- These are the Notes I took while watching the Don Crowther video -

http://www.stompernet.net/goingnatural2

www.Bebo.com – 63% market in Europe
www.Orkut.com – 49% in Latin America, 43% in Asia Pacific
www.Facebook.com
www.LinkedIN.com
www.Myspace.com

Social Bookmarking:

www.Technorati.com
www.delicious.com
www.Digg.com
www.Reddit.com
www.StumbleUpon.com
www.MyBlogLog.com

Content Sharing Sites:

www.Wikipedia.com
www.Squidoo.com
www.Scribd.com
www.Twitter.com
www.Gather.com
www.HubPages.com
www.Propeller.com

Video Sharing, Photo Sharing, Music Sharing Sites

www.YouTube.com
www.Flickr.com
www.PhotoBucket.com
www.Last.fm
www.Metacafe.com
www.imdb.com – Internet Movie Database

28:00 – Strategy #1

Use www.Scribd.com to publish documents. unlimited storage. Backlinks to your site.

30:00 – Strategy #2

www.Squidoo.com – create multiple lenses for the same business.
One for each -

1. Segment of your business
2. Target Audience
3. Occasion

Florist example, 31:37

1. Main Lens for your business
2. Another for Romantic Flowers
3. Another for Giving Flowers to Business Associates.
4. Then, Types of Flowers
a) Roses
b) Orchids
c) Seasonal Bouquets (spring, Fall, Christmas)
d) Live Plants
e) Flower Reviews
f) Special Occasion Flowers (Valentines Day, Mother’s Day, Birthday, Weddings, etc.)
4. Affiliate Marketing of Other peopls’s products.
5. Buy & Sell Squidoo Lenses

33:54 Strategy #3 – Social Bookmarking

1) Inbound links
2) Traffic
3) Search Engine Ranking

Ashwin Ramesh -Professional SEO says: http://smmwhiz.com/2008/01/12/5-social-media-marketing-steps-you-can-implement-right-now/

Digg Strategy (35:10)
People like to blog about the pages that appear on 1st page of Digg.

Also, with only 1 digg, you can rank well for a keyword.

Use Digg for short term events only.

[1:45:27 AM] Jerry Leventer says: AOL – www.Propeller.com (37:00)
You can get some ranks from this.

Submit only the best stuff.
Don’t submit only your own stuff.

Bulk Submitter: Submit to 30 sites with www.SocialMarker.com 39:30

What to bookmark?
1) Your own Site (home page)
2) Your Specials Page
3) Major Blog Posts
4) Videos
5) Documents you’ve submitted elsewhere
6) Your Squidoo pages
7) Links to your site from other sites

Strategy #4 Upload Videos (41:40)

YouTube is the 8th most popular site in the US

Logitec QuickCam Pro 9000 (43:00)
$85.00 on Amazon
30 Frames per second
up to 960 x 720 pixels
Very good quality

Video Editor Software

Windows Movie Maker
Macs iMovie
Search Google: Free Video Editing Software

Camtasia Video

http://www.blip.tv
http://www.Google.com – video