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Google Wave – “Gwave” as we are calling it will undoubtly become the hottest social media platform when it is offically released. And for the next year it will be so hot that the early adopters that know how to use it for marketing purposes will be able to convert friends, fans and followers into close personal contacts and eventually customers.

Google, the search engine giant, has created the largest social networking platform imaginable! It’s so big that even though it is still in Beta, other social networking sites are scrambling to create alliances with anyone they can just to try and keep up.

So what is Google cookin’ up that is creating such hype and anticipation among Internet marketing experts?

Google has created a social networking platform where it is going to connect all 50 of their sites and services ie: Gmail, Google Reader, YouTube, Google Docs, Google Calendar, Google Maps, Google Friend Connect, etc. and make them all one big social network with your “friends list” portable to take with you to any Google property.

Tune in as I interview Chris Lang – aka “The GWave Guru”. Chris has been Beta testing Google Wave now for the last few months and is ready to take us behind the scenes and show us how to use this amazing new tool.

If you want to see the future platform of social media marketing, this webinar is a MUST!

When: Tuesday December 1st 5 PM PST/ 8 PM EST
Where: Your Computer
Price: FREE

Go Here to Sign Up: http://www.streetsmartsalesandmarketing.com/WebinarSignUp.htm

I just received a “Tweet” today on a new software program that anyone can use to turn articles into videos that you can then upload to several Web 2.0 video sharing sites.

This Never-Before-Seen Technology Will Bring Your Article Marketing To The Next Level!

It’s called The Article Video Robot and it will convert your articles to LIVE and TALKING videos in minutes.

Go check it out here:  http://budurl.com/Articles2Video

All you have to do is Copy & Paste Your Article Into This Software And it just
Converts Your Article Into A Hot Marketable Video Instantly!

You don’t even have to leave your desk or touch a camera!

Here is a Direct Link To Software: No registration, No Credit Card, Fully Browser Based – No Download Or Installation either. Just try it out once…!

http://budurl.com/Articles2Video

Using this Live demo you should be able to convert any article to a video with full voice-over, animation, all the graphics and submission to 17+ video sharing sites like youtube, veoh, metacafe.. It’s worth your time!

I hope you find this software useful in your lead generation and SEO efforts.

To your continued success,

Dave

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In This Intensive 1-Day Marketing Workshop David Carleton and Bill McRea Will Show You Exactly How To:

- How to Build a Strong Marketing Plan

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If you’re really serious about growing your business then you must attend this workshop.

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The Workshop will be held at:

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Ever hear of BlogTalkRadio?  BTR is one of THE most effective, yet undertilized Social Media Websites today.  Those that are using it are seeing huge benefits in driving traffic, generating leads and getting fast placement on Google.

In this jam-packed webinar, you’ll learn everything you need to know to start using this tool including how to:

- register as a host
- complete the profile and show options
- schedule a show
- use the blog feature
- work the switchboard
- place a widget on a website, blog or social media site
- add video to the show page in two locations
- record remote interviews
- upload a mp3 or wav file to play during a live show
- edit show information and blog posts

So if you are looking for any easy way to gain more visibility for you and your business and gain a competitive edge in the market, I really encourage you to tune in to this FREE Webinar.

When: Thursday October 1st 6 PM PST/ 3 PM EST
Where: Your Computer
Price: FREE

Click Here to Register:  http://budurl.com/WebinarSignUp

To Your Continued Success,

David Carleton

There are many strategies out there today on how to use social media marketing.  From driving more traffic to your website to engaging with friends, fans and followers.  Whatever your social media objectives are and whichever strategies you decide use, there are definitely some key aspects that can “make or break” your social media efforts. 

I call them the “ATES” of Successful Social Media Marketing and I have listed the best and worst of them below: 

The 4 Best ATES – Do These 

LocATE – The first thing any person or business needs to do when deciding on a social media strategy is decide who you are trying to communicate with.  Will it be more social or business oriented, male or female, young or old, etc.  From a purely business standpoint, deciding on your “target market” will point in the right direction on which social media sites to spend your time on. 

Once you decide that, you need to then try to find the right people, conversations and groups to engage.  For example, LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter all have internal search functions that can help you locate people with specific backgrounds, interests and even geographic locations. Once you find a person or group of interest, simply follow, connect or befriend them. 

ParticipATE – Making friends online is not much different than making them in person.  The more you put into any type of relationship, the more you’ll get out of it.  Translation…make sure you spend the time to nurture your “friendships.”  How?  Join in the conversation – give advice, feedback, useful information, answer and ask questions, re-tweet, give thumbs up, bookmark pages, leave comments on posts, etc.  These are not hard to do and don’t take a lot of time, but can really help you gain respect within your “community.” 

AllocATE – This really goes hand in hand with participation.  You need to allocate enough time to your social media effort in order for it to give you whatever results you are looking for.  Social media is a courtship not a “one-night stand.”  I know many people are concerned that it can take up too much time, but that can only happens if you let it. 

There are ways to systemize and automate the process but not the message.  There are ready available tools and applications that can help you and many of them are free.  These include such things as TweetLater, TweetDeck, Ping.fm, Friendfeed and many more.  You might also want to consider using Virtual Assitants (VAs) to manage some of your social media tasks.  Just remember, there is only one you and you should never outsource your own “voice.”  

IntegrATE – If you are going to use social media as part of your marketing, you need to be sure to integrate it into your overall marketing plan.  Social media should be in addition to, not instead of other forms of marketing.  Fast and easy ways to get started?  Place social site widgets on your blogs, websites and e-mail signatures.  Use Twitter as a way of answering consumer questions or Facebook as a way of announcing live events or webinars.  Uploading short videos to YouTube or staring a Blog are both things that you can do for free but can drive a ton of traffic to your business. 

The 4 Worst ATES – Don’t Do These 

DominATE  Social networking is not about being the life of the party and dominating the conversation.  Posting 50 tweets in 5 minutes to take up all the space on the screen to get noticed will certainly do so, but you’ll also loose followers.  Good friends listen to others and don’t dominate the conversation.  

AlienATE – Goes hand in hand with dominating the conversation.  In this case I am talking about social networkers that are only there to sell, sell, sell.  All their messages are “buy this me and you’ll get rich” oriented.  If every conversation you participate in is about you and what you have to sell, make no mistake, you will alienate your friends and lose followers.  Can you make posts and comments about your products and services?  Of course, just don’t make them the only thing you ever post and post them infrequently. 

ProcrastinATE - If you don’t have a social media marketing strategy, what are you waiting for.  Social media is NOT a fad and many of your competitors are already engaging with your customers and prospects.  You don’t have to be an expert to at least get started.  Sign up for a Twitter and Facebook account and observe what others are doing.  Get educated on the basics and progress from there.  You can get my free e-book “7 Steps to Social Media Success” to get you started. 

ComplicATE:  Some people get so overwhelmed with social media that they do nothing.  You talk to one person and they love Ning, Plaxo and StumbleUpon.  You talk to others and they swear by FastPitch, MySpace, Facebook and LinkedIn.  Which are the best for you?  The ones where your potential clients, friends or fans with mutual interests hang out.  Go where your clients, customers and prospects are. 

It’s not about quantity so much as it is quality.  It’s better to really engage in a few strategic sites and do it well, than have dozens of sites and never engage in any. 

For more information on how you can integrate social media into your current marketing efforts go to http://www.streetsmartsalesandmarketing.com/SocialMedia.htm 

To Your Social Media Success,

Dave