Social marketing is very powerful, but it does take a lot of time to make it work. You could consider asking your friends to give you a few ‘Diggs’, leave a comment on your guest book, rate your Squidoo page or post a comment on your blog. That might help…

But will they actually help you out? What if they don’t?

Rather than constantly ask your friends to help you or hire someone from eLance or Guru.com to do it, there is a better way.

If we form our own Social Media Coop, and each of us takes a few minutes a day to reciprocate with diggs, posts and ratings, we would have an unbelievably easy time building our rankings in the search engines and building traffic to our site. It’s like having a lot of friends that are willing to help you. You need a few people to Digg your latest post or bookmark your site on Del.icio.us.

You know, I just read a sales letter for a “Web 2.0 Coop” that would cost $147 per month to be a member. What they have stated in the sales letter is pretty much what I have said that we could do here — together — at no charge.

If you’re interested in being a member to this “Social Media Coop” here, at ZERO cost, simply comment on this blog post to let me know. We’ll get started as soon as we have enough members.