Microblogging on the social media sites can be very effective in helping you increase your online profile, get more prospects, and sell more products. There are new services popping up constantly.
Twitter has gone mainstream and more internet marketers than ever are advertising on Facebook, plus maintaining fan pages and profiles.
You want to keep your status line updated regularly in all your microblogging profiles so that people remember who you are, visit your links, and send your links viral!
Besides updating your status at Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter, there are now oodles of other options as well, and some of those sites could be crawling with people who want to buy the product you’re selling, subscribe to your blog, opt-in to your e-mail marketing list, etcetera.
But with so many different sites available that are known for helping you achieve great results, how do you manage it all?
Here are some tips to help you maximise your Microblogging efforts without taking up your entire schedule!
Know When To Turn It Off
Learn when to turn it off! If your mobile phone bleeps or your browser makes noise incessantly due to updates from your many followers, it will be counter productive. Set times during the day to do your microblogging.
Choose Peak Periods To Post
Consider where your audience is and what time it is there. A burst of activity is likely to get more results if your followers are microblogging as well. Peak times are often: 9-10 am and after 7pm.
Centralise Your Microblogging
Use aggregators to help you update statuses on multiple sites simultaneously. This lets you reach a wider audience with one update rather than having to visit five different Microblogging sites.
A good option is Ping.Fm in terms of a web-based option and there’s a tool called Hello.txt that offers a desktop program that will manage multiple micro-blogs for you. FriendFeed is also a great option for aggregating more than just microblogging as it will update many other social media sites as well.
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Hi Sean
Which of the aggregators would you recommend for use with Facebook and Twitter?
Hi Gee,
I think Friendfeed will do the trick. But, Sean probably has a better choice.
How about SocialOomph
Hi Sean,
I’m pretty good at keeping my microblogging under control. I think that’s more because I’m not using it to it’s fullest potential though. I’m working on making the most of it without letting it distract me from what I’m doing.
I have joined so many of these sites over the past few months I feel a bit lost in them. I will have to sit down one day with a big piece of blank paper in front of me and work out what sites I am registered in and what the relationship is between them all. It would be handy if the YOTA forum could do a webinar on how different sites relate or if they do and whether or not they are of any IM value. I regularly get suggestions from other YOTA members to join this or that site and after I do I think, now where’s the value in that?
If you take a look at ping.fm you will find most of the sites listed will be beneficial to you Wal. The other good thing is that you can manage all of these sites directly from there. Regarding webinars, you know the best place to ask about those
Hi Sean
Luckily I have only started microblogging so I feel very fortunate to have come across this article.
I have taken note of what Wal said about managing his social sites (thanks Wal) and I am going to create a flow chart so I can work out how it all works. I will have Digg, Twitter, and Friendfeed so I want to see how they all interact.
Keeping a record on a spreadsheet of each article name, when it was posted and to which social site will also save time.
Thankyou.
Hi Elly,
I think you’ll find that you naturally enjoy some sites more than others. Also, you’ll get more traffic from some of the social media sites than others.
At least it’s that way for me. So, I seem to gravitate towards those sites that I enjoy and I get the most traffic from.
Gee, this comp just keeps giving more and more! I am going to need another 7 weeks to put everything in place – and the first place to start is centralising – have joined friendfinder and now to get tweetdeck working.
I can see how it would be hard to manage your micro blogging as facebook alone chews up alot of time, especially if you are using it as a monetizing platform…just heading over to checkout Ping.Fm now. Thanks Sean m/
i am now looking for password software to keep all these users and passes clear too. I am putting ping.fm and social oomph on the list too- i want more more more on the microblogging- anything more anyone has to share- i crave more on how others are utilising these tween-tools-of-distraction to do big business and keep marketing connections and sales going. we’re on to a product we want to do mktg for solo venture and i have some plans,I think, but the trouble we come to: are our clients following us? are our potential clients following us? generating new followers would be something we’d all benefit from a session on!