At Social Media Marketing LLC, we are experts at social media marketing for small to medium sized businesses, particularly, the home based business and real estate (realtor and private investor) We will assist your small business on how you can integrate the social media marketing craze for just a small portion of your overall advertising budget. But, social media marketing also consists of Social Media Optimization (SMO) similar to Search Engine Optimization for your business website. At Social Media Marketing LLC, we help all small businesses, regardless of your advertising budget, get your business website up and running quickly, employ the latest SEO tactics to get traffic to your website, then we will work with you to develop a social media marketing stategy to help your business engage your customers and generate the exposure that your business needs to stay competitive. Our commitment does not end there, through a partnership we will assist you in organic search engine optimization and link building services. We help our clients rank higher and generate targeted traffic. Our results are measurable and our clients enjoy high returns-on-investment. Our ISO 9001:2000 certified process framework ensure high quality services at all times. These ongoing organic SEO tactic includes Comprehensive SEO, Combo Packages, Monthly Link Exchange, Article Submission, Social Book Marketing, Press Release Distribution, Local Search Engine Optimization, Niche Directory Submission and Pay Per Link.

Now, lets Integrate Social Media Into Your PR & Marketing Strategies! Each day millions of online conversations are taking place on social media sites such as Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and more. Don’t let the conversations happen without you! Vocus is the only fully integrated PR software solution that empowers you to engage, monitor and analyze traditional media, bloggers and the world of social media. What is Social Media Marketing? Social media marketing is an engagement with online communities to generate exposure, opportunity and sales. The number-one advantage is generating exposure for the business, followed by increasing traffic and building new business partnerships. Common social media marketing tools include Twitter, Blogs, LinkedIn, Facebook and YouTube. In the context of Internet marketing, social media refers to a collective group of web properties whose content is primarily published by users, not direct employees of the property (e.g. the vast majority of video on YouTube is published by non-YouTube employees). Where to start? Many of us are so excited about the technology and that we forget key pieces to success: definition of business goals, objectives and overall process for execution.

The old aEoefail to plan, plan to failaE� comes to mind. While you need to create the roadmap for your online business aE” you must certainly decide on what goals and resulting metrics you want to attain. Social media marketing can help you increase the activity around these top goals: aEc Website traffic and user behavior (external and internal tracking) aEc Conversion and sales tracking aEc Page views, ad exposure aEc Growing brand awareness (a softer value, takes longer to build) aEc Creating a positive brand association and keeping it there aEc Business development and a broader customer reach How can you create and convert all this activity with social media? Since the social web allows you to interact with others, create and promote content that can get links and viral attraction, you can aE” with the right strategy aE” reach key influencers using this medium. We all know what blog s alone can do, and they are pretty search engine friendly out of the box. Social media expansion is important because this provides foundations for broader / faster mindshare, along with supporting your search engine marketing objectives. You *can* convert traffic if you target appropriately (research needed), and do not spam. What is Social Media Optimization (SMO)? Social media optimization (SMO) is a set of methods for generating publicity through social media, online communities and community websites. Social media marketing has two important aspects:

(1) Adding links to services such as Digg, Reddit and Del.icio.us so that their pages can be easily ’saved and submitted’ to and for these services.

(2) Building ways that fans of a brand or company can promote it themselves in multiple online social media venues. According to Lloyd Salmons, first chairman of the Internet Advertising Bureau social media council “Social media isn’t just about big networks like Facebook and MySpace, it’s about brands having conversations.”. Supporting Salmons claim, Jim Tobin and Lisa Braziel liken rules of social media marketing to rules of etiquette commonly practiced at a cocktail party. In their book, Social Media is a Cocktail Party, the authors suggest rules of engagement commonly practiced at a cocktail party are often the same or similar rules for engaging others in social media spaces. The parameters surrounding social media marketing are arguably elusive today. The trend is still so new many bloggers, public relations, marketing, and social media experts vary in their definition of what social media marketing entails. Nielson published suggesting that blogs and social networks make up an emerging social web. The social web includes social media sites and is a location within which social media marketing might take place. Are you ready to engage your customers through Social Media Marketing as part of your overall online PR and Marketing staregy? Get started building your online presence with Social Media Marketing LLC.