Social Media Fuel

The new buzz word on the internet is social marketing. Social marketing continues to open fresh realms of possibilities for sincere business owners on and off the web. Beyond any doubt, the internet has created a worldwide market. The question remains how you can bring this global market into your world.

There is such a great deal of noise, traffic and honking on the web that if you follow half of everything that's happening you will get confused, lost and possible broke. Again if you just sit and watch and do nothing, you lose out on hundreds of opportunities. Thumb rule--"don't chase after traffic. Find out where the traffic is going and just go stand in front of it" [a quotation from the article marketing guy, Jeff Herring]. According to me the top 3 spots for where traffic is going:

1. Facebook -Facebook.com is a popular, free social networking website that is controlled and privately owned by Facebook, Inc. Mark Zuckerberg was the founder of Facebook while he was studying at Harvard University.

2. Twitter- Twitter.com is a also a free-access social networking and micro-blogging service that permits its users to send and read other users' updates (differently recognized as tweets), which are text-based posts of up to one hundred forty characters in length.

3. Ezine Articles-Ezinearticles.com is the number 1 article merchandising directory on the internet. Here you can write your articles, submit them and kick back and relish the traffic.

The reason behind choosing these 3 out of numerous others is because of the following amazing facts and numbers:

1. Facebook. Althoguh Facebook was originally made for college graduates fool you but today it has great profits and implications for business owners, marketers, and entrepreneurs.This extremely booming online social networking platform is the home of one hundred million registered members, and is increasing at a high rate of 225,000 per day. According to prediction from analysts Facebook membership will be at 500 million by 2011.

2. Twitter. Initially Twitter may look like a good deal of nothing but just hang about for a few months. Twitter have by one measure over 3 million accounts and, by another, well over 5 million visitors in September 2008, a fivefold growth in just a month.

3. EzineArticles.com. This user friendly article directory on an average captures fifteen million visitors a calendar month. This popular directory permits writers in hundreds of niche areas to acquire heavy levels of exposure in exchange for the submission of their quality articles.