Monday, October 12th, 2009 at
7:34 am
This is one question that many people think they know, but the sad thing is the vast majority of marketers do not know how to effectively use Social Media in their business. Most Internet Marketers get on various social sites and try to start selling stuff right away. This is the wrong mentality to take when building up your social media presence. Social media is about interaction and building up a reputation and if you use it as such you will make a lot more money in the end. Perry Belcher does a good job of explaining this aspect of social media in the video below.
Just ask yourself this question, If you met someone on the street and they immediately started trying to sell you a timeshare, would you become friends with that person? Probably not. Social media is no different. Talk to people on social media with the intention of making friends. After you have made friends with them, then perhaps they may be interested in what you are selling but never assume that is the case. The main goal of social media is to network with likeminded people. If you make a sell or two because of that networking then great otherwise just enjoy the friendship. If you take this mentality with social networks then not only will you make more money from them you may just make a good friend or 2 or 10,000
Social Media – Perry Belcher
Wednesday, February 6th, 2008 at
7:02 pm
Unless you’ve been under a rock the past few days then I’m sure you have read that Microsoft made a bid to purchase Yahoo for 44 billion dollars. I’ve read varying opinions on whether this is a good move or a bad move. I for one think it will be good for a lot of people. The main reason I see this as positive is it helps to put more pressure on Google. I’ve posted before that Google is getting a little to big for its own good and more competition will only mean it must continue to push the envelope and innovate.
This move also helps Microsoft gain a footing in the Social Media revolution an area where it does not have a lot of influence. Perhaps MS will be able to take MyBlogLog and turn it around. Don’t get me wrong I like MyBlogLog or at least I liked the idea, but lately its become pretty much a place for spammers and most of the announcements are rubbish. We’ll just have to see how this works out in the end and it may not even happen, but if it does then it could mean some good things down the road.
Thursday, January 31st, 2008 at
8:03 pm
Considering the new features happening over at Entrecard, I thought I would start a meme in celebration. If you have not noticed, there are quite a few changes in the dashboard as well as in statistics. One of my favorites is you are able to tell exactly how well you did on any particular day of advertising on a blog. This helps you to determine ROI and help you to chose the best blogs for you to spend your hard earned credits on. I personally love this new feature. Entrecard has also been busy building some new features on the dashboard, which ads to the social aspect of Entrecard. You can read all about these new improvements on the entrecard blog.
Okay to the Meme:
1. First link back to this post so people will know where the Meme came from and link to the person who tagged you, Of course this is more of a request than a rule. I’m not Sam Freedom afterall 
2. Link to each of the blogs listed in your Best Value by Widget table. Once you link to them send them a message and let them know they were tagged.
3. Now go through everyone of the blogs you list and stumble, sphinn, digg, submit to propeller, submit to reddit one of their posts or any other methods you can think of to help the blog’s traffic, such as favoriting the blog on technorati. You can do any or all of these things, but the more the better it will be for everyone.
4. Once you post the meme message the person who tagged you so they can go to your site and stumble, digg or whatever to help the people you tag. It would also be nice if when you passed a site with this meme posted if you would hit all the sites listed with a little social media love. It will only take you a minute to help out a fellow blogger.
5. If we can get quite a few people doing even half of this meme, then everyone involved should see a dramatic increase in traffic to their blogs as well as help them build up their backlink count.
So here are my best value widgets:
