Drive traffic to your blog using stumbleupon and twitter

High return social media sites: StumbleUpon and Twitter

For StumbleUpon:

 
Sign up and install toolbar.

Spend some time stumbling some sites and giving thumbs up to generate activity so others see you’re not completely new.

Do up your profile page–add a picture.

Do not submit your own content.

Add friends who share your interests–many will reciprocate.

Use the “send to” feature to send your blog posts to your StumbleUpon friends, but make sure to also send other quality, relevant links from time to time.

Be the first to stumble sites because you’re given “discoverer” status and people are more likely to click through to see who you are (remember, that’s the purpose purpose of social media marketing as I’m describing it)

Create arrangements with other friends so that you continually submit each other’s content to SU. Make sure you do this with real friends whose content you enjoy. You want to build up a list of quality stumbles, because that’s how other stumblers decide to be your friend.

For Twitter:

Get a twitter client such as Twhirl or TweetDeck – makes it easier

Provide value and engage means that you:

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• Submit cool links
• Be useful
• Be timely (breaking news, first to alert,)
• Be relevant to your followers
• Be funny – let your sense of humor show
• Have conversations (by the way, I hate it when people say convos – ick)
• Don’t be rude or get into arguments
• Get email notifications on new followers, check them out, follow more of them than you think you should (give people the benefit of the doubt, you can unfollow them later if turns out to not have been a great idea).
• Help others
• Ask questions Just to engage about a subject
• Unscientific market research
• Promote others
• Retweet
• Promote their blog posts
• Suggest your followers follow a particular person you admire
• Promote your own posts
• Mix this in with the other stuff
• Key to twitter is variety — mix it up

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