I’m fascinated by Seth Godin’s latest book, “Tribes: We Need You To Lead Us.” Seth has an awesome ability. He can communicate powerful messages in tiny sentences, few words and small books. Tribes, his latest little gem is powerful for home based business owners and internet marketers.
It makes you think a bit deeper about the power of Social Marketing, or Attraction Marketing and it gives a whole new meaning to the old term, Network Marketing – You can see how it can really become a “change agent” more powerful that anything you’ve used in the past.
In a nutshell, a tribe is any group of people, large or small, who are connected to one another, and a leader or leaders, and an idea… a vision.
It’s our human nature to want to be in a tribe. For millions of years, humans have joined tribes…
Religious tribes
Ethnic tribes
Political tribes, even
Musical tribes (think of the Greatful Dead and their Deadheads.
Now the internet has eliminated the barriers of geography, cost, and even time. All those blogs and social networking sites are helping existing tribes get bigger and enabling new tribes to be born – groups of ten or ten million who care about their business opportunity, or their iPhone aps, or a political campaign, or a new training community.
Who’s going to lead all these tribes?
The web can do amazing things, but it can’t provide leadership. That still has to come from people. People just like you who have passion about something. Anyone who wants to make a difference now has the tools at her fingertips.
It’s like Seth says: If you ignore this opportunity to lead, you risk turning into a “sheepwalker” – someone who fights to protect the status quo at all costs, never asking if obedience is doing you any good. Sheepwalkers don’t do very well at anything these days.
Tribes indeed, helps you to think (really think) about the opportunity for leading your fellow marketers, teams, customers, employees, believers, readers… It’s not overnight, or get-rich-quick, or easy… but it’s easier and more powerful that you probably imagine.
Are you looking for a tribe with a mission to help others make dramatic improvements in their lives as well as in the lives of others by learning to share a simple message? Check out our global tribe here and let me know what you think.
Click here to read a recent article on Tribes and Tribal Marketing.
Enjoy Seth Godin on his blog too. Just click on his head to get inside his brain… I highly recommend it.
Social Marketing is an effective way to gain search engine exposure to your web site or blog, generate targeted free traffic and network with other people in your niche.
Top producing network marketers are finding creative ways to leverage social marketing, attraction marketing and direct response marketing tactics to gain exponential growth in their networking businesses. It’s a fundamental skill set any internet marketer needs to get comfortable with.
The following blog posts will bring you up to date on the current Social Marketing trends and debate…
7 Reasons Why Social Marketing Improves SEO
As a disclaimer, while I, myself, engage heavily in social media marketing, I must confess that there are social marketers out there who are better than I – all they do is social marketing. My expertise is search engine optimization in …
Meet Google’s Nostradamus… The SEO Oracle… Chris Lang. From Google Friend Connect to Google Reader to YouTube, there are big changes on the Google.
Social Marketing for Non-Gurus | Online Social Networking
Few people are writers. Even fewer are thought leaders or guru types. What can a regular marketer do to stand out in the social media space?
How The Internet Has Changed Marketing
Again, social marketing is a low-cost/high benefit method of marketing online. Traditional marketing cannot possibly compete with the efficacy of Internet marketing for speed, accuracy of qualified leads and low costs. …
All very relevant content that will help you get up to speed with Social Marketing and Social Networking trends today.
For more information and training on Social Marketing just click on the link and learn more details here about how to leverage powerful Social Networking in your own business.
Hi, Franco Gonzalez here with another quick tip!
Social Networking Using Facebook and Twitter has proven to be viral in acceptance but how do measure how productive it actually is as a marketer?
Using simple tools like Bitly that can track the clicks you’re getting from your Social Networking on twitter and facebook is invaluable. It can show you what type of content your followers and friends appreciate more so that you can see that from real data and then create more similar content…
Conversely you can also see what type of content your followers don’t like.
So you don’t create that type of content anymore.
Tools like this allow you to do what the Social Media Marketers, best search engines and network marketers do daily: Keep giving your target market the actual content that interests them… and use it to build better relationships, which is the heart of Social Networking anyway.
And it’ll help you see patterns and trends to keep your business more focused and generating better results.
http://www.Bitly.com is a free tool and I highly recommend you review
their site and see just how much data they give you as you use their links to post your content on the social networking sites and microblogging sites like twitter.
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Happy Marketing and Enjoy your day!
These are Awesome Times!
Did you know every day more than 60 million emails are sent out around the world?
Facebook has over 200,000,000 (200 MILLION) users and MySpace has over 186,000,000 (186 MILLION) users. MARKETERS: Listen up – it’s FREE to build a targeted database (list) using Twitter and Facebook!
It’s also very effective for keeping up with your customers, vendors, prospects, friends etc. Brand building, relationship building, joint ventures, partnerships, special projects… It’s all here at the tips of your fingers. You just have to learn how to harness these resources and apply them effectively.
