blackhatworld.com/
You Tube
I’m not going to say much about you tube. We all know about it and just by looking at some of the views that some of these videos are getting, is still just blowing me away. Some of them have millions of views!
You Tube Resources
Here is 30+ resources for you tube, mashable is a wonderful over resource, as well:
http://mashable.com/2007/10/08/youtube-toolbox-resources/
Another you tube resource site:
http://www.youtuberesource.com/
Some people will say the death of this or the death of that. Trust me, Web 2.0 isn’t going anywhere and marketing with Web 2.0 is going to continue to be a wonderful thing, going forward.
Yes, some aspects of it will change and you’ll have to adapt and make some changes here and there, but that is what Internet Marketing is all about. Experiment, make changes and adapt.
I highly suggest that you go out and take advantage of this wonderful resource called Web 2.0. Not only to use it to get targeted traffic, but also to network and joint venture.
