You really want to understand Web Marketing 2.0, without buying hundreds of guides? Learn how to make connections online. The easiest and fastest way to make that connection as a noted authority is to learn the art of giving.

Most Web 2.0 sites that will help you market your site will Only work if you make a conscious effort to share your resources. Think of it as traditional networking amplified and assisted by web tools. Realize, though, that the technical details of how to maximize social bookmarking, blogging, RSS, collaborative tools and widgets are all useless without the new underlying first rule of the Web.

“What’s the new rule, Tinu?”

Well, in order to receive, you’ll have to start out by giving. The trick is to go beyond the golden rule of doing unto others as you’d have them do unto you, into an even higher rule of doing to others as they want to be done unto.

And if you can figure out how to anticipate needs, you’ve got a bigger head-start than any me-centric marketer, no matter how far ahead they may be in experience.

Let’s look at 10 of the free ways you can use Give Marketing to enhance your entire marketing strategy.

Give Marketing Tip #1- Giving Sincere and Useful Comments on Blogs.

Don’t make the mistake of leaving a message just so you can leave your link. Build relationships.

Give Marketing Tip #2- Giving Testimonials.

Send audio and a picture, along with your most sincere praise when you’ve found a tool you love. Even if the tool was free. Also great as a blog topic.

Give Marketing Tip #3- Giving a Detailed, Helpful Answer in Forums.

Don’t forget to fill out the signature panel if the community allows. Even those that don’t will allow you a profile.

Give Marketing Tip #4- Giving a Heartfelt Compliment (Anywhere Public).

Testimonials are a type of compliment, but not all compliments are testimonials. You can give a compliment without giving a full review or testimonial. A compliment can be about how a site looks, ease of use, a positive experience with the owner, or the quality of the packaging the product comes in.

Give Marketing Tip #5- Giving a Contact.

Everyone knows someone another person would like to get next to, so make a list of who you know, regardless of industry, and how you could help them by introducing to someone brilliant you’ve recently met. The gesture is never forgotten, and fortuitous unions often provide additional kickbacks.

Give Marketing TIp #6- Giving up the Digg.

Digg is a social bookmarking system in which the participants vote on a story. If a friend is involved in a good story, submit it at http://digg.com.

Give Marketing TIp #7 – Giving a Bit of a BUMP.

Digg’s community are centered mostly around World News and several aspects of Technology. BUMPzee is the best of the blogging community tools like MyBlogLog and the social bookmarking of Digg mashed together in a yummy chocolate/vanilla swirl. You don’t have to be a blogger to use it either, and if the community that your BUMP goes in doesn’t exist, at http://bumpzee.com you can create it.

Give Marketing Tip #8- Giving a Plug.

PlugIM has already become the Internet Marketer’s preferred place for marketing tips and news. It has a Digg-like interface, but it’s smartly niched for the huge legions of online marketers and the online Business to Business crowd. At http://www.plugim.com you can expose news where all the right people can see it in two minutes flat.

Give Marketing Tip #9- Giving Away Your IQ.

Free IQ is a “market place for ideas,” where you can share ebooks, video, audio and article content to a captive audience that is currently oriented largely towards the internet marketing and affiliate marketing communities, and could easily expand into every niche on the web. Who says you have to use your Free IQ juice just to promote yourself?

Give away one little secret. It won’t hurt, I promise. At http://freeiq.com/addarticle, you can add a quick review, ebook or article. Quick tip: after you add your article, do a search for Shawn Casey to get two free recorded training calls about the site.

Give Marketing Tip #10- Giving a Trackback or Link Back

Got a blog? Learn about Trackback, a method by which a remote blog can automatically like back to you when you reference a post of theirs. If you don’t, give a link to a site you believe in. Everyone loves link love.

Get to giving. It might even be fun in and of itself.

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As even the poorest villagers in 3rd world countries know, the Internet is fundamentally changing the lives of all people; providing fast and inexpensive access to information and knowledge, vastly improving our ability to communicate, and driving the development of new opportunities for work, play, entertainment, and self expression.

According to analysts (www.internetworldstats.com), more than 1.5 billion individuals regularly use the Internet worldwide. That is roughly one fourth of all individuals on Earth. The growth rate of Internet usage has been astonishing, increasing approximately 342% in the last 8-year period alone. When you look at specific countries like Korea, China and the United States, the growth has been even stronger.

A second wave of innovation, global efforts to extend the Web to mobile devices, is racing around the world as this article is being written, causing even deeper sea changes in the way people communicate and consume. It is highly likely that you are personally helping to drive these changes through your usage of computers, mobile telephones, networked consumer electronics hardware and software, and even in the online games you play and the manner in which you order pizza for delivery.

This revolution in information and communication technologies is changing the world faster than Hollywood exported Western Culture. What does it mean to businesses and organizations? That it is simply not possible to present your business, your organization, your ideas or your products properly in today’s world without a strong Internet presence, and without understanding how this “new” medium is different from traditional experiences like print and television, and how it is evolving.

We all know that it’s “interactive”, “real-time”, and “data rich”. And that it’s a lot easier (read cheaper) to broadcast key messages and offer discounts. But, from a marketer’s prospective, what is really interesting are the new behaviors emerging as Web usage continues to evolve, offering new ways for companies to attract customers and build loyalty. Initially, it was email, the killer app. Next we discovered “user generated content”, the holy grail of sticky, relevant, cheap content (you don’t target it or pay for it, your readers do that for you). Today, we are just beginning to discover the power of social networks (like Friendster and Twitter) and the rules for effective social media marketing.

What does this mean for you? Perhaps (if you move quickly) there is a way for you to “get a leg up” on your competition and benefit from the worldwide interest driving the success of social networks. Only the very best companies have begun harnessing the power of social networking in their marketing efforts. They are relying less on “selling campaigns” and are, instead, making efforts to connect directly with customers through networking. They do this by focusing more on building brand awareness and by parading corporate values as opposed to sales and conversions. They are encouraging consumer expression about their products, companies and key messages. And it’s working.

Through YouTube, media-savvy companies promote their businesses with informative videos, tutorials and even humorous clips. Media giant BBC alone has over 4 million views on their official YouTube channel.

Taking it a few steps further, Skittles has embraced social media by redesigning their entire Web approach. When you visit them online, you are no longer greeted with a traditional homepage. Instead, they display their Wikipedia page, FaceBook profile, Youtube content and a feed of all mentions of ‘Skittles’ on Twitter. Skittles.com breaks new ground in web marketing, leading the charge away from “hard selling” and towards a more inclusive and customer involved social networking approach. They know the value of rich user-generated content and it has benefited them greatly. The result? Social media networks are buzzing about Skittles, right up there with Chuck Norris and other popular icons.

To provide another example, WoWGoldPig.com, a popular World of Warcraft gold selling site, reaches out to its audience of young, tech-savvy online gamers by maintaining a media-rich blog, independent of its e-commerce activities. It promotes its blogging activities on various social networks. In their words, it is “important to add value to the community. You have to participate with relevant commentary, provide useful information, be entertaining, and help drive social interaction. It’s not about offering WoW Gold for sale. It’s about the joy of networking.” They do this by focusing on lifestyle, relevancy, and participation. They let potential customers decide to buy or not based on corporate values and community involvement as much as quality service, products and price.

Your competition understands the opportunities offered by a networked world and are moving to take advantage of it. The good news is that on the social media marketing front, it is still early days. Strategies are still being developed, few “best practices” exist and experimentation is the norm. The only bad strategy is to sit on the side lines and not participate.

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