Thanks for sparing some guilt. 🙂
I don’t have any twitter accounts and Facebook FanPages (still really looking at the pros and cons)
I have waaay too many blogs and it’s a pain in the butt updating them especially when you like the personal touch so folks know it’s you!

I like the idea of focus on what motivates you. Again “overwhelmed” does factor in as an enemy and so I shouldn’t hang around there, but still do. “Gotta do this, Gotta do that” or else….

On the social aspect Facebook can also work against you and they seem to change the privacy settings without notice when Facebook techies have a “hair-brained idea” and that opens up a whole other can of worms.

Thanks for bringing this up Nicole (without throwing up lol.)

Kal

I’m behind ya all the way on the “shoulds” people try shoving down our throats on a continuum. And I love your suggestion to tune out the noise. At this point, my radio dial is “off”. 🙂

Now THIS is something I can really sink my teeth into:

” … I don’t believe that having someone else Tweeting on her behalf would really benefit her.”

At long last …

Someone has said it out loud! Amen and thank you. I don’t give a hoot what kind of lip service people try to give me — there’s no one else in the entire universe who can be your voice for you — no one!

I’m not exactly sure why it bugs me SO much, but when I hear someone advising, “If you’re looking to hire a VA or someone to be your social media manager” …

“Make sure they sound and act JUST LIKE YOU. Your personalities have to be a perfect MATCH. Otherwise, anyone who knows you is going to quickly figure out it’s NOT YOU putting up those FB updates, sending out those Tweets, and replying to those blog comments, etc., and that won’t be good for business.”

Is that ridiculous advice, or what?!

LOLOLOLOL!!!

Thanks so much for that advice. I found some good possibilities for places to submit guest posts. I had never thought of searching like this for places to post on blogs. Thanks!

Great Post Missy!
Loved it.

AM

Hey Heidi,

Great point and one that me and the misses try to avoid i.e. the “shiny objects” so to speak 😉

We only go for services that help us build our own biz.

What we do is spend an hour each day trying to learn free methods.

We split the tasks and if you have someone that can help you it goes a long way.

Some of the tasks:

1) Making sure you setup up your webpage as ideally as possible so that the search engines can find your posts (I’m assuming you know how to do your market and keyword research).

This is called onpage seo: Including your keyword in the post, using keywordrich h1 tags, h2 tags and h3 tags, adding rel=”no follow” to your outgoing external links etc.

2) Then there’s the offpage seo which you seem to already be doing. Some great places include Q&a Sites, yahoo directories (great if you’re niching) and information sites like ehow.

3) Guest blogging at least once a month in your niche will get you some very cool backlinks back to your page and one that i’ve also just started.

Finding them can be a problem but they usually all use the same terms that are indexed and are searchable 😉

Examples: “submit a guest post”, “submit your own guest post”, “submit your guest post”,“submit one guest post” etc

So if you’re in the golf bags niche you would type something like this into google to filter out the searches:

“golf bags” + “submit a guest post”

Just some tips that we personally use.

Hope that helps 🙂

Sal

This is definitely a reminder we all need. It’s very easy to get overwhelmed especially when you are first starting out. It’s the Boy Who Cried Wolf Syndrome- Gurus keep yelling “You gotta do X, You gotta do Y,” and eventually we stop listening (hopefully.)

Neglecting this for months at time makes a horrible impression. What makes an even worse impression is when these people have Twitter Automatic Following Software but haven’t tweeted in 4 months. I also won’t follow someone back if they are just link, link, link and not making any conversation.

I’m not going to get on my soapbox but I hope every one listens loud and clear to this post.

I think the main reason why I jump from 1 thing to another is because I’m not making as much as I would like. The 2 things I do every day is either add a page to my site or update a page every day and participate in a forum in my niche. Am I doing enough or have I just not waited long enough for things to fall into place?

I mean before I tweet another tweet or go to Facebook one more time for the sake of my ‘business’ should I:

– Make sure my autoresponders are pulling consistant cash hands free?
– Make sure my website sells the you know what out of the products I sell 24-7, without my physical presence?
– Make sure all my profit-pulling and list building pages are properly SEO’d to bring me traffic again 24-7, hands-free?
– Make sure my blog is loaded to the gills with SEO optimized, hands-free, 24-7 profit-pulling content?
– and on and on and on…

C’mon! Who can say they’ve got all that done?! NOT ME. So why the heck AM I spending an hour a day on twitter and facebook??

I look at it like this:

Social Media = SPENDING TIME
Automation and Passive = INVESTING TIME

I would rather INVEST my time to pay me for years to come than SPEND it for a one-time potential gain or maybe even nothing…

Ok – now I’ve ranted too and even gave myself a little lecture.

I’ve so threatened to disconnect from social media altogether but as an ‘internet marketer’ I feel like I really should at least be IN the space. I’ve also cancelled my Facebook account twice but it’s so easy to come back I keep doing it (do you know they actually don’t DELETE your account? – you just log back in and it’s there – creepy). Now I only use Facebook for personal.

Anyway I might have to do my own blog post in reply since I’m taking up half the page with my comment here, lol.

Thanks for ranting, GREAT topic!

ps. haha – just added my twitter link at the bottom of your blog – ironic?