Not only is twitter the fastest-growing, it is now 2nd only to the almighty google in terms of number of searches performed in a month. Get this:

This is up 33% from April, where at Twitter’s Chirp conference Stone said Twitter was serving 600 million search queries per day. This roughly equates to 24 billion searches per month which is more than Bing (4.1) and Yahoo (9.4) combined.

Twitter is a formidable player now not only in social media but in news and search. How about that?

Socialnomics – Social Media Blog

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The application that allows this is called FBML (Facebook Markup Language). Here, John Haydon shows how to add a clickable image on a Facebook page tab and how to embed a YouTube video.

Very cool stuff!

How to Customize Your Nonprofit Facebook Page Using Static FBML

John Haydon is one of the foremost authorities on using social media and he’s one of my go-to experts on the topic. Here’s an interesting quote from John that illustrates his point quite well.

The return you get from using social media has more to do with how you use it rather than the medium itself. Trying to justify using it is no different from trying to justify using a telephone to create better relationships with your donors.

The Limits Of Calculating Social Media ROI

Social Networking Affects Brains Like Falling in Love

As Zak and others deepen their study of oxytocin, we may better understand why people with friends live longer and get sick less, and why we are compelled to be social animals online and off. If these changes apply in the world of social media, the implications for business — for every brand, company, and marketer trying to understand the now intimately networked world — could be significant.

More at Doctor Love | Fast Company
 

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If you want it, you have to do 2 things:

1. Go to my Facebook fan page – Social Media Marketing – and "like" it, and then
2. Accept my "Friend" request when I personally (manually, not automatically) send it to you

Once you accept, I will send you a message from within Facebook with the special download link to the report (it's super-secret).

In all honesty, I will be selling this report – probably for between $17 and $27 – soon. So snatch your spot right away before it's not free any more.

Here's the cool stuff about the report (I know, I put the "price" up front and the benefits behind, totally backwards–get used to it):

• Find out how you can dominate your market with powerful Facebook advertising!
• The simple way of creating high traffic fan pages for maximum traffic and profits!
• How to create automatic Twitter marketing campaigns that will flood your website with targeted traffic!
• The top social networking sites that will help you build a list, launch your website, and develop brand awareness, instantly!
• And Much, Much More!

Yeah, when I sell it, there will be a fancy sales page. But for now, check out my Facebook page, "like" it, and then accept my friend request when it comes (this is not an automated process, so I'll send you a friend request within a reasonable time).

Then, follow the download link. Most importantly–READ IT and then DO IT!

NOTE: In order to participate in this offer, you have to be a Facebook user.
ADDITIONAL NOTE: If you've already "Liked" my Facebook fan page and accepted my friend request, you'll get the book free. I'll email you the link.

I say “desire” because there’s no compelling need to get into social media marketing by Fortune 500 companies. They have massive marketing departments with hordes of capable staff on hand with brilliant ideas just waiting to get approved, funded, and implemented. Nothing’s changed in Corporate Marketing America for a hundred years.

Or has it?

Indeed, social media marketing and management is a valuable skill set to retain in-house. But companies, large and small alike, may be better off outsourcing their social media efforts.

Here’s why, in large part:

Starbucks’s Alexandra Wheeler and Alex Balfour of London 2012 mailed their creative presentations in and gave absolutely nothing away. When this reporter asked Alexandra about ROI, even after stating one social media promotion “brought 1 million visitors to Starbucks stores,” the presenter when pressed to answer if that represented growth in sales per store said “that’s proprietary information.”

Then why bring it up? Yes, I too was choked up by Starbucks’s “All You Need Is Love” global sing-along and yet kept asking how does that fit into a social media strategy beyond some brand manager at the end of the year pointing and saying “look how we used social media” without ever being questioned about sales results or financial impact?

First off, this is somewhat new territory. Nobody really knows what works and how to measure effectiveness. After all, we’re not even sure what our goals are! Are we trying to market our brand, sell our goods and services, or perform damage control? Nobody, especially at the corporate level, knows.

What we do know from anecdotal evidence is that generating brand buzz and excitement about new products is clearly possible with social media. It just takes some experimentation (testing), creativity, and enthusiasm to “get the job done” (whatever that “job” may be).

