Hey Everyone

A new post today and as always I hope you are all well. Today’s post will be about Social Media Success, that’s right, we’re going to discussing about what Sally has been teaching us the students on her Learn With Sally Coaching Program about Social Media, and how we can become successful at it. A tall order especially for those like me who pretty much spent the last 2+ decades being a rather quiet person.

For those who don’t know, I am quite a introvert person especially if at first I don’t know, and if you see me at a social event or gathering, then I’ll probably be the one that does the cooking/catering or helping out at the kitchen rather than the kind of person who hangs about chats, holding a glass of some kinda alcoholic beverage.

Anyway, before I got distracted again, Sally was teaching us all about why it was important to build relationships with other people, and explained how social sites and our own blog, which we are building acts as the hub for all communication channels and a place where people can find out more about ourselves, get to know us better and eventually hopefully trust and remember us.

Now to explain it in text, well you it’s going to take a while, so instead I decide to draw on my creative juices to help you visualise it… voilà…

So how do you build and sustain such as traffic monster?

 ”Un moment, s’il vous plaît !“

 

To first build it, you would need to register an account on the major social sites which include face book, twitter, google+, LinkedIn, Youtube, and any other type of social sites such as Digg Digg, Squidoo, Technorati, Stumbleupon etc……

Once you have an account, you will need to set up a profile and then link them back to your blog, ideally you should use the same username and email to keep things organise and related to each other, Obviously it would make sense to use different password so that should the unfortunate happens i.e. someone discovers your password to one account, then at least the other accounts would not be affected.

After setting up the accounts, you need to starting building links and creating relationships from these social networking sites back to you blog thus creating a network with aim of bringing traffic on automation back to your blog and you blog feeding these social sites with new content thus generating more visitors and as I like to call it… initiating the snowball traffic effect.

The snowball traffic effect basically means that imagine you initial one or two visitors like a snowball at the top of hill, initially it’s very small, you may only get a few visits as week, but as it gains momentum down the hill, i.e. you start setting up and linking social accounts to you blog, doing some blog hopping, creating valuable content etc…. it starts to gather more snow and gets bigger and bigger i.e. more traffic and more visitors.

Soon before you even realise it, it becomes a deadly avalanche crashing down the hill at a mighty incredible force and speed that anything in it’s path literally get demolished or buried completely. Of course you blog won’t do the latter destruction, but it will certainly create the same impression as an avalanche will i.e. people will see you as an authority in the subject niche you are blogging about and you will get a a lot of people admiring what you did, can do, will do and want to emulate your success.

Anyway back to where we were, before I got sidetracked with one of my crazy random out of nowhere ideologies, you are now probably wondering how do you link your social site accounts to your blog?

 

Very simple, you need to install a few wordpress blog plug-ins, set them up with the relevant details and hey presto you now have you own automated PR social network, which is ready at your command to broadcast whatever you discuss about on your blog.

The social plug-ins/ features that were recommended by Sally of which I have installed on this my new blog includes the following:

 

  • Digg Digg plugin by Yong Mook Kim – it’s an all in one social button
  • Facebook Like plug-in which adds a like button to the bottom on each of your blog post
  • Follow me Plugin which allows visitors to add and share your blog content on their social account profiles
  • Tweet Me Me Retweet Button which adds a button to your post where visitors can easily retweet your blog posts.
  • Tweet old post – it a plug-in that randomly repost your old blog posts on your twitter account
  • Twitter Facebook Social Share – another plug-in that allows visitors to share your blog post to various social sites andGoogle+ too.
  • Twitter Link Comments, a plug-in that allows blog readers/visitors to follow the person who left your a comment on twitter.
  • Google+ Widget- not exactly a plug-in, as you have to set it up slightly differently, nevertheless a cool thing considering that Google+ could be the next BIG Facebook like site.

 

There might be a few others that I may have missed out, and if I have, I will certainly let you all know about them. So moving swiftly on, what else did Sally teach us? Well, Sally also taught us that in order to build relationship, we needed to:

  • Interact more ,
  • Help others,
  • Care about others,
  • Shouting and sharing other peoples content.

 

Our main aim is that we need to understand that….

 “It’s not about Me, Me, Me…

Instead it’s about You, You, You!!!!”

 

That’s right, focus on others and not on yourself, aim to give and start paying more interest in other people, because as Sally put it, of which she learned from Alex Jeffreys:

 You can learn more about a person in 2 minutes than 2 years,

if you pay interest in them first!

So yeah, afterwards Sally gave us an overview on the viral power of Facebook, told us about how to be organised with all this social media work, and also provided us with a social media check-list that’s longer than my arm – lol. Anyway that’s all for now today, and I look forward to sharing with you all more about my progress online with the Learn with Sally Coaching program.

So until next time take care and speak soon

Nigel

PS: I hope that you have found this blog post useful and I would greatly appreciate any feedback, comments that you may have. And if you have questions as well, or would to continue the discussion or want to find out more, please do feel free drop me comment below….  Thanks!

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