If you are looking to get traffic to your new website, you may have heard that you can use use social networking or social media sites, such as Myspace or Facebook, to drive users of these services to you. There are a few problems with this strategy. With the advent of quick and easy sites, like Twitter, social networking and media sites have seen a marked decline in the amount of frequent users. Consider these points before you solely rely on social networking sites to drive traffic to your website:

* Myspace and Facebook have a huge number of dead pages - So many users have “been there, done that” that they do not login to there accounts anymore. You would basically be marketing to the wall. * Myspace and Facebook has implemented numerous safety guards - They have made changes which are hypersensitive against spam, and they label any outgoing links as spam or potential phishing sites. This puts a scare into people using these services, and causes them to apprehensive to clicking any outgoing links to your site. * Social Networking is about dead - When these services were new, they were great. While you may find some amount of success with these sites, your effectiveness rate would be about 30% of what you would normally expect.

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Often referred to as the “Goodwill Portion” of your business branding is an intangible that can be of greater value than your liquid assets. Continuity in your physical and today more importantly your online presence is being “brand aware”. Twitter and facebook top social networking sites allow business to determine what people are saying, thinking and doing about their brands. Each site offers businesses different a different approach to social media branding.

Business and celebrity examples of being proactive via social networking with their online brand can be found. Both Twitter and facebook are home to Whole Foods Markets. They actively engage their buyers providing both consumer alerts and product knowledge. Facebook offers them a chance to provide forum based knowledge sharing, whereas Twitter has become a rapid alert venue for product update and recalled items.

London Times Cartoons CEO Rick London takes a personal approach putting himself forward as the face of his company on both Twitter & facebook. He provides links to his humorous cartoons, promotes his celebrity clients and freely interacts within the online community.

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I often speak with lawyers that are intrigued with the new social media websites. They tell me that they want to get involved using Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter to generate new prospects for their firm. The first question I bring up is do you write a blog?

Advertising for lawyers with social media: I want quick results please.

I think all of us would prefer the shorter easier path if given the option. Unfortunately, this isn’t the best route to take for lawyer marketing with social media. Even though posting an update on Twitter or Facebook can share your thoughts with others, it doesn’t provide the depth that writing a good blog post does. One of the best uses of social media is sharing your blog posts with other Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn users.

If your lawyer marketing efforts are simply status updates on Twitter and Facebook, without any longer, thought out content of your own, then you will be making comments about many things, but adding nothing of substance to the conversation.

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You must be thinking of what you should do in your joyful Easter holiday and you must be in great holiday mood already, right? First wish you a very wonderful Easter! It has been a long time since we have a nice break during Christmas time (did I have any holiday after that? I forget, my life is in a mess), Easter is really a savior, at least for me it it, it saves me from my horrible and stressful working days (from days which I sleep around 11:00pm, nice right? But I need to wake up at 3am for finishing my work!)! How nice is Easter holiday! But Easter should not holiday, huh?

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Do your friends have birthday this week? Maybe you are wondering how to send a nice and wonderful Birthday Ecard that could be the best among the hundreds that your friends are going to get.

I would recommend you to send a Pencake Ecard.

Pencake Ecard is an online Ecards drawing platform that illustrators can create Ecards online by using the Flash based drawing software. All the Ecards will be published to the directory for other users to use.

A variety of Ecards with different categories are available for you. Most of the Ecards are well customized and designed. And the characteristic of Pencake Ecard are highlighted as below.

1. Since all Pencake Ecards are designed by all different artists. The Ecards are different from each other and have their own styles. You will find it interesting when you are selecting them for your friends. Moreover, you can write your personal message behind the Ecard like the real card.

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What do you like to do when you have free time? From the title, you know how much I love serving the community. ‘Half of me was born to serve others’, this was the description I have used before when I was asked to deliver a speech about my life as a volunteer.

As a fanatic of serving others, I have been a volunteer for over 10 years already. I enjoy serving other people as I am fond of watching those I served showing broad smiles to me.

I was 8 years old when I first had the experience of serving the needy ones. I could still remember how happy the elderly people were when I played the piano and my classmates sang Christmas songs to them. And they told me about they old good memories.

When I entered secondary school, I have more chances to serve others. I participated in different service programmes organized by various charities. Those times were marvelous. But, they are not the most fab parts in my life of serving others!

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What do you usually do when you have free time? Sleeping? Playing online games? If you are thinking of what to do in the coming weekend, why not try to be a volunteer and to serve the needy ones in society?

I have 10 years experience of being a volunteer. You can call me as a ‘fan’ of serving others as being a volunteer brings me the greatest amount of happiness.

The first time I served others, I was 7-yr-old. I visited a home for elderly. I will never forget how happy the elderly people were when my classmates and I made performances and chatted with them. So impressive!

When I entered secondary school, I have more chances to serve others. I participated in different service programmes organized by various charities. Those times were marvelous. But, they are not the most fab parts in my life of serving others!

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I’m sure you have heard of sites like Facebook and Twitter. They’re well-known as social networking communities. These portals let people form an internet community to share their knowledge about stuff they are interested in.

That is great, but what really counts for Internet marketers is the fact that communities of folks who truly interested in a hobby can be a gold mine… if you can find out a technique to market to this community without bringing them away.

And the makings to turn people off has been genuine road block for people who try to marketing to communities, using what is called social marketing.

Community sites like MySpace will flat-out run you off. There are some community sites that don’t but the disadvantage is they can change the terms of service at any time and turn off your income stream. This would be bad. Till now, creating your own social networking sites has been something like building your own car.

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Everybody, Happy Easter! Easter is a very good break as since Christmas it seems that there has not been such a relaxing holiday, at least for me that is the case. It is really so great to have a nice little break from tonnes of work and to enjoy a few days without pressure. I am loving Easter! But does Easter only serve as a relaxation?

Thousands of years ago, God made his son Jesus Christ come to the world as his representative in order to save us from our wrongful behavior. Through his death and rebirth, Jesus sacrificed for sweeping the evilness of our sins away. “Feliz Semana Santa” is a Spanish phrase meaning “Happy Week of the God”. Even though people in Spain only have a holiday of three to four days, but they celebrate Easter for a whole week! (I think those who know how to prolong their holiday like the Spanish know well how to create ecstasy for themselves, right? Glad that they can feel happy even though their holiday is still, that short! So “feliz” they are!). But if I am not a follower of God, how does Easter relate close to me, except that it is a vacation period and that I can enjoy tasty Easter eggs?

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Do your friends have birthday this week? Maybe you are wondering how to send a great and wonderful Birthday Ecard that could be the best among the hundreds that your friends are going to get.

I would recommend you to send a Pencake Ecard.

Pencake Ecard is an online Ecard drawing platform that artists can create Ecards online by using the Flash based drawing tool. All the Ecards would be shared to the directory for other users to use.

A variety of Ecards with different categories are available for you. Most of the Ecards are well customized and designed. And the characteristic of Pencake Ecard are highlighted as below.

1. Every Ecard is tailor-made and unique. These Pencake Ecards are similar to traditional cards that they could be flipped like real cards and have a written personal message behind. Many users are impressed with the flipping effect of the Ecard.

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