For more, read Denis Campbell: Corporate Social Media Usage: No one really knows how and we’re all in the same boat.

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However, it only returns keywords that rank in its own index.

That leaves out Yahoo, Bing, and all the other search engines!

Keyword Research Made Easy

I just came across the best tool yet for discovering relevant keywords. It's called Keyword Snatcher and it's fast, easy to use, and returns quite a few more keywords than Google's tool.

I call it Keyword Research Made Easy

Why is this important?

More quality keyword phrases means more unique posts that you can write for your own website; it also means you can submit more articles to article directories.

More content on your own site means that the Search Engines will value your website more than your competitors who have less quality content. You have more "authority." Authority is one of the 3 keys to Search Engine success (the other 2 are number of backlinks and age of your domain).

People will be able to find your posts by using the long-tail keywords that Keyword Snatcher returns in its results. You will find that over time you will begin ranking for the keywords for which you wrote posts.

Now, remember that the number of backlinks you have to your site is important? Getting your articles published in article directories is one of many ways to get backlinks from "authority sites"!

You can get literally hundreds of high-quality backlinks by using the keywords that Keyword Snatcher gives you to write articles that you post to article directories like goarticles.com, ezinearticles.com, and searchwarp.com.

If you're smart and efficient, you'll post the same (or similar, aka "spun") articles to multiple directories, thus maximizing your backlinking efforts with as little work as possible.

That, my friend, is efficiency!

Here's a little example of how effective Keyword Snatcher is. I entered "social media" in the tool as well as in Google's own tool. I got 150+ more keywords from Keyword Snatcher than I did with Google.

That means, at a minimum, I have 150 more unique posts that I can write for my own website, as well as 150 more articles I can post to one article directory!

Do you see the importance of this?

NOTE: Keyword Snatcher will only be available through June 25, when the author, Jonathan Leger (an internet marketing genius) will pull it off the market forever (or at least until he comes up with something better! That's the way this stuff works). 

It's up on Internet Marketing Muscle, a companion site to Social Media Manager – that site sells the internet marketing type stuff like courses, videos, and ebooks. It's more focused on the product side of things.

Here are some highlights:

• A Collection of 24 Professionally Recorded Videos-This complete video series will teach you everything you need to know about marketing on Facebook.
• The Advantages of Facebook Marketing- Before you actually start building up a Facebook empire, I want you to understand the advantages, so you can use them to their fullest extent.
• The Marketing Strengths of Facebook- Facebook is a very unique marketing tool. It is absolutely imperative that you understand how to best take advantage of this when beginning your marketing campaign.
• How To Setup and Customize Your Own Profile- Watch me over my shoulder as I create a Facebook account and customize it for marketing.
• Understanding the Facebook Wall & Newsfeed- I will share several techniques on how to use the Facebook wall and newsfeed to propel your marketing forward.
• How to Find and Add Friends- Discover how to find friends that are a perfect fit for your niche, so you can market to them.
• How to Use Fan Pages and Groups- I will show you the powerful aspects of using fan pages and groups in your Facebook marketing strategy.
• Powerful Networking Tips- Learn how to interact with others on Facebook in the best possible way, assuring the highest percentage of sales.
• Using Applications on Facebook- I will show you how to use the powerful applications tool to start a viral frenzy on Facebook.
• How to Create Your Own "Facebook Action Plan"- I will show you how to create your own action plan for dominating your niche on Facebook.

All for a whopping $10 with resale rights!

==> Social Networking Supercharged

You can be part of something VERY big right now. You'll help the economy, your community, and–YES–yourself by helping local businesses connect with new customers using basic social media.

Social Media Managers are in HUGE demand right now. You don't need a product or a website to rake it in. I'm here to tell you–if you don't want to pay for my services, you owe it to yourself to become very intimate with social media marketing.

Knowing what goes on "behind the scenes" will help you discern between social marketing pros and shams. Plus, you can do some of it yourself.

Ryan Deiss has teamed up with Kate Buck, who's a social media manager. She rakes in over $10,000 a month right now PART-TIME. Yeah, with only a few customers on retainer.

Watch this short video to see how she does it.

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