Have you stopped long enough to realize just how fast all this social networking stuff has exploded? Have you been paying attention to how rapidly new social networking, social messaging and micro-blogging services are popping up? Two years ago how many were tweeting on Twitter? Think back just six months ago! If this was a negative thing it would be called an epidemic, although I guess some do consider it as such.

I think it’s quite interesting to think about how this has social networking started at a time when many critics of the internet were saying how bad it was for depriving so many people from socializing. They said that all the people with their noses stuck online were harming themselves and society as a whole. Now look what has grown up out of the Internet, the greatest increase in socialization ever known to man. To me this is fascinating, yesterday I wrote more in depth about it in my blog post at SuccessFool called, “Monetization and This Explosive Social Network Thing”

Now what got me thinking about social networking in this way was what I was reading that Maki at his Dosh Dosh blog was saying about how big the monetization of social network systems has become, actually how fast it is growing. His post is so well written that I see no reason to go over it again here, it would be best for you to just go read his post yourself, he covers it well.

About the only thing I can add is, if you are marketing anything, the social networks are fast becoming a necessary place to be involved. They are both an environment you become involved with and a vehicle for promotion. And it only works if you do it right. Like life, there is balance involved. Too much promoting and not enough human being and it won’t work. Social marketing is fast becoming the quickest way to communicate with people.

So for some up to date insight into marketing within the whole social network system Maki’s post called, “Complementary Services Social Media Marketing Strategy” with be of value. Watch out though, you can get stuck on his blog, lots of great ideas!

John

As you know writing articles is a very powerful way to get traffic and recognition. And who doesn’t want more of both to support their online marketing business? Traffic generation is the life blood of any business. Now there is one more facet you can add to your article marketing campaigns to get a little more mileage from your articles and it utilizes the power of Twitter.

You can have a Tweet posted to Twitter automatically each time you have posted an article to an article directory. You will need to get your author feed from the article directory to use for this, most good directories should provide a specific author feed. Now you can use that feed just as they provide it or you can run that feed through FeedBurner if you want to add more features like click tracking and more.

My friend Dan Blackburn has a good description on how to do this on the Article Content King Blog.
Go there and just follow his instructions. He describes how to get the feed from the Article Content King directory, but it should be similar with any on the major article directories.

Dan will take you through getting your feed and then going to a free service called Pingvine where the feed will be set up to Twit automatically every time you post a new article. How cool is that! One more way to use Twitter!

John

PS,
If you want another good place to post your articles, gain some ad revenue from your article pages and more, you might try the unique revenue sharing Article Content King directory. I am involved in helping this directory become a marketing powerhouse for authors, the Alexa rating is growing very rapidly with all the new design features and marketing efforts. Check it out.