Comments on: How to Make Money Off Social Media

By: Chotrul Web Design

Chotrul Web Design — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 11:55:54 +0000

There are some scenarios where Social media Marketing is definitely the right way to go, rather than more old school SEO, as it were. For example a client may already rank at the top of the rankings and they may not have any other key phrases with with there is any sort of volume at all for their business.

If they are in the sort of business where people really want to share photos and videos of there product or services, then get people and these media to work for you via YouTube, Flickr, Facebook et al. And try to get them up in universal search results, ie google video and google images on the main results page.

By: Kelsey

Kelsey — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 22:04:29 +0000

Great ideas about different approaches to internet and social media marketing.

By: Harvey Internet Marketing

Harvey Internet Marketing — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 13:06:49 +0000

Your breakdown into a core and optional elements is helpful. I know pricing is a tricky point, but perhaps you could provide what you think are reasonable ranges. After all, we often have to give the client an idea of the cost long before we know the details of the work.

By: Rachel Wu

Rachel Wu — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 03:44:45 +0000

thanks for sharing ,really learn a lot
Before reading the artical, I use twitter only for fun.Now I’ll try to use this media for extending my network.great artical!

By: Jace

Jace — Sat, 30 May 2009 23:49:31 +0000

This is a very good article and it is true that a lot of big businesses do not understand the power of social media.

I am social media developer myself and would be interested in how you would approach or pitch to a large company on why they should use a social media developer? I have succeeded with local businesses but landing a large corporate account is a different story.

I would love to hear anyone’s thoughts?

By: Ryan Brown

Ryan Brown — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 22:28:53 +0000

Currently I have a website and Joomla IS very time-consuming – so nice to hear after countless hypnotic reading sessions trying to learn it… I don’t think I could ever train someone to use it … and am almost stuck in thought of how to successfully set-up a website at absolute minimum cost…. My company Logo was done by a friend – ‘Contagious Media’
But I also run an electrical service company and would like to combine my existing customers and past clients with a client base that IS tech-savvy to promote green technologies (and their larger pricetags…)
It seems the people that want more efficient technologies usually don’t have the large capital needed to fund even the smaller projects, or simply aren’t on my Friends list…. yet for those who are ‘in the know’ : would be pleased to meet you.
Great Article

By: Michael Murdock

Michael Murdock — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 23:21:31 +0000

SEO being replaced by Social Media?? Not any time soon. SM compliments SEO in a number of ways. If you’re smart and you integrate live feeds into your sites then you have the constant flow of new content, the problem is that unless that site is being submitted the search engines have no way to know its there. The process is not automatic by any stretch. There is some work that has to be done and it has to be repeated as well. It has to be scheduled. It’s not a wash rinse finished sort of thing. There’s still that drying cycle.

SEO is more of the shampoo, rinse, repeat, but the repeat portion comes after a little bit of time. So does the reshampoo and the repeated submisssions. IF those are not done then the site can lose position and it might do that at an inopportune time so you have to be cautious about that.

Good article to read. Thanks.

Michael “DocMurdock” Murdock
follow me on twitter. @docmurdock

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 23:13:15 +0000

Hello,
I like a lot of what you shared – I am a bit confused by this statement:

The best argument that you can make for social media is that it is replacing traditional SEO practices. Gone are the days when a link from a highly pageranked site got you some street cred with Google – although that still doesn’t hurt – now it is all about how many Diggs your content gets. The key argument is that traditional SEO work is now not enough – it needs to be supplemented with social media.

I am not sure a company can not have an SEO strategy, they still need to be found on search engines when their consumers are searching for their products. And yes, Twitter is a growing rage, but many consumers are not using it – how can you convince me foregoing SEO for Social Medial is the right thing for my client?

By: Kids Wall Art

Kids Wall Art — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 20:38:59 +0000

Selling additional add-on services is one of the best ways to increase your profit margin when selling websites to clients. There is also a lot of added value, SEO and customer service wise when you incorporate social media. Most client have probably heard of all of these networks like “twitter” on TV, but you are showing them how to apply new technology to their own business.

By: mindxstudio

mindxstudio — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 04:41:31 +0000

Happy to learn those… I am starting to work…