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Sofball Marketing Plan by Mind Map: Sofball Marketing Plan

1. Main Blog

2. Business Cards

3. Software Submission Sites

3.1. widgetbox

4. Linking

4.1. 1/3 stomper strategy

4.2. Blog to articles

4.3. Forum to blog

4.4. Forum post to articles

5. Social Bookmarking - OK

5.1. Services

5.1.1. Stumble Upon

5.1.2. Newsvine

5.1.3. Reddit

5.1.4. Digg

5.1.5. Delicious

5.1.6. Propeller

5.1.7. Mixx *** 9Indexes really well)

5.1.8. Technorati (blog)

5.1.9. Folkd

5.1.10. Yahoo Buzz

5.1.11. Diigo

5.1.12. Mister-wong

5.1.13. Multiply

5.1.14. Jumptags

5.2. What to Bookmark

5.2.1. Main site

5.2.2. Feeder site

5.2.3. Best blog posts (linkbaits)

5.2.4. All Videos on various sites

5.2.5. Hubpages & Squidoo Lenses

5.2.6. Pages that links to us

5.2.7. Social Bookmarks on other social bookarking sites

5.2.8. All pages on various 2.0 sites

5.2.9. All profiles page on various 2.0 sites

5.2.10. Pages that talk about us

5.2.11. All contributions on 2.0 sites

5.2.12. Good blog posts on remote blogs

5.3. Stomper Social Bookmarking Strategy

5.3.1. Onsite Plan

5.3.1.1. homepage, 1 key tip/post a week, specials page

5.3.2. Off-Site

5.3.2.1. videos, incoming links, partner sites

5.3.3. B-Sites

5.3.3.1. complementary sites, good content, customers

5.4. Strategies

5.4.1. Personalize Account

5.4.2. Search Communities (if any), Add friends

5.4.3. Incorporate keyword with the Title post

5.4.4. Make several accounts or have someone comment or vote for the post

6. Podcasting

6.1. Submission

6.1.1. archives.org

6.1.2. Teachoutloud

6.1.3. Podsubmitter.com

6.2. Strategy

6.2.1. Turn articles into podcasts

6.2.1.1. Get your rss feed url

6.2.1.1.1. Take it to feed2podcast.com

6.2.2. Promote Podcast

6.2.2.1. Submit to podcast directories

7. Collaborative Research - OK

7.1. Yahoo! Answers

7.1.1. answer regular questions with links

7.1.2. post keyword-optimized questions with one profile and answer it with another profile with keyword-optimized answer and link to site

7.2. WikiAnswers

7.2.1. Asnwer regular questions with links

7.2.2. post keyword-optimized questions with one profile and answer it with another profile with keyword-optimized answer and link to site

7.3. WikiHow

7.3.1. embed videos

7.4. Ehow

7.5. Wetpaint

7.6. Knol

7.7. Wikipedia

7.7.1. soft links references and external links

7.8. Zimbio

7.9. http://en.allexperts.com/q/Softball-2562/

7.10. Answers.com

7.10.1. post keyword-optimized questions with one profile and answer it with another profile with keyword-optimized answer and link to site

