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15 Must Have Internet Marketing Tools For 2014.

It can be frustrating to have low traffic to your website after you must have done lots of SEO, written great articles and bought a professional wordpress theme and yet no audience to view your wonderful work. Which make you ask yourself
“What am I missing”
Interestingly, a lot of successful internet marketers, bloggers, copywriters, SEO experts encountered such problems on their way to the top and when questioned about how they were able to scale through this hurdle most of the answers they gave stressed on Diversification Of Marketing Strategy.
Internet marketing just like any other marketing service needs constant product exposure in other to attract more sales and so we need different means to spread words about our product to achieve desired marketing goal.
Thank God we are in the advent of Social media which has made our job a lot easier by getting product information across to millions of users with just a click.
In this article I have compiled a list of the most potent internet marketing strategies which guarantees increase in traffic and sales on your website.

The list is divided into several parts  for better understanding:


·         Social Media Platforms
·         Email Marketing
·         Social Media Managements
·         Sharing Portals

SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS

Social media is one of the most powerful marketing tool used in the internet marketing world. Basically, it enables you connect with thousands of people all over the world with ease. If you harness its potentials it possibilities to generate traffic and sales is endless.
Here is a list of Powerful Social Media Platforms


Facebook
This is the King of them all; I mean tell me how many people you know that doesn’t have a facebook account? Alright I know there are quite a few number of them but frankly speaking Facebook is by far the most used social media platform.
With millions of daily visitors, facebook remains a very powerful for marketers to share information about products with a guarantee of getting views from quite a good number of millions of facebook active users. Lots of companies take advantage of this opportunity. Ever wondered why the  founder of facebook, Mark Zuckerberg is the youngest billionaire?
Twitter
Twitter has put so many smiles on the faces of internet marketers with its wide range of coverage with just little effort. All you need to do is to compose and post an article which gets viewed by your twitter followers instantly. It’s really that simple I tell you.
Google+
Google+ is fast becoming the favorite tool for internet marketing because it helps immensely in ranking your articles, blogs or websites on search engines owing to the obvious fact that it is owned by the largest search engine on the internet, Google.
The more shares you get o Google+ the more Google sees that your website is worth promoting and thus favors you on the Serp. Google+ shouldn’t be neglected in your internet marketing strategy.
Linkedin
Linkedin is another powerful social media platform where professionals meet up. You can simply hook up with respected personalities in your niche that can offer you new strategies, endorse and share your information with their followers and thus enabling you ride on their success. This gives you more credibility and trust amongst your clients and prospects.

Yookos

This is a social networking site that allows users to meet friends online, play online games and keep up to date with the latest news from around the globe. Yookos is a microblogging network. Microblogging is a popular method of communication on the Internet. Through microblogs, consumers exchange short messages and thereby share interesting content. In addition, Yookos texts, attaches links, videos, pictures and other files to your messages.
StubleUpon
Its name speaks for itself, when you submit an article which gets stumbled upon by users it gets shared within the stumble upon community. It has millions of users around the world and so it is a nice platform to share your best articles so that when it gets stumbled upon by users it can easily shared without hesitation. The more stumbles you get by users the better your internet campaign.
Digg
Digg works in similar fashion as stumbleupon, but over here users have the ability to rank up or rank down articles. So you have to put up a nice article in other not to get a low score on your article. Articles submitted on Digg rank highly on Serp, take advantage of this opportunity.

SocialMonkee
SocialMonkee is a powerful tool for marketing which works like this;
You submit your URL, complete with different phases for titles and article. And then the system spins your article making similar copies to be submitted on other websites.
Social Monkee if uses properly can provide awesome results. I mostly use it on my Tier 2 sites and not on my main site because the backlinks which it provides are not of the highest quality.

EMAIL MARKETING SOLUTION

“The money is in the list”. Sounds familiar? Of course, many successful internet marketers can attest to that statement.
Having an email list is one of the most powerful tools needed by all internet marketers. Newbie’s tend to neglect the potentials which email marketing has to offer and this could prove to be a costly mistake later on if email list is not built with immediate effect.
The two best Email marketing providers that I have had lot of success with are:
Aweber
In my own opinion, Aweber is the most widely used email marketing tool by professionals. Most email sent using aweber gets delivered into recipients’ inbox, it also reports the number of mails that were delivered into recipients’ spam folder.
Aweber is not free, but it is quite affordable. They currently run a promo where you pay only $1 for your first month of usage and if aren’t satisfied with their services you can request for a refund. After the first month you pay $19 to continue enjoying this potent email marketing tool.
Mail Chimp
A free alternative to benefit from email marketing is Mail chimp. They offer free email marketing service for the first 2000 subscribers. With 2000 subscribers you are entitled to send 12,000 emails per month at no cost. It has a very interactive dashboard layout when compared to Aweber’s and it can be operated with ease.

SOCIAL MEDIA MANAGEMENT


Social media management enables you to run daily marketing task almost on autopilot. This is a great platform for internet marketers because it makes marketing more fun and takes out most of the daily stress involved in marketing.
Potent Social media management platforms are:
Buffer
Buffer can be used to schedule articles and can also be used to increase social media shares. All you have to do is set a time and day for your articles to be shared and leave the rest to the system to handle. It is really that easy, trust me.
They also provide wonderful customer support that attends swiftly to any message and complaint which requires their assistance. Most of the well known internet marketers make use of this platform.
Hootsuite
It functions just like Buffer but what is unique about Hootsuite is that it integrates your different social media account under one roof. In other words with on dashboard you can operate and schedule articles which will be posted onto your various social media platforms all at once. Awesome isn’t it? I call it Magic.
Just Retweet
It work in two ways;
First ; Share other interesting articles on facebook, twitter and google+
Second; Share your articles on facebook, twitter and google+
In other for your article to be shared you need credit, which can be obtained by sharing other people articles. However the system allows you to only send certain number of shares in a day to avoid spamming. When you get enough credit you set the number of shares which you will be offering to pay with your credits for others to share your articles.  Just Retweet also contributes to your SEO.

DICUSSION AND SHARING PORTALS

With new marketing strategies arising from time to time, we need to keep ourselves updated with the latest best thing happening in the internet marketing world. By joining the right discussion and sharing portals you can achieve that and also make you marketing job a lot easier and fill with fun.
Here are recommended portals:
Triberr
Triberr is a platform that enables you share information’s, ideas and even recommendation with people in your niche. You can learn a lot from people who are making a killing in your niche.
Scoop.it
Scoop.it is another way of making marketing a lot easier and stress free. All you need do is;
1.       Find a topic you like
2.       Share your articles, blogs, websites.
3.       Then merge all of them into a form to provide a magazine like reading experience to readers.

Get the picture? Yes, its provides readers with a whole new experience.

Those are the most potent tools for internet marketing  I just shared, Wheew…..
I believe after reading this article, having low traffic and less conversion will be a thing of the past. By diversifying your marketing strategies you can easily dominate Serps and conquer the internet marketing world.
Feel free to air your opinion about these tools and if there is any tool which guarantees lot of success, you can share them here.
Over to you…..

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