Guide to Smarketplace for Vendors

By Justin Farrow

Land Surveyors United

In this guide you will learn how to put your marketing on autopilot while reaching thousands of Land Surveyors inside the Land Surveyors United Community.

Important Links

Smarketplace Website and Virtual Mall

Smarketplace App

Every Smarketplace Subscriber Now Gets.

For the price of a banner ad on other websites, you not only get a truly dynamic social media selling machine which attracts leads every day, all year around - you get a virtual machine which helps you automate your marketing efforts.  Here is what you get with your monthly subscription:

• A Branded Community Marketplace Hub inside Land Surveyors United, which you 100% Control.  It will be set up for you with your own forum, blog, videos, photos, events and more.

You can even run your own podcast through the hub if you like. You can operate a class room as a private hub.  You can host a global virtual event through the hub with a youtube account. Your entire store of products can be imported and promoted to over 17000+ land surveyors worldwide.

• A mobile app for quick posting to your Hub on the go

You'll get your own dedicated mobile app configured for quick access and posting to your Marketplace Hub

• Your Own Branded page inside the Surveyor Market Blog which pulls your posts AS blog posts

Blog posts from this blog will be heavily promoted on our Twitter profile, Linkedin and our Facebook Pages.  It pays to post often.

• A Smarketplace Page which updates everytime you post to any area of your Marketplace Hub.

Those areas of your Hub generate RSS feeds of info like a blog.  Those feeds are pumped in real time into your Smarket page and through the Smarketplace Blog.  In other words, everytime you add to or update any part of your Hub inside the community, you are also updating your Smarket in the Virtual Mall.  That content will help you sell, sell, sell.

• An audience of over 19k land surveyors to support and sell products/services to

Think of it this way.  Everytime you post content to your Marketplace Hub, your content attracts followers to your Hub.  Once a member of the community joins your hub, you have added them to a list of followers that you can message through the hub any time.  The name of the game is to build long lasting relationships with your customers.  Now, this has all been made as simple as possible for you.

How to Use the Various Features of your Marketplace Hub

Hub Blog

Use Your Hubs Blog is a great place to share special deals and promotional pricing with Land Surveyors United Members.  You can embed pretty much anything you like into blogs.  Use blogs to post more in depth content and article.

Hub Forum

Use Your Hubs Forum to host support questions, answer frequently asked questions, discuss changes in technology, shout outs to members and companies, etc.  Your forum can have as many categories and tags as you like for organization

Hub Photos

Use Your Hubs Photos Section to share company photos, surveyor events photos, product images and slideshows.  You can also embed payment buttons, documentation, videos and forms into descriptions of photos in your hub

Hub Videos

Use Your Hubs Videos to showcase products that you offer, demo equipment and software, offer webinars and virtual learning opportunities and host Live Streaming Events for your followers

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All sections of a Marketplace Hub generate RSS Feeds that you can also use to syndicate your posts to Your Social Media Profiles.  Use RSS Ground to generate your Posting Campaigns to your own Social Media

Marketplace Hubs also have the option to turn on other modules such as an Events Page, Podcasts, Social Media Import, Youtube Channel Import.