This is an article from the Orlando Sentinel about Social Media marketing Orlando, and Internet Marketing Orlando.

Type “social media” in the keyword box on most job-search websites and dozens of help-wanted postings appear. That wasn’t the case just a few years ago.

A growing number of businesses and organizations of all sizes are searching for ways to tap the power of social media, such as Facebook and Twitter, which millions of people now use to stay connected online.

Experts say companies’ need for social-media expertise has increased dramatically this year and will continue to grow as more people come to understand and recognize its value. And that means an explosion of job opportunities throughout the country.

“This has been the year where every organization has come to realize the importance of social media, rather than just a handful of organizations,” said Augie Ray, a Forrester Research analyst who specializes in social computing.

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It’s unclear exactly how many social-media-related jobs exist, but companies want their messages to get to where the people are.

Facebook, created in 2004 and now the Internet’s most popular social network, has more than 500 million users throughout the world. And it’s not just young people who are drawn to it: The number of Internet users ages 55 to 64 on Facebook has grown 88 percent in the past year, according to a study by the Pew Center’s Internet and American Life Project.

Some major brands, such as Dell Computers, have helped set the stage for other companies by showing early success with social-media marketing. Last year, for example, Dell said it generated $ 3 million in sales with links from its various Twitter accounts.

“It wasn’t until 2009 came around, and initiatives on Facebook, Twitter and other social channels were producing soft and hard ROI [returns on investment] by major brands, that the hiring really started,” said Mark Krupinski, social-media director for MindComet, an Altamonte Springs-based interactive-marketing agency.

But the social-media field is still in its early stages. Ray warned that some companies are far more advanced than others about their social media plans.

“Social media is a little all over the map right now,” he said. “It reminds me a great deal of the late 1990s with where we were in respect to the web. At that time, companies realized they needed a new set of skills that they historically had not valued or needed. . . . They went out seeking those skills, but at the time many didn’t know what they didn’t know.”

Shawn Vincent, digital-marketing director for Brand Advance, an Orlando interactive-marketing agency, said the influx of jobs in social media is a double-edged sword.

“For the most part, a lot of companies still don’t know really what they are doing with a digital-media plan. … They are not quite sure who they are looking for most of the time,” he said.

Many job descriptions appear too broad or unclear, or the identified skills being sought don’t fit what the company actually needs. Job titles, which range from “digital community manager” to “social media strategist,” don’t help.

“Right now, some companies are not necessarily mature in a way they view or use social media ? but they recognize they need it,” Ray said.

Using social media is different than other types of marketing. In a conventional campaign, the staff may spend months planning the project, Ray said.They would then launch it and move on.

With social media, the real work begins after the launch, he said, because someone has to keep track of how people react to the campaign, then respond to their comments and switch gears if needed.

That could require hiring someone capable of creating an overall digital strategy and employing a variety of online tools, experts say, or simply adding someone who could monitor and respond to public comments on Facebook, Twitter and other social-media websites.

Pete Kici, of Orlando based Quick Pro Marketing, said he often gets calls from businesses unsure about what they need or want.

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the more you learn the more you realize how much you don’t know.
Ever notice how everyone is an expert in something regardless of their training ,considering how under informed/educated the general public is this is no monumental task,just read a few books and implement what you learn,almost like learning to ride a bike accept for the book reading part and you can become half way decent at whatever it is your learning until one day many years from now you are the expert in that field even if you suck at what you do just because you have been doing it so long.

I bring this up because recently I have been on a mad dash to put the finishing touches on a marketing system for who else but small businesses that work in local markets brick and mortar type.For any marketer who has been in their field for any length of time most of this will seem very simple,so bare with me,I think there are 5 fundamental areas that any business should be focused on. Most don’t or won’t cause they are chasing the next customer.

1. Keeping the customers they have.staying in touch regularly(cost $ 7 to get a new customer $ 1 to keep the one you have)
2. Getting them to purchase more often and have them make larger purchases.(Costco,or any of the big box wholesalers)
3. Creating a referral environment reward for good behavior
4. Getting new customers
5. Creating large a list of prospects to market to until they become customers or opt out of your list

I think you can flip 4 and 5 around

The point to all this is I am listening to a lot of marketing companies that have websites that are not even set up correctly don’t have better than a page rank of 2 or proper title tags,and want to show me how to do my marketing.For the record, my website Quick Pro Marketing is currently being revamped and has a page rank of 0 as why we are creating a new one and scraping the one I created when I was learning to be an expert,on internet marketing,not web design.

No one has approached me with any of these ideas maybe a half hearted attempt at list building not much else,SEO, web design,keyword research,buzz words hot topics and everyone and their mother are now experts in internet marketing. The small business owner most often is clueless or knows enough to be dangerous.Tough times for businesses everyone is trying to sell them the next magic bullet.

Marketing is not rocket science it’s just common sense…. even on the internet.

5 areas to take care of in your online marketing,this will be outlined in detail in my e-book Business Marketing Systems

1. Videos
2. Articles/press releases
3. SEO website and articles
4. Social Media
5. Google Places

I will not over these 5 main areas in this post, but I will go into detail on the next post, these 5 main areas are critical to your business getting new customers on line and ranking high in the search engines, do these 5 thing well and you will become an expert in your Niche Guaranteed!!!