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Have a Social Networking Snack



There was a time when having a good social marketing network was a great asset. Today, it’s a 100% necessity. You can be certain your competition is constantly using online resources to build their own strong, experienced, knowledgable, wise, nimble network. With today’s avalanche of information heading your way, you’d better have not only a great network, but also a great way to quickly sample lots of good stuff, or you will spend your life sorting through garbage.

Tumblr.com is a micro-blogging utility. The idea is to build a social network of connoisseurs who pick through the information smorgasbord, delivering you only the tastiest snacks.

You have the option to host this social blogging platform on your own domain. You can use Tumblr to quickly post small bites of text, pictures, audio, video, & links. It’s similar to Twitter. Every person in your social network becomes your own personal editor, constantly focusing on content to publish only targeted key points, deciding this resource is important and that one is not. Then YOU glance at each thumbnail and instantly decide whether to look deeper.

Similar to the idea of the Blog Marketing Journal – but much shorter.

This is as easy and quick as social networking gets. You don’t even have to go to the Tumblr website. Just click on a toolbar icon to post a quote, picture, content, etc. You can even post content from mobile phones. It’s perfect for a large segment of the population that doesn’t want to spend their time writing a detailed blog post.

You can also feature as many as 5 RSS feeds, which means you can leverage the time you put into your social blogging. Tumblr is well-positioned to help solve your information overload problem, while making social networking much more productive for you.

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LinkedIn: Promote Yourself To The World



LinkedIn helps solve a big problem. Most of us have companies to promote and products to promote, and that’s what we do. But more and more, people are seeing that companies and products come and go. Not knowing the future, your best long-term strategy is to take charge of your future. Effectively promote yourself whenever you have the chance.

Some productive ways to use LinkedIn:

1. Create a professional LinkedIn resume to put you in position for new career opportunities you would never have found otherwise. Your LinkedIn profile is a social networking tool that can prospect for you while you work and while you sleep. Every minute of every day, your face and credentials and achievements and testimonials are there for others to see.

2. Get a streamlined evaluation of prospects for your projects. A LinkedIn profile gives you a quick idea of the person’s background, profession, current job, work history, connections, entrepreneurial inclinations, and so forth.

3. Use LinkedIn as a constantly self-updating social networking Rolodex. Not only can you keep track of all your connections, but they certainly keep their own contact information current. If you have a lot of contacts, your own files no doubt are out of date. LinkedIn can solve a big part of that problem.

4. Seek out past employers, co-workers and other close contacts for a digital recommendation letter. (For some contacts, it’s best to write your own letter and send it to them for approval. Obviously, keep the superlatives realistic.)

5. Harness the enormous potential value in “LinkedIn Answers.” You can get response from some of the top entrepreneurs and professionals in your field on any question. They are on LinkedIn to build their network & credibility, so they have reason to give you their best answers. This is way different from asking a question on some forum where you don’t have a clue who the person is that’s answering, or their experience or credentials.

Other social networking sites come and go, but LinkedIn is a rock where serious professionals actively network. Use your LinkedIn profile as part of your long-term plan for social marketing.

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