The biggest question people have about social media is how to make money from it. The thing is that people are spending thousands of hours in social media, but aren’t making thousands of dollars from it.

As a businessperson, this isn’t a wise long-term strategy. We always have to be looking for the best possible return on our investment of time and money.

I have something that might help.

I recently came across this new training program, “From Platform to Profit” which focuses on teaching a specific system of content syndication to help improve search engine ranking, build expert status, send more traffic to your website, and help you generate more leads into your business.

It’s being taught by two well-known online marketing coaches, Denise Wakeman of the Blog Squad, and Dr. Rachna Jain of The Mindshare Corporation. The focus of this 4 week training is to help people create a content syndication strategy that works.

People are spending hours and hours on Facebook and Twitter, but ignoring the other 10 kinds of social media sites you can use.

This means that you’re not using social media as well as you could be.

And don’t worry, even if you’re not super technical, the training is designed to be easy to follow and easy to apply.

In just a few weeks, you’ll learn how to convert your text content to multiple formats, and, just as importantly, how to efficiently send your content around the internet. Done correctly, content syndication has the possibility to move your business to a whole new level in terms of recognition and opportunities.

Learn more here: From Platform to Profit

On the net, people are always looking for better and more effective ways to market. As social media is reaching new heights, blog marketing is becoming the hottest thing on the net today. Blogs, short for web logs, are like online journals. They are generally personal and are written like dairies at times. Professionals also use blogs sometimes to showcase their talent or hobbies online. Popular blogs have thousands of loyal followers making them a very powerful marketing tool as well.

Today, many online sellers and service providers try to reach out to customers through blogs. Popular blogs are the online equivalent of a railway station, with regular readers passing by its pages every day. Putting an ad on a popular blog can be as effective as putting up a sign in a railway station.

Professionals who are struggling to establish their business online often launch blogs and use it to show case their talents and build up a following that translates into buyers. This is also a type of blog marketing.

Blogs help sellers relate to the customer on a personal level. It is like inviting the buyer into your house, entertaining him and then asking him to buy what he likes. The seller can use a blog to interact with its customers, get their opinions on products or services, sharing success stories and plans.

By now you must have noticed I keep mentioning “popular blogs”. Eventually, all that I mentioned above hinges on the blog being popular and having a regular high traffic and page rank. Therein lies the tricks of actual blog marketing i.e. marketing your blog.

From design to content, from keywords to links, there are numerous ways to increase the popularity of a blog. Ask any new blogger and you will realize it is extremely hard to make a blog popular. Writing articulately and about interesting topics does not necessarily bring readers flocking to a blog. How often it is updated and how relevant or interesting the content is are just as important to a blog’s popularity.

The internet is full of tips and advice on how to market blogs. But most of these are common knowledge and basic steps towards marketing. They don’t really achieve more than may be getting you a few loyal readers. Unfortunately, a few loyal readers do not translate to higher page rank or increased online sales.

Wouldn’t it be a relief if someone were to provide step-by-step instructions, especially focused on marketing your blog? If the tried and tested methods of popularizing a blog were being taught to you by people who have done it themselves? Well, you can get all that and more at The Blog Marketing Tips, Tools and Tactics mini-course. This intensive 8-course 2-week program provided by VAClassroom.com is designed to be simple and practical, and includes video lessons, PowerPoint presentation templates and supplementary resources to make it easy for the technically challenged as well.

And right now this course is being offered for a one time low fee of just $147 $97! For more details click here.

Also, you can check out my friend, Denise Wakeman of The Blog Squad’s 5 Critical Tactics for Business Blogging.  This is a free audio program to help boost your online business through blogging.  And grab a copy of her Get The Best Out of Your Blog Free Video Course.

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My friend and Master Trainer, Sandy Rees, CFRE and I are offering a full-day of social media training on October 16, 2009. If you are within driving distance of E. Tennessee, come join us.

The training will be held at the Blount County Chamber in Maryville, TN.

You Will Learn -

* The BEST social networking sites for Your business
* Learn the best strategies to build your social profiles
* Understand why you need a “complete” social media presence
* The top 6 Ways to Generate leads through social media
* Identifying the Top social networking mistakes and how to avoid them
* 5 Keys to Massive Income through social networking

Click here, How to Grow Your Business and CA$H IN on $ocial Media for more information and to Grab Your Seat now!

You don’t want to miss this training and the opportunity to spend a full-day with two Internet experts.

I just found the coolest site! It’s eHow, http://www.ehow.com and you can find out “how” to just about anything on this site.

