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Read my guest post Get Your House In Order on Artists Who Thrive, a blog run by one of my clients, Ann Rea Inc. Thanks for the opportunity, Ann!
Thanks to Jason at Social Media Explorer (a blog I read & recommend) I learned about the new data ShareThis just published – several sites I’ve worked with have used ShareThis based on my recommendation, so I am always interested in how they’re doing, and what they have to say.
One not-so-surprising tidbit – though it should make us all stop and think – email is still the top means by which people share. The interesting part is which sharing mechanism is most effective, read Jason’s post to see the details as he explains it well.
For any of you who attend my social networking for small business seminars for the SBDC, much of what I touch on there is reinforced by the ShareThis data.
Facebook announced recently that they hit 350 M users (um, wow, 350 Million?) – and they also announced that they are making changes to their privacy settings shortly.
While we still need to wait to see exactly what these changes will bring, it’s great that they’ve learned a bit of lesson from their previous changes, and are informing members of the changes ahead of time, and it looks like, providing more choices.
Peter does a great job of dissecting HARO press release stats, so I don’t need to, but I do want to point out that it is an amazing social media success story. But more importantly, that it doesn’t take a big messy idea with years of implementation and new features to make a successful story. As we all know, Apple wasn’t the first to bring an MP3 player to market, they just made it simple, easy and fun.
Or, as HARO does, connect interested parties together in an easier way (in this case reporters & sources). Take something that frustrates you and make it simpler.
And, make a cool $1MM while you’re at it – not bad, huh?
Good reminders (or new tools to some of you) – 5 FREE tools to help grow your business. The combination of these tools and analysis can be a low-cost way to help jumpstart your business online. Make sure you have these basics covered BEFORE you start paying for keywords.
A great list (always popular with users!) of what NOT to look for in a social media expert. While many of these made me LOL, there is a lot of truth to many of these, so check them out. For the record, I pass most, if not all, of these tests – but I still wouldn’t call myself as SM Expert. The key takeaway, I think, is that Social Media should be part of a plan, not the plan. Thanks Sarah & Peter.
See Facebook’s recent post about Vanity URL’s for Fan Pages and Personal Profiles. Claim yours, especially if you are a brand. They’ve taken steps to prevent squatting ahead of time, but who knows once it launches!
for social networking? I love this post by Andrew Gluck, even more so because it comes from an industry in which could really use social media tools. My husband works in finance – an industry which is heavily relient on personal connections and networking – but I just got him to try linkedin about a month ago, only to find that no one he knows is using it yet. Could it be that my neophyte husband is an early adopter?
