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


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 Starter's Package entitled, "Everything That You Need To Know About Social Media Marketing In 10 Easy Steps." This starter's package 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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Steven MacDonald, Founder

    



Are You Wondering?
  • Where do I start?
  • What will provide a short-term return?
  • What are the insider tips and tricks?
  • How can I be sure I'm not just wasting my time?
  • What is Yelp, Digg, and RSS?
  • Can social media work for a regular entreprenuer like me?


What Can Practical Social Media Do For Business?



A Holistic Approach To Social Media Marketing
   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.



Dan McComb, Co-Founder of The Biznik Social Network


  

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Practical Social Media publishes a monthly online magazine that simplifies the overwhelming amounts of social media information and tools available for entrepreneurs into simple and understandable bite-sized chunks. The company's social media experts analyze daily trends and emerging tools that are then reviewed through a business-minded, return on investment perspective. 

The result is an easy entry into the world of social media for entrepreneurs that can make a huge difference for little to no budget. 
  






   The Practical Social Media Magazine step-by-step recommendations have been cultivated from recognized experts in social media, real world case studies and Fortune 500 business experience.  


 
Did You Know?
  • There are over 3 million tweets a day
  • Yelp has more than 20 million users a month
  • Google handles over one billion searches a month
  • Facebook has over 300 million users and receives over a third of the number of unique visitors as Google
  • Small Business blog readership increased 122% in the last year alone
  • Social Networking just 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 3 x more likely to trust their peer' opinions vs. 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

 


    

Success Stories From Practical Social Media Entrepreneurs



The Practical Social Media Promise

For companies that can't afford high-level consulting support, yet are frustrated by the cost and lack of results from their marketing...

Practical Social Media promises to help entrepreneurs enter and prosper in the world of social media with little to no budget or previous experience. 

We don't make recommendations that are nice to have, these are the new social media marketing fundamentals that every business should be putting to use today.

Each issue contains segments of "How-To" series for social media marketing strategies with Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Google Apps, Local Search, WordPress, SEO and much more. 

The goal is to provide simple and sensible guidance within the often complex world of online marketing for companies that are tired of working hard on their marketing, and need their marketing to work hard for them.










   


Forbes magazine calls social media a fundamental shift that is here to stay.


Inc. magazine says that the nation's fastest-growing private companies are making use of social media. 


        IT'S TIME TO STOP WASTING YOUR TIME & MONEY TRYING TO KEEP UP & COMPETE WITHOUT SOCIAL MEDIA!



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Entrepreneurs Speak to The Value of The Magazine For Their Business


    




 





 

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 Recognized by One Very Successful Entrepreneur

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 "Team Roping Lessons", a staple of his company's revenue stream.  What he found as the number one link on the top page of Google's search results was a YouTube Video from 2007.  It was created with the exact keyword optimization for his intuitive search and had remained on top of the search results for over 2 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 help to get there.


Patricia Klinger, Practical Social Media Follower And Entrepreneur 

"I feel like I owe Steve money. I am walking away with so much more than I expected that I would get." 
  


Entrepreneurs Share Their Enthusiasm For What They Have Learned


Entrepreneur's Talk More About The Impact On Their Business

 
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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