They have a database of more than 500,000 articles and videos and over 26 million people visit this site each month. Wow, what I would give to have that kind of traffic!

You can also write your own “How To” articles and submit them to the site.

They have advertising opportunities available, but the site is completely free to use! That’s my favorite price!

So check it out and let me know what you think.

One graduate of the Social Marketing Specialist Training Program at VAClassroom mentioned that she landed a great new Social Media client in the plumbing business. Plumbing? If plumbing businesses are starting to use Social Media Marketing strategies, then can you imagine the massive potential client base that is just waiting to be tapped into?

Another graduate from VAClassroom, mentioned that she is working with a Real-Estate company setting up a blog and performing other Social Media Marketing activities.

There are so many vertical markets to tap into and the opportunities for Social Media Marketing Specialists are truly endless at this point!

Since Craig at VAClassroom is so excited to hear these success stories from the graduates of the training program, he wants to make sure that as many people as possible have the opportunity to be trained in this “high demand” area right now.

So, VAClassroom is running a special for the last ten days of April.They are knocking off an additional $100 on our training program ($397) and offering it to you for $297 until midnight on April 30th.

If you are serious about growing your business in 2009, then there is no better opportunity right now then to position yourself as a Social Media Marketing Specialist.

Just click on the link below for all the course details. Also, please make note of the below coupon code that will give you the $100 discount off our training program.

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As a small business owner and entrepreneur, tension is in the job description. You are tense about getting clients, then you’re tense to complete the work in a timely and accurate way. You’re tense when your equipment doesn’t work properly and stressed when the end of the day comes and you haven’t accomplished what you set out to do.

It’s nice to find people who can help us with releasing tension and living our life more fully. My friend, Melanie McGhee of Illumined Life, LLC is celebrating her birthday today and she is giving instead of getting gifts. On her blog, Peacefruit you can download a free meditation recording and she is beginning a local class for anyone in the Knoxville or Maryville TN area on Meditation. Click this link for a flyer on the class and what you can expect to gain by attending.

I do want to release my tension and appreciate my life more, so I’ll be listening to Melanie’s gift and breathing a lot.

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No matter what your business, no matter what product, service or expertise you are selling, you need the right words to sell. Of course, in this “Web 2.0” world, there are so many places and platforms that need relevant and persuasive words – blogs, press releases, Squidoo lenses, articles, newsletters and bios/profiles for Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook, to name a few.

Many successful marketers will tell you that copywriting – the ability to put what you are selling into words that actually sell – is the #1 most important skill to have in marketing. And this is true now more than ever.

No more spinning your wheels in your current online and social media marketing efforts…

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My colleagues Craig Cannings of VAClassroom and Allison Nazarian of Get It In Writing have teamed up to present something that simply does not exist anywhere in the online training world. They saw an amazing opportunity to teach other entrepreneurs and professionals a very specific and easy-to-follow system to launch and profit from — their own “Content Creation and Distribution Machine!” In the world of social media, and social marketing in particular, your credibility, your visibility and your reputation are the measures of your success. And the key to being able to shine in social media lies in the words businesses use to have the conversations they are having.

Craig and Allison – and I – invite you to take advantage of this live, 5-week interactive training. This is an event you don’t want to miss – the “secret weapon” so many successful marketers have and use can (and should) be yours too.

How: Registration Page: www.CopywritingKingdom.com

At the end of 2008, I had an opportunity to read many blog posts from Internet experts making their predictions for 2009 and guess what was at the top of their list: Social Media Marketing. It is anticipated that Social Media will grow at unprecedented rates in 2009 and beyond as more and more businesses seek to leverage this powerful new marketing channel.

A further prediction is that Social Media Marketing Services will be in very high demand through 2009! Most businesses either lack the time or expertise to effectively carry out all the necessary Social Media Marketing Activities and will be seeking to delegate these tasks to skilled Social Media Marketing Specialists.

VAClassroom.com has recently released a high calibre 7 module training program based on the seven hottest Social Media Marketing Services requested by businesses today including:

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- Social Networking Profile Set-up and Management
- Facebook Marketing
- Twitter Marketing
- Online Video Marketing
- Online Reputation Management
- Social Media Content Distribution

The Social Media Marketing Specialist Training Program offers a self-directed training system for Virtual Assistants and Online Professional seeking to offer these in-demand services to their new and existing client base, or anyone looking for more knowledge of Social Media Marketing. The program features 8 modules, 30 videos, an interactive and supportive learning community, comprehensive resource guides, assignments and a Social Media Marketing Specialist Certification.

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