Wait till you read the one I’ll upload very soon and this will be musician analogy. I’m going to call it, “Are You Pumping Up The Volume!” Hahahaha. Oh yeah.

By the way, I’m going to be getting your book soon. In a few weeks or month. I’ve been recieving your emails regarding LSI and the structure of website themes. It’s what I’ve been looking for. It’s hot!

I don’t mind at all… thank you for the article I am sure it will help many people to get their head around social networking.

I like your gym analogy … very helpful!

The article is here
http://www.betternetworker.com/articles/view/so-tell-me-where-do-i-start

I’ve subscribed to your other website and will do on this one too now. Keep them coming. Thanks.

What you are doing there is a tangent of social media optimization. It takes time to learn how different services flow so that you can connect different services for maximum efficiency and syndication (exposure).

Good stuff!

- Charles

Sincere regards
Victor Snyders

I like the idea of Twitter, because I tend to be long-winded (long-worded). So, it forces me to think in clear, concise terms and verbage.

As an internet marketer, I initially used the account to promote my affiliate products I offer. However, I am concentrating all my efforts on our first, original site:
http://www.for-the-troops.com

It’s a blog-driven, charity-based site to honor the men & women of our (U.S.) Armed Forces. So, when I update the blog, I tweet about it, which- in turn- automatically updates my facebook account.

Best,

-K

@Mel Smith … you are right it does work most of the time… A numbers game, there’s always a %

@Preston … I agree 100%

@Chris Lang - That’s right … I knew I would miss something… Increased search engine visibility is most certainly a consideration that should be added to the list.

I know that you know this to be true because we disscussed it in detail. However for the readers that don’t have their nose in Google results all day like we do let me say this:

The one thing left out is Google rankings. Social media is being weighted even more heavily by Google. Why?

Because Google is rolling out their own Google Social bookmarking.

Many thought social bookmarking and the quality indicators that Google finds when it is done right would go the way of Digg. Instead Google is just tightening the reins and weeding out the spam.

Did your PageRank drop this last update? It may have been because of how you used social bookmarking to promote your site. Did you get kicked off Digg? Stop using social bookmarking scripts.

When done properly Google values social bookmarking. Hard to prove but those of us who use it with respect are doing very well.

The return on ROI you mention in the article I am talking about here is not social media traffic but the search engine rankings under targeted terms that will convert to sales.

Victor Snyders t/a V.I.C (VIRTUAL IMMERSION CONCEPTS

Great advice. Social media marketing is in my opinion the answer to
rude,in your face marketing of recent years. Social media marketing
is more organic and better suited to getting people to meet on a friendly basis.

Once interactive communications and trust is established naturally friends
will buy from each other provided a problem or need can be met.

I agree,pick the social media that you are comfortable with. Then begin the
conversation!

You are right on. When you go to these web-2.0 spaces, the best thing to do is to go on the forums, blogs and comments and just make great content with help to their problems or what ever they are discussing.

when you make out your profile, just put down your niche and leave a url to your website that you want them to go to and leave them with curiosity and they will follow to find out what they are missing. It works most of the time.
Mel

Social Networking is a great opportunity to improve my “listening skill” (in reality, reading skills) when I start to pay attention on what others are doing, selling, writing, teaching, sharing etc.
My focus is to first learn about a person, establish a sincere contact, exchange questions and comments and then I might share my stuff.
In reality, when you have a listening/reading attitude, others will do the same (at least the majority).

Excellent post, by the way.

Posting intelligent comments to videos that interest me, as well as posting video replies, is a great way to socially interact with my market.