Local Marketing Social Networking Bookmarking

Local Marketing with Social Networking and Bookmarking

Whether or not you have web presence for your business, such as a website or blog, Social Networking and Bookmarking is essential to help you grow your business in more ways than one in this information age. Well let me put it this way. If you do not get with it, and your competitors do, they have a major advantage over you.

Well what's all the craze these days with Social Networking and Bookmarking? Well they are inclusive, have connectivity, are fast, informative, entertaining and fun... Everything your current clients and possible prospects are looking for.

There are so many of them out there but these are the ones you need to be concerned about as a business owner.

Social Networking: Briefly put this is networking with friends, family, acquaintances, even clients. Usually it's because you have something in common. Some of these Social Networking websites have very useful articles.

Most Popular:
MySpace.com - Music Based
LinkedIn.com - Business Oriented
FaceBook.com - All
Twitter.com - Updates
YouTube.com - Video Based

Article/Information Based:
Blogs - Articles
WikiPedia.org - Almost like an Encyclopedia
Scribd.com - Articles
Squidoo.com - Articles

Social Bookmarking: Websites where you bookmark your favorite website on every topic you can imagine. Here again you can form some sort of alliance with people you have something in common with. With the soon to be billions of websites out there you will need help to locate all the really good and useful Social Bookmarking.

Most Popular:
Del.icio.us
Digg.com
Yahoo Bookmarks
Google Bookmarks
Livejournal.com
Stumbleupon.com
Technorati.com

Less Popular:
Diigo
BlinkList
Blogmarks
Fark.com
Netvouz.com
Newsvine.com
Reddit.com
Slashdot.com
Spurl.com
Wists.com

I will ad to these lists all month as I test, use, and otherwise garner information on different Social Networking and Bookmarking websites.

In the olden days (a few years ago) forums were the way to go. Many of the really popular ones are still in existance but are being less used because of their limitations and they being one-dimentional.

It's on the news quite often... where people are so addicted to the Social Networking and Bookmarking websites that they litterally use it to replace an active face to face social life. I have even heard of cases where mariages have been disolved because one party (or both) have replaced interactiveity with each other with these Social Networking and Bookmarking websites With something so powerful you would think every single business would make a mad rush to include this type of activity in their marketing strategy. Truth is Social Networking and Bookmarking is currently mainly used by consultants of various kinds in various fields and have been reaping it's benefits almost from inception.

What the average business owner needs to know is that if they themself have a phobia or some sort of fear of spending quality time online doing this it is a great idea to hire a local knowlageable Collage student, or a teenage son or daughter or relative to do it all for them. It would help if the person hired had an interest on the topic.

Case in point, the morning show "Cathy Lee and Hoda" on NBC at 10am EST Weekday mornings hired someone exclusively to handle their twitter account. Members of "The view" have mantioned many times that they use Twitter quite often.

So if people in high places are using these Social Networking and Bookmarking websites to their advantage why not you? What is stopping you? Please figure what this is and get the excuse or obstacle out of your way.

I do a FREE Networking Workshop in the Miami Beach area at least twice each month on using Social Networking and Bookmarking and other topics that are necessary to growing your business. Search and locate such events in your area.



Thanks in Advance,


S. A. Williams
Your RPMwealthCoach.com
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