Kick-ass social media advice for the real entrepreneur
This is a guest post by Jade Craven of JadeCraven.com
Wanna get on the Problogger List of Bloggers to Watch? It’s easy. Get my attention. Let me explain.
Writing a list post is hard work. The 2011 edition took 80 hours, and that’s despite asking my friends for help. Researching someone outside of my network takes between 5-10 hours. Writing about someone I’m familiar with takes about two.
This is a guest post by Emilie Wapnick from Puttylike.com
Oh bloggers, how they love discussing traffic generation.
Twitter, Quora, list posts, pingbacks, guest posting… There’s no lack of techniques for us bloggers to experiment with– and yack about.
Yet in all the chatter about fancy new gadgets and clever JV tricks, there’s one technique that seems to be constantly overlooked. It’s almost radical in its simplicity: have you tried leveraging your real world contacts?
That’s right, the people you knew before you started blogging or using Twitter; family, friends, former co-workers, that cute girl in class, the weird kid you knew from summer camp who randomly added you on Facebook last year.
I’m not really into reading books on how to actually use a particular tool, I don’t like the technical stuff. In the case of social media, I’m more interested in learning about the phenomenon behind it, about the leadership, the tribes, the passion of unknown individuals exposed to become something awesome and how we are becoming more connected as human beings.
Hey, my name is Francisco Rosales and I'm the author of SocialMouths. I help entrepreneurs and small businesses turn their vanilla online presence into a profit powerhouse. Read more...
