Social Media Marketing: Business or Pleasure?

This is the continued guide to Getting started in Social Media. In the previous post, you learned how to attract attention in Social Media.
This time, we’re moving on to some more details in Social Media Marketing. The question is, can you use Social Media for business purposes or is it just does it fit best [...]

Attracting attention in Social Media

This is the continued Getting started guide to Social Media. In the last post, you could read about how you can get started with some basic social networking, using social bookmarking tools and your own blog.
This time, it’s about getting noticed and contributing to your social network.

Read, Write and Share in Social Media

Continuing the series on How to get started in Social Media.
Getting fully engaged in Social Media requires time, commitment, and sincerity. The social aspect means that actual people read what you contribute, so if you use it sporadically, your listeners lose interest. The same goes for what you say – if you don’t come across [...]

Getting started in social media

Have you heard all the hype about Social Media and are interested in getting started? Perhaps you’ve already taken a few steps in the Social Media arena. This is the first of a series of articles on using Social Media for personal and business purposes. As you’ll see, personal and business interests in Social Media [...]

February Is Social Month

February is the theme month on this blog for Social Media. I will be researching a lot in the area, and posting my findings on this blog.

5 Personal Social Media Strategies defined

Engaging in Social Media requires time, commitment and sincerity. If you don’t spend enough time interacting with your social networks, activities and tools, people stop paying attention to you in the Social Media channel. That’s why you need a Personal Social Media Strategy – selecting which types of Social Media fit you, selecting the tools, [...]

10 Things I Think About You

Hi, this is Your Would-Be Customer.
I heard about you in a blog discussion the other day, so I thought I would go see who you are. So I Googled you, and tried to figure out what the address to your website is. I found it, or so I thought, since your name showed up lots [...]

Pros and Cons of Twittering for Professionals

Considering using Twitter as part of your Personal Social Media Strategy or for Internet Marketing for your business? Here are 11 pros and cons of adding Twitter to your Social Media Mix.

Social Networking Fatigue and Information Overload

Chris Williams from The Register claims that people are getting bored with social networking. In a fairly critical article, Chris mentions several indicators that people are getting social networking overload.
If you’re suffering from Social Networking Fatigue, or Information Overload in general, check out a lifehacking site for advice. Lifehack.org has a post on how to [...]

New initiative on the Social Media front

I have decided to get back in the social media game – and at the same time put some life into this blog. To do that, I have added a lens on Squidoo, called Personal Social Media Strategy.
Many of us in Online Marketing don’t have the time to spend hours a day, managing social profiles [...]