7.11. DevHub

8. Forum Postings & Blog Commenting - OK

8.1. Comment on Articles

8.1.1. Active.com

8.1.2. EzineArticles.com

8.1.3. Squidoo & Hubpages (others)

8.2. Blogs

8.2.1. http://fastpitchsoftballblog.com/wordpress/

8.2.2. Allaboutfastpitch.com/blog.html

8.2.3. Girls-softball.com

8.2.4. fastpitchlane.softballsuccess.com

8.2.5. fastpitch.us

8.2.6. fastpitch.tv

8.2.7. Strategies

8.2.7.1. Collect relevant blogs to comment

8.2.7.1.1. Use keyword as anchor text in droping links

8.2.7.1.2. If html code is disabled, use keyword as the username and fill-up URL

8.2.7.1.3. Make relevant post

8.3. Forums

8.3.1. softballfans.com

8.3.2. eteamz.com

8.3.3. softballshows.com

8.3.4. heybucket.com

8.3.5. ohio fastpitch connection

8.3.6. Strategies

8.3.6.1. Collect relevant forums to drop links

8.3.6.1.1. Introduce yourself

8.3.6.1.2. Use keyword as anchor text in the Signature

8.3.6.1.3. Make relevant post

8.4. CommentHUT

8.5. Tools

8.5.1. http://www.inlineseo.com/dofollowdiver/

8.5.2. CommentHUt or Fast BLog Finder

9. Press Releases - OK

9.1. Free directories

9.1.1. Betanews

9.1.2. Directionsmag

9.1.3. News.thomasnet

9.1.4. Nanotech-now

9.1.5. Prlog

9.1.6. Free-press-release

9.1.7. Clickpress

9.1.8. Pressbox

9.1.9. Pressboxnodepressbox

9.1.10. Filecluster

9.1.11. Sbwire

9.1.12. 1888pressrelease

9.1.13. Afreego

9.1.14. Emediawire

9.1.15. Emailwire

9.1.16. Newswiretoday

9.1.17. Prfocus

9.1.18. Filecluster

9.1.19. 1888pressrelease

9.1.20. I-Newswire.com

9.1.21. OnlinePressReleases.com

9.1.22. OpenPR.com

9.1.23. PRurgent.com

9.1.24. PressMethod.com

9.1.25. PressReleaseSpider.com

9.1.26. SeeNation.com

9.1.27. UKPRWire.com

9.1.28. USPRWire.com

9.2. Paid directories

9.2.1. PRweb

9.2.2. PRwebdirect

9.2.3. PRleap

9.2.4. Send2press

9.2.5. PressReleaseNetwork

9.2.6. Emediawire

9.2.7. Sbwire

9.3. Strategies

9.3.1. anchor text in first 40 words

9.3.1.1. Find your Press Release topic

9.3.1.1.1. What keywords or keyword phrases to use

10. Blogging

10.1. videoutilityposter

10.2. utilityposter

10.3. Softball-Drills

11. Micro-blogging - OK

11.1. Twitter

11.2. Tumblr

11.3. Plurk

12. Stats & Traffic Analysis - OK

12.1. Google Analytics

12.2. Cpanel Stats

12.3. Tubemogul.com

12.4. Youtube.com Stats

13. Classifieds Postings - OK

13.1. USFreeAds.com

13.2. Craigslist

13.3. Oodle.com

13.4. Epage.com

13.5. GumTree

13.6. Ebay Classifieds

13.7. Backpage

13.8. Strategies

13.8.1. Register

13.8.1.1. Know the products to sell

13.8.1.1.1. Use keywords for the title of the ads, or incorporate keywords in the title and also in the description of the ads

13.9. Good Info on how to post

13.9.1. http://www.warriorforum.com/main-internet-marketing-discussion-forum/34584-how-i-successfully-post-craigslist.html

13.10. Automation tool

13.10.1. BPAutoposter

14. Pinging

14.1. Pingomatic.com

14.2. All RSS Feeds (blogs, squidoo, hubpages, etc.)

14.3. Strategies

14.3.1. ping RSS, blogs, etc if there is an update

14.4. Ping Podcast

15. DiscussFastpitch.com

15.1. SEO

15.2. Posting

15.3. Links

15.4. Conversion

16. Submission

16.1. RSS Feeds

16.1.1. RSS Submit

16.1.2. Social Media List

16.1.3. Sites

16.1.3.1. http://www.sports-feeds.com/submitrss.php

16.1.3.2. http://www.dotsauce.com/2007/06/06/55-active-rss-directories-to-help-promote-your-feeds/

16.2. Blog Directories

16.2.1. Submit all remote blogs (see list in remote blog section)

16.2.2. Submit main blogs

16.2.2.1. Discussfastpitch

16.2.2.2. softballperformance.com/blog

16.2.2.3. softballperformance.com/articles

16.2.2.4. softballperformance.com/softball-drills

16.3. Video RSS

16.3.1. http://www.videocasting-station.com/submitrss.php

16.4. Site Directories

16.4.1. Use keyword as Title

16.4.1.1. DMOZ

16.4.1.2. Yahoo Directory

16.4.1.3. BOTW

16.4.1.4. Other Potential Site Directories

16.4.1.5. Paid Directories

16.4.1.5.1. JoeAnt

16.4.1.5.2. Aviva Directory

16.4.1.5.3. Business.com

17. Random Strategies

17.1. Add Widget to Remote Blog of Main RSS Feeds

17.2. Ebay

17.3. Book Reviews

17.3.1. Amazon

17.3.2. Barnes and Nobles

17.3.3. Borders

17.4. Tell people to put y videos on their site

17.5. Registration on other people site

17.6. Video on OP Thank you Pages

17.7. Referrals from list members

17.8. Endorsements of products/services/sites with tagline and site URL

17.9. Google website Optimizer

18. PPC

18.1. Yahoo

18.2. MSN

18.3. Google

18.4. Amazon

18.5. Facebook

19. SEO - OK

19.1. Keyword Research

19.1.1. Do Videos of Most Important Keywords

19.1.1.1. History of softball

19.1.1.2. softball rules

19.1.1.3. famous softball players

19.2. Sitemap

19.3. Metatags, Photo Tags, Title, Description, Anchor Texts, H Tags

19.4. SEO Articles

19.5. Internal Linking

19.5.1. review linking structure

19.5.2. add internal links (blog, articles, etc.)

19.5.3. Review keywords (drills, etc.)

19.5.4. Footer - anchor text links

19.5.5. 1-2 link per page

19.5.6. no-follow-useful links - http://www.seomoz.org/blog/are-you-leaking-juice

