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You have a business. You have a website. Now you need a marketing plan. Why? Because even though it might be easy for customers to find you offline, it’s not going to be so easy online. There is no roaming around or ‘happening upon’ certain pages online. With billions of websites out there, customers aren’t just going to stumble in that often. You need a solid plan that you can rely on.

Social networking, article marketing, link building, blogging, and keyword optimization are going to be important tools in your marketing. You can find a variety of tools to use and use them how you’d like. The only thing to figure out is what works best and what you like.

If you choose, you can hire professional marketing services to help you out. Internet marketing and running a business give you so much to think about that it can easily become overwhelming. However, hiring someone else to take care of your marketing could prove to save you a lot of stress.

Choosing a marketing company isn’t really complicated. You just need to find a company that you can get along with and who is going to do what is in your best interest when it comes to marketing. The marketing service should help you to determine which marketing tools are best, and understand how each one works.

Without proper marketing, you cannot have proper success. People won’t come visit your site unless you tell them that it’s there. You can’t throw a party and invite no one, and then expect to have guests. You have to send out invitations. Marketing works the same way. The tools are your invitations, and often your only link to potential customers.

Targeted marketing works better than general marketing, too. What is targeted marketing? Well, it’s a tool that you can use that focuses on marketing quality instead of quantity. When you focus on 50 people who WILL use your product/service, you will get better results than if you focus on 200 people that might or might not use it.

Advertise where your audience is. Even if it cuts down your visibility, it will actually be more helpful because more people will actually see your advertising. It doesn’t matter which tools you use, either, as long as you choose the tools that suit you best.

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This weeks guest blog post is by  Becky Robinson , a social media consultant and blogger for Mountain State University .   (Do you want more than that?) If so: She is also the mother of three daughters and currently lives in Chicago, IL. This week marks the one year anniversary of my entry into the social media world. I am going to say something bold (and risk sounding corny, too): SOCIAL MEDIA CHANGED MY LIFE. I am still the same person at my core: my values, my beliefs, and my purpose, but becoming involved in social media has changed my habits, my activities, and my aspirations. I have a new career path and every day brings new relationships and opportunities. My social media involvement started with Facebook, last New Year’s Day. Less than a month into my Facebook experiment, I reconnected with lots of old friends. Then one day, a high school classmate I hadn’t talked to or seen in more than twenty years posted a status update looking for freelance writers. I have always wanted to write. At age 8, my friends and I created newspapers and went door to door trying to sell them. As a preteen, I filled a series of flannel covered journals with lines of poetry and stories. I majored in creative writing in college but after graduation I got married, went to grad school, and got a job (not writing). After several years of 9 to 5, and 12 weeks of maternity leave, I wanted nothing more than to stay home with my daughter, so that’s what I did. Three daughters and 8 years later, I had a store of creative energy waiting to be unleashed. Being involved in social media has given me an outlet for creativity and means for connecting in relationships with people all over the world. On a personal level, blogging, Facebook, and Twitter are just plain fun. Professionally, though, social media has provides an amazing platform for building not only my personal brand, but also the brand of the university that I represent. My old friend John, who got me started with freelancing, works for the marketing department at Mountain State University. When I became a part of the team there, we started to explore the impact we could make with social media. We started with a  blog . To the blog, we added a  Twitter presence . Then we started to experiment with expanding the university’s Facebook presence. The whole point of social media for Mountain State – for anyone – is relationships. We are finding new approaches to connect with current students, new ways to make our brand known to potential students. We are finding new methods to delight and engage our students, and new avenues to involve them in community with each other. And you know the best part? It’s really just plain fun. Related articles by Zemanta Try a Slow Media Diet for 2010 (lifehacker.com) Got Caught With My Pants Down and My Ink Dry? What’s My Next Move? (agentgenius.com) Avatar Makes a Billion Dollars (mashable.com) Social Media: More Than Meets the Eye? (myventurepad.com)

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