Social Media Marketing Ideas That Rapidly Increases Traffic

According to Wikipedia Social Media is an umbrella term that defines the various activities that integrate technology, social interaction, and the construction of words, pictures, videos and audio.


This interaction, and the manner in which information is presented, depends on the varied perspectives and "building" of shared meaning among communities, as people share their stories, and understandings.


Social Media Marketing on the other hand is the use of this combined technology and social interaction to promote a product or service or website online. 

There are many social media available to use as tools in your Social Media Marketing strategy. 

These include but are not limited to forums, message boards, podcasts, video and weblogs.


There are also social media services available through which you can promote your website such as Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, YouTube and Flickr, to name but a few. 

 These sites provide the medium to promote the media and Internet Marketers use both in combination to develop a Social Media Marketing strategy.      


I believe the foundation of any social media marketing plan should begin with a Blog. 

The Internet Marketer should create a Blog to drive traffic and direct this traffic to the product or service being promoted. 

The Blog owner should also comment on other Blogs in order to attract traffic to his or her Blog.


Another good technique for driving traffic is Internet Forums. This is a good way to establish your reputation by submitting quality content which is of some service to the reader.

 This will encourage people to reciprocate and visit your website or Blog to check out your content.


A third Social Media Marketing technique which is a good way to create a buzz online and therefore generate word of mouth is video.

 Create a video promoting a product which may be coming soon and distribute it to the various video sharing sites such as YouTube.

 This should contribute to increased traffic to your website and therefore increased sales.

Video can be utilized in many different ways.

 For example: to make people laugh, to demonstrate how a product works, to illustrate how to do something or to conduct a product review. 

Video attracts people's attention and leaves an impression and this is why it is the wave of the future for Internet Marketing.


A fourth technique which you can use to get your message across is social networking. 
You can accomplish this by joining some of the social sites available such as Facebook and MySpace. 


However anyone using these sites as promotion tools should be careful to follow the rules and not spam or promote excessively. 

Treat these sites with respect and use them as they are intended and the traffic will still materialize. 


Finally, audio is another social marketing technique which can be implemented. Create an e-book for example and distribute it to the various audio sharing sites such as Sound cloud. 

Or if you have a talent share it with the rest of the web through audio and your traffic should increase exponentially.


These are five techniques any Internet marketer can implement into their Social Media Marketing plan, but there are many more available to choose from. 


The point being you shouldn't overwhelm yourself with so many methods that you cannot do justice to any of them in terms of the time involved. 

As with any plan choose the ones you enjoy most and you will achieve your goal of increased Social Media traffic.

3 Hollywood Old Movies That Glorify Education

Naturally On a typical rainy or winter day and you just want to stay at home, you might want to watch several movies.

 If you have a strong interest in education, there are several feel-good and inspiring Hollywood movies that you should be watching.

Here are three of those great and excellent flicks of all times.

1. The movie ‘Teachers’ was released in 1984. It starred Nick Nolte, Morgan Freeman, Laura Derm, and Richard Mulligan.

The film was about a high school graduate who ended up suing her public high school because she was able to graduate even without knowing how to actually read.

This movie discusses and describes all the setbacks and disadvantageous condition of the US public education at the time.

 It obviously aims to address education problems in a satirical manner, through conflicts and over-the-top movie characters.

‘Teachers’ also exposes several public education problems that are still left hanging even up to this day.

What is more interesting is that such problems are not unique to the US.

Many other countries experience those educational problems today.

The teacher in the movie treated the lawsuit not as a blow to the institution but as a timely opportunity to prompt lasting changes not just to the public school but to public education in general.

2. In 1989, the movie ‘Dead Poets Society’ made waves, not because it starred Robin Williams (who was a hot movie star those days) but because it tackled the importance of education amid rigid society norms and strict parental expectations.

 It showed that talented and committed educators could always get in the way to inspire and touch lives of even the most notorious students.

The movie was also noted for its ability to take viewers into typical life in one of those prep schools circa 1950s. Williams’ performance was one of the most charismatic in this movie.

‘Dead Poets Society’ has always been one of those educational movies that are recommended for tackling issues about curriculum and the real value of education.

 No wonder, many schools and classes run and hold viewing of the movie at the start of every semester.

The movie would surely be worth your time. It is entertaining, touching, and inspiring all at the same time.

3. On the other hand, in 2006 ‘Chalk’ was released. This movie presents takes on education through tracing of three unique teachers who are at various stages of their teaching careers.

The focus was at a teacher who used to be businessman.

The two were a teacher who has been teacher of the year for two straight years and another who has been promoted to become an assistant to the principal.

Actual teachers could all relate to the three main characters in the movie. 

‘Chalk’ is a ‘documentary’ film that was produced to show satiric perspectives in education through portrayal of different unlikely events, from pokers to dog shows.

It was produced by the same documentary filmmaker who was popular for his ‘Supersize Me’ (Morgan Spurlock).

 It may not be a full movie, but the documentary proves to be really entertaining and enlightening at the same time.

Education is truly an important subject to discuss. All three films show how life and education are intertwined and are connected.

You should try to view some, if not all.

These Old movies would really be worth your precious time.