These aren't the old days anymore. The search boom was fun, but the Internet is huge and search isn't the only game in town. There are an endless number of methods and places to spend your money besides Google, Yahoo! and MSN. Quit thinking about ranking #1 and start focusing on where your audience is.

The reason we created this website was to help companies understand that there is life beyond the top 3 search engines.  While the search engines do offer great opportunities, sometimes it can be brand limiting to focus solely on these areas.  Stepping outside the box and looking at other more direct areas to engage with your audience has been proven to be extremely successful and complimentary to search engine marketing initiatives.  

The web has changed the way people communicate, and it is changing the way companies communicate with current and future customers. Your "message" is no longer in your hands - and truth be told, it never really was. There are millions of blogs being created every week, each one searchable by search engines. Anyone - and everyone - can now be a self-published critic of anything - and everything. And of course it's not just blogs anymore. It's sites like MySpace, YouTube, Facebook and a thousand others.

The key to working and interacting in the social media arena is honesty. It's a simple and seemingly obvious tactic that many have avoided to their peril. People don't like it when companies hide, lie, or pretend to be something they are not. In order to "engage the consumer" as they say these days, it is important that you also not "enrage the consumer." It's a tricky balance, but it is achievable.

Whether you are selling products or services, a well planned and executed social media campaign is a powerful strategy that will get you links, attention, conversions and traffic.

Other reasons why you should use social media in your online marketing mix:

Unlike PPC programs, social media allows you to introduce your website to large groups of people in an organic fashion.

Social communities can provide you with new visitors on top of any traffic you are already receiving from your natural search engine efforts. While you can't easily or quickly increase your natural search engine traffic, you can see massive increases in social media traffic through creative strategic marketing.

High returns.

Viral marketing utilizing community-specific strategies is complimentary of all other marketing efforts - online and offline. Social media doesn't compete with other methods of website traffic generation. Further, it fits perfectly with other campaigns that target other websites, affiliate programs and search engines.

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