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Hello :) Today i decided to write a little bit about the facts that most of the people who teach you how to succeed online, avoid saying (not hide, but avoid, there’s difference).

Big interactive marketing agencies, the so called marketing gurus, the average facebook user whose intention is anything but related to marketing and making money online and YOU, are an unseparable part of one and the same picture called SOCIAL MEDIA. “And social media is not just wordpress, facebook, myspace, podcasts, youtube, etc… Social Media is rather a conversation supported by the latter”. You just need to join the conversation. If you want to find new friends online and/or communicate to your old friends – you join the conversation (Social media). If you want to buy – you join the conversation; for example – if i give you 1000$ and tell you to go buy a product you never heard of, you go check Google, you go on facebook, myspace and ask your friends about it and only then you’d eventually go and buy the product. Which means that if you want to sell – do the same – go join the conversation.

Success online is not some secret which you need to pay for in order to implement to your action plan for online success. There is no Google code, cracking the code of Google, there is no system, and there is no button which if you press you’ll get rich… unfortunately. Why? Because the Social media is NOT organised! It is spontaneous! And it is spontaneous, because there are real people behind it, not a system. If the internet were simply a system, yes, it would have been cracked already, but it is not.

There are some paid systems, know-hows, etc online and they teach you how to create good sales copy, how you can get more traffic, how to build squeeze pages, SEO basics and so forth, but then again these are not the most important things you should learn. The most important thing you need to learn is this – what you are actually reading now.

If there is something you need to learn for better success online, it is Social Media and thank God you can find this info for free. You dont even need to learn SEO, SEO is for people who do not provide valuable content/service. Because, believe me, if you provide really valuable content or service, people will surely find you. A good example is Markus Frind and his widely known free service for online dating Plentyoffish . You can check an interview with him HERE . So stop paying for services till you really get to know what is really going on online. First you need to start studying the processes and only after that implement the systems.

In order for you to begin your Social Media study i recommend you this presentation: