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Tips To Help You Maximize Social Media Websites

CVOS — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 17:00:25 +0000

Being successful with social media sites is not difficult, if you plan ahead and fully commit to using them regularly.

Here are some resources to help you better understand the social networking sites and how they can be a huge boost in targeted traffic.

Linkedin
chrisbrogan.com/use-linkedin-effectively/ Chris Brogan’s how to use Linked ineffectively – 50 tips
learn.linkedin.com/ Learn how to setup effective business profiles

Facebook

readwriteweb.com/archives/how_to_use_facebook_5_tips_for_better_social_networking.php 5 Tips to create a better facebook fan page
gigaom.com/collaboration/32-ways-to-use-facebook-for-business 32 tips on using facebook for business
techipedia.com/2010/how-to-use-facebook-for-business-and-marketing How to use facebook for marketing your business

Twitter
pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2383408,00.asp Use Twitter like the pros
chrisbrogan.com/50-ideas-on-using-twitter-for-business/
50 Killer ideas on using twitter for business

Blogging
wordtracker.com/academy/business-blogging-reasons Reasons to start a business blog
buildabetterblog.com/7-tips-for-better-blog-posts.html 7 tips to create great blog posts that sell your business

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What Can Twitter Do For You?

CVOS — Fri, 29 May 2009 11:10:40 +0000

In December 2008 Dell Outlet announced that it had generated $1 million through their twitter account. Dell posted computer specials and closeout deals to its Twitter feed and grabbed the attention of the web.

In the summer of 2008 Barack Obama announced his choice of vice president through a tweet.

What Twitter can do for your business

Building Community— creating a strong community of followers that
ultimately help drive business objectives and bring in new customers
Customer Service— using Twitter to successfully engage with customers
needing help
Selling— driving online and offline sales by using Twitter to post promotions,
discounts and offers
Prospecting— creating demand and pinpointing potential customers needing
the type of solution your product offers
Branding & Awareness— employing Twitter in creative ways to increase
awareness around a product, person (celebrity) or business
Fundraising — spread the word about important causes

From a recent poll of Twitter marketers 83 percent said that they expect
their company’s use of Twitter to increase over the upcoming six months, 45 percent of respondents said that they saw Twitter as “somewhat important” to their business and 20 percent saw it as “extremely important.”

Twitter ranks second to blogs as the social media tool that delivers the most value.

Corporate Twitterers

Branding and awareness was the most sought after use at 84%
networking 78%
community-building 77%
Brand-reputation management was fourth with 51%
customer service 44%
prospecting 30%
Direct Selling 20%
use a corporate Twitter account to promote their business 36%
use their personal accounts 30%

One of the best uses I have found is to get feedback and recommendations. I can tweet a very specific question and receive several detailed responses in less than 1 hour. Getting information and answers to complex problems makes this an invaluable communication tool for me.

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If You Create A New Technology Use It On Your Own Websites

CVOS — Sat, 23 May 2009 04:53:35 +0000

Yahoo has a huge network of content websites, but they are ineffectively utilizing these website properties. Below is a good article on Yahoo real estate, but if you want to use Yahoo Buzz or Mybloglog you are out of luck.

Yahoo has spend tens of millions of dollars buying, maintaining, and improving these social media features but they don’t even use them on their own web properties. There is only a small link to Delicious.com bookmarks, which I only saw on my third visit to this site.

And Yahoo is completely ignoring the hottest social website on the internet today: Twitter.

Yahoo really need to integrate its disparate web properties, I have a feeling they are leaving millions of dollars of revenue on the table by not tightly integrating their content and social tools.

realestate.yahoo.com/info/experts/it-pays-to-research-homes-history

Don’t be like Yahoo – all content you create should have the social bookmarking tools most used by your site visitors.

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Socialize Me Social Media Connector

CVOS — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 05:01:00 +0000

Blah Blah tech has created a great wordpress plugin that lets you connect with users of other social networks. Most online marketers are members of multiple online content sharing networks and tend to read a lot of SEO blogs. Using the Socialize Me plugin lets visitors interact with you similar to mybloglog.com

From SocializeMe:

with Socialize Me! those visitors to your ‘blog will see a simple message when they arrive: “Hi, thanks for the visit! Wayne’s on StumbleUpon, too!” with a link to your profile.

With the Socialize Me! Plugin for WordPress you can connect with people on services like: StumbleUpon, Facebook, Digg, Delicious, Pownce, Twitter, Bebo, MySpace and many, many more.

get the plugin

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