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The Most Common Social Networking Mistakes

The Wall Street Journal lists the 4 most common mistakes individuals and businesses make when trying to use sites like Twitter and Facebook.


August 21, 2008, 9:55 am
Social Networking: Common Mistakes Small Businesses Make
by Kelly Spors

Many businesses these days are venturing into the Wild West of social media, trying their hand at things like blogging and Twitter and creating profiles on social-networking sites. But along the way they’re making lots of mistakes.

These mistakes shouldn’t be taken lightly. How your business is perceived in the Web 2.0 world will affect your reputation and your ability to connect with customers, associates and potential customers. (Who wants to hire a company that can’t even manage an engaging, thought-provoking blog?)

Sta.rtup.biz, a small-business social-networking site, recently had some thoughts on how small businesses are botching their forays into the social-media world. Here’s a look at some of the most common mistakes from them and other social-media experts:

– Bare Profile: Signing up for a Facebook account is the easy part. Before you blast emails to 1,000 of your customers and friends, a business should spend some time thoughtfully building a profile with an attractive photo, background and contact information.

– Too Little Personality: Lighten up. The social-media world is about engaging customers on a more personal level. Your “About Me” shouldn’t just be dry facts about your business. Make sure you add some personal touches. Humor often helps.

– Too Much Hype: Using social media shouldn’t be about blatantly selling a business. It’s about making connections and creating credibility so that people will like you and trust you and eventually want to buy from you. Use it to interact and meet new people – don’t get overly promotional.

– Not Enough Fresh Content: Engaging others through social media needs to be an ongoing, frequent process. You can’t just build a profile and let it sit idle. Preferably you want to be refreshing your content regularly (daily, if possible) so people come back for more.
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SO ASK YOURSELF DO YOU HAVE A:
* thoughtful profile/attractive photo/ background & contact information on your sites?

* “About Me” that is not just be dry facts about your business. Add some personal touches. A little Humor goes a long way.

* way to build relationships, interact and meet new people – don’t be overly promotional.

* engaging people through your social media,on a ongoing, frequent process?

I hope that you are doing all this. I'm pretty sure that I am.
Check my wordpress blog for more on my site. Newly updated info on
Web 2.0 Info like Twitter and Face Book.

You can find out more about social networking http://www.workingathomeincomeblog.com/

Forums

Forums can be a great place to discover new ideas
and get your questions answered. However there is a
downside to them .... if your not careful they
can be terrible time wasters. Your time is money.

If you want a short list of great forums to keep you
organized where you can get answers to
your questions from people that know and more
importantly where misinformation is addressed
and removed.

Getting quality feedback can be invaluable for
growing your business. Getting it from people
that actually talk the walk even more so.

Now this has a cost but you can try it for seven
days and if you don't find information that will
grow your business cancel before you get
billed.

Getting an answer to your question from people
like Paul Myers, John Taylor, Liz Tomey and Mike
Paetzold to name just a few are really invaluable.
Saves you time and time is money right?

Here is the link:
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I recommend "Forum Know How" if you really want expert advice on marketing. See you on the forum. I am on most boards -KathrynMac

New Networking Bookmark Communities

Do you know APSense?
If not, you certainly should.

Apsense is a Free Business Social Network where people get paid to come together to share their business experience. Bring your online business to life by building your own business social network, business website and much much more within minutes!

There are many features,
* create a profile business page,
* a business blog
* user networking sites
* create your own group

And its f.ree no user fees.
Sign up here
http://www.apsense.com/invite/kathrynmac





Rotatrix Friends Network
Canadian based.
Beta Testing.

This group is being designed to bring together those members of RFN who share the dream to build together and are serious about working together to make RFN the most successful Friendship Network ever launched on the Internet.

Also, you now earn 10 Points per qualifying activity & 1 Point per Profile Page view, see how some of our members are racking up the Points.

The Rotatrix Matrix is not like the others! Your position in our Matrix is determined by how many Points you earn!!
Anybody really can be at the TOP!! It to is f.ree to join.

www.rotatixfriends.net


FACE BOOK

As my husband says, everyone is on face book, even our major of Ottawa! So even my husband has joined.

Here is my link - need some friends
You must sign up as a facebook member first.

Kathryn Maclean search - Winchester ON Canada
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=584138407

Join our New Ezine about working online

Sunday morning - just a quick note.

I will be getting out my first Ezine out next week.
If you would like tons of info about working online you can go to my new site and sign up for our newsletter /Ezine.
I now have a form page you can opt in on at my new blog site...
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Please feel free to leave any questions or comments here on the blog.

How to Write Killer Email Promos That Get Results!

Email Promos Exposed - Video Series:

Have you ever been faced with the task of having
to write an email promotion to your list, and
then realized that you didn't know what to say or
how to say it?

Michael Rasmussen's new video course "Email
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Whats a SQUEEZE page?

Well there is something BRAND NEW on the net this week that promotes your business by asking people to use a sign in form to get a free product as well as info about your product.

You might be even more interested if I tell you that its FREE!

You need a autoresponder and I use the best one I have seen, AWEBER. You connect the squeeze page to your auto responder using the form sign up box.

http://www.aweber.com/features.htm?221295


Promote it on traffic exchanges, safelists, your website. Plus if you sign up as a GOLD member you can use back end products such as OTO links that directly go to pay your Pay Pal for immediate sales.

So far I have 5 pages done and will be making more for every product I have. This is really great stuff.

Here is my link to Robert Puddy's Squeeze pages

http://www.instantsqueezepagegenerator.com/index.php?rid=760

I have much more information about this and other forms of marketing on my main website.

http://www.internetincomewah.com