While you may only hear a little bit about Ron Paul in main stream media his campaign practically owns the internet. Why? Due to a perfect storm of 10 converging factors that have made the Paul campaign the most successful Web 2.0 initiative launched to date.
For the past few days, this funny video has been spreading virally around the web. But there is one very important difference between this and other viral videos: This particular video is part of a carefully planned and brilliantly executed social media marketing campaign by the smart folks over at Connected Ventures...
Social media optimization is the new name of the web traffic game. If you want to keep generating traffic for your website, you must learn the rules and apply them to your website immediately.
The only way to succeed with Web 2.0 marketing is by focusing all your efforts to just one clear and precise goal. And this is where most social marketers “get it wrong”.
The goal of social marketing is not to generate sales directly from Squidoo, Facebook or YouTube; the goal is to generate something far more valuable for your business: social proof.
The social internet is getting polluted by unethical internet marketers. Here's Digg's reaction to it, and why it may not be the best choice.
So you want to be a social media marketing specialist but you’re working 40 to 60 hour weeks at your regular full time job and all these accounts like: digg, stubmleupon, newsvine, del.ici.ous and the hundreds of other web 2.0 sites, are just too time consuming for you keep up with. Here are a couple of must have tools to give you a fighting chance
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it
from "Reason in Common Sense", the first volume by George Santayana
not my favourite philosopher, I admit, but the quote is too good not to use it
Well, of course there is no new thing under the sun but problems we are facing with the rapid introduction [...]
Here is a simple method to keyword research that will get you more accurate results than anywhere else...
Interesting article about social networking sites.
While getting a post about Internet Marketing onto Digg is like fighting a dangerous wild animal with a wet noodle, getting your story onto PlugIM is a lot easier. However, to do well on PlugIM there are some rules to follow and a few things you can do to really get your story plugged well.