Social Traffic Espionage

If you are an internet marketer you will want to use FREE traffic for your business. This means that you will want to use Social Media. If there is one disadvantage to using Social Media it is that it can take lots and lots of time if you don't know how to use it properly.

So how do you use Social media efficiently? The first fact you need to come to grips with is that you can't market on every Social Media site - there just isn't enough time or hours in the day. When marketing using Social Media you need a killer time optimisation strategy. Social Traffic Espionage reccommends the following;

1. Start by choosing two or three of the mainstream Social Media Sites like twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn.

2. You must have a blog. Ross Goldberg aka Mr Traffic says " your blog is the corner store of your business"

Talk to other internet marketers and you will quickly find that they are using twitter, blogs, LinkedIn and Facebook - in that order. These are the top four social media tools used by marketers.

How much time should you spend using Social Media? The answer to this depends on your circumstances. Generally there is a relationship between how long marketers have been using Social Media and their weekly time commitment. Usually people just beginning with Social Media,spend about two hours per week. However, for those who have only been using Social Media for a number of months spend about 10 hours per week or a bit more than 1 hour a day.

What is the reason for the time difference between Social Media newbies and experts? Its our opinion that the time spent is related to the people's experiences. Those who are just starting are unsure of this Social Media buzz - does it really work? They are yet to taste success, but once they have made a sale or start to have success they realise the importance of Social Media and spend more time doing it.

Who wants to pay for traffic? I bet that you don't want to pay for traffic. We all know that experts don't pay for traffic so why would you?

Traffic experts like Ross Goldberg aka Mr Traffic don't pay for traffic. To quote his Traffic Manifesto "outside of small ads on forums I haven't paid for advertising in 18 months"

Ok, so how do the internet experts like Ross Goldberg get traffic if they don't pay for it? They use Social Media!

Thats right, they use twitter, Facebook, blogs, LinkedIn, MySpace, YouTube, Squidoo Linkedin. An overwhelming majority (88%) of marketers in a recent survey say they are now using some form of social media to market their business.

If you are running a business you can't afford to ignore the power of Social Media. But hang on a minute, there is a lot more to Social Media than just joining a site and saying buy my product. You need to learn the tactics and strategies that the expert use.