This doesn’t mean that I don’t then add pieces during the month or even that I don’t follow the progress but what a relief to know that my social media is going on without me and I can then plan accordingly.  To that end, I am giving you some resources for setting up your social media strategy using pre-planning techniques.   Read our full article on Social Media Strategy Preplanning.

You are welcome to use any portion of this free article in your blogs or social media if you link credit back to us. Thank you!

The big debate with social media – do you use it to generate revenue or not?  I believe the answer is a very delicate yes, but you have to know how to do it, otherwise people will “hide” you in Facebook and LinkedIn, stop following you in Twitter and ignore you on YouTube. I have the perfect example … read the entire article titled “Social Media Strategy That Sells.”

As always, we would love for you to use any or all of this article on your blog or site, but please reference us with a link back to the article on CYM Global.  Thank you!

Pingbacks – a pingback is a linkback to a blog from another blog.  It typically notifies the newly linked blog owner.  The different between pingbacks and trackbacks are that Pingbacks are really just a link that stays on one web site, while a trackback adds content to both linked blogs.

Trackbacks – a trackback is a remote comment.  It allows you to comment about someone else’s blog on your blog and the software tells the other blog owner that you have commented.

Why use a trackback?  … Read the full article here.

As always, we would love for you to use any or all of this article on your blog or site, but please reference us with a link back to the article on CYM Global.  Thank you!

How do you integrate your blog posts into Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook so that you don’t have to update each service every time you write a new blog entry?  There are a million ways (I might be exaggerating here) of automating your posts.  The trick is to find the service that fits your branding needs and the social media unwritten rules regarding over posting.

I feel that Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn are three different animals.  You can post every 15 minutes on Twitter and you seem active, but if you post every 15 minutes on Facebook, everyone will hide your feed or de-friend you. LinkedIn is such a professional network that you have to be very careful as to what you are posting on that site. To solve the problem, I use different services for different social media platforms.  To decide what is best for you, here are some tips and a few services to help create your social media strategy … read the full article here.

I encourage you to share this article.  If you choose to post all or part of the article on your blog or social media, please reference a link to my site as the original source – thank you!

A Blog is an online diary, an online newsletter, an online book of information about a subject with you as the expert.  It is a social media strategy that many web marketing experts use to build their social media strategy and to sell on social media without “selling” on social media. Read the full article on Social Media Strategy Using Blogs  here.

You can use any part of this article as long as you give credit to Alison Elliott, Social Media and Blogging Expert from CYM Global and a reference link back to our site, if you are publishing it online. Thanks!

WHAT DOES THE WORKSHEET DO TO IMPROVE MY INTERNET MARKETING?

One of my talents is organization and planning. I can take a small business, work on their marketing strategy and then turn that strategy into a weekly checklist. Sometimes that is really the break down that causes a small business to be unsuccessful marketing online, turning an idea into the actual work involved. Because I have seen my “lists” successfully help small businesses with their Internet marketing strategy, I decided to create a worksheet for all small business – and here it is – my Consistency Is Key worksheet to complete and check off every week.

WHAT DO I RECEIVE THAT WILL ACTUALLY HELP MY SMALL BUSINESS?

1. Our Consistency is Key worksheet, a check list of steps to follow anytime you announce something, post something in your blog, add a press release or any other product / service or informational piece that you want to write to attract new customers or bring back existing customers.

2. A free 10 day small business marketing training course by email. Every day, you will receive an email with one action you can take to further your online marketing success.

3. A complimentary subscription to our Small Business Marketing e-Guide ($199 value) - a bi-weekly guide to new and existing ideas for marketing yourself on the web.

HOW DO I GET MY WORKSHEET?

Everything is available here - the worksheet will come to you by e-mail and then you can save it and use it every week for your planning and execution.  Your marketing training course will come to you every day in your in box with information and instructions to successfully add the marketing tip to your web site or your marketing plan.

GET STARTED TODAY.
To Your Online Success!

Alison
Your Online Marketing Fairy Princess

Leverage other social media: if you have a strong presence on another social networking site like Twitter or YouTube, then I recommend that you use that to promote your Facebook Fan Page. Let folks know where to find you and never, ever forget to add “Follow Me” buttons to your website pages and your blog.  CONTINUE READING