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Online Marketing Blueprint – A Multimedia Guide to Growing Your Business Online

From establishing a keyword strategy to leveraging social media to promote content online, this eBookconsolidates how-to videos, external resources and written sections to provide a multimedia learningexperience for every business.

Click here to download the 2010 Blueprint in pdf format. (1015KB)

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Social Media is a form of marketing that focuses on generating traffic and buzz by participation in various social media Web sites, including Facebook, Digg and YouTube.

Social networks allow you to build large lists of contacts and supporters that can help to spread the word about your business and Web site.

Below is a list of the most common sites. Click on the icon to navigate to the site.

	Facebook Connect and share with the people in your life.		WordPress Express yourself with a blog.
	Photobucket Manage and share your photos and videos online.		Flickr Share your photos and watch the world.
	Arto Share your world on Arto with your friends on Windows Live.		Bilddagboken Share a daily photo.
	Dailymotion Share and engage your world through the power of online video.		Daum Add a feed from your blog on Daum to your profile.
	Digg Discover and share content from anywhere on the web.		Flixster Watch, rate, and review your favorite movies.
	Fotolog What does your world look like today?		Hyves Always in touch with your friends.
	iLike Recommend music, share playlists, and stay up-to-date on concerts.		Last.fm The social music revolution.
	LiveJournal Express yourself, share your life, and connect with friends online.		MClub Play games and share the joy with your friends.
	Overblog Start a blog. Attract readers. Earn revenue.		Pandora Create radio stations that play the music you like.
	metroFLOG Share a daily photo.		MSN News, sports, weather, entertainment, and financial info all in one place.
	SmugMug The ultimate photo sharing site.		StumbleUpon Explore the web based on the things that you like.
	The Zune Social Share your taste in music with the Zune Social.		TripIt Organize all the details of your next trip in one place.
	Twitter Your answer to one simple question: What are you doing?		TypePad Blog about your passions.
	wow.ya.ru Store and share photos, blog, and keep up-to-date with your friends.		Yelp Real people posting real reviews.

If you have more suggestions please send me a comment.

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The most commonly used tool for making money from your Web site traffic is Google AdSense. Google AdSense is a contextual advertising technology that serves ads from the Google AdWords Content Network based on contextual relevance.

Even if they leave your Web site by clicking an ad, you get paid a percentage of the amount that the advertiser pays google to display the ad. Other quality contextual ad networks include Yahoo’s Publisher Network and MSN’s Content Network.

Affiliate marketing is responsible for generating billions of dollars in e-commerce each year. These companies pay you a percentage of any sales referred when you promote them on your Web site.

Top affiliates such as Upromise, CashBaq.com, and Clicks2Customers make millions of dollars per year in commission. The big three affiliate networks are Commission Junction, LinkShare, and Performics. Other newer networks such as Azoogle, Hydra, and Pepperjam are using innovative approaches and technologies to help affiliates monetize Web site traffic and bank large commission checks.

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I get asked almost every day, about online marketing, search engine optimization and on how to improve web site rankings. Most website owners don’t even know what all those terms mean, but our society is so online driven that we hear new terms and words through friends and media daily.

More surprisingly website owners don’t realize, that if you want a professional to help you gain positions in your rankings and create incoming traffic to your website, that the cost can be up to triple the cost of your website.

In fact the cost of creating a website is only a fraction of the search engine optimization cost. A SEO professional will estimate you the cost of website optimization from $4000 to $5000 a month. Of course this cost depends on the size of your website.

There are companies that offer advice and recommendations starting from $200-$400 a month. This cost is very reasonable if you’re a small business and you’re depending on online sales. I’d say this is rather an indispensable service.

For smaller business owners who don’t want to invest in such services, but rather, as I call them, DIY (do it yourself) I collected a list of business networking sites.

This is if you’re serious about your business and about putting your name out there, than you’ll have to spend some major time networking.

I’m sure you’re then quickly realize why professionals are charging these amounts of money for their services.

Most of these sites offer more articles and links at the bottom to further information or related topics, so make sure to scroll to the end of the article.

Links:

List of social networking websites

Wikipedia the Free online Encyclopedia is offering a list of social networking websites.

Social networking sites dos and don’ts

CNN and careerbuilder.com wrote an article about dos and don’ts for social networking sites. They explain what potential employers are looking for.

50 Social Sites That Every Business Needs a Presence on

InsideCRM did a research about how websites help your company, advertise recruit and more…

There is a list about Social-Media/Social-Bookmarking Sites, Professional-Networking Sites, Niche Social-Media Sites, General Social-Media Sites, Job Sites.

A complete List of business Networking Websites for CEO’S and Entrepreneurs

You’ll find a list of the most famous Business-Media, Business Online Networking Sites.

The Top Websites to Find Freelance Work Online

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11 Business Networking Sites Suited for Online Reputation Management and SEO

This site includes links and some more information about SEO and online reputation.

Use Social Networking Sites to Find Jobs : Career Networking and Business Networking Sites

This site offers links divided by business category and what to do once you signed up plus tons of more links to tips and information.

10 Social Networks for Entrepreneurs

More links for entrepreneurs.

Articles:

Online Business Networking

About.com offers tons of articles and information. If you are a DIY (do it yourself) you should read this article.

How to use social networking sites to boost business

Social media marketing is a fast-growing innovation, tapping into the rising influence of user-generated communities such as blogs, wikis, networking, and bookmarking sites.

Are Social Networking Sites Useful for Business?

To get the most out of social networking sites, small companies should look past the hype, set concrete business goals, then start experimenting.

Nine Ways to Build Your Own Social Network

TechCrunch is offering an article about ways to build your own network.

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