Learning how to research and leverage the social

media space is an important part of setting up your

traffic system.

With social media, you are able to take advantage

of microblogging platforms like www.Twitter.com as

well as communities like www.Squidoo.com and

www.Facebook.com to expand your outreach and target

your niche markets quickly and easily (and it’s all

about setting up your traffic funnel as quickly as

possible, right?).

Aside from just how (free) and easy social

marketing is, it really can provide you with

quality, targeted traffic, while enabling you to

minimize the time you spend promoting your website,

by creating an action plan that outlines your

goals, objectives as well as what communities you

are going to target and the level of interaction

that you are comfortable with.

When it comes to marketing within social

communities, you need to take a different approach

 

than that of traditional marketing.

These people are looking to network with others, to

meet new ‘friends’, to explore new markets, and

while it’s likely that you’ll run into groups of

fellow marketers who will be more than willing to

get on your friends list and mutually promote each

others websites, your overall objective should be

to dig deep into your niche markets, pulling out as

much of your target audience as possible.

These people are buyers, not sellers and you need

to target your advertisements and offers so that

they are informative and useful, rather than a

blatant marketing ploy (which most people see

through from the get-go).

You’ll experience these gimmicks yourself once you

begin to circle through the social platforms.

Marketers will quickly become chattier, and

regularly active within the social groups whenever

a new product launch is about to be unveiled while

affiliates scramble to generate buzz and get their

links shown before everyone else.

Social marketing is a fierce playground to venture 

into, but if you plan out your strategy

effectively, by first clearly outlining what it is

that you hope to achieve as well as your overall

process for executing your plan of action, you will

be one (or ten) steps ahead of your competition who

elbow their way onto the social scene eager to spam

their advertisements and blast their promotions to

a mass audience of potential prospects who are lost

in the noise, quickly deleting them from their user

lists, blocking them from contact and avoiding them

in the future.

Here are a few methods of standing out from the

crowd and tackling the social communities in a way

that influences people to take action, and creates

a positive brand and online identity for your

business.