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Feed Each Other Could Increase Stumbles, Subscribers

February 10, 2008 on 4:38 pm | In stumble upon | 4 Comments

While blog surfing this morning, I read robdogg’s series on increasing stumbles. The article spoke to the benefits of SU, which we all know. However, he had some time saving advice I’d like to pass along to everyone.

The next time you feel like stumbling or submitting an article to your friends to stumble, use Feed Each Other. Below is the widget I use to keep me informed what my friends are doing.

Feed Each Other allows you to gather all your friends’ RSS Feeds in one place, so you can go to one site and share theirs. Now to make this work, the friends you add to Feed Each Other should hopefully have reviewed your page(s) at some point. There is no benefit to include those who have not.

Once you have copied the RSS Feeds of your favorite stumblers and pasted them into the add subscription field on Feed Each Other, you can then share those feeds by simply clicking a button to share with other like minded members.

Not only will you save time, you will probably pick up more subscribers in the process.

I just started adding my friends today. I have 44 friends in SU and sometimes it gets to be time consuming when I ask them to stumble something for me.

Using Feed Each Other is a way for each and every one of us in this group to get stumbles and feeds.

Here is the link, make sure we add each other as friends, and upload the link for the feed on SU–the one that says My StumbleUpon Page

Would You Be Subvert And Profit From It?

January 9, 2008 on 6:04 pm | In social media, stumble upon | No Comments

I received an interesting email invitation a couple of hours ago from a marketer who was involved in making money from Digg and StumbleUpon votes.

The email baited me by asking me the deadly question, “how do you think some stories achieve popularity and others are automatically buried?”

Being human and naturally curious, I followed the link to this website:

Subvert And Profit.

First off, I am not involved with this site and it is surely not my intention to profit from it. My curiosity goes deeper than just becoming a member. My initial questions began to form rapidly.

Of all the rumbling lately I’ve been hearing from other bloggers about Digg and the so-called auto-bury system, is this also another form of corruption that is prevalent?

Here is a quote from their site:

“Subvert and Profit runs an ever-expanding black market for votes on social media sites. We are simultaneously the easiest way to make money online and the cheapest form of advertising in the web 2.0 sphere. We are the crowdhackers, and we are very good at what we do.”

So, is this what Digg has become?

I’m not a Digger, I use Mixx, DropJack and Laakit.

So, as a blogger, what do you think? Let me know. I have a feeling this website is not going to go away.

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How To Make Social Network Marketing Work For You!

October 30, 2007 on 3:37 pm | In social network marketing, social networking, stumble upon, tagged | No Comments

Yesterday while in one of my networking forums, a member asked how to make Digg and StumbleUpon work for her. She said she had joined both of these social networking sites a few months ago and hadn’t received a lot of ‘Diggs’ or ‘Stumbles.’ She was wondering if social network marketing and its power was just some other internet marketing joke. This group member had started a flurry of questions concerning Digg and others like it. As I continued to read, it appeared that at least 15-16 members had not seen in success in these social network marketing groups. Just reading their posts, you could almost feel mental exhaustion creeping in. So, I decided to answer them.

You see, social network marketing is a part of the Web 2.0 phenomenon that is sweeping the way information is found on the internet as well as the way people connect with one another. Quite frankly, used properly, it is what old internet marketers used to call ‘list building.’

List building was what was once used and still is, to achieve online riches. The theory goes that if you have a large enough list to market to, then they will eventually grow to trust you and your products and become your customers. These were the best type of customers too, because it was like they knew you. Many of us used newsletters and ezines as a method to establish credibility and reputation. Sending out weekly or daily email blasts to our subscribers. The ezines contained advertising paid and free from other members as well as advertising for our own products and services.

With Web 2.0 I sometimes don’t have time for my newsletter. Many of my subscribers are a part of my social network.

Digg, DropJack, StumbleUpon, De.lici.ous, Simpy, Squidoo, Tailrank are all places that I utilize to distribute and mass market my articles and blog. When others read my material, especially my friends, these blog postings grow in popularity leading back to my blog creating massive waves of traffic. This traffic is viral, the best kind, people pass my link around. And my friends help. In addition, my blog has advertising on it, so the theory is, the more people who visit this blog, some will even click on the ads and generate an income to me.

Now, the making friends part is where the fun comes in. Each one of these social network marketing communities allows you to invite your friends either from your subscriber lists, email contact lists, or you can just read what others are submitting and request a friendship.

With Digg, people sometimes become your ‘fan’ before they become your ‘friend.’ I presume this is a way of checking you out to make sure you are not a spammer.

However, when you consistently post quality relevant content on these social network marketing sites, you will naturally gain friends. I do 100% of my network marketing in sites such as these. In Hi5(a friendship site like MySpace) I have over 1500 friends; Facebook is new so I only have 11 friends; MySpace, 302 friends; SmoothJazzSpace, 256; Digg, friends; DropJack, 21; Tagged, 81; and on and on. Not all of the same people are on these social networking sites. That makes this type of networking even more powerful.

People will get to read what I say and pass it on to their friends, to their social networking communities. Now, mind you everyday someone will want to be your friend, accept their friendship. Many times I don’t even look to see if you are incarcerated or not, I just accept the friendship because I am looking to make a strong network. And the more people I have listening to what I have to say, then the greater likelihood I will gain more traffic, and increase my income.

Making friends is what social network marketing is all about. In the past people used to pay others to build their lists, find them leads. Now, it’s free all you have to do is network.

When you combine social network marketing with search engine optimization, you will have the most powerful networking tool in existence.

A word of advice, if you just duplicate the efforts of the successful, you too will also become successful. Duplication not reinvention.

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