My MOM just got on Facebook! Many of my facebook friend’s moms just got on facebook. Twitter is next… then YouTube for sure and then they’ll take over Slide.com and MOM’s around the world will spread the word (Hey, this stuff is simple and powerful and fun!) to THEIR Moms…
And then the party will be ON! Global ‘NetConnected’ Grammas! If they only new how powerful they could be, seriously.
Technology has given us so many ways to communicate. It’s easy now. It’s fast. It’s everywhere. And now – it IS mainstream.
But here’s a question to ponder:
Are we adding people into our lives who sahre our values or merely collecting a list of profiles? Are we deepening relationships or just going through the motions and just spamming or wasting people’s time and space?
The quality of our lives is closely related to the quality of our relationships.
Your relationships are as strong or deep as you choose to make them. Neglect them and they perish. Take time to impact and add value to them, and they flourish. I’ve read recently something very interesting: When two people meet, a third world is created. And with the technology you have at your fingertips today, right this moment – that world WILL grow exponentially.
Resources such as Facebook and Twitter give you the potential to instantly share our lives with other people on a global scale. And you can use it to touch people, add value to their lives and reach them in a more meaningful way. Imagine – now you have the power to build a network of like minded people, a group of shared ideas and focused creativity.
In the coming weeks I’ll be sharing with you tools, strategies and ideas for building your network of resources so you can develop even more beneficial connections. We’ll share ideas for expanding your personal brand, creating your own community that brings value to people personally and professionally and allows you and others to grow and contribute.
There are a variety of effortless ways you can make contributions by mentoring and sharing ideas with others and by sharing in the interests and passions of others as well. The whole idea is to use these tools not just to correspond, but the really connect with others.
It’s all about creating more of a personal meaning and a life of purpose… and it’s fun.
More notes coming in the days and weeks ahead and we’ll take it a bit deeper too.
For now, I highly suggest you get yourself a Facebook and Twitter account. They’re both free.
Set up your profiles. Upload your picture.
Grab this free software for twitter:
Follow me on Facebook and Twitter.
Ok, now – Find 10 Influential people in your niche. Leaders. Movers and shakers. Follow them. And begin to follow some of their followers. 25 – 50 per day. This sets the whole viral web in motion, you’ll see.
Listen in and contribute. Pay attention.
In the next blog I’ll show you a neat tactic to automatically LINK your twitter followers and have them also “friend” you at Facebook. And we’ll start having fun with this.
TweetDeck is a nice organizational tool. You’ll be able to contribute better, organize stuff on twitter and get “in the game” without getting lost.
Enjoy and we’ll talk again in a few.
Make it a Great Day!
“Competing in overcrowded industries is no way to sustain high performance. The real opportunity is to create blue oceans of uncontested market space…”
~From “Blue Ocean Strategy” – Harvard Business Review
So – there I was… pretty much brand new to the “Internet Home Business” trend back about 8 years ago, and only because my personal mentor happened to know some pretty cutting edge people and he himself was a leader in this movement, I was allowed to eavesdrop and be a ‘fly on the wall’ during a private, and very quiet ‘coaching session’…
A few key leaders calmly explained that they were onto what could be the next big phase of growth in our home based business niche. They didn’t know what to call it.. and it wasn’t completely new… actually it was an old ‘tried and true’ concept used extensively in ‘Direct Response Marketing’ that was now beginning to be applied in home business programs…
The technology was beginning to make it feasible to apply these concepts in a mass market, and it was not as difficult or expensive to apply them as it had been… where only the leaders had enough tech savvy and money to create custom web sites and lead capture pages…
What concept?
Attraction Marketing and The Funded Proposal…
I was one of the ‘lucky’ few to get an inside seat at the ‘birth’ of this concept right before it went ‘main stream’ and I was fortunate enough to be one of the first ‘teachers’ of it in my specific niche market…
And the rest is history.
As you heard in the video, we’re on to something special. A viral way to expand your business. A totally new concept. A twist on Web2.0 Social Networking, Attraction Marketing, and The Funded Proposal… the growth and progression of those concepts into what we call:
Web3.0 – Social Profit Streams
It’s NOT just another way to “list build” or “brand yourself” – and it’s SURELY NOT just another ‘training site’ or another ‘biz op’ or ‘program’ – this is really a different way to expand this niche industry into yet untapped markets and it’s a way to do it that will render your current ‘competition’ absolutely irrelevant.
We’ve experienced first hand the short comings of Attraction Marketing…
We also have noted that ANYONE (pretty much) is already ‘hip’ to a “Funded Proposal”…
Attraction Marketing is GREAT! It’s AWESOME for a select few people with the charisma, the personal development skills already present and the confidence to do it right…
Attraction Marketing is not going anywhere – it’s not a “trend” – it’s a long term, sustainable and legitimate marketing approach…
BUT
The achilles heal to ‘Attraction Marketing’?
NOT DUPLICABLE. PERIOD.
