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The Future Of Internet Marketing Is Tied To Social Networks

We are on the verge of a dramatic change in the landscape of the Internet. There have been social media sites for some time, but only in the last few months have social networking sites started to dramatically expand their footprints over the Internet terrain.

Sites like Facebook, MySpace, YouTube, LinkedIn, and a host of others have been available for our free use and we have enjoyed their features and their ease of use. We can connect with others and grow our networks with relative ease. These sites have been battling it out for our loyalty and they want to be the ‘winner’ in the war of the social networking giants. They try to be everything to everyone, but are becoming cumbersome.

The Problem

The problem with the giants is that they become too unwieldy because they are so big. They lose their flexibility, and their adaptability. I don’t think they will lose the evolutionary battle and become extinct, but I think they are not prepared for what is about to happen in the marketplace.

The world of Internet social networks are about to explode. The number of social networking sites are about to grow by more than 200 times. The new sites are going to be slim and trim and will cater to very narrow niche definitions. In the next couple of years, as more and more very precise niche specific social network sites spring up, people will find a few which resonate for themselves, and they will gravitate to these online communities where everyone has similar concerns and similar frames-of-reference.

This new way of thinking about Social Networks will profoundly affect Internet Marketing strategies.

This is the topic for our next web-conference. If you want to succeed in Internet Marketing, if you want to thrive in Internet Marketing, you need to understand this basic shift in the lay-of-the-land and you need to be prepared to take advantage of this shift.

If you want to receive the announcement for this next web-conference, you need to make sure you have joined the conversation. Those who have joined, will be alerted to our next web-conference.

Rodger Bailey