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Practical Social Media as featured in the Puget Sound Business Journal

Learn EVERYTHING that you need to know with Social Media to attract high caliber leads, increase conversion rates and gain more clients.

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There is no other comprehensive social media guide written specifically for entrepreneurs with step-by-step instructions, screen shots and tutorials from beginning to end. With no previous experience, you can unleash the most POWERFUL and PROVEN online marketing strategies for your business.

ATTENTION – DON’T SPEND ANY MORE TIME ONLINE TRYING TO MARKET YOUR BUSINESS UNTIL YOU READ THIS WEB PAGE!

HOW TO GET STARTED?  Choose from three great options, including a complete “Get In The Game” guide that lays out 10 easy steps to get you started.  This is accompanied by four “Must-Have” guides to Blogging, Twitter, Facebook and Search Engine Optimization. Since the number one barrier for entrepreneur’s adoption of social media is knowing where to get started, we created the ultimate package to get you up and running, step-by-step, with little to no budget.

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Did You Know?

  • There are 1.1 million tweets per hour, 27.3 million a day and estimated at over 10 billion per year
  • Yelp has more than 27 million unique visitors a month
  • Google handles over 100 billion searches a month
  • Facebook has over 350 million users and receives over a third of the number of unique visitors as Google
  • Small Business blog readership increased 122% year over year
  • Social Networking recently overtook email in total minutes used
  • Americans spend more than 613 billion minutes with social media annually
  • Roughly 60% of US online users are over the age of 35

The Opportunity for Entrepreneurs?

  • The Internet influences purchase decisions at over 2x the rate from Word-of-Mouth
  • 83.8% of respondents said that they would trust user reviews over critics
  • Social Network users are three times more likely to trust their peer’ opinions versus advertising
  • Nielsen Online spokesman Jon Gibs said a major trend had been the continuing popularity of Facebook, which has become so mainstream it now hosts Pope Benedict and a list of world leaders
  • There is no more scalable way to gain visibility for your business with little to no budget

What Can Practical Social Media Do For Your Business?

Your social media campaign should be guided by solid business goals, just like your company.  This will ensure that everything you do in social media provides a direct return on investment to your business.  What is surprising is that only two goals (Search Engine Rankings and gaining more Visibility) make the list for most entrepreneurs.

What is equally as important is the ability to grow your business through partnerships, elevating your brand reputation and creating your own marketing annuities through social media.

Dabbling here and there without a holistic approach to social media marketing and how to use keywords strategies, SEO, blogging, micro-blogging, social communities, networks, online reviews and ratings, profiles and more all fit into the bigger picture is what makes no sense.  Dabbling will also guarantee frustration and a very moderate return on your efforts.

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Social Media In Action Headlines

  • Café Doubles It’s Business with Twitter
  • Chiropractor uses Yelp for page one Google ranking strategy
  • Promotional products company gets two clients in two days after launching Google Local Search
  • HR Outsourcing company uses Facebook and LinkedIn groups to attract human resources clients
  • Furniture Design company get’s call from Architectual Digest in Russia about their new coffee table
  • A mobile catering business uses social media to alert patrons of their two truck’s locations, gains over 20,000 Twitter followers in just a few months
  • Studio Lighting company uses YouTube to reach national audience and lands huge corporate partnership
  • Online retailer connects with the industry’s largest blog to create launch promotion
  • Etc., Etc., Etc

The Power of Social Media Is Immediately Visible

One reader of the Practical Social Media Magazine is a world class rodeo team roping champion many times over.  He and his wife have been astonished by how easy it can be to get a web presence online that you fully control yourself, start to get into the search engine rankings and build your brand reputation online.

The most astonishing moment for them was tied directly to what Nielsen’s research from above said about the growth and use of video for business (You Tube as become a tremendous asset for any business serious about using social media to market their businesses).

The example that made our team roping expert stop in his tracks was when he Googled “Roping Lessons”, a staple of his company’s revenue stream.  What he found as the number one link on top of Google’s search results were two YouTube videos on the subject from 2007 and 2008.  Now that’s staying power.  They were created with the exact keyword optimization for his intuitive search and had remained on top of the search results for years.  At that moment, he really started to realize the power that he had in his hands now that he had the Practical Social Media knowledge and the step-by-step guidance to achieve success.

To All Entrepreneurs:

We are proud to offer the Practical Social Media online magazine, the result of more than two decades of professional experience and expert knowledge in every important social media category.  The magazine has been read countless times, tested, refined and reworked to ensure that every recommendation that we offer is incredibly easy to understand and put to use.  Not to mention that every social media recommendation from Facebook to YouTube has been proven successful from our own experts and cast of Practical Social Media entrepreneurs just like yourself.  The question isn’t whether or not the recommendations work, it is more about taking the first step to acquire this amazing knowledge.

Some entrepreneurs say that they will search the internet and find the same information, or something close to it.  They have always come back after wasting upwards of 20+ hours, frustrated by conflicting information, old information, bad information and really hard to understand information.

That is why we have always, and always will offer a 100% guarantee of satisfaction.  If you ever wish to stop your monthly subscription, all it takes is an email to customerservice@practicalsocialmedia.com.

Good luck on your social media marketing journey, and further business success!  You won’t regret this game-changing step forward for you and your business for a moment!
- Steve MacDonald, Founder of Practical Social Media

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