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Re: The 10-Minute Daily Guide to Building Your Social Media Profile

Ben Yoskovitz — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 22:53:55 -0000

Debbie - Absolutely, by all means feel free to republish the article. I'll email you directly.

Re: The 10-Minute Daily Guide to Building Your Social Media Profile

Debbie McGrath — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 09:40:58 -0000

Ben you are a great writer and this is a great article .... Can we post link to it for HR.com users.

Re: The 10-Minute Daily Guide to Building Your Social Media Profile

Jon Wuebben - Content Rich — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 19:43:10 -0000

Stumbled upon this article and really got a lot of use out of it. "Stop the madness" really does describe how overwhelming staying up with social media can sometimes feel. I have been trying to focus on one site at a time, in order to grow it. I think that's good advice. Definitely going to look into the start page and try your other suggestions. Thanks a lot!

Re: The 10-Minute Daily Guide to Building Your Social Media Profile

orlandoproperty — Thu, 29 May 2008 10:43:14 -0000

Thanks for the suggestions! I've been getting so overwhelmed lately that I've been falling behind on actually posting, while trying to delve into the countless sites that you've mentioned. Time to focus. Regarding the comment you made regarding wiping the RSS Reader slate clean and starting fresh...I love it!

Re: The 10-Minute Daily Guide to Building Your Social Media Profile

Linda — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 00:44:12 -0000

These are great tips. I also like the "start page" idea, I was going to ask you do you keep a bookmark toolbar or what to open these tabs every day. Start page sounds like a solution.

Do you know of a way to leverage Google Reader's social aspects? I've noticed that you can add friends and discover related feeds. Any tips for this?

Re: The 10-Minute Daily Guide to Building Your Social Media Profile

Ben Yoskovitz — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 21:47:01 -0000

@RJacobsen: Come back as often as you like! And make sure you jump off this article to all the links provided; there are tons of great resources out there.

Re: The 10-Minute Daily Guide to Building Your Social