Here is a video that I found about Twitter. There was an embed code so I can share it with you. Several bloggers use Twitter. Several thousands of people use Twitter. This is another way to get your name out to the world and start to let people know who you are.
Several internet marketers are using Twitter to promote themselves and their products. I hope you can see the video.
In April of 2008 Ernst-Jan Pfauth wrote about Twitter and business on his blog, The Next Web. It was a good article about some major corporations using Twitter to get feedback about their products and services.
This part is about Dell and some other companies:
The computer company follows the Twitter conversations by using Tweetscan and reacts when (potential) customers ask questions or complain about the Dell products. Forrester research does the same thing. “We listen to what people are saying and usually engage in the conversation when we notice one. Other companies like Jetblue, Marketingprofs, Zappos and Comcast do the same thing”, Owyang said. “That’s the immediate benefit”, Boyd said, “Yet the big picture here is that streaming services like Twitter are potentially very big for enterprises. People can follow projects or other companies by having things streamed to them. They don’t have to look it up anymore”.
It seems that the people in Amsterdam are always on the cutting edge of technology for some reason. It would be fun to visit one of their conferences one day.
Since I want to include all I can about the Social Bookmarking and socializing sites as a way to promote your blogs and to get your name out there, I spend some time each day looking at sites. I found this website today that can save all of us some time. I want to thank the blogger that I found on Digg for doing all of this research. This was taken from this blog: http://www.dulcenegosyante.com/social-marketing-goldmine-top-100-social-networking-sites
The list is from January 2008, so a lot might have changed since then. I know that there are going to be huge changes in the future for Social Sites. The rumor of the Google and Digg buy out is getting stronger every day. This is going to have some huge impacts on the way we look at SEO if everyone who is predicting all this is correct in what they think will happen.
Some people have really positive ideas and suggestions as to what can happen and of course others are negative. Only time will tell who was right. In the meantime, it is never too late to get out there and make some new friends.
This is the list of top 100 social networking sites sorted by popularity according to Alexa ranking with their Google PageRank.
If you are promoting business on the web, then you should think about social networking. It first started in chat rooms (maybe I am wrong on this one), or maybe on discussion boards. Does anyone remember the discussion boards? There would be an article and then you would be allowed to enter your comments. There was lots of name calling and rude people on some of those.
Chat rooms were always fun and AOL did a fantastic job making a huge social site before the term Social Networking was even expanded upon. Were you ever in those chat rooms and somehow a series of links would invade the room. I am still not sure how they did that. Someone said it was hacker/spammers. That programming is beyond me.
Now Social Networking as been accepted by those who are serious about their content on the Internet. However most social networking sites frown upon self promotion but others are all about self promotion.
What are you looking for? Are you looking for finding your “soul mate”? Well then you want to find a social site that is geared towards that. However there is a lot of flirting that can happen on any social site, but you can find serious net marketers on these sites, too. They are promoting themselves but in a round about way.
They are giving time to promoting others, and it comes back to helping promote them, too. I am going to be following Social Networking on this blog and on some of my other blogs, too. If you are serious about eventually doing some marketing on the Internet you should think about getting accounts at some of the Social Sites.
Digg is already a major player. Today.com, this site has a unique format and will be one to watch. Stay tuned for more about this.
