Social Media as a Means of Gaining Freelance and Telecommuting Work
December 9, 2009 by DrDaveHale
Filed under Blog, Social marketing
I have had good success with social networking particularly on Twitter and Facebook. Through Twitter I am contacted by local and national news agencies of all sorts to do interviews. Both Twitter and Facebook have allowed me to connect with people to positively impact my business.
But it is important to note that social networking is a two-way street. For example, I might connect with someone who writes a review of my book for their blog. I in return might write something about their business, or interview them on my radio show/podcast. Traditional marketing techniques do not work with social networking. It is the interaction, the give and take from all parties that makes social network marketing successful. That means you cannot toot your own horn all the time. You need to converse with people, spread other people’s messages that you deem worthy, provide support, and respond to what other people are doing.
For several years, I have been working at home, and helping others do the same. I have telecommuted and freelanced online and off, as well as developed information products and other online ventures.
All of these businesses and services are Internet-related. With the use of free or low cost freelance sites and no-cost social media networks like Twitter and Facebook, I find a steady flow of freelance writing, blogging, and editing work along with all of the advertising and expose I can handle.
With the economy the way it is today, anyone can do the same thing. I have helped many people use Internet marketing and social media networks to locate plenty of consulting and freelancing work. In many cases it is so much they continue as a freelancer and give up any thought of working at a company ever again.
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Social Bookmarking: The Art of Pinging To Create An Avalanche of Traffic
July 9, 2009 by admin
Filed under Archive, Link Building, Social marketing
Ping-O-Matic is a very good service to notify the blog roles that you have updated your blog. This is a product of WordPress product that allows bloggers and web site owners to send
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messages to social bookmarking services, such as Facebook, Technorati, Digg, and 25 others when a page is published or updated. The sending of the message to bookmarking sites is referred to as a “Ping.”
Another good service to use also is OnlyWire.com. This is a free social bookmarking service and does the same as Ping-O-Matic with 27 social bookmarking sites like Facebook, Twitter, Digg (the best) and many others. The difference here is that OnlyWire.com posts to your own pages which you have developed on each of the bookmarking sites.
With that in mind, you will first have to make accounts with each of the bookmarking services identified on the OnlyWire.com page, then go into your account and enter your login/password info. All you have to do after that is add the URL for the blog posting, hit submit and you are good to go.
Pingoat is another social bookmarking site, which offers English and Non-English social bookmarking sites; 50 in total. Many of these services allow you to download a small icon for your toolbar that you just click on with the web page showing in your browser you wish to book mark.
So, why go to all this bother? As you have read in previous posting here, Link backs to your website or blog are what will make your page rankings skyrocket. The more external links coming into your site means that more people out there in the World Wide Web will see you too.
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