Social media is here to stay so if you are not sure what it encompasses you will want to quickly get a grasp of it. In this article we will go over a few examples of social media and how you should incorporate them into your own online business to make money online.

1. The first one to talk about is blogging. A blog can be defined as “website that allows users to reflect, share opinions, and discuss various topics in the form of an online journal while readers may comment on posts”.

That is saying a lot. From an Internet business point of view search engines love blogs. So do readers if you provide interesting content on a regular basis.

WordPress is the most popular blogging platform and what I suggest you get set up with. Be sure and host your own blog.

2. Get a Twitter account. Once you are set up with them you can do micro blogging. These are short 140 character tweets to your list of followers. There is a skill to building a large list of followers, but once you get it set up you can pretty much automate the whole process.

3. Social bookmark your blog posts. Get set up with a service such as OnlyWire or Social Marker to submit your blog posts to online social directories.

Directories such as Stumbleupon, Reddit, Digg, and so on are a great source for more traffic. These also serve as search engine bait as you get the search engines to spider the directories and find their way back to your blog.

4. Set up your RSS Feed. Think of this as building an email list without worrying about spam. You can even set it up for people to receive updates via email using a service like Feed Burner. As you subscriber base grows you can get a lot of daily traffic from it when you add a blog article. This will help you make money quick when you need it.

5. Join Facebook or other social networking sites. LinkedIn is a good one for business contacts. This is a good place to make online friends and can be a good source for prospects and customers for your online business.

6. Use an article converter for video marketing. A good one is Article Video Robot. With them you can convert an article into video and submit it to video sites such as You Tube, Yahoo. and Daily Motion. Video marketing is a must as Google owns You Tube and they are ranking videos in their search results more and more.

7. Join a handful of online discussion forums. The Warrior Forum is a must for any Internet business owners. Read Harvey Segal’s excellent free report on how to do forum marketing at SuperTips.com

This is a handful of social media sources and tips on using them to make your online business more effective. You must get in the social media game or find your business fall way behind. Social media is a sure fire way to make money on the Internet.

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Media Ethics: Journalism and Social Networking

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One of the most useful services released by Google in recent years is its powerful Google Alerts (http://Google.com/alerts). This free tool allows you to receive e-mail notifications when keywords and phrases that you specify appear on websites, blogs, online news channels and more.

Here are 10 ways to leverage Google Alerts for your business:

1. Business Name – Keep track of websites that mention your company. This is an opportunity to send a note of thanks or address an issue if something derogatory is posted like a complaint about customer service. Big companies track mentions of their businesses online and you should too.

2. Personal Name – Find out where you’re mentioned online. This is especially important for prominent figures such as authors, speakers, celebrities, and individual service providers.

3. Website – Track where your website is mentioned by creating an alert for your domain. Leave off the leading “www” and instead just specify your domain and extension such as “authoritypublishing.com.”

4. Blog – If you host a blog, follow the website guidelines above to create an alert for your blog domain. This should also produce results if your blog link is posted somewhere with a specific pointer to one of your pages.

5. Titles – If you distribute articles for online marketing purposes, create an alert for each article title so that you can track where your articles are appearing. Authors can use this same strategy for tracking book titles.

6. Industry Research – To stay on top of industry news, create alerts for keywords and key phrases for your industry. For example, I have alerts for “publishing industry” and “business book.” This makes it easy to stay on top of news, competition and much more. If you are using social networking sites like Facebook, LinkedIn or Twitter, this can help you locate useful content for micro-blogging or to give you topic ideas to cover in your blog.

7. Competitive Research – If you want to find out who is talking about your competition or where they are being mentioned, create alerts for each competitor’s business name and/or website URL.

8. Lead Generation – If breaking news can produce leads for your company, use Google Alerts for related phrases. For example, if you own a human resources firm and want to find out what companies are hiring in Sacramento, you could create several alerts: “now hiring Sacramento,” “job posting Sacramento,” and “job listing Sacramento.”

9. Lead Research – If there is a company or client that you want to land, create alerts to stay on top of their most recent online activity. This can provide valuable insight into what they company is up to and who is talking about them.

10. Top Client Research – Track activity for your top ten or twenty existing clients. This can give you valuable insight into what they’re up to, and also provide you with reasons to contact them. For example, if one of your clients receives major media coverage, you will learn about it right away and can send them a note of congratulations.

Useful Google Search Tricks

Exact Keyword Search: You can specify exact keywords by putting a plus sign (+) in front of the word. For example, if you search for the word “publish,” Google search results would include “publishing” and “publisher.” Adding a plus sign to the beginning of the word (+publish) will ensure that you only receive exact matches.

Exact Key Phrase Search: When you search for a phrase, Google results will returns anything that includes all of the words in the phrase, not that exact phrase. But if you enclose your search in quotes (“how to publish a book”), the results will only include that exact phrase.

Alternate Keyword: To return a search with alternate results, use “OR” between the words (the letters OR must be capitalized). For example, “author OR writer” will return results with either keyword. For a more complex search, you can put part of the phrase in parenthesis: (author OR writer) “business books”.

Synonyms: If you want your search results to return related terms, use a tilde (~) in front of the word. For example, if you use this feature to search for the word “~author,” Google returns results that include “book,” “writer,” and “literature.”

Search a Single Website: If you want to track new entries on a specific site, you can use the “site:” operator. For example, if you want to track mentions of business books on the New York Times website, your search would look like this: “business book” site:nytimes.com.

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Press release writing is a very effective advertising and promotional method. You can publish any aspect of your business or latest product launch through press release. There are rules however when writing a press release.

To create objective sounding press releases, write in the third person. Avoid using personalized words and phrases. As much as possible just make a plain and straightforward description of what you’re writing about. This is the key here, just describe your topic using the 4 Ws and 1 H of news writing – who, what, when, where, and how.

The body of the press release writing can contain the detailed description of the endorsed product. You can go by enumerating all the distinct characteristics, in detailed format, the product has. You can also include some testimonial statements of those who have had actual encounter with the product. These will make a good catch to potential buyers.

As soon as possible, you should provide your personal angle. The personal angle on the news is usually what is getting your organization plugged in the story. An effective way to do this is by utilizing quotes from well-known or qualified individuals.

You will want to take the time to target your press release to a particular segment of the media. When it comes to press release writing, it is important that you understand the audience for whom you are writing. For example, if you have a website based business enterprise that sells children’s clothing, you will want to target your press releases to those publications and other media outlets that are attractive to the parents of children.

Use a language in your press release writing that is simple as well as impressive. This will help you target greater number of readers. Use of simple language will grip the reader till the end and this will bring you more profit.

Keep the caliber of your reader in your mind. Also, your press release needs to be able to cater to the need of those people who know a lot to those who know nothing about the same topic. If your press release is able to ensure this, it is a good, well written and effective press release.

Keep your press release short. Readers easily get bored when presented with essay-like press releases. Make yours a concise, easy to read, and with fewer words as much as possible.

It is always difficult to read long sentences so avoid them. Be original and creative. Press release can have several versions. Write slightly different versions of press releases for different readers. These are the ways in which you can start off with your press release writing efforts. You can help in the promotion of your web site through press release writing.

Use the reporters’ style for your targeted press release writing. This makes the reporter’s job easier, and they may show their appreciation by accepting your piece.

You can also give them brief background of your company and yourself to build customer trust. If your company has won an award that is relevant to the industry and target market, do not forget to include that in your press release, it will surely rake a number of interested customers

Tips and Tricks – Episode 3: Creating a Press Release Sprout