Solution to Social Media as a Time Waster? Be Purposeful with Your Time

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Some people think Facebook, is a waste of time.

And it can be - IF you’re prone to time wasting. You don’t have to be if you learn how to use it properly.

There are plenty of less vocal people who believe StumbleUpon is for amateur sharers. And of course there is the big camp of people who think all social media, including blogging and social bookmarking, is a huge waste of your resources that you won’t get anything back from.

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October 29, 2007 | Filed Under Web 2.0, increase web site traffic, social media | 11 Comments 

Too Many Links, Too Little Time? Boost Your Signal by Having a Soft Site Limit

If you submit all the links you find, every day, to all the social news, bookmarking and sharing sites you know of, you will get into an endless loop of site sharing. This is far from what you want to accomplish.

Instead, see how much sharing you usually get done in whatever time you have set aside for share work, whether it’s 15 minutes a day, or 2 hours at the end of the week. Make that number the amount of sites you gather.

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October 29, 2007 | Filed Under Web 2.0, increase web site traffic, social media | Leave a Comment 

Social News Double Work? Try Bookend Voting and Submitting

As you finish with basic sharing of sites, you’ll likely want to move on to the subset of those sites that you want to vote for, or submit to a social news site.

What you’ll run into at some point is that as you’re submitting stories, many of the links you’ve submitted are already present. The way you’ll find this out is as you’re submitting- this can quickly turn into a waste of time. Or, if you’re often the first submitter, by the time you’re visiting other submissions and voting, there’s a pile of new sites to see and vote on.

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October 29, 2007 | Filed Under Web 2.0, increase web site traffic, social media | Leave a Comment 

Share at Optimal Times of the Day

Depending on what industry you’re in, or what country you’re from, you will find that a particular time of day drives more attention to the links that you have submitted to your favorite bookmarking site. There are also dead spots in the day, or certain days of the week where it’s harder to get noticed.

Experiment with the time of day that you share and take note of the effect. Extend that to the day of the week, or even the seasons.

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October 28, 2007 | Filed Under Web 2.0, increase web site traffic, social media | 1 Comment 

Share the Smart Way by Noticing This

At some point, you’re going to figure out that there’s one place that you’ll want to store every single link you find useful, and another that’s just for promoting your very favorite links of that bunch.

Or you’ll find that the atmosphere at one site is more suited to you than other, though they drive traffic at about the same rate. On some sites you may notice that having lots of friends helps you spread your message - on others, accepting friend requests dilutes the power of your vote.

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October 27, 2007 | Filed Under increase web site traffic, social media | 1 Comment 

Share Better - Find Tools that Help In All Stages of the Process

There are bookmarklets, sidebar widgets, FB apps, desktop applications, browser extensions or toolbars, and other tools that will help you spread your sharing task over the day. The one hour or less you take to share links can be integrated as part of your regular surfing, blogging or browsing routine.

It can reduce your time spent on sharing even further, as well as spread the time spent throughout your day. This also ties into social presence marketing by giving your potential and current clients clues that you’re available.

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October 27, 2007 | Filed Under increase web site traffic, social media | 3 Comments 

[series] How to Increase Your Sharing Influence in Half the Time

Why Share Traffic? What’s the point of social media?

Few understand what the fuss over social media is, because they don’t understand how to use these new tools. Every major Facebook, StumbleUpon or Social Media detractor I’ve read about has shown evidence in their writing that they are using the tools ineffectively.

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October 27, 2007 | Filed Under increase web site traffic, social media | 8 Comments 

Share Faster - Start a Link Sharing Ritual

The first step to better sharing is faster sharing.

Organization helps dramatically, so step one of the seven steps to more effective sharing is to develop some type of habit in your link sharing, starting with how you gather links and where you share them.

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October 27, 2007 | Filed Under increase web site traffic, social media | 1 Comment 

Tool Time Friday | “How’s it doing?” “I don’t know, I can’t even find its (blog) pulse.”

What is a blog?

According to most people, “A weblog, or simply a blog, is a website which contains periodic, reverse chronologically ordered posts on a common webpage.” 

What is BlogPulse?

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October 26, 2007 | Filed Under increase web site traffic | Leave a Comment 

Tool Time Friday | “BookKit T. and the MG’s”

Yes I know it’s “Booker T. and the MG’s”.  And this seminal band from Memphis signature song was titled…..?

Last Friday I proffered a site which allowed you to have a free web page for all of your bookmarks, etc.

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October 26, 2007 | Filed Under increase web site traffic | 5 Comments 

Tool Time Friday | A World of Help is Just a Click Away

Here’s a site which lists over 300 links, broken down into 17 categories.  But that’s not all.

You can see which sites are ‘New Sites’ or ‘Top Sites’ and you can even ‘Add Sites’ or ‘News Sites’ to the existing list.

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October 26, 2007 | Filed Under increase web site traffic | 3 Comments 

There’s More to Google Beefs Than Google PR

Anyone who’s not in search might think there’s only one argument that small businesses and tech bloggers have with Google.

There are several. Some are silly, some have merit, some are somewhere in the middle.

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October 24, 2007 | Filed Under Google | 5 Comments 

[review] Strategic Social Marketing by Laura Childs

I don’t do a lot of reviews, as you’ve probably noticed. This is because I like to be able to get a sense of a person, not just their work, if at all possible. I have recently been lucky enough to get to know Laura as more than an admired colleague.

It’s true what they say, good people make good business people. And Laura, is both. The following is an evaluation of one of her most recent offerings.

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October 22, 2007 | Filed Under Web 2.0 | 10 Comments 

Tool Time Friday | Want a Free Web Page for Your Internet Bookmarks?

Ever wanted to share your favorites/bookmarks with your friends?

With “all my favorites” you can. Just give your friends the link to your all my favorites web page and they can browse your favorites.  How cool is that?

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October 19, 2007 | Filed Under increase web site traffic | 2 Comments 

Tool Time Friday | Oh, shake shake shake, shake shake shake, Shake your Aboogy, shake your Aboogy.

What if someone had told you that you can put an end to the mess of growing number of favorite links in your Web browser? Could there be a way you haven’t thought of yet??

I believe there is!
You can organize your favorite Web pages into easy to access, clear and logical groups of links. Many have tried to do that for you.  Different Web portals have been created and loaded with information and search engines - but in reality - 90% of their offer you have never used.

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October 19, 2007 | Filed Under increase web site traffic | Leave a Comment 

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