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To Digg or not to Digg?

18 July 2012

If you’re thinking about building a website to start up an online business, you have probably also entertained the idea of starting a social media presence to tie everything together. For instance, your main website, which will house your main business, will be interconnected with various streams of social media, perhaps video sites, social gathering sites, etc. So with all the many options out there available to you, have you ever considered using a site called Digg?

Digg, simply put, is a social news site that receives its content from its many users.  A basic user will upload their content to Digg, and the community at large thus votes on it. If it’s popular, they can “digg” it, and the content subsequently lives on and rises up through the ranks. If the content isn’t “dug,” however, it is instead buried and ultimately disappears from view.

Any site such as this is a double-edged sword in that, for its ease of use and its massive potential for success in promoting your business and brand, you could also just as easily post something that users do not like and that ends up damaging your efforts.

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What is Klout and how do you use it to understand your social presence?

15 June 2012

Not only is today’s net filled to the brim with tons of different social networking sites, like Digg and Twitter and Facebook and so on, but you can also find many different sites out there that can give you statistics as to how successful your overall social media presence is. Just as you can find many different sites to tell you what kind of traffic you’re receiving for your main website, you can get important information as to your social presence. This information is quite invaluable if you’re using social media to build your brand.

The main site people use for this purpose is Klout. So, it’s important that people understand exactly what the site is and what it does before they attempt to use it as any barometer for their overall social presence.

Defining Klout and What it Is

Operating as an online tool to measure your business’s social media influence, Klout uses a complicated algorithm to gauge your effectiveness. Things taken into account include categories like Amplification, True Reach, and your Network Impact. For Amplification in particular, you’re looking at how engaged and how motivated your followers are on your social media sites. Obviously, this is the most important chunk of data in the criterion, and thus having a few engaged followers gives you more clout than having a lot of followers who aren’t engaged at all.

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What is social bookmarking and what is it for?

13 January 2012

social bookmarking is the practice of posting links to articles and web pages to various “link aggregator” or social bookmark sites, such as Digg, Stumbleupon and so on. Social bookmarking sites rise and fall in popularity fairly quickly, but they generally have a few common features:

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Social Networking And Other Keys To Online Business Success

07 July 2010

When you think of home business opportunities, you may immediately get a picture in your head of an envelope licking scam or a pyramid scheme. These ideas sell in huge numbers under the false premise that there's a magic formula to making money online. Well, there are surely ways to make money via the Internet, but there's certainly no magic involved.

In order to create a successful online business, you basically have to make your own opportunity. Everyone wishes that there was some golden opportunity out there, where you could double-click your mouse and have cash flow into your PayPal account it just doesn't work like that.

The brutal truth about the Internet situation is that the real opportunities haven't changed much at all. The best business ideas today have been the best business ideas for nearly a decade. The only real factor that's changed now is the marketing possibilities via social networking giants like Digg, HubPages, FaceBook, MySpace, Twitter and YouTube.

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Networking 101 for Beginners

02 July 2010

Networking has been through a lot of ups and downs over the past few decades. Before the Internet came along and took business to an entirely new level, networking was catching a lot of grief from people who couldn't find success. They would toss out business cards at random, buy advertising space for inferior products, and expect to become rich in their respective market.

Most failed drastically and opened the door for more qualified contenders. These beginning networkers insisted that networking was a wasted effort. However, the Internet has changed that completely. Now, essentially, you cannot operate a successful business without networking.

Networking is not all about advertising your product. That's the first mistake people make. Networking is more about getting your name out there, meeting people, making connections, and tapping into markets using both your person and your business.

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