20. JV Partners and Affiliates

21. Viral / Free Reports

21.1. FreeHittingReport.com

21.2. FreePitchingReport.com

21.3. FreeSAQreport.com

21.4. 125 Tips

21.5. SoftballComics

21.6. MentalToughnessTips.com

22. Video Marketing -OK

22.1. Video Submission - OK

22.1.1. Trafficgeyser

22.1.1.1. Bofunk

22.1.1.2. Esnips.com

22.1.1.3. Guba.com

22.1.1.4. iviewtube.com

22.1.1.5. kewego.com

22.1.1.6. livevideo.com

22.1.1.7. metacafe.com

22.1.1.8. motionbox.com

22.1.1.9. myspace

22.1.1.10. photobucket.com

22.1.1.11. Revver.com

22.1.1.12. sharkle.com

22.1.1.13. spike.com

22.1.1.14. u2upfly.com

22.1.1.15. video.google.com

22.1.1.16. video.yahoo.com

22.1.1.17. vidilife.com

22.1.1.18. youtube.com

22.1.2. TubeMogul

22.1.2.1. DailyMotion

22.1.2.2. Veoh

22.1.2.3. Blip

22.1.3. facebook*

22.1.4. monkeysee*

22.1.5. weplay.com*

22.1.6. bebo.com

22.1.7. myfastpitchworld.com*

22.1.8. softball.ning.com

22.1.9. onestopsoftball.ning.com

22.1.10. softballcore.com

22.1.11. buzznet.com

22.1.12. tnga.com

22.1.13. Kudda.com

22.1.14. jumpcut.com

22.1.15. video.msn.com*

22.1.16. flixya.com

22.1.17. clipshack.com

22.1.18. mefeedia.com

22.1.19. Clevver

22.1.20. archives.org

22.1.21. videojug.com

22.1.22. Thoughts.com

22.1.23. ehow.com *

22.1.24. Video Directories

22.1.24.1. http://www.videocasting-station.com

22.1.25. Gather

22.1.26. mushtube.com

22.1.27. Tagged

22.1.28. Coachbook.ning

22.1.29. Foreverfastpitch.ning

22.1.30. Break

22.1.31. Crackle

22.1.32. Ebaums World

22.1.33. Grind

22.1.34. Howcast

22.1.35. Imeem

22.1.36. Sclipo

22.1.37. StreetFire

22.1.38. Viddler*

22.1.39. Stupid Videos

22.1.40. 5 Min*

22.1.41. Webcastr

22.1.42. i2tv

22.1.43. Graspr

22.1.44. VIMEO

22.1.45. Bukisa

22.1.46. Metacafe

22.2. Online Video Tools

22.2.1. Jaycut - Video Editing

22.2.2. Animoto - create online videos

22.2.3. Stickam - LiveWebcast

22.2.4. Ustream - Live Webcast

22.2.5. Kyte.tv - distribution across platform

22.2.6. Screencast-o-matic / Jing Project / Camtasia

22.2.7. oovoo.com - video chat & record

22.3. Strategies

22.3.1. Live Webcast

22.3.2. Weekly TV Show

22.3.3. Video Creation - Articles into PPT/Voice Over & Animoto

22.3.4. Video Trailers

22.3.5. Website Reviews - Jing / Camtasia

22.3.6. Video Tips

22.4. Youtube

22.4.1. Social Strategy (subscribers, commenting, etc.)

22.4.2. Jazz Up Channel Background - FitnessVip Example

22.4.3. Tubeinator

22.4.4. Video Response

22.5. Social Bookmarking

22.5.1. Regular Sites

22.5.2. Sutree - instructional-type clips

23. Article Marketing

23.1. Article Submission Sites - OK

23.1.1. EzineArticles.com

23.1.1.1. Vary resource box for different links

23.1.2. SubmitYourArticle.com

23.1.3. Archive.org

23.1.4. buzzle.com

23.1.5. magportal.com

23.1.6. articledashboard.com

23.1.7. articlesnatch.com

23.1.8. amazines.com

23.1.9. isnare.com

23.1.10. articlecity.com

23.1.11. articlecube.com

23.1.12. free-articles-zone.com

23.1.13. articlerich.com

23.1.14. site-reference.com

23.1.15. upublish.info

23.1.16. 365articles.com

23.1.17. articlecodex.com

23.1.18. articlegarden.com

23.1.19. articlemaniac.com

23.1.20. articlepool.com

23.1.21. articleinsider.com

23.1.22. webpronews.com

23.1.23. article-buzz.com

23.1.24. 365articles.com

23.1.25. articleslash.net

23.1.26. articleblast.com

23.1.27. goarticles.com

23.2. Strategies

23.2.1. Vary Resource box

23.2.2. Turn podcasts &videos into articles

24. Social Networking - OK

24.1. Social Networking Sites

24.1.1. ***Facebook

24.1.1.1. main profile

24.1.1.2. Softball Tips and Trivia! App

24.1.1.3. Pages with Keywords

24.1.1.3.1. post relevant articles, tips, and drills

24.1.1.3.2. Invite SP group members to become fans of our pages

24.1.1.4. SP Circle of Friends Group

24.1.1.4.1. Post drills and tips

24.1.1.4.2. Invite friends to join group

24.1.2. **fastpitchworld.ning.com

24.1.2.1. Main profile

24.1.2.2. SP Group

24.1.2.3. Blog Post , Start Discussions

24.1.3. ***weplay.com

24.1.3.1. main profile

24.1.3.2. SP Group

24.1.3.2.1. add documents

24.1.3.2.2. create events (launches, teleseminars, etc.)

24.1.3.2.3. News (new products, changes, etc.)

24.1.4. **MySpace

24.1.4.1. Main Profile

24.1.4.2. SP Group

24.1.5. *Ning Sites

24.1.5.1. Forever Fastpitch

24.1.5.2. CoachBook

24.1.5.3. Softball

24.1.5.4. One-Stop Softball

24.1.5.5. Fastpitch Elite

24.1.6. Social Networking Sites

24.1.7. *Others

24.1.7.1. tnga.com

24.1.7.2. softballcore.com

24.1.8. Stickam

24.1.8.1. main profile

24.1.8.1.1. live show, add friends

24.1.9. WebRing

24.1.9.1. create communities and connect people

24.1.10. ZoomGroups

24.1.10.1. create website

24.1.10.2. advanced blogging

24.1.10.3. social networking

24.1.10.4. trading tools

24.1.10.5. innovative advertising and affiliate services

24.2. Strategies

24.2.1. General Social Strategies

24.2.1.1. Comments on Status / Photos / Videos

24.2.1.2. Add friends

25. Link Building - OK

25.1. Signature Linking

25.1.1. Forum Profile

25.1.1.1. New node

25.2. Profile Sites for Link-Building

25.2.1. Flickr

25.2.1.1. Links in profile + photo captions

26. Automation Tools

26.1. Submit Equalizer

26.1.1. New node

26.2. Only Wire

26.3. Press Equalizer

26.4. CommentHut or Fast Blog Finder

26.5. Tubeinator

26.6. podsubmitter.com

26.7. Pingomatic.com

26.8. Social Marker

27. Image Marketing

27.1. Strategies

27.1.1. Use-Keyword-image-name-with-dashes

27.1.2. Add an alt keyword description

27.1.3. Internally link with keyword

27.1.4. Use same keyword in text around

27.1.5. page name should be same keyword

27.1.6. example of coding: <a href=horsebab.htm><img src=horse-beach.jpg width=1024 height=768 alt=”photo of horse galloping on beach”>

