The Social Connection: One Feeds the Other
When you start out with social networks, you may be able to build up one much better than the other. I used to be a MySpace guy. I played Mobsters (which was addicting) and became an expert at getting friend adds so that I can build up my mob. I didn’t break that habit until I reached a 450+ level in the game, but once I did quit playing, I noticed that I had a couple thousand friends.
Unfortunately, at the same time I was neglecting Facebook. As a matter of fact, I didn’t even have a FB profile yet. Building up a network of FB friends was completely foreign to me and I had to start from scratch!
Over time, I learned a few things. One of those things was that I could increase my network on one social site by promoting it on another site where I already had a large network. This is coming in handy with Twitter for example because I only had a hundred followers for a long time. I completely neglected Twitter, and only recently started building up my follower list. I did increase my followers by 250 within a single 24 hour period though.
There are so many social networks out there that us “gurus” tell you to sign up with. I understand that it is overwhelming just thinking about starting over again, but trust me when I say it is completely worth it. Especially if you are trying to sell affiliate products or your own ebooks. If you had a Twitter following of 100k and you were selling a $10 ebook, and only 1% of your followers bought that ebook, you would be up by $10,000! Now imagine if you built up your Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, Digg, StumbleUpon, and Delicious networks…
Social networks are a universal thing, and each promotes each other. Need more twitter followers? What are you waiting for?
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Twitter: Bomb_hipster
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Hey Brandon,
First off, I like the way you write articles it is different from many, some may be shorter.. But they take you straight to the point.
It hit me right smack in the face that what you were saying reminds me of someone familiar, hmmm I wonder who it could be
I used to be a myspace fanatic, spending all my time worrying about building my myspace following. For, I was into talking to girls and trying to get their number.
Back when myspace was new it was a perfect place for me to do that, and that I did. Neglecting all other social networking sites.. Which happened to be hurting me in the long run, for the simple fact that later I would completely stop using myspace as I got older.
Starting from scratch is something nobody wants to do, same goes for taking on a new blogging venture. Taking action is the key to anything because you can never get anywhere if you never start.
Like you previously mentioned, there is already a benefit to having a massive following on one site. That is that you can cross- promote and shoot traffic to your other site!
Thanks Brandon, for the awesome article you reminded me of something I clearly forgot.
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Twitter: Brandon_Connell
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Thank you William. I like writing larger articles, but sometimes you just need to get right to the point.
Very interesting. You writing style is different. Very concise but informative. I would definitely keep on following your blog.
Twitter: Brandon_Connell
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Hello Jamie. Thank you for stopping by and welcome aboard!
Twitter: websitebegin
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“If you had a Twitter following of 100k and you were selling a $10 ebook, and only 1% of your followers bought that ebook, you would be up by $10,000! Now imagine if you built up your Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, Digg, StumbleUpon, and Delicious networks…”
I LOVE that idea! If you could build up a big enough following, no matter what you did, you would have money going in every direction. The only thing is, though, you are most likely going to get a LOT of the same follows on Twitter, Digg, StumbleUpon, Facebook, etc. If one person follows you on one service, why not follow you on them all?
Great post
Twitter: Brandon_Connell
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The best part is that 1% was based on the idea that some people will not see your tweet, but they might see your FB wall post and then convert. So 1% is a worst case scenario.
Timely advice for me. I love Twitter, but it’s really the only place I’ve built a following. Back to square one I go, thanks Brandon!
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