I just viewed a timely video done by Mike Klingler of the Renegade Professional. In the video Mike provides some valuable training on how to attract business with social media sites and social marketing. This is the way to build a solid online business and online business presence.

Social media are places on the web where you can socialize and interact with others. These places include YouTube, Squidoo, HubPages, Twitter, MySpace, Facebook, ezine articles, and blogs to name a few.

Social marketing is marketing at these social media sites. This is highly effective because you can talk about things that your target market would be interested in. Depending upon the site, this is real time or near real time.

Web 2.0 is the so-called 2nd generation of the internet. What distinguishes it from the first generation is that the progression of web technologies has made it easier for people to get on the internet and interact. It’s not just for techies and geeks. It is much more accessible and much more mainstream.

What you want to do is to get in front of the trend. There is a massive movement going on and not everyone is aware of it. If you are not part of it, it will pass you by and your business will suffer and/or die. Web 2.0 has brought us all back to 1996 when the internet was the wild, wild, west, a new frontier where anybody willing to be a pioneer had an opportunity for unheard of riches. And that’s where we are now, if you take advantage of the changes going on in the internet and the economy.

Squidoo is up to 4.8M visitors per month as of January 2009. YouTube is up to 84.8M visitors per month. Facebook is up to 50.5M visitors per month and over 100,000 people sign up for Facebook every day. That’s every day! The number of users at these social media sites doubles every 6 months. This is incredible growth that you can tap into if you know how.

With social media, you can attract leads and sales easily. The demographics of social media users is important. Social media people make more (20% more) and spend more (25% more) than the rest of the people. These are the people that you want to target.

If you follow the guidance in The Attraction Marketer’s Manifesto (Ann Sieg’s new book) and the soon to re-open Renegade Professional membership site, you will develop the competency to make money from this massive movement on the internet. The training at the Renegade Professional provides you the step-by-step, click-by-click training that will allow even an internet newbie to take advantage of this wave.

With what you learn from The Attraction Marketer’s Manifesto and the Renegade Professional, you can go where the people are, go where the people go next, gain new associates and customers not with pushy sales tactics but with attraction marketing, and build your business in a professional and fun way.

I mentioned at the beginning of the article that Mike Klingler’s video was timely. It was more timely than anyone could imagine. Take a look at this:

This is from  Retwigger which reports on the most retweeted tweets on Twitter.  The Twitter retweet (resending a Twitter message to all your followers) was the single most retweeted message on all of Twitter, surpassing a retweet by Google (and also Guy Kawasaki who is an internet guru). I guess Ann and Mike are the real gurus!

I highly recommend that you watch the Social Media Better Than Google video and also get The Attraction Marketer’s Manifesto. They are boh free.  If you register on the site, you will also be notified as to when Renegade Professional re-launches.

Renegade Professional goes “LIVE” next Thursday, April 2nd, 2009!