Social Media Marketing Systems Agency Blog - Social Media Website and Video Marketing » Social Media http://socialmediasystems.com 805-827-2450 Build Market and Improve Your Business 805-827-2450 with social media marketing services, cutting edge website development, and advertising agency services. Tue, 22 May 2012 13:04:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 How to setup simple two-tier afilliate program in WordPress http://socialmediasystems.com/blog/how-to-setup-simple-two-tier-afilliate-program-in-wordpress/ http://socialmediasystems.com/blog/how-to-setup-simple-two-tier-afilliate-program-in-wordpress/#comments Sat, 20 Mar 2010 18:43:26 +0000 Israel Rothman http://socialmediasystems.com/?p=2966 WordPress has a plug-in  Called WP Affiliate that plugs into the WordPress shopping cart using PayPal, or most other merchant gateways – it costs under $40 per site installation, and it is wonderful> we have set the cookies to last 365 days, so that our affiliates get paid on any referral resulting in a sale at 15%, or any recruited affiliate at 10% of gross sales, for one year after they are referred!

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]]> http://socialmediasystems.com/blog/how-to-setup-simple-two-tier-afilliate-program-in-wordpress/feed/ 0 2010 Internet | The Roar of Us talking to Each Other http://socialmediasystems.com/blog/2010-internet-the-roar-of-us-talking-to-each-other/ http://socialmediasystems.com/blog/2010-internet-the-roar-of-us-talking-to-each-other/#comments Wed, 27 Jan 2010 14:55:14 +0000 Israel Rothman http://socialmediasystems.com/?p=2756 User-generated, User-filtered content is the name of the game now: without it you will not compete is this quickly changing environment.

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I here it almost everyday:

“Must I post, can’t you just make me rank on Google search without me having to do anything?”

The answer is yes, and not.

What good will it do you?  Even if i know some ways to fool somebody into coming to your worthless, page, what would be the point?

Very soon (and is some ways already) it will only be the value of your site to your visitors, and how long they spend there that determines your rankings; the tips and tricks of Gurus like me will not help you, if Google knows that people do not stay on your site; and Google already knows everything.

I am living proof that most of you would rather buy sweet lies than hear the truth.  But the truth is still the truth.  It is all about the value of the resources you provide now.

Stop buying sweet lies.  You need video, interaction, and real content to compete online in 2010: and the best way to get these things  on a scale that will scale, is user-generated, user-filtered content.  The way to get that, is with a social media enabled site.

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]]> http://socialmediasystems.com/blog/2010-internet-the-roar-of-us-talking-to-each-other/feed/ 1 The Value of Social Media for Market Testing – This is a test… http://socialmediasystems.com/blog/the-value-of-social-media-for-market-testing-this-is-a-test/ http://socialmediasystems.com/blog/the-value-of-social-media-for-market-testing-this-is-a-test/#comments Sat, 26 Dec 2009 14:59:23 +0000 Israel Rothman http://socialmediasystems.com/?p=2639 idealogolittlegreenmenIt does not take a rocket scientist to understand the value, for instance, of Twitter for instant feedback on a product, service, or copy.

But most people do not realize the value of a group like this one for market testing: case in point: we are about to launch a replacement for e-Lance and Rent-a-Coder for the buying and selling of digital media products and services of all kinds including websites, video, and marketing – all free, with nothing standing in the way of the transactions (sort of like a free dating site for business, with the best features of Linked-in, Facebook, Meetup.com.)

What Better place to get some feedback about the initial copy and branding: your opinion please:

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We have created the ‘currency’ of “NODS”: work your passion here and get paid! Everything you do around here earns NODs (Natural Overtures Of Distinction) and we have placed a value on the currency of NODs: Whenever you have an idea, an opinion, a comment, a friend, or what we call a ‘spark’, and you share it: you get paid in NODs!

Innovation and acknowledgment are the bricks and motor, the raw materials with which an idea, a group, or a community are formed.

Buy bringing together in the simplest way possible the best features from top social media sites, using the hottest, newest ‘open source’ (free) software (LAMP+AD, or LAMPAD: Linux,Apache,My Sequal,PHP,Aquia,Drupal ‘the new stack’) we bring to you in one free, online application, the best features of:

  • Linkedin (HR)
  • Twitter  (Global Chat)
  • Facebook  (Friends)
  • Basecamp (Project management)
  • Meetup(Social Networking in person)
  • ActiveRain (Niche Community Affinity Blog)

You could win a $50,000 marketing campaign and Modern Social Website for your business for just for signing up here for free! Here is what we will give away:

  • Absolutely FREE Aquia Drupal elaborate, custom website:
  • Complete with Branding, Grapics, custom Functions,
  • Public Realations
  • Video in HD and Web-ready formats distributed to the world on multiple video sharing sites
  • SEO (search engine optimization) * SEM (search engine marketing)
  • Premium, dedicated, unlimited Hosting for one year
  • Link building and other advertising including
  • A premium video advertisement added at the end of the 56 week Crowd Driven Series we are about to Release mobmentality You will also have the chance to win may other prizes and upgrades including:
  • Free websites
  • Free hosting
  • Free upgrades
  • Free advertising
  • Free video production
  • Free project management
  • Free CRM
  • Free mass email campaign And many other incentives just for participating, collaborating, even soliciting:

You will automatically have chances to win the Grand Prize and other prizes without doing anything but signing up: but you will also be compensated here for: Actions you get NODs for:

  1. Authoring the best reply – 5 NODs
  2. Commenting on Sparks (ideas), IdeaPals groups, – 5 NODs
  3. Invite other people – 5 NODs each
  4. When invited user registers – 50 NODs each
  5. When you register if you were invited – 50 NODs
  6. Moderation – Approve – 1 NOD
  7. Moderation – Delete – 1 NOD
  8. Moderation Response -5 NODs
  9. Viewing IdeaPals Group, Spark – 1 NOD
  10. Registering – 25 NODs
  11. Posting an IdeaPals Free Group – 50 NODs
  12. Posting a Spark (idea) – 10 NODs
  13. Moderating a comment – 1 NOD
  14. Posting a picture – 10 NODs
  15. Voting up or down – 1 NOD
  16. Flagging – 1 NOD
Please rate the following features 1-10 (10 is best) for 25 pre-nods and a chance to win the prizes above:
  1. Graphics
  2. Concept
  3. Copy
  4. Anything else that you would like to add
  5. Role, if any, that you would play in our launch (IE: Beta Tester, Partner, Vendor, Reseller, User, Buyer, Seller)
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My, my what a great deal has changed since then.  In an effort to keep up, here are some current trends:

  • Check out Meetup.com and Bloblive.com, and Ning.com
  • As the technology advances, and becomes more user-friendly, the grass roots localisation of the web is coming to fruition
  • Local Media companies are replacing local TV stations, Radio stations, Newspapers, Tabloids, Leads Clubs, Social Clubs, Affinity Associations, Political Action groups….
  • Once a small cog in Google’s big wheel, you can now reach half the population between MySpace and Facebook, and quite possibly 80% on about 46 different social media sites.
  • The Internet has changed traffic patterns, life styles, culture, demographics, and the media. (Heck, it is the media!)
]]> http://socialmediasystems.com/blog/2009-latest-trends-in-social-media-marketing-bloblive-meetup/feed/ 4 Social Media Marketing: the new checklist for 2009 http://socialmediasystems.com/blog/social-media-marketing-the-new-checklist-for-2009/ http://socialmediasystems.com/blog/social-media-marketing-the-new-checklist-for-2009/#comments Wed, 08 Oct 2008 19:58:53 +0000 Israel Rothman http://socialmediasystems.com/?p=772 Think Video in 2009!  Google has built huge server farms all over the world and video has taken over as a viral content distribution method.  There is no better way to get links and subscriptions, resulting in search placement and traffic, than to blog a combination of text, video, and if possible, profiles with bookmarks and favorites.

The Social Media Marketing plan for 2009 must include:

  • Syndicated RSS feeds
  • Video and other graphic content
  • Profiles on major highly traveled sites (My Space, Digg, Facebook etc.)
  • Opt-in subscriptions, groups, feeds, email – mybloglog.com is a good place to start building an affinity group
  • User-generated, user filtered content – the amount of content needed to rank now is more than you will consistently generate on your own – and you must have an automated way for the content producers, contributors to police themselves with user-ratings
  • Social Bookmarking (you must stumbleupon.com your content, bookmark with delicious, netscape.com, etc.)
  • You must ping the world and tell them when there is new content to keep the robots crawling your site more and more regularly
  • All these things must be optimized properly

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