How to Be in 10 Places At Once With Smart Social Networking Strategies
17Jun2008 Filed under: Social Media Strategies Author: Nancy Marmolejo
I knew I was in trouble when I had my first social networking stress nightmare. In this dream, I was surrounded by computer screens of various sites- YouTube, Facebook, Twitter plus a host of utility and tool sites- each vying for my attention.
The inboxes of each one were filled with hundreds of unread messages, I needed to click updates, I was behind on posting, and I had thousands of pending friend requests I couldn’t get to.
I awoke in a sweat, the chatter of instant messages still fogging my brain. It was at this point I realized something needed to change!
Social networking is a great way to build relationships and generate more business… when used correctly and wisely. It can also become time consuming and (dare I say) addictive. The addiction starts out as fun, but then spirals into a monster that eats up your time and costs you money in lost opportunities and distracted focus.
You can still be present on all your favorite sites without having to resort to stealing televisions to support your Twitter habit. Here are 5 ways you can do it starting today.
1. Connect Facebook to your blog.
In the notes section of Facebook, you have the option to import notes from an outside source. Enter the RSS feed of your blog and each time you post a blog, your blog post will appear on Facebook. If you preload your blog posts for publication at different times, it will load those up on Facebook as they’re published.
2. Connect Twitter to Facebook
You can do this really simply by using the applications Twitter and Twitter Synch. Each time you Tweet, it will add that to your status update without any further effort on your part.
3. Sign Up for Tweet Later
Go to www.TweetLater.com and start an account. This site allows you to preload Tweets so if you are traveling or (gasp!) having a life, it will automatically upload these Tweets to Twitter. Remember, these will also appear on Facebook if you’ve done step 2.
4. Go Back to Your Blog
You can add cool plug-ins to your blog that actually show your social networking activity in a sidebar on your blog. Why is this important? Adding fresh, new content to your blog is what search engines love. Watch a video on this and see all the plug-ins in action by visiting
http://vivavisibilityblog.com/anatomy-of-a-social-networking-friendly-blog/
5. Put it all together on Friend Feed
Sign up for www.FriendFeed.com and synchronize all of your social networking pages. This is for the person who has multiple pages up on many sites. It makes life much easier and gives you an at-a-glance view of who is doing what online.
Don’t let social networking stress you out. Try these simple tips and put your nightmares to rest with confidence.
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Nancy Marmolejo is a PR, media, and social networking strategist who teaches women entrepreneurs how to generate more money and attention by positioning themselves in the spotlight. An award winning business owner, Nancy is frequently quoted in the areas of business, creativity, and social networking. Get Nancy’s 7 part free audio course by visiting www.VivaVisibility.com
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Mark Salinas
June 17th, 2008 at 4:44 pm
A step by step guide to doing it right! Excellent tips!
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Julie - PeopleMaps Psychometric Testing
June 18th, 2008 at 2:58 am
Toenails? Mojitos? Nancy - do you have a crystal ball? — you know what I’m thinking LOL! I loved the audio version :o)
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Mark Salinas
June 18th, 2008 at 7:08 am
I do not have a Facebook account….I might have to try it. Nice audio and reading.
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Maria Mar
June 18th, 2008 at 9:46 am
Hi, Nancy,
Thanks for this information. You truly have your finger in the pulse of your people, mujer! I’ve been experiencing frustration going towards fatigue, and I just have 3 social media, haven’t even gotten to Twitter, etc. I had to step back, meditate and look at it with detachment. Then I asked for guidance. You are it. Thank you for being an instrument of Divine intervention. God bless you.
During my meditation, I visited a lot of emotional places where there are deep wounds in all of us, especially women, who are so relationship oriented. I want to share this with your visitors, just in case it helps.
Social networking can be frustrating or addictive for deep emotional reasons harbored in our unconscious. I call this the Emotional Undertow. This is what I discovered in my healing journey in relation to social media:
1. If you have fear about money, getting clients, meeting the budget, recession, visibility and other related areas, you are going to act out in the social media arena by being overly aggressive, or you are going to give up in frustration. Social media is networking and it responds to the Female Face of prosperity: building relationships. Aggressive Marketing is the Male Face of Prosperity. It is fast, highly focused and, well… aggressive. Networking is slow, process-oriented and focused in quality and balance of giving and receiving. In comparison to other online marketing tools, Social media may seem too slow. If you need clients for next month, and you begin to push and overkill, you are going to close the genuine connection with people that these media offer. You are going to turn people off, cause they are going to feel and see that you are hustling. And sorry, but you are. This is not to offend you. It is to lovingly bring you back to your center. Feel your hunger and fear, and release it. Find other ways to get quicker responses through online marketing, but keep your social networking coming from your heart and from a genuine interest in the people. Your life will be richer, and the clients that do come eventually will have a genuine human relationship with you, they will be, as Nancy teaches masterfully, your ideal clients.
2. If you have a hunger for acceptance, fear of being accepted and an Inner Orphan Child who has been deeply wounded and not yet fully healed, you are going to feel frustrated in social media, and may begin to experience fatigue, frustration, rejection, depression or addiction. This is when you get hooked and go out of balance, as Nancy is describing above. You want them to love you. You want to get MORE friends, and MORE. And MORE. Gee, you can get friends from all parts of the word. You can make 100, 200, 500, 1,000 friends. You will feel so loved, right? Wrong. Nothing will be enough, and you will begin to hoard friends, forgetting your work and your business or personal goals. You will begin to try harder, try more gadgets, and if they don’t work, you will feel more rejected. A lot of that gadget stuff is the Inner Children of the adults playing, and it’s fun and okey, as long as the Little Orphan is not driving the bus, seeking attention from a place of hunger, and forgetting your adult goals. What to do? Self-mother your Tiny Orphan self. Stand in the place of your power. Think of your purpose and the gift that you have to bring into the world. From a place of power, of purpose and of giving, move into Social Media with an open and joyful heart. To play, to share, and to enrich your life. The child will benefit from this, but will not be the one driving that bus.
I hope this helps.
Nancy, you’ve started a powerful Life Walk (lesson) for all of us, do you know that?
Coming to think about it, I just wrote an article. See what you do, mujer?!!!
Oh! I almost forgot. See what I’m saying? Overload! I am posting this blog article in my new website, in my recently created digital magazine. writetodream.com is a place for women who love to write, write to heal or need to write in order to position themselves as experts or convey their wisdom. The Write to Dream Magazine offers articles for all these writing needs. I’m posting this article in the Business for Women section.
I give you triple thanks, then.
1. You’ve helped me with the question I asked in my prayers.
2. You just inspired me to share a process that became an article.
3. You have enriched the quality of the content I can offer my visitors.
Light and Love,
Maria Mar
The Dream Alchemist
Shama Hyder
June 18th, 2008 at 12:08 pm
Hi Nancy,
I use one service that takes care of it all for now!
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-Shama
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Melanie Kissell
June 19th, 2008 at 11:36 pm
Nancy …
Just this afternoon, I started to write an article about online overwhelm and overload. I’m starting to feel the effects … bigtime! Something’s got to give. I’ve got too many irons in the fire and, to my knowledge, they haven’t added a 25th hour to the clock!
Thanks for putting this issue into perspective and for sharing ways and means of organizing ourselves more effectively and efficiently. No one needs to be having a nightmare over network marketing!
You’re my hero,
~Melanie
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