FriendFeed is a life streaming tool to help you from a Social Marketing perspective. Recent improvements have made it even more helpful to internet marketers who socialise a lot online.
Because internet marketing requires that you socialise online in a productive way, tools that make your online life more streamlined should be welcome!
With so many available tools like: Twitter, Plurk, Digg, StumbleUpon, Tumblr, YouTube, Delicious, and several other dozen services, you can do a whole lot of Social Marketing promotion and reach a wide audience, but it can seem like a full-time job at times!
What Does FriendFeed Do?
This service aggregates all sorts of your online activities in one place. FriendFeed provides you with a bird’s eye view of all your social media activities in a central place.
People that follow your FiendFeed get to see everything you do socially online from one spot. By signing up with multiple services and adding them to FriendFeed, you can increase your exposure on the social networks.
Is FriendFeed Another Twitter?
This isn’t a Twitter competitor at all. It feeds all your social services to your life stream including Twitter (if that’s how you set it up.) and although you may have friends on FriendFeed that are also on Twitter, this service aggregates so many other services that people who actively view the timeline won’t mind that they’re seeing your Twitter updates in more than one place.
Not only can people see your Twitter tweets and other microblogging updates but they can see that you’ve added a new blog entry, new pictures, and more.
If potential customers and existing customers subscribe to your FriendFeed you have a greater chance of their seeing more of what you want them to see and bookmarking it for you which then sends your feeds to their friends. This could get you new friends and more traffic to your websites and could improve your SEO for you as well.
With so many different services, how do you keep up with them all?
That’s the thing about FriendFeed, you can set it and forget it if you really want to because it doesn’t require any intervention from you at all. Once you’ve added all your services, it runs on autopilot. You can subscribe to a daily update which shows you everything happening in your stream and that can give you an opportunity to network with your friends a bit.
Because you don’t have to manually feed every link into it, it is like having a Social Marketing virtual assistant.
A Few Tips On Using FriendFeed:
• Mark ‘like’ on certain events in your stream to bookmark them.
• Organise friends’ lists so you can manage what you see from those you follow.
• Add people who don’t use FriendFeed to track their online activities by feeding their services into your account.
• Social bookmark, re-tweet, and give link love to your friends with the bookmarklet.
• Participate in FriendFeed Groups to increase your exposure to targeted demographics
