2 Create a Website – The Blog

As I’ve mentioned in a previous post about Pinterest, I love the benefits I’m receiving with very little time and effort. You just can’t beat that kind of traffic. I’m a very light Pinterest user and probably use the site less than 30 minutes per month, but continue to receive more and more followers and [...]

If you follow my blog regularly, you already know I never get too excited over the latest social media crazes. However, it’s really hard to ignore a website site that generated notable traffic even before I joined. That’s what happened with my Flat Stomach Exercises site and Pinterest — one of the fastest growing social [...]

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you probably know by now that Google officially opened their Google Plus social network to everyone last Thursday. For months, it was an invitation-only kind of party, now everyone’s invited. So the question is… Should you show up? What is Google Plus? For those who don’t know, the [...]

Every now and then I’ll get an e-mail from someone who is just getting started with their site.  They are overwhelmed by all the social media sites, tools, etc.  (Who can blame them?) Some are even so turned off by social media, they tell me they want nothing to do with it. Others believe it [...]

Am I the only one getting tired of the social sharing mania?  Really, it’s getting to be too much for me. I know it’s the world we live in now, and as a blogger/webmaster/affiliate marketing I often feel the pressure to keep up when it comes to adding these buttons to my site. So of [...]

This is a guest post by Leo Widrch. Efficient Tweeting is something that took me very long to figure out. I tested many approaches. They ranged from “pure” tweeting where every tweet was spontaneous and I had to spend lots of hours on Twitter. Or to the other extreme, a very automated form of tweeting [...]

I received a message from a new “friend” on Facebook.  Right after I accepted him as a friend, he sent me a message asking me why I don’t upload more pictures to my Facebook page. Actually, I do.  But only my real-life friends and family can see them.  “Friends” who know me from my websites [...]

I received an interesting e-mail the other day from a lady named Carrie.  She asked… I want to create a vBulletin forum.  I already have a pretty active Facebook fan page, so I’m thinking of using that audience to announce and promote a new forum.   Should I stick to my fan page, switch to a [...]

This is a guest post by Kiesha Easley of WeBlogBetter.com. I’m a huge fanatic of The Sims game. Okay, that’s an understatement – I admit that at one point I believe I was a tad addicted to the game. I would pop the disk in and vow to spend no more than 30 minutes playing [...]

It may be Valentine’s Day, but I have no love in my heart for FaceBook right now. Sometimes I wish they would just leave things alone.  As soon as we get used to how everything works, they change it up on us. This time they really screwed with fan page owners.  And a big thanks [...]

I was perusing through my Twitter stream and noticed a couple of resolutions that involved increasing Twitter follower counts. Of course, it looks impressive to have a bunch of followers, but shouldn’t the real goal be to get more conversions, responses, clicks, etc. from your followers and connect with them? I remember when I first [...]

Automation can be great for business, as long as it’s used in moderation. Obviously you don’t want to become an impersonal social media robot, but finding the right mix of automation and personal interaction can really improve your productivity and sales. Even though I don’t do a ton of automation myself, I realize it has [...]

I’m probably shooting myself in the foot by writing this, because it could be taken the wrong way.  But I would really like some feedback on this issue. One common Twitter strategy that seems to be growing in popularity is when people @mention someone to let them know they’ve been mentioned in an article they [...]

When I first started making money online in the late 90′s, there was no such thing as social media.  My marketing strategy centered around the search engines. I spent my days altering meta tags and on-page keywords trying to climb to the top of sites like Infoseek, Webcrawler, Excite, Lycos, HotBot and AltaVista.  (Memorieeeeees!) The [...]

One of the most popular ways to promote your site is through social networking. However, many of you are taking the “social” part out of the equation because you are relying too heavily on automation. By automation I mean using various online tools and apps that automatically post content to multiple social networking sites at [...]

A Twitter user, (we’ll call her Jane Doe), sent me an email last week because she doesn’t understand why she receives very few @replies and RT’s (retweets) on Twitter. Just for the record, she is using Twitter to promote her craft related blog by networking with other people in her niche and announcing her blog [...]

The Self Promoter Some people join Twitter and have absolutely no intention of providing value or developing meaningful relationships. They look for popular users and blast them with @replies about their own products and services. I checked out one guy’s profile and he was doing nothing but sending self promotional @replies to me, Oprah and [...]

Even though I’ve had a Twitter account for a while, I didn’t become active until about 6 months ago.  Here are a few things I’ve learned. Keep in mind, many of these tips are only relevant if you use Twitter for site or blog promotion. 1. Your Last 20 Tweets Say a Lot! When someone [...]

I was reading, Darren Rowse’s blog, TwiTip.com, and came across an article that struck a chord with me. It was written by Skellie of Skelliewag.org. The article is called How to Follow Everyone Back on Twitter Without Ruining Your Experience. Skellie suggested that you follow everyone who follows you in order to grow your number [...]

I have really grown to love Twitter in the last two months. I must admit, when a friend told me about it a few years ago, I thought it was kind of dumb. But now I see the value of it from a marketing/researching/networking standpoint. At first, I only used it to announce my blog [...]

JohnnyInArizona is having dinner Helen12345 just got a traffic ticket KristenWilliams is late for work If you’re a Twitter member, these are the kinds of updates you might see when you login to your account. Ahhh yes, good ole’ Twitter — the official place to spy on people you know (or don’t know) 24 hours [...]