Check out what I saw earlier today on Delicious.com. As you know bookmarking can get your site initially seen and indexed by the search engines. Some sites still do pass some link power to your sites as well but mostly the use of these social bookmarking services for seo link juice is dead.

But they still hold very intriguing possibilities for getting direct visitors and more exposure.

Quick secret: last I checked the delicious rss feed gives FOLLOWED links. So it is worth getting links here and reaching the front page of the site like this spam google wave site did has its own direct visitors and traffic benefits.

Check out what happened because I documented it on this video. Also, I go into my own speculation as to how this spam site got to the front page and more importantly how you can copy what they did for your sites to get this prime placement and exposure.

Don’t spam though. Only promote quality sites which are ready for prime-time. The pages/sites you promote on the online bookmarking site services should give out quality info or training.

Grab your potential front page spot. This is the software which could help you.

Click here to get front page

Obviously, only use this software on quality articles and info. Don’t promote spammy sites like the one in the video.

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I wrote the initial piece last Thursday about the power of tribes in your business. And then I found some new info.

A big part of Seth’s message in the book tribes was about challenging the status quo come with being a leader, and being a first or early adopter of new business models.

Because of this you going to make some mistakes and some of the new things you test now will fall flat.  But these failures will lead you closer to success and maybe the thing which ensures your organization survives while others and industry parish and go into bankruptcy.

Here’s a good example:

I just saw this article where there’s a startup airline attempting as pay-as-you-go model. There borrowing the idea from cell phone companies and targeting a very specific market.

This is what Seth is talking about in his book…leading industries into new business models. Also, a good sign is one “industry competitor” says it’s “Airtime’s fares are a gimmick that can’t be sustained.”

So it’s clearly being challenged and mocked by the management of the industry who wants to protect the status quo, to fight change.

I don’t know if this new business model will work for them but if you never take any risks you never get any rewards. That much I’m certain of.

Startup Airline goes to pay by minute model

Weigh in with your opinions in the comments.

Originally posted 2009-01-12 09:13:49. Republished by Old Post Promoter

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It’s come to my attention there’s been some lack of activity and some questions about using social media and TaggZilla specifically.

I’ve been thinking about ways to best address this in the most efficient manner to give you the best bang for your buck… the overall best value.

An opportunity has arisen to work with one of the trainers I’ve learned a ton from despite being an advanced social media user myself.

His name is Simon Ford and he’s written an extensive social traffic book which talks about all the various aspects of social media including:

– Using the top 3 sites Twitter, Facebook, YouTube to send your traffic stats soaring like the national deficit

– Using the top 3 article marketing sites to drive up your credibility and blast your search engine rankings through the roof

– How your overall social media strategy should be structured and how to implement it effectively

– 7 quality ways to build your network fast, the correct way without spamming

– How to syndicate all your best quality content out to your entire network with one click of a button

– How to do Facebook the right way keeping your account open. (Without this the FB police may kill your account).

– Google friend connect stealth tactics to make your site a vibrant community. As you know engaged communities trust you more and therefore buy more stuff from you.

As you probably know there are so many different parts of social media including:

• Blogs,
• Web 2.0 properties like squidoo and YouTube,
• Micro-blogging sites like Twitter and Jaiku,
• Podcasts sites,
• RSS and blog directories
• and on and on.

The social traffic book addresses your overall strategy and gives you clarity on how to implement it, without having to spend nine to 10 hours per day manually sending stuff out. And of course what sites to focus on so you can achieve maximum productivity in minimum time spent.

The TaggZilla social media mastery webinar series will be four weeks long. We’ll go over together specific pieces of the book each week and shall put those into practice to get results.

You’ll also see examples of how I’ve done it and I’ll report to you the results I’ve gotten so we can learn together.

I want to place an emphasis also on using it for lead generation and especially local leads if you have a localized business. It’ll be four weeks long with plenty of Q&A and maybe even a bonus week or two depending on what you want and how the class progresses.

It starts next Thursday, June 18 at 5 p.m. Eastern US time.  I’ll send you the webinar link and details when you join the e-mail notification list to be part of the insiders club and be a part of this free participatory and interactive social mastery webinar series.

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Since this is free and participatory I want to keep it small.

I want to keep this exclusive, about 10 people, because I’ll be giving my best stuff and results from what I’m actually doing. So I’m looking for committed people to be part of this.

So what is the commitment you must make to be part of the insiders club?

You must be willing to set aside at least 2 hours per week to attend the webinar which will usually be 30 to 60 minutes, to take the actions talked about on the webinar, and to read the piece of the book required for that week.

Depending on how fast you work and read you may need to set aside 3 to 4 hours per week for the next four weeks.  This is a small price to pay for the insight and actual real-world experience you’ll gain as well as having real-time access to ask me and other group members questions to overcome sticking points you’re reaching.

I may take 20 but I’m really targeting 10 highly committed individuals who want to make a go of this, increase their business, and become profitable social media experts.

If you think you’re one of the chosen 10 enter your e-mail below and I’ll send you details about next week’s intro to the webinar series. Remember it’s free. The only cost is the committment of time you make to master these skills.

Follow my Twitter Updates.

Leave any comments on other things you want covered in the series. I look forward to seeing you there.

Originally posted 2009-06-11 14:36:44. Republished by Old Post Promoter

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For various reasons, the most of which being branding, social traffic Inc. has closed its doors. Simon will still offer his video training on how to get more social traffic to your website but he simply did not want to be lumped in with all of the various people out there who claim to be social media gurus but who are not actually getting social traffic nor have they ever been good at using social media to convert customers for their business.

Here’s a quick picture of my affiliate account:

As you can see I sent 560 unique visitors to the various blog posts and sales pages and they looked at over 5250 different pages on the website. This means that each visitor I sent looked at almost 10 pages on the website so they were very engaged with the content and obviously very interested in it.

But in business as in life the only thing that matters are the results.

In this case the only result that matters since we’re in business is the bottom line profits. And as you look at the picture that’s where it’s a complete failure as there were zero sales.

That’s right 560 visitors = 0 sales

I did lots of work for this campaign and promotion. I was expecting this to be a big launch and I had all the pieces in place so now I feel like I’m left holding the bag.

I kept track of my time through a site called toggl.com. Now I will admit to you that sometimes I forget to start toggl and keep track of my time but this is fairly accurate. I spent 17 hrs and 43 minutes solely promoting this. And this is doing things like tweeting, Facebook et al.

This high amount of actual work time to get 0 return is very disheartening. But it’s only disheartening if I (and you) don’t learn anything from it.

So what went wrong? That is what I have left to ask. Obviously, I was reaching the right types of prospects that were interested in what I have to say because they read almost 10 pages a piece. If you know anything about web stats getting users to look at more than 1 page per visit is pretty good.

So this seemed to be the right type of traffic. The only thing I don’t know is the demographics on those people that were visiting and reading the launch sequence stuff.

Were they dirt poor?

The only two things that it could be are the traffic or the conversion.

So was the conversion process at fault?

Was the launch sequence of e-mails incredibly weak? Was the overall sales message and launch process just not compelling enough to get people to want to spend $497 or $1997 for the upgrade with live and interactive coaching?

All I’m left to think is that it was a combination of both. The people were obviously engaged in the content but maybe it did not do a good enough job compelling them that the value was there and this system could increase their business.

I thought the e-mail sequence and content release was good but did not really show any “results in advance” like Frank Kern talks about.

There was his free e-book giveaway which was a value add so they would opt-in to the list and get a taste of the type of information they could get. So that part was good.

I’m not going to blame the economy or the recession because as we all know people buy what they want which is why you see people in the trailer park with $50 or $100 per month satellite dishes and service.

So clearly, the value presented in the offer just wasn’t enough to compel people and pushed them over the edge to get out their wallets and buy. We could have built more value and obviously a much more irresistible offer to kick some of these people off the fence. Because I know that out of 560 unique visitors there were at least 1 or 2 who had the money to buy but the message just wasn’t compelling enough to get them to buy.

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Leave your comments on your speculation on what you think might have caused this dismal performance in the comments section below.

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