If part of your social marketing strategy involves answering questions and positioning yourself as an expert on YahooAnswers, consider these two methods to make your efforts more profitable.
Be The First, Every Time
As discussed on the top tips for YahooAnswers, it is beneficial to be the first to answer a question. Here’s an easy way to do so without spending your day on the site. This technique helps you answer more questions before others by subscribing to the RSS feed for your chosen keywords or phrases. You then receive a listing of recently asked questions that are still open and available to be answered that are related to your chosen niche markets, as they’re posted. Read more…
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Let’s talk about some brilliant ways to use FriendFeed…
Across the top of your Home page on the left half, you can see this:
The search feature is self-expanatory as it is a simple site search engine for your FriendFeed. If I want to find Seth Godin or maybe subscribe to people who are talking about him, I would type his name into the search engine and see what I can find. If I find someone worth subscribing to, I simply hover my mouse over it and click the subscribe plus sign that pops up.
Apart from using the search field let’s talk about the posting and advanced marketing options. Read more…
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The world of Digg can be harsh to business owners and marketers just wanting to share their content or news with the world at large. What most fail to understand is that even though everyone knows about Digg, Digg is a world of it’s own. A world where not everyone, nor every story is appreciated. In fact Digg may not suit your business model or your marketing strategy, so I’ve put together a list of insights and tips on using Digg to help you decide – before you waste your time there.
- Spend some time exploring the Digg site before committing to a user account. Be sure you understand how Digg works.
- Pay attention to user comments, and be prepared to respond as well as become an active part of the conversation.
- Get a feel for how and why certain stories become popular. This will give you a better understanding of Digg, and also give you insight into how to make your stories and postings more popular.
- Once you sign up for an account, plan to participate daily. A sometimes-on, sometimes-off attitude will make you appear uncommitted to fellow Diggers.
- Try to accumulate as many friends as you can. Much like Twitter, you want as large of a network as possible. This way, you affect more people with your message and gain more feedback into what the Digg world wants.
- Start a buddy list. This list is designed to give you a one on one ability within Digg. It allows IM use, but try to not use this feature too much or you’ll turn people off. Read more…
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…No Matter What Market You’re In!
I’m sure to take a lot of heat for this post from other marketers, but the fact is, when designing your social markeing strategy, especially if your time is short, you should have representation on at least one social bookmarking site, 3-4 networking sites, a few blogging sites and one mashup. By blogging sites I don’t necessarily mean Wordpress.com, Blogger, or Yahoo 360 (but they’ll do) – by blogging site I mean any Web 2.0 property that allows you to post content and is Web 2.0 compliant by its very nature.
What Is Considered Web 2.0?
May Include: accepting visitor comments, the utilization and organization of content via tagging, a voting feature, RSS integration or creation, email and/or video capabilities, and so on – anything that is interactive for the visitor.
Choosing which ones to engage for marketing purposes first can be a daunting decision, but you are probably already a member of a few for personal interests, so be sure to add your urls and your feeds, as well as using tags within any network you are already using. And, for the sites that facilitate the strategy, employ my transposting technique explained fully in “Why Your Social Marketing Results Suck.” Read more…
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Hard to say whether this is an intermediate or beginner topic. Anyone with a website should already know this, but I see so many people, hell bent on promotion, that don’t have a clue about keywords or know to explore all available areas to leave their url.
So, Quickly, Here’s the Lesson on Keywords
The keywords you choose to target, choose to use in your content, headings, etc. are not of your choosing. Neither are they cross-site specific.
Here’s an example of what I mean… Read more…
Intermediate, Social Marketing Strategy rss, tags, web 2.0
To sign up for FriendFeed, go to: www.FriendFeed.com and “Click Create an Account”.
You’ll see this page:
The first screen you'll see when you setup your FriendFeed account.
Fill in the Email address and Name boxes.
Next, choose a nickname. Read more…
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