Internet Marketer's Resolutions for 2008 !

If one would ask me about my New year resolutions as a marketer, I would need to think twice before responding to this question. This is due to the changing face of the internet exponentially. One can not rely on time tasted and traditional marketing principals and tactics. One of them being the evolution of social networking buzz. Which is not just the user networks for dating, hangouts on internet and instant (scrap / chat) or email messages. Here are some of the new methods we will need to focus in this new era of web 2.0 marketing.

Blog Marketing: Create your own blog, either a personal blog website or a blog on open source platforms like Blogger or Wordpress which are quite handy and effective in content sharing and user participation generation. Blogs are now a days reflection of one's thoughts and ideas on the world around him and his perception of things. This makes a marketer specifically approach and influence the like minded people learn about his thoughts and direct related traffic to his way for mutual benefits.

Social Networking website participation: Social networks are evolving from just a dating and friends networks to more sophisticated user participation and knowledge sharing platforms. Websites like LinkedIn.com, Gobignetwork.com, Facebook.com and asmallworld.com are a few in the leagues of making this social world more business oriented and professional in user approach.

Social Book Marking Flavor: Bookmraks which I suppose started with Digg and del.cio.us , is the main source of informative and user driven search. It is sometimes more trustworthy to get information through these search engines than relying on Google or Yahoo. So one should start bookmarking instantly to keep us with the web 2.0 social marketer race.

Post your Videos: If you are not a good video maker, still you need to devise your online presence with Video sharing sphere. you must have something to communicate in order to show your presence even if you are not going to market anything using social Videos. Youtube.com, Revver.com, dailymotion.com, iFilm.com, blinkx.com

Also there is a whole lot of things that we will need to catch up with in coming days like RSS feed integration, podcasting, mobile blogging etc.