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Well maybe there isn’t really a niche group if mini electric guitar players, like my friend J.T., but somebody is selling mini guitars on Google… There are no search results though, so I suppose there isn’t a social group for them but hey, that’s going a little too micro anyways…

The point is that with social networks you can quickly and easily hone in on a target audience in a very wide variety of (ahem… broader) interests. My challenge in writing my upcoming free report is presenting you with information in a usable and actionable way. In other words, how in the heck can I write this thing so that it can be applied to most any business model?

I am honing in on it pretty quick and your suggestions about which social sites to cover here and on SEO20/20 have been very valuable. In a few days I hope to deliver to you an action plan that you can use right now to generate a generous flow of fast and free traffic like I showed here.

What’s cool about the process that I use is that it is repeatable and can be used for just about any product or service you may wish to sell. Where people get confused about using social marketing to sell things is the process. Most people try to sell something way too soon. They try to use the social platform to sell products or services right off the bat…

That is the wrong way to do it… I’m basically going to show you the right way to do it coupled with all the research tools you need to create your personal blueprint for your social marketing campaign.

You see, every social campaign is going to be different… Every single one… There is no cookie-cutter system here. The only thing that is “cookie-cutter” is the process. The exact systems of social interaction that you use for your business is what you will have to discover on your own. I will give you the tools of discovery.The action guide I am creating will allow you to form your personal campaign based on solid laws that can be applied again and again. Never before in history has it been easier to get traffic-on-demand…

Don Crowther of the new StomperNet Social Marketing Coaching launch stated that you need to get in now to get a “first mover advantage”… I have a great deal of respect for Don but I don’t subscribe to that belief & I hope that you are not believing that (if you watched the video). I know for a fact that you can and ALWAYS will be able to jump into the social marketing game at any time, now or 10 years from now & you can gain a huge following at any time… so you have time to contemplate your strategy.

The strategies that I am documenting for you are timeless. Sure the social networks will change but the system for generating followers through social interaction will not (unless we all get brain implants from aliens ).

Don’t jump the gun… Your audience is not going anywhere anytime soon. If you move fast out of “fear” then you WILL PROBABLY screw up and when you screw up you’ll be forever tainted in the permanent search engine records. I hope to help you make wise and calculated moves and you should take your time in deciding your personal course of action.

I have had a long day of researching the current most popular social platforms. I have discovered a wealth of tools and information for you… If you had been following me on Twitter then you would already have some awesome stuff in your hands right now… (Hint, Hint)

I will be posting a full report on using Twitter very soon. A few people have already found their way to my blog to post comments here and they found me on Twitter… Social Marketing… In effect…

If you have some snazzy tricks on Twitter to share then leave a comment (I’m compiling them now). If you want to know how to hire J.T. (the mini electric guitar player) for parties then leave a comment. Or you can just … Leave a comment.

My largest successes have come from social media in one form or another. Whether you own a website or a blog, social networking is without doubt the single most powerful way to gain attention in an information overload society.

One powerful post in a single popular web forum (a form of social interaction) can literally put you on the map.

Back in mid 1996 I started my main website SEO20/20 by writing a 15 page free report called “The Plan” which showed webmasters an easy step-by-step way to churn out small websites whose goal was to make $10 a day each. I launched this free E-book by making several posts in some popular (high traffic) forums.

Let’s take a little trip back in time so I can go over exactly what I did to bring SEO20/20 to the top within 30 days…

I registered SEO20/20 on May 11th 2006:

Then I posted my free report (The Plan) in a few popular forums like The Warrior Forum, Digital Point Forum and V7n (just to name a few)… and yes … forums are social media. FaceBook, MySpace, Digg and Technorati are not the only players… Social media has been around since the early days of the Internet in the form of web forums.

Okay… back to the story … So I post a few entries in 3 or 4 forums (that’s all I did)… I got involved in conversations and offerd my E-book (The Plan) as a solution, included my free book in forum signatures, etc.

After a few days something amazing happened…

Ok… I registered SEO20/20 on May 11th, 2006… created a free 15 page E-book on cranking out mini-sites and all of a sudden, a few days later, my traffic skyrocketed. Look at the first spike on the graph.

To make a long story short, I hit the top 5000 of Alexa within 30 days making posts in 4 forums:

None of this traffic came from search engines at all. This was all social media.

You need to be aware of the fact that this boom happened because I poured my heart and soul into a 15 page report that I never intended to sell. I intended the report to be free because I knew that it would generate a buzz but I never expected it to generate THAT MUCH buzz.

I am doing it again… I am developing more free material that will cover the social networks and how to use them to achieve traffic for your website or blog. The cool thing about creating SEO20/20 and gaining all that buzz is the fact that I spent less than 10 hours of actual work to achieve the result. 8 hours writing my report and 2 hours participating in forums… That was it.

Fast forward through time to the present and I have made over $500k selling my E-book, The Master Plan “The Next generation of SEO” by pumping up my SEO20/20 website through social media channels and SEO of course.

This is a skill that does pay the bills. I have created a free report that covers a specific strategy that is unlike anything you have ever seen. It is mind bending but in a good way. It will end the confusion and give you a specific action plan.

Read the free report now (25 page PDF): The Social Marketing Blueprint Formula

The moral of this story is…

Dig around in social media sites, forums, blogs, networks to discover common problems and then write a free solution that would shock people because they can’t believe you would give it away for free. Make it good, make it noteworthy and you’ll gain traffic because of the “social effect” (people telling people) … Some call it viral marketing, I call it providing good service.

Build it and they will come