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How to Connect, Lead & Network with Social Media Marketing

Social Media and Social Media Marketing hase gainded center stage so to speak in the world
of online marketing over the past few years because of the popular concept of Web 2.0 sites
such as Bloghology, Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, Digg, etc.

The impact that this social has and it’s popularity are relevant to marketing professionals
for several reasons:

- users can generate their own content
- form networks of friends
- make new connections with like minded people
- create and share videos
- and distribute or share all of the above content in a niche or community based atmosphere
that wants to recive it
- plus so much more.

On sites like Bloghology, MySpace and Facebook users can create their own profile pages,
custom text, pictures, and videos etc. to create their own pages. They can then share this
content with other contacts, friends, family members and anyone else in their social network.

On sites like StumbleUpon, Digg, YouTube, and Flickr users can submit a summary of news articles,
pictures, and videos and then vote on the contents that was submitted by others. Popular content
is featured on the homepage of those sites and it in turn drives large amounts of traffic to
the related website that submitted it.

Using social media sites to promote your content, product or service is called social media
marketing. There are two types of traffic you get when your content becomes popular in a
social media or web 2.0 site.

The immediate and long term or residual traffic that you get as a benefit of your content
is what makes social media marketing such a huge leveraging point for you and your message.

Some of the results of exposure to you and your brand can be immediate popularity resulting
in large amounts of traffic flooding your blog plus added clients and new contacts which
sets up networking and profits for you plus the added assurance that you are creating
wanted content in cyberspace.

Social media marketing is just one of the low-cost/no-cost methods of making your blog or
website popular however the time invested in exploiting it to your advantage is well worth
it and over time it will distinguish you as a leader and marketing professional in your field.

Always to Your Success,

Mark Edward Brown

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How to Connect, Network and Make Friends

I did a search recently on Google and Yahoo for the terms “how to network” and “how to connect” and do you know what I found?

Not much – oh sure, there were allot of search results and in reference to “networking” a majority of the content was related to business and creating clients and contacts but nothing really serious in the top search terms about creating quality connections or relationships let alone networking to create a formidable social framework or a subsstantial amount of friends that you can truly call your own.

Next, when I did a search for “how to connect” most of what I found was about how to connect things to your computer (argh).

I am sure you have not been living under a rock somewhere out in the woods so obviously you could go to Facebook or Myspace to make some friends and you might be suprised to fing that a few or many of your friends and family are already members of social networking sites like that – however, I want to talk to the person who has not even done that yet.

I want to give you three easy to apply, action steps that you can think about and then apply to your life that will allow you to connect, network and make more friends:

1) Take it one step at a time:

if you have a hard time even thinking about social situations then it’s best to start small and take it one step at a time but the most important thing is to get started.  Start online if you are not comfortable with speaking or approaching someone in public.  Begin by talking to someone you know and then approach someone you don’t know.  Keep in mind that you don’t have to make 50 friends, contact, connections or build a huge network right from the begining, take your time and develop quality relationships.

2) What do you have in common:

If you don’t live close to loved ones, and you want to make new friends and connect with new people, start by finding out about interests that you have in common with other people.  Most people start by talking about the weather, you hear it all the time in stores and at gas stations, if you dont want to do that then start with other things that you might have in common such as music you like, food, hobbies, movies you’ve seen etc. Once you find that you have something in common you have made a connection and you can build from there.  Remember, just because you start a conversation you do not have to commit to building a relationship if you are not comfortable with the connection you made.  You wont know however, if you don’t start.

3) Practice, and build your network.

Many times when people are shy or socially uncomfortable the best way to become more comfortable is to keep doing it, continue to practic, and with time and technique you will get better at it. The more you do it, the more comfortable you’ll get and the more friends, connections and relationships you will have.  Before long you will have a network of new friends and acquaintancences.

Leave me a comment and tell me how you form new relationships and make a new friend or contact today by adding me in FaceBook, just search for Mark Edward Brown and add me as your friend also you can add me to your MySpace by going here: http://www.myspace.com/markedwardbrown

Here’s to Great Friends,

Mark Edward Brown

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How To Locate A Self Improvement / Leadership Book List

My friend Bob from the self motivation blog was asked recently by someone posting on his self help blog what were the best self motivational books he had read. Although there are several thousand self motivational books published each year he came to the conclusion that there are very little that can be added to the many words of self motivational wisdom that have been written over the last century and a half.

From the early pioneers like Napoleon Hill to today’s monumental giants like Tony Robbins. It was said, by the latter of these two gurus, that we arrive on this planet without an instruction manual. I think for that reason alone there is not just a thirst for knowledge but a greater need for a guide to how to survive life which drives the market for self help books. You don’t need to have suffered a deep psychological trauma to want to invest in one of these guides. But for those who say you can’t deal with serious issues like depression then I disagree. Where his own doctor and a clinical psychologist were unable to help him a number of the books on Bob’s all time classic list gave him the support to get his life back on track.

However, its not reading self motivational books that gets results, it’s taking action on the advice that is given therein. So my advice is read a small amount of self motivational and leadership books but take a lot of action if you want to significantly improve your life.

Can leadership and self motivational books bring happiness? Now there is a million dollar question! Depends on your definition of happiness of course. Many people would define it as achieving a certain amount of wealth. However, as many wealthy people often say the wealth in and of itself doesn’t bring happiness. In addition have you ever noticed that wealthy people never seem satisfied with what they have got and continually seek to make more and more money. The truth is that happiness is not a destination it is more likely to be a state of continually striving to achieve goals, achieving them and setting more goals to strive to achieve. If thats your definition then I think self motivational books will help you and my list of all time classics have certainly helped me in that respect.

There are many out there who will disagree with my choice of self help books and have their own favourites all I can say to them is that these are the ones that gave me the focus and the necessary poke in the ribs to take action and I still revisit them for ideas.

I agree with Bob and want to remind you that Leaders are Readers so read something that is good for your today and tell me about it by leaving a comment here on the Connection, Leadership and Neworking Blog.

Always to Your Success,

Mark Edward Brown

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