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January 27th, 2010 — Wednesday is Friends Day
No coach who hopes to win a game will take his team on the field without first constructing a game plan. Before we step into the social media stadium, we bloggers also need to develop a social media game plan. Remember, a strategy is an overall plan, and tactics are the means used to implement that plan. Before we get into social media tactics, let’s first get our social media game plan going.
There are many things to consider when planning our social media strategy:
January 20th, 2010 — Wednesday is Friends Day
If you’ve been on Twitter more than about 47 seconds, you’ve likely read or received a tweet about how to grow your list of followers. Many promise hundreds if not thousands of followers within a matter of hours or days. When I first joined Twitter, I was lured into clicking on one of the promotional tweets for growing my list of followers. I wound up with more emails than followers, though, and quickly opted out of the program. Almost instantly, the 50 or so new followers I’d gained “unfollowed” me. No biggie. About half of them didn’t even tweet in my language.
Maybe some of the programs are legitimate. Maybe there is a faster way to grow my group of Twittermates, but I won’t be trying any more gimmicks to increase my followers list. Besides, the point of Twitter is to network and make friends, which is hard to do with people I either don’t understand or have no common interests with, so I recently started a concentrated effort to gain followers on Twitter and within a week, I’ve nearly doubled my list. The best part is, the group I’m growing is targeted to the same interests as me — Blogging and Internet Marketing.
How did I do it?
January 13th, 2010 — Wednesday is Friends Day
Guest posting has been a popular topic in the blogosphere during the past few weeks. Chris Garrett (Authority Blogger) just released an eBook, Guest Posting — for Quality Links and Targeted Traffic ($10), and Jade Craven recently published The Guest Post Mini Guide ($20). Since we host guests at On Blogging Well, plus I periodically write guest posts, I thought this would be a good topic to discuss on this Wednesday is Friends Day, especially since guest posting is a great way to connect and make friends with fellow bloggers.
Note that I’m still learning here, and yes, I’ve broken some of these “rules” in the past, but I just bought both of the abovementioned reports and hope to do better the next time I write a guest post. This list of tips will provide a good overview, but Chris and Jade go into detail about how to contact bloggers you wish to post for, working out the arrangements, how to leverage your guest post, etc. (Note to the FTC: I’m a customer of these two bloggers, not an affiliate.)
January 6th, 2010 — Wednesday is Friends Day
One of the email newsletters I receive mentioned a rise in blog traffic due to the blogger’s acceptance into a high profile blogging network. Since it’s “Wednesday is Friends Day,” and networking is a great way to make new online friends, I decided to poke around a bit and find out whether or not the pursuit of networked blogging is something I’d be interested in. This post is a summary of my findings and my opinion about what I found out.
December 30th, 2009 — Wednesday is Friends Day
Today’s guest post was written by Wendy Love. Wendy lives with bipolar depression. She is a retired teacher, self-employed artist, and now a writer. She uses her blog to share some of the things she is learning along her journey. She and her husband live in the countryside near a small town in Ontario (Canada). They have five grown children and three grandchildren. Wendy enjoys a quiet house, a cup of tea, and a good book.
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