How To Make Money With Social Media – NOT

I just got this email from one of the “Gurus” with the headline “How to make money in Social Media”.

I didn’t bother to open the email because literally within the last 10 days this same “Guru” send out a letter saying like “OK I’m on Twitter and Facebook now, so please connect with me online.”

I went to connect on Facebook and the link was broken…

I found the person’s profile, connected and warned them the link was broken and then another email went out to the list telling people the RIGHT address.

So come on now… you can’t even paste the dang link to your Facebook profile last week and this week you’re telling ANYBODY how to make money with social bookmarking?

Come ON!

The trick with social bookmarking is to decide what you want to accomplish with it.

1) Do you want it for Search Engine Optimization and “do follow links”? That takes one strategy.

2) Do you want waves of traffic? That can happen with sometimes just a few “Stumbles” using “Stumbleupon.com”. But many of them are WORTHLESS for marketing purposes… just more internet voyeurs not buyers usually.

3) Do you want an ISP proof prospect mailing list? Well, that’s something else again my friends.

4) How do you as a business owner keep from spending 23.5 hours per day playing around with Social bookmarking and Social marketing? There are some ways to outsource this if you have cashflow.

I’ve blogged on these issues various times.

Decide what you want social media to do… but beware the “instant experts.”

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