I wanted to update on my experience with social marketing.
I've continued with targeting people with like interests on myspace with great results. I have over 800 friends (isn't that a funny way to describe them ;^D) and have received messages with suggestions on things to add to my website etc. Nice comments, bulletins and private messages. I immediately delete someone if they send wierdo stuff or sparkly messages & spam. My niece (the brilliant 28yr old engineer) advised me to watch out for fembots. These are myspace accounts that are not real people set up to attact webcam subscribers.
I use my real age but have considered saying that I'm 100. I'm getting responses from people of all ages from all over the world.
http://myspace.com/thingsyoushoulddo
I also found a site called squidoo that is fun and easy to use. My site Irish Film Festival was picked as the Lens of the Day and I got some positive vibe and a little uptick in traffic. Best of all when you search on google for Irish Film Festival my squidoo lens is on page one (#9) out of one million plus choices.
http://www.squidoo.com/irishfilmfestival
Mybloglog seems like a networking meeting with all takers and no givers. So far it doesn't feel like a community.
Is it all worth it? I think so. My website traffic is up about 25%. My previous high traffic day was just a little over 600 and this week I went above 800 visitors twice. My logs don't show too much of that traffic coming from the social sites, but I've received a few links and on some of the google servers I'm now a 3/10 on my home page.
Can anyone else share any detailed results?
I think I'll start a new post with this info also - so I can get the squidoo info into the subject line.
juliemarg
aka
the irishlass
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