I started to write this post a few weeks ago but wanted to see more results
from my social marketing efforts, when I received some news the other day
that I wanted to share:
"Putting your customers first; What a concept!"
When I saw (through google alerts) that the NYTimes.com commented on my video
this really excited me. I mean, not that they wrote how wonderful and fantastic
I am or anything like that
but just the fact that I was mentioned on their website
after a one day old blogpost and a two week old video.
Things like this happen with social marketing - getting attention after a couple of weeks
because of a blogpost and a cheesy video.
I'll be sure to continue to improve my videos and blogposts as I go along;
you never know who is reading or viewing them,
and they have a very long life on the Internet - like forever!
My guess is that the last article I submitted to AOL's propeller.com,
attracted their attention, which had no mention of the video,
and then they did a search on my website.
Another example of the speed of social media is YouTube and Metacafé and other video sites.
Without me lifting a single finger, 226 people had viewed my video on YouTube and about 125
people on metacafé after a couple of days, and I haven't even checked
all the other sites that I submitted the video to.
Now that isn't a gigantic number, but many videos never get ANY views at all.
Yet another example from social media marketing is the fact that blog posts that I wrote almost
a year ago are getting attention now that I am social bookmarking some of my new posts;
when people pick up on them they also search for other material by me.
This shows the importance of actually writing something that will be of value to the reader.
When I distributed my video, I used both Traffic Geyser (which submits to over 30 sites),
a paid service, but also a free service that submits to 12 sites at the same time.
Here's a link to TubeMogul.com
Anyway, because of this one simple little video and a few articles that I have submitted
to the social bookmarking sites in the past few weeks, people are blogging about things
like the StomperNet article I wrote about LAST YEAR -
this also demonstrates the power of press releases through PR WEB's paid services.
People are translating my articles into Italian, Spanish, and Asian language or languages too.
Only 10 or so blogposts/articles that have gotten circulated of them and just one on PR Web.
I'll come with a new post on where to submit Press Releases for free
when I have tried these services and seen some results.
I have not gotten traffic from my articles at Ezine Articles, etc. but submitting articles there gives "expert" status,
although it would appear that the content is not being attributed to me. People like to borrow a lot.
But when you social bookmark, people blog about what you write about.
I used SocialMarker.com