You work is much appreciated

came here via Twitter, following now. Would love PDF of Starter Moves. Many thanks,

Derek

I’d sure like the PDF of all 5 posts. It’d make great reference material.

The link in that last comment from me to try out Ecademy free should be http://httv.biz/tryecademy/

The trailing slash was missing. ;-)

One suggestion – could you place these articles into a tagged category or directory – and perhaps do something similar with the ‘Social Media 100′ to make them easy to point to as a discreet entity online?

In addition Chris, there is one other social network I’d strongly advocate as a start move: Ecademy.com

Ecademy is, like LinkedIn, a business focused network, where you post a profile and can connect to other business people and colleagues, but it also allows one to advertise and blog (and comment on blogs), as well as run or join public or private clubs / interest groups, and is a VERY effective tool for Search Marketing.

The search marketing effect is really the secret weapon – I know one guy who used to spend $800 a month on Adwords and he now spends 10% of that figure! I’ve had blogs indexed by Google in six minutes when adding them to Ecademy, and have a web site on Page 1 at Google with a search term that yields 36,800,000 results.

Ecademy has a free subscription level, but the SEO/SEM is most cost effective at the ‘PowerNetworker’ level which costs $14.95 a month. They also currently have a $5/month for two months offer.

Disclosure: I am biased, as I’ve long been a member of Ecademy, but it is a more effective business generation tool for me than LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter combined, all of which I use. The SEO/SEM effect is quite amazing.

You can try out Ecademy at PowerNetworker level FREE for a month using this link: http://httv.biz/tryecademy – and do connect with me – it’d be great to hear how your search results improve, and I’m always happy to share my experience and expertise.

For me, I’m a huge fan of Facebook… and I deliberately limit my activities to strategic relationship-building ones without engaging in the fluff or noise, as I call it. I’d say I’m using Facebook more like LinkedIN is designed to be used – for professional networking.

Used correctly, Facebook provides a real opportunity to increase visibility, establish a brand, and connect with key contacts… including customers. But you have to have a strategy going in. I’ve attracted over 400 students into my online class “Facebook Fortunes” that I teach on a FB app, Podclass. People are hungry to know how to use this platform effectively!

The argument over whether comments are required for a blog to “really” be a blog has been going on for a while, but what if you really want comments but aren’t getting any? Copyblogger has the answer. Also: Brand idiocy and social media starter kit….