The growing topic on Twitter and the Blogosphere is how Online Marketers are becoming very bitter with the increase competition in Social Media Marketing.  You may have witnessed statements like “Everyone is a Social Media Expert” or “I hate how everyone thinks they are a Social Media Marketer”

Put Away The Social Media Hatorade

There seems to be a lot of animosity going on lately but the Top Social Media Strategists in the Web 2.0 world doesn’t seem to care to be affected by this battle.

The truth of the matter is this and its quite simple really.

“Social Media Marketing is the new standard and instead of fighting it, we must embrace it or be left behind”

Embracing Change

Remember back then in the DOT.COM boom where supposedly have a Dot.com business will make you MILLIONS & MILLIONS of money for everyone!!!  Well of course we found out the hard way just because we got online does not mean it’s instant cash.  Keep in mind everyone back then was gunning for a dot.com business, it was a race more or less.  Back then, entrepreneurs were hating on the competition and wanted to be the first to win the race.  However, the race and dot.com business bubbled and simmered down and now everyone is online.

The same concept applies to this day, who cares if everyone is using Social Media Marketing tactics.  Guess what, this is starting to become the normal practice and eventually everyone will use Social Media Marketing tactics in their business.

This is Business 101 folks, instead of being paranoid and bitter about competition.  Embrace competition and find ways to improve yourself and focus on how to be successful rather than pouting and complaining because your Mother is right, “It won’t do you any good”.

So what can we do while the Marketing Revolution shifts and starts conforming the entire world to this new change?  Instead of whining about the competition lets focus on these aspects, shall we:

• Start building your online presence in full affect to get a head start from your competition who hasn’t signed up on board with Social Media Marketing yet.  We are at an advantage while most people are afraid to embrace this new change, why not start building a great gap in your head start before your competition wises up and hops on the bandwagon.

• For your current competition who use Social Media Marketing now, constantly learn and read new things on how to improve your current marketing methods,  You can never learn too much.  Also, learn from the best even if it’s your direct competitor.  Just like Microsoft and the great painters in the world, they steal great ideas, upgrades it, and make it their own.  Sometimes to be successful you have to mirror the best but make it your own.

So let’s all put away the Social Media Hatorade and re-focus our efforts on how to be successful instead of focusing on things we can’t change.  Social Media Marketing is here to stay and we can either embrace it or be left behind.  Whats your decision?

Post from: Social Media Vision

Put Away The Social Media Hatorade

A new content discovery platform where bloggers can monetize on their talent (http://www.bloggersbase.com)

I just recently discovered this website early this month in which subsequently I just found out that the website just started in December 2008.

The website is called BloggersBase.com and is a new Blogging community where you can share your content, enter in weekly cash prizes, actively view/engage the best posts of your favorite niche and gain exposure for yourself as a blogger.

I really like this website because it’s still in Beta and I got a chance to explore the community and provide some of my posts on my website that may of not got much exposure with other avenues.   So I got a chance to test a new audience and a new source of results.

I also noticed one of our Favorite Social Media Marketers is Blonde 2.0 is an active contributor and advocate on the site.

The Blog Competition

The website has it’s standard categories to post your content to; Entertainment, Lifestyle, Technology, World Affairs, Special Events and Partnerships.  Each parent category has it’s own sub-categories.

I am a Tech & Social Media blogger so I found Technology->Internet to post to.  What’s unique about BloggersBase is that you can re-publish your content that you already written and does not have to be an exclusive article.  This is great especially if you are time constraint and wishing to just get more exposure with an article you have written before.

Nuggets

When you first start out you are assigned a newbie rank as a blogger and a reader.  You can promote in ranks for both “Blogger” and “Reader” rank with the more you participate in.  With the higher ranks you achieve, you will gain “Influence” or Authority.

For Example:  A lowbie “Reader” rank who comments and votes.  Your votes are counted very little.  When you gain more higher ranks, your votes will have more value.

A lowbie “Blogger” when posting new posts will not be displayed in the voting competition right away.  The newbie blogger will instead be put in a “Nuggets” category where you have to gain certain votes to get out of.  Once out of the “Nuggets” stage you can then post your posts to the voting competition.

Weekly Prizes

Since Bloggersbase is fairly new, you have less competition and more of a chance to win the weekly cash prizes every week.  Like I said, I just started and already won $50 in 2 weeks time.

$40 for first prize and $10 for second prize.

Payment is sent to Paypal which is great because its fast and secure.

The winners will receive also status points for the “Blogger” rank system, promotional prizes (one week was a BloggersBase Ipod), Cash prizes and the title of Author to keep posting posts to the main blog instead of writing new “Nuggets” for that week.

Conclusion

The last reason why you should join BloggersBase is because most posts have already hit the front page results for Google.  This is another great SEO technique similar to posting to EZine Articles and other posting platforms.

So join now, its Free and less competition right now.  I will see you around Bloggersbase.

Post from: Social Media Vision

New Blog Platform Competition Community To Gain Exposure & Money – BloggersBase