Nothing wrong with it unless you are glued to your computer seat even when you should be sleeping. Or you are a business that needs to expand their presence? The Internet really can help. Social networking has proved it.
However, are you making the most of that time? Are you connecting with people that matter and who you can bounce ideas off of or build a good relationship where both sides gain a lot?
If not, you might be a social media addict not set in the right direction.
Too many experts are saying
- You need a Twitter account.
- You need a Facebook fan page.
- You need to have a presence on LinkedIn.
- You need to create videos and host them on Youtube.
- You need to blog.
While yes you should to the above, a lot of people when told the above statements are pretty much wondering – WHY?
Then after being told that it will increase awareness to their brand and overall business, of course business owners hop on board.
So – they create a Twitter, Facebook, Youtube, LinkedIn, or any other necessary social network account.
Now what?
You have all these accounts, no followers – what to do now?
Your follower count is not going to increase over night and spamming people is not cool, so you have to take the longer route, meaning you have to work.
Here are a few places and suggestions to find people you can connect with that are interested in what you have to say, as well as what you may be interested in hearing.
Twellow – Twitter directory listing public profiles and organized into interests.
Joining groups and fan pages help a ton. This allows you to see who else is active and as passionate about what they do. You can connect, inspire, and get inspired.
LinkedIn has some great groups. All you have to do is search for your interests and join. You can even share your own blog articles too.
Blogging
These are some of the rising stars in the blogging and making money online community. They have active staff and commenters. These people know what they are doing.
- Famous Bloggers
- Basic Blog Tips
- Shout Me Loud
- Mashable
- Fuel Your Blogging
Of course there are others, hence why I always encourage anyone who leaves a comment to share them. 😉
Also communities like BlogEngage and BloggerLuv are great for bloggers in general to connect.
The point is that you are either going to have to work to spread your presence online or pay an employee to do it. While you could pay people to get you hundred and thousands of followers, it does nothing if they are empty accounts or you are not going to even networking with them.
Social networking your business is a virtual word of mouth method. Some of the best businesses that have gone viral because of this and not from always forking out money. They told someone, and that person told more people and so on.
What resources or methods do you like to recommend for businesses and even bloggers to increase their presence online?
Having a handful of Targeted Followers is much more important that having thousands of people following you and not interested in what you are saying. Nice way of looking at social media marketing Nile
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I am not a social media addict, but I have embraced the fact that social networking can indeed help with my business. So, I established a system where I am able to participate in Twitter daily, comment on blog posts, write a blog post or two and then do forum posting/commenting as well. I am not sure if this will work for everyone, but so far, it has steadily shown results for me.
– Wes –
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I have two social network account, one from Facebook and the other from Twitter. I am using it to getting traffic for my blog and only getting success with Twitter.
However, the traffic from Twitter isn't good at all.
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Having lots of followers in different social websites is best for people that has business and social websites can greatly help. For non business person, it is not so important to have multiple account with this social websites but it will depend on the people of course if they will follow the trend or not.
Even if affiliate marketers are suffering from information overload, you unique perspective and ideas of online marketing in general is useful to any serious marketer out there! The social networks do work if one knows how to use them and how to manage their networks. I use them for network marketing of my main prograns. Thank for your share.