And leaders who are great at it already know this. We get emails and calls from Attraction Marketing leaders in the field on an almost daily basis wondering how in the world to make it simpler, and how to get their attraction marketing teaching to duplicate in their front lines with less personal (grueling) training and work on their end to help it duplicate…
Front lines and whole teams are failing to duplicate, failing to expand their business and even failing to get started… sometimes new people have so many moving parts to link together that they get sucked into the ‘training world’ never to even get out of the gate… they become victims of something we’ll go into detail about on our private coaching call, something we call “The Locust Effect” and you can lose many good prospects to this in a very short period of time.
We noticed that too… and have been designing a whole different approach to the arena.
Here’s another thing we noticed…
This industry has a shady, embarrassing and unprofessional presence that will NEVER attract some of the untapped and highest quality prospects to it UNLESS the way we present and approach this industry changes in a fundamental way.
Most web sites and ’systems’ take on and use so much hype that high quality people are repelled almost immediately. The type of people you want in your business and on your team are NOT attracted to 98% of the sites they look at. Most are a joke. Many are just plagiarizing each other’s hyped up content and adding rediculous videos that only attract… well… less quality prospects, which perpetuates the whole ’scarcity’ and ‘lack’ mindset where people are mostly looking for a glorified ‘lottery ticket’ and in no way truly serious about mastering and practicing the Internet Marketing art.
Imagine if you were able to be in on the FRONT LINE of powerful game changing concepts such as The Funded Proposal and Attraction Marketing BEFORE they went mainstream?
Imagine being able to position yourself in front of the next ‘game changer’ in this arena…
Be sure to register for a Private, Small, and VERY Important Coaching Session that will reveal the details of what we’ve briefly summarized in this post… you’ll be glad you made time to attend this call…
http://www.SocialProfitStreams.com
It’s Free. But it shouldn’t be.
Web3.0 – Social Profit Streams – what’s it all about and how can you benefit?
The evolution of Attraction Marketing and The Funded Proposal?
Learning how to tap untouched and HIGH QUALITY new markets that can never be truly maximized with the current ways this industry markets…
Expanding and dominating your current markets AND rendering your ‘competition’ absolutely irrelevant in the process…
Something you can apply to ANY HOME BASED BUSINESS you’re currently promoting…
NOT another new ‘biz op’ or ‘program’…
Just as effective in promoting MLM, Network Marketing, Affiliate Marketing, Direct Sales, or ANY specific type of compensation plan structure… this helps people build their primary business and helps them open up new markets where their competition can not practice…
FREE Coaching Session (ONE TIME ONLY and NOT RECORDED)
http://www.SocialProfitStreams.com
If You Are On Social Networking Sites Like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and LinkedIn For A Minimum Of 30-45 Minutes Per Day Already – And You Are NOT Pulling A Full Time Income From The Internet From JUST Those Activities – YOU Need To Know What We Can Teach You Within 30 Days…
Some “Pure Old Schoolers” Claim REAL Relationships Can Not Be Born On The Internet. Watch This Video As It KILLS That Worn Out Excuse In Only 3 Minutes…
HUNDREDS of Millions of People are already making Social Networking a part of their daily routine. It’s not a question of IF it will take off… it’s a question now of:
WHAT will creative, savvy, intelligent people TRULY do with this AWESOME leverage?
Did you know that if you’re already spending a minimum of 30 minutes networking with others in the social networking community, that there is LITERALLY no reason why you shouldn’t be already generating profits equal to or greater than your current wages or salary?
Did you know there are other people out there who have already figured out how to make that a simple and easily duplicated reality?
Imagine for a moment, that you were able to network and collaborate and share in the strategies and tactics that these visionary Social Media Entrepreneurs have already built and refined…
Imagine if you didn’t have to invent or reinvent any wheels here and simply jump on this space ship and start to design your desired lifestyle by leveraging these free technologies on a global scale…
It took Facebook YEARS to go from 0 to 100 Million users…
It then took then just 4 MONTHS to ROCKET from 100 Million to 150 Million!
50 Million MORE in only a tiny fraction of time… so, what does that mean?
MOMENTUM – Critical Mass – MASSIVE Acceptance of a technology on a GLOBAL scale.
There are a few savvy visionaries that will ride this NEW ECONOMIC reality and design a lifestyle around it with no limits…
It would be a very smart decision to choose to align yourself with people “In The Know” and learn how to harness and model what they are already doing…
You can begin that journey right here for free today:
Social Networking To Build Custom Lifestyles – Free Information
Be back tomorrow with more on this developing trend…
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Are you being PRODUCTIVE? Or are you just doing things because everyone else says to do them? How are you using Twitter and other “mini blog social sites?”
Anyway… there are some REAL questions to ponder there right? I’ve always felt funny about all the hype surrounding twitter et al…
At the end of the day, I’m building a business. Relationships, friendships, YES that too… but I’m building a business and I’m looking for serious Joint Venture Partners…
So sometimes it just feels like people get LOST in the “trend of the day” and then get frustrated with lack of results…
How do you use Twitter and Facebook?
Is your Marketing Business Activity generating the results that you’re looking for?
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