Mobile Marketing is the future.

Why are Google trying to catch up in Mobile? Mobile Marketing of Course.

Take a look here http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/introducing-google-places.html

And Africa – where I love to live

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/search/label/Africa

Japan is about 5 years ahead of everyone else in the world the trends indicate 85% of users are on Mobile Marketing.

Only 5% of the world – outside of Japan use the Mobile Marketing (Mobile Internet), and most of the 5% are the ‘Big Boys’ in marketing, these are just some of the facts.

This is the last weekend to think about joining the Mobile Marketing Step by Step Course – kick off is Monday 9th May! This will never be repeated again, (not sure you might have to visit his site and see). My experience – Dan Hollings is a brilliant Marketer and Teacher and he sure teaches you a lot in mobile marketing courses.

Facebook is already into Mobile a large percentage is already activated, are You ready and waiting for new Clients with their credit cards ready to purchase? Mobile Marketing is where Facebook are headed these two applications are merging!

Visit the iTunes store and take a look and you will see Facebook is the number one download. If you had Mobile marketing knowledge you could already be selling to this audience.

Internet and a new wave of Blogging, starting all over again – difference is a smaller screen, your customers are already there, ready and waiting! Mobile marketing is the Future.

Business owner’s this is not an option, the younger generation is Mobile and Mobile Marketing is the next step into the future. People are looking to be interactive via mobile and if you are not there, somebody else will benefit by you delaying the inevitable.

Marketers need to be early in the wave of change to make it count and learn how to bridge the gap, only the ‘big boys’ are playing in the mobile marketing field at the moment.

Take a look at the news today and headline after headline is spelling out the number of consumers converting to Smart-phones. People are buying cars based on whether it has got Wi-Fi, and all the cool Mobile Phone stuff built in, imagine mobile marketing to Mums, Dads and Children in the car on their way home!

Growth in the past five years has been reported at a growth rate of 5000% – cell phone sales are 96% up – last quarter 417 Million mobile phones sold world-wide, 20% are Smart-phones and 80% are normal cell phones, but that does not matter.

Stores such as Macey’s offer you to check in on arrival and you obtain a discounted price by just checking in. Communities that do not have access to a PC or Laptop do have a cell phone for communications.

Big Business’ are in the game, 1 Billion in sales on Amazon in the last year alone, and eBay 1.5 Billion in sales this year.

Big business is training your customers to be aware of mobile marketing, whether you are a consultant, marketer, affiliate marketer, blogger – it makes no difference! People are buying ‘here, there and everywhere’ on their mobile phones, so you don’t have to train them – they are already doing it.

Mobile buyers are more willing to buy than internet buyers – in fact they are 3 times more willing to spend than the people online and average about 7.4% higher in number, now is the time to start branching out into mobile marketing, and keep other activities still running, the big thing is to start making the move across now before it is too late.

Mobile Marketing is NOW, not tomorrow, next week, next year it is Today!

Join Dan’s Step-by-Step Mobile course I joined the Mobile Success Formula and will let you know more in the near future. Dan is King of Marketing and an Expert in Mobile Marketing!

Text Messages do not need a smart-phone it will be received on any phone. Local pizza guy could send out a text message with a discount code for a particular special to phone on his list. This could change an outlet from slow business into a booming business and it is called mobile marketing.

It is instant, unlike an email that might be seen today or maybe tomorrow – instant messaging goes hand in hand with instant sales no matter where you live in the world. Bloggers take a step in the right direction now to get started with mobile marketing.

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Thought for the day: “The more you say, the less people remember.” Francois Fenelon

Strategies When Social Bookmarking

Take the time to do Social Bookmarking

By Sean R Mize

The point of social bookmarking is to increase visibility for your content and drive traffic back to you. So, you do have to be careful how you are rated, who comments on your bookmarks, and that you have a popular appeal. If you just create content you think you will like, and never check the demographics of the social bookmarking site you are using, the odds are it won’t rank very high and it will be wasted effort. So, you want to not only social bookmark content, but also create content that is of interest to that particular group.

The steps to increase visibility are as follows:

1. Create your website with content that has a large appeal,

2. Register with Digg.com, StumbleUpon, and Delicious.com,

3. Bookmark and index all web pages and content you want to submit,

4. Submit to multiple social bookmarking sites to get the widest exposure,

5. Add bookmark buttons to your blogs and other content you want to have people rate,

6. Get people to comment on your bookmarks,

7. Get people to rate your bookmarks,

8. Share your bookmarks on other social networking sites by posting the links or through news feeds to your circle of friends,

9. Rate and discuss other friend’s bookmarks,

10. Automate the process, if possible.

One of the ways to automate bookmarking is by using a third party tool like Socialmarker.com. You do have to be careful when signing up for products that allow you to automate the process because you don’t want to be labeled a spammer. Avoid using any software or third party that promises to bookmark your content on more than 40 sites with one click. You aren’t really interested in spamming the web as much as generating bookmarks that attract attention, ratings, and discussions.

You can bookmark anyone’s content, it doesn’t have to be your own. The idea is to build a portfolio of interesting content and have people check out your profiles that lead them back to your sites. Of course, you will also be submitting your own sites, but if that’s all you do it may look obviously self-promoting.

If you don’t have interesting content of your own to post, avoid claiming someone else’s content as your own. That’s known as plagiarism and it can get you banned on a lot of social networking sites. So, always give credit where credit is due and some of that prestige will ultimately rub off on you.

By the way, do you want to learn more about using articles like this to drive traffic to your website and increase online conversions?

If so, I suggest you check this out: article marketing traffic.

Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Sean_R_Mize
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Thought for today: “Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work” – Thomas Edison

Article Marketing

Article Marketing: Jeff Herring, The Article Guy, Interviews Chris Knight of EzineArticles.com

By Jeff Herring

1. What is the one thing that every article writer and marketer must do?

Get started and then be consistent. Marketing or syndicating and distributing your articles is an ‘advertising’ function (in addition to good old fashion grass roots marketing and brand building). Because it’s an advertising function, it is an activity that you want to invest in on a monthly basis all year round.

You don’t advertise your business once and you shouldn’t engage in article marketing only once. Give it at least 90 days to 6 months to prove to yourself that writing and marketing with articles can pay dividends in terms of its ability to generate qualified visitors & traffic back to your website.

2. What is the one thing that every article writer and marketer must avoid?

Article writers should avoid the very basic sins of not doing spell and grammar check or failing to review sentence structure and punctuation.

Article marketers must avoid being spammy with their article writing and syndication strategies. This can be avoided with two simple rules:

1) Always give value in the article body and you get to sell yourself in the resource box (never the other way around); and

2) Always read the posted editorial guidelines to respect the publishers rules for the type of content that they accept. You’ll be saving yourself a lot of time and will find an easier path to a higher acceptance of your article content.

I know you only asked for one thing they should avoid, but another that is just as important is to avoid PLR (private label rights) articles. Article marketers want to avoid buying into those crazy article re-writers that churn PLR content into Frankenstein articles that make you look foolish, not to mention may carry legal penalties for infringement. If you want to find short-cuts, look for ways to keep your integrity in tact by improving your article writing efficiency or by hiring a team of article writers to help you with your article inventory production goals.

3. Is this article stuff just a fad or is this something that is here to stay?

Article writing and marketing is not a fad and it’s been around for many decades in the print media world. It wasn’t until the mid-1990′s that article syndication on the Internet took off with a significantly higher viral nature than its print cousin.

It’s here to stay despite many who say the sky is falling due to the duplicate content penalty concerns. Reality is that the search engines use duplicate content identification as only one of over 70+ metrics they use to determine how much value to give an article. It’s hardly the prime factor as to whether article syndication will or will not hurt you in terms of love or lack of love from the search engines… and my recommendation is that you’ve got more to lose by not syndicating your quality original articles.

4. Can someone still write and market articles successfully if they are in a crowded niche?

Yes they can, but they will need to crank up the article volume by at least 10x more than a non-crowded niche. A decade ago, 20 articles put into syndication would have been enough to make your hit counter go mad. Today, you’ll need at least 200 articles in any niche to get a shot at the top and it may take 2000 or more articles to make a dent in a crowded niche. Is it still worth it? YES it is!

Keep in mind that only about 82-85% of authors or experts who engage in article marketing ever go beyond 10 articles. That means the bulk millions of qualified visitors belongs disproportionately to the 15% that go beyond 10 or more articles.

5. What has article writing and marketing done for you?

I’ve built a business on it and it has enabled me to grow the business to serve the tens of thousands of authors who submit their quality original articles to us by the thousands every day. I’m very grateful for the opportunity to serve as a catalyst for an industry that appears to know no ceiling.

Every single day I hear success stories of authors who land multiple hundreds of thousands of dollars in contracts or interview appearances in the Wall Street Journal, NY Post, various TV show producers or countless other high value intangible and tangible economic benefits. For some people, it turns their life around and gives them access to qualified prospects that they couldn’t have afforded to acquire without article marketing.

6. What trends do you currently see in article writing and marketing?

Mass adoptance. Article marketing is no longer a question of “should I or shouldn’t I” engage in the strategy, but rather it is a question of “how many qualified visitors do I want to attract with my articles?”

Shorter articles. The 2000-5000 word articles are better left for white papers and research reports vs. the 250-700 word count that is more appropriate for article syndication.

Tactical planning. In the past, article writing and marketing was a hit or miss activity with very little planning or goal-setting for many authors. Instead, today a growing segment of authors are setting very specific numerical goals for their article writing and distribution strategies – and you can guess what that leads to:

BETTER RESULTS!

Visit http://www.TheInternetArticleGuy.com for more leading edge tips and tools for writing articles that bring you prospects, publicity and profits. You can also subscribe to our monthly Article Writing & Marketing Tips Newsletter. You are also invited to visit my Express-Start Article Writing Program [http://www.theinternetarticleguy.com/express-start.htm] for more information on the next article writing tele-seminar.

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Article Marketing: Jeff Herring, The Article Guy, Interviews Chris Knight of EzineArticles.com

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Thought for the New Year: “Everyone’s life is under someone’s control – it might as well be under your own so that you can direct your destiny” – Harry Tucker