Archive for the ‘social media tools’ category

Facebook Marketing May Be More Effective than Twitter

January 19th, 2010

991916_old_man_and_dovesThere’s an interesting blog post on Social Media Examiner that anyone who is interested in promoting their site via Facebook and Twitter or any other social website should read.

There is a ton of good information in the post gleaned from a report from MarketingProfs called “The State of Social Media Marketing.”  I went to MarketingProfs to see if I could find the report, but it costs $599, so I stuck with the blog post.  

The statement in the title above is probably very obvious to you.  Facebook seems to be a stronger way to market yourself or your site since people will spend more time there due to the fact that there’s more aggregated content on Facebook.  The writer of the post points out that Twitter directs people to external links so encourages people to spend more time away from the site.  

It’s a matter of the structure of the sites and how people use them.

The article has some interesting facts and research that may help you in your Internet marketing efforts.  

One of the most interesting points is about Google Wave and how a social shift is occurring as people begin to bring their own networks with them as they access different sites and services.  

It’s interesting to think about what will happen to your brand and website in the future as more ways of accessing content become available.

Let me finish this post with a question…

What is your main way of promoting your website or blog?  Do you use social media?  Do you bookmark your post all over the place?  Do you write guest posts?  What do you do?

Ignore All Social Media Advice

January 10th, 2010

Every single day there is a deluge of new articles with titles like “101 Social Media Tips” or “4,125 Ways to Get More Twitter Followers” or “10 Ways for Entrepreneurs to Use Social Media.”

Ignore all of these articles.  If you want to be successful using social media websites, all you have to do is be sincere.  Don’t try to sell anything via social media because it will never work.  The sale, if there is one, should come way later. 

Social media is about reaching out and being social with others.  It’s not about finding an audience, it’s about providing a service for an audience, whether it’s entertainment or information. 

It’s not about how many followers you have, because it doesn’t matter how many followers you have if they don’t give care about what you have to say.

The only social media tip worth remembering:

Be Sincere and have something to offer.  

That’s it.  Quit wasting your time trying to “build traffic” or “build your brand,” just get out there and start doing things for people.

5 Easy Tools for Social Media Monitoring

December 19th, 2009

It can be really hard to keep track of everything you do while running your online business.  I came across a list of free social media monitoring tools that will help you out with one aspect of your business, website, or blog: keeping track of how well your content does on social media sites.

This is a very useful thing because it helps for research purposes since you can see which kind of work gains traction and what work or yours people like.  This is great knowledge.  If you create content online, these tools should help you out.

Some are free and some are near free.

See the list at TopRankBlog.

Are you a Twitter power user?  Here are 5 Tools to help you track trends on Twitter.  That’s right, they’re Twitter trend tools.  Say that 10 times in a row.