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The Red Cross communicates with a large online community of donors, volunteers and followers. They listen to conversations on blog posts, tweets and comments on Facebook. They use that information to improve what they are doing.

A new survey by Pew Research reveals interesting new trends in social media with teenagers and young adults. There has been "a decline in blogging among teens and young adults and a modest rise among adults 30 and older. In 2006, 28% of teens ages 12-17 and young adults ages 18-29 were bloggers, but by 2009 the numbers had dropped to 14% of teens and 15% of young adults.

Social media marketing is essential for your real estate career. It is not enough to have a website these days even if it is informational and well-managed. And traditional advertising just doesn't cut it anymore - it is too expensive and it brings too few results. Social media marketing is quick, precise, measurable and inexpensive. Realtors who have implemented social media into their online marketing have been able to see immediate results.

What good are social media conversations if you can't measure or track them? This is a question advertisers and marketers ask time and time again in the booming but wildly untamed social media marketing category. Now there is an answer - you can measure the number of people who respond to social media conversations.

There are many good reasons why lawyers and law firms should be using social media marketing. It is inexpensive. It adds to your client list. It drives traffic to your website and it is an ideal way to brand your practice and interact with prospective clients. Many law firms are already engaged in social media marketing.

Social media has altered the small-business marketing landscape. It is not enough to have a website anymore, even if it is informational and well managed. You need social media marketing - it is quick, precise, measurable and inexpensive.

Social media optimization (SMO) is a set of methods that bring traffic to a website by promoting and publicizing it through social media. SMO is part of social media marketing - it is one of two ways of optimizing website content; the other being search engine optimization (SEO). It differs from search engine marketing (SEM) because it drives traffic from sources other than search engines, though improved search ranking is also a benefit of successful SMO.

Marketing with social media is a powerful strategy that involves promoting your website or business through social media channels - such as Facebook and Twitter - to build stronger traffic, brand awareness and user-generated content. Social media marketing is a low-cost marketing method that will easily give you large numbers of visitors, which a business will be able to retain provided there is solid and relevant information on your website.

There are many good ways to market your website. We made a list of some of the best. While some of these methods require an investment, most of them do not. Check out our list.

Your website isn't working. It isn’t getting the traffic you want or the business you need. It is time to make the move to social media. Social Media Marketing (SMM) and Social Media Optimization (SMO) are two important social media components. They are vital tools for any website today - whether it's floundering or thriving.