Social Media Systems Social Media Marketing and Website Design Company

Create HTML Signatures in Microsoft Office 2007

Here is a tutorial I put together on making a custom HTML Signature for your Email Address in Outlook Using Microsoft Office 2007!

Social Networking and Team Building

In this exclusive preview to the “Power to the People” speech to the regional owners of Exit Realty this year, Patty Plourde, a real estate veteran of many years will say:

“I started my Real Estate sales career in 1985 with a large independent firm.  We were a community.  Realtors worked hard and played hard.  Each […]

Everything on the Internet is New, Dying, Dead or Golden

The frist time Google sees it, it is new, new is good…

What do New York, Las Vegas, Alabama, WashingtonDC, Maryland have in common?

They are now not available! The roll-out continues: Exit Realty is sponsoring the state of New York, Nevada…looks like perhaps half the nation for the local news area of Real Estate Magazine website (RISMedia.com): anybody non-competitive can submit news to kayla@rismedia.com or ambrown@socialmediasystems.com, and we may include it based on merit: but every page in […]

Wrist pain relief medicine big seller online: over 5,000 contacts:

Hi John,
Sorry for the delay–I’ve been swamped. Thank you for this opportunity. Below is my testimonial. Please let me know if I can make any improvements:
 An amazing phenomenon happened to me last November. I was getting about ten visits a day to my website, and I was working with Social Media Systems to get that […]

Testimonial: Metaphor Travel Company

Social Media Systems has been absolutely great helping me get my website noticed. Travel is the most searched term on the internet, and the prospect of competing with orbitz, travelocity, expedia, and other travel giants of the travel universe is a daunting prospect. Social Media Systems has been wonderful. They found suitable search terms for […]

Article Writing Guidelines - Creating Quality Content

A frequent question from many of our clients is “what do I write” or “how do I write.” Here are some good ideas for creating quality content for your site. Keep in mind that the article and/or post will be used for the first initial posting and/or initial article marketing efforts.
It must be unique – […]

Why does Internet Advertising not work for everyone?

We hear this often: these guys had results immediately, while I have been doing everything and got no results.  It is true: the same people continue to succeed, while others continue to fail: our beta testers in Denver  who got immediate results, continue to succeed: they got 42 leads last month we just learned.
There are many reasons […]

Blogging Errors & PureText

Many of our readers use Wordpress, and frequently run into the common mistake of copying text from Word or some other program, pasting it into Wordpress and finding it has numerous formatting errors and rich text code errors they didn’t know where there.
PureText is a free little utility that allows you to copy and paste […]

New testimonial from AWDAuto - Advertising dollars are never well spent if you don’t track…

—–Original Message—–
From: JUSTIN [mailto:JUSTIN.STOBB@VERIZON.NET]
Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2008 6:16 PM
To: israel@socialmediasystems.com
Subject: My New Website

Our Social Media System site launched in late September 2007 and almost immediately we noticed an increase in customers that had initially found us on the web. Our web related advertising costs had obviously gone up with […]

Video Blogging in Real Time from a Phone!

This is really great: I learned how to operate this Nokia n93i (which i had to buy overseas, it is not here yet) in only a couple of hours, and this is the first video I recorded: it is already on Youtube and Google video automatically!

Washington CEO Business Networking

There is a growing trend in social media to relate real life interactions to the web, and web interactions to real life. This is nowhere more apparent than in the CEO and executive space- where sites like Linkedin and Zoodango are trying to harness the power from both sides of the offline vs online equation.
This […]

15 New Years Resolutions for your 2008 Website:

I will get connected so I know it when I get a lead
I will syndicate an RSS feed that originates at my Domain
I will become an authority for my area and/or niche topic
 I will rank on the first page organic search results
I will convert my dead site to be interactive
 I will become a do-it-yourself video […]

WordPress Plugins | turn blog into a social media community with forums features

I was able to create this robust setup using an off-the-shelf theme, the latest Wordpress, and a new forums plug-in in two hours flat: http://dobusinessinoregon.com/, and another where my rep has already started adding content: http://businessinthebayarea.com/:
Now the real work begins, customizing the templates, calls to action, the distribution of the feeds, the manual submission work, the regular […]

Creating your own Social Networking Local Community

We recently got tired of paying for Letip, BNI, multiple chambers of commerce and other groups: we added up all that we were spending, and decided we could do better: and we did at a profit!
Enter SeattleNetwork.net: we wrote up our own manifesto copy:
“BY INVITATION ONLY! Participation in the Forums and the Blog are open […]

10 timely tips for Social Media Marketing in 2008

It is time to get up-to-date with some changes in the way a website is marketed online using Social Media:

Do Bookmark everything you write: digg.com it, stumbleupon it, onlywire it: get the word out about your content this way!

Ping the world when you post: it is possible to setup a pinger that lets several strategic […]

Social Media Marketing Agency | The lines blur between Publishing, PR, IT, Advertsing and Consulting

In the last two years (much faster than anyone imagined) the advent and mainstream popularity of blogging, Social Media, and online video technology have turned the advertising and publishing worlds upside down.
Until very recently:

PR was done by a select few with connections to and relationships with mainstream publishers and media;

Most advertising dollars were placed through […]

Get kids to Computer Camps with InternalDrive.com - get them ready for High-tech

Never mind that iD Tech offers the number 1 computer camps for kids in the summer camp industry, celebrating 10 seasons, and that they rank for computer camps; they also have a great marketing plan, a realistic budget, and they provide a wonderful service. Each camp offers a fun way to prepare kids for a […]

E-PRO Classes and Social Media Training

As a professional, my original interactive marketing experience started out in the recruiting industry working for the largest interactive ad agency in the world at the time- TMP Worldwide. As I progressed through corporate life and learned my lessons, one of the critical items always found lacking in numerous large businesses was up-to-date training.
Training however, […]