Social media and marketing

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The future of Marketing?

Traditional advertising is dead. Virtual Communities are ruling; Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, MySpace, YouTube and others. What can you do?

Read the following to see how powerful the social media is, and how to get and keep your customer. Realize that your customers do want the authentic so act accordingly.

Things to address 

Social media list

As businesses, you need to use these avenues to position yourself in strategic places keeping yourselves in the main vein of traffic as you work to survive this economic chaos. Below are some very important Social networks to use in this strategic placement.

How can Social Media help your business? 

Some quick pointers...

Virtual Communities are having a larger impact then online advertising. Unbelievable? Read on: Twitter has become the 3rd largest social networking site and growing rapidly. Corporations you are urged to get involved with Twitter "Take hold of your future or the future will take ahold of you" Courtesy of globalchange.com

Facebook has just announced that it's updating it's homepage/newsfeed as well as the removal of most distinctions between public pages and profiles. Why would Facebook do such a thing? Some say its due to Facebook not acquiring Twitter last year, others say it's scrambling to stay ahead of Twitter which is moving with leaps and bounds.

Two years ago at Google zeitgeist CEO Summit, Dr. Patrick Dixon introduced the future of marketing. Things he talked about were why traditional advertising is dead because an online world is ruled by virtual communities.

If you look at the reality of that, then you will have seen the amazing growth of Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube and others. These will continue to grow as the online communities grow into large refined metropolises where businesses will have to shift gears completely to keep up with the demands of these communities. If they don't, they will be left in the dust.

How this affects us? Relationship Marketing is HOT! People are connecting with people faster and faster, if it's online in social communities, or on the go using Blackberries, iPhones, Mini computer's, people are connecting to people and what you say will affect a business more so then advertising will!

More tools to use are companies like SendOutCards with their extraordinary data manager, campaign builder that allows you to keep in touch with clients and customers with REAL cards and postcards with REAL handwriting abilities along with having over 13,000 cards available to use online sending to anywhere, from anywhere in the world. Can you beat that?

Great Stuff on Amazon 

Marketing Strageties for 2009

Some great stuff to look up on Amazon.

Beach Money: Creating Your Dream Life Through Network Marketing

Amazon Price: (as of 12/09/2009) Buy Now

Twitter Revolution: How Social Media and Mobile Marketing is Changing the Way We Do Business & Market Online

Amazon Price: $12.90 (as of 12/09/2009) Buy Now

Social marketing and Relationship marketing skills 

Reaching out

With Social media marketing and Relationship building you can bridge the gap between thousands and thousands of miles in the blink of an eye.

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Helpful items to help with communications. 

Handy stuff

Several items listed below to have helping you stay on top of the Social Media Marketing & Relationship Marketing mainstream.

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