28. Remote Blogging OK

28.1. Remote Blogs

28.1.1. Xanga

28.1.2. Blog HI

28.1.3. Wordpress

28.1.4. Livejournal

28.1.5. Vox

28.1.6. Blog.com

28.1.7. Blogger

28.1.8. Blogsome

28.1.9. Blog Drive

28.1.10. My Opera

28.1.11. Blog Lines

28.1.12. Blogr

28.1.13. Easyjournal

28.2. Strategies

28.2.1. Ping all blogs after each new post - cut and paste list http://pingomatic.com/

28.2.1.1. Test strategy for 1 week

28.2.2. Each blog plaftorm has 2 sub-blogs = a softball-tips blog and a softball-drills blog

29. Content-Sharing - OK

29.1. Scribd

29.1.1. Keyword Documents

29.2. Tipstrs

29.2.1. Keyword tips

29.3. Quizilla

29.3.1. keywords journal stories

29.4. Multiply

29.5. Wiseweber

29.5.1. Keyword pages

29.6. Hubpages

29.6.1. Keyword Pages

29.7. Squidoo

29.7.1. Keyword pages

29.8. Gather

29.9. Slideshare

29.9.1. Keyword PowerPoint Presentations

29.10. Yola (remote website)

29.10.1. create keyword website + links

29.11. weebly (remote website)

29.11.1. create keyword website + links

29.12. Blinkweb (remote website)

29.12.1. create keyword website + links

29.13. wikidot

29.14. webs (remote website)

29.15. Current.com

29.16. Docstoc

29.16.1. Keyword documents (like scribd)

29.17. Bukisa

30. Product Sharing Marketing

30.1. Thisnext.com

30.2. Shopwiki

30.3. Kaboodle

30.4. Kaboodle

31. Software Marketing

31.1. Create Cheap Useful Toolbar

32. Site Assessment -OK

32.1. Make thorough site analysis before applying these strategies

32.1.1. SERP

32.1.2. ALEXA Ranking

32.1.3. Competitors

32.1.4. Analysis of results and a report written every week or every month to see development or if we're in the right track

33. Web 2.0 Sites - OK

33.1. HubPages

33.2. Google.ca/Search

33.3. WikiDot

33.3.1. build website

33.3.1.1. publish contents

33.3.1.2. share documents

33.3.1.3. collaborate with friends

33.4. Gather.com

33.5. Nexo.com

33.6. SubmitYourArticle

33.7. Revver

33.8. Dailymotion

33.9. Strategies

33.9.1. Link also to other site, not only to Main

33.9.2. Do not do all at once in one day

33.9.3. Every time there's a new post/page, try to ping it

33.10. Others are in the map

34. Internet-Marketing Team

34.1. Liza

34.1.1. Lead person for Social Networking and Classified Ads

34.2. Jen

34.2.1. Assist in implementation of link-building and other SEO strategies. Lead person for Social Bookmarking

34.2.2. Responsible for submission related task - Article Directories Submission, RSS Submission

34.3. Wayne

34.3.1. Lead strategist for Link-building, SEO, and web analytics

34.3.2. Supervises and overviews implementation of all SEO-Link Building strategies

34.4. Mark

34.4.1. Lead person for video marketing

34.4.2. Assist in implementing strategies related to video (ex: social bookmarking)

34.5. Lia

34.5.1. softball and training expert - will provide content creation for softball and training stuff.

34.5.2. Assists in implementation of strategies that require softball knowledge (blog commenting, forum posting, yahoo answers, etc.)

34.6. Cedric

34.6.1. Lead article and content creator - can produce anything on any topics.

34.7. Marc

34.7.1. Provide expert guidance on strategies and supervises application and implementation of plan and srategies.

34.7.2. Implements specific strategies like blog postings (main blog) and micro-blogging (twitter)

34.8. Fernand

34.8.1. Article Writer - can produce fresh and new contents to post

34.8.2. Can do SEO - social bookmarking, an other off-page optimization

35. Possible Strategies

35.1. Proper Paid Links

35.2. Google Groups (ask questions leave answers, iie links)

35.3. Paid Per Post Reviews

35.4. Isnare Article Distribution

36. Mini-Net Strategy - OK

36.1. Add link list to Remote Blogs

36.2. Set main site as the Authority site

37. E-book Strategy

37.1. Gather articles and turn it into PDF

37.2. Submit E-book to E-Book directories

38. New node

39. New node