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How Are You Managing Social Media Madness

July 19, 2011 By Lynn Brown 53 Comments

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This is a great time to be an online entrepreneur with the benefit of exploding your business in a fairly quick time because of all the social media sites, right?

Maybe it is just too fast! I have been reading, listening and chatting with others about all the social media sites we are using for our business. The benefits are wonderful to be able to meet so many people within your industry. Connections, relationships and building clients and customers are a huge part of what social media marketing provides.

BUT …. are we getting too many sites? Seems every time you turn around, someone is sending an invite yet to another social site.

I was just reading today an amazing article written by my very good online ebiz associate, Peter Masters, of The MarketingM8 Blog, Social media time management and Google +. Social media satire 19

In the article, Peter starts out saying ”The amount of new social media developments in the news is mind boggling and have you noticed that no one mentions social media being a fad any more?” In fact, he jokes about ‘fad’ being the F word no one is talking about anymore. I believe it is because we are all way too busy trying to keep up with the ‘social media madness’!

He wonders how we all find the time to stay up with these social sites since we all can agree, there are only so many hours in each day. (Read the rest of his article)

I would like to hear your thoughts, ideas and suggestions on how do you manage your social media madness?

Also, please visit my video and give it a like so others may contribute their thoughts over there as well.

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Wishing you and your business much Success!

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Filed Under: Social Networking Tagged With: entrepreneur, Google, Linkedin, Media Madness, Media Management, Media Marketing, Peter Masters, social marketing, Time Management, twitter, Youtube

How To Simplify Your Social Media Experience

July 12, 2011 By Guest Author 25 Comments

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The explosion of social media has created a level playing field between large and small organizations. The days are gone when television ruled the advertising landscape. New technology has made it more affordable for all businesses to promote and interact with there customers. Any company can set up a blog or log on to facebook or twitter.

Even though these mediums are inexpensive to start-up, they can be time consuming or even costly to have someone else manage them for you. Don’t worry if you are unfamiliar with this new form of interaction, there are some free social media tools available.

Most social media sites and third party applications that are designed to simplify your social media experience offer some sort of free items to try and get you to sign up for their subscribed tools. The trick is finding the best ones so you don’t have to invest a lot of capital into your social media. One third party application company I like is Involver.

Are you looking to customize your facebook fan page? Involver can make it easy with their facebook applications. What types of free social media tools does involver provide? Well, to list a few there is an app to put your twitter stream, you tube channel, or flicker photos on facebook.

In the case of free social media tools, you can only use two of these apps for free. If you want to use more than one app you need to subscribe to their professional level. Involver has some apps that you can only use if you subscribe to the professional level which includes feedback, contact sheets, and welcome pages.

There are two free apps that I like and those are Klout coupons and Static HTML. Klout is a tool used to measure a users online influence. Using the Klout coupons you are able to target your most valuable promotions to your most influential fans.

The other free social media tool that is worth a try is Static HTML. Facebook has decided to use an iFrame format which allows fan pages to incorporate photos and static HTML on separate tabs. All of the tools at involver allows brands to further differentiate themselves from their competition.

Let me know if you have used any of these social media tools and suggest others that have worked for you.

Thank you to my Guest Author: Justin McIntire – Social Explosion ….. Visit his blog at Socialxplosion.

Wishing you and your business a Successful and Profitable day!

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Filed Under: Social Networking Tagged With: facebook, fan page, Fan Pages, Flicker Photos, Free Apps, klout, Media Tool, Media Tools, social media tools, Youtube

Linkedin Social Media Myth Revealed

June 14, 2011 By Lynn Brown 29 Comments

I call it social media madness! So many social media sites and platforms that can overwhelm even the most experienced online marketing entrepreneur. However, these social sites — like — Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, YouTube and have you checked out Empire Avenue yet?!…. have proven to take businesses to the next level.

But there is a social media myth out there that I wanted to reveal. I can’t tell you how many times I hear …. “Linkedin is not for me.”

That is just plain wrong! In fact, if you are not using Linkedin in marketing your business, products or services – then you are leaving money on the table.

Linkedin has been for job seekers and job recruiters. Large and small companies and corporations use Linkedin when finding and recruiting executives. While that is still true today, it is also true that Linkedin provides small online business and entrepreneurs with a huge platform for leveraging knowledge, ideas and opportunities. Linkedin, in my opinion, is the elite social professional site to build your business with high credibility. Build connections, alliances and more important, gain acceptance as an expert in your business. This alone will attract more visitors to you, gain your trust and turn them into customers or clients.

The key to using Linkedin successfully, will be determined on the proper set up of your Linkedin profile. This includes the appropriate keywords, optimization and completeness of your information.

NEW– those of you wanting to gain more knowledge about Linkedin and its tremendous features, should visit and subscribe to my new YouTube channel – Linkedin Marketing Manger. I will be personally sharing lots of tips, info and what I like to call my Linkedin Likes!

Recent comment from one of my online business associates:

“Hi Lynn, I agree with you and being a member of LinkedIn I do see the power in it. My problem is I just don’t spend as much time building relationships there as I should be. Thanks for this video and great reminder that I need to get back there and participate more.” Richard Petrillo – www.workwithrichardp.com

Is there one thing about Linkedin that you would like to know more about? Please share it here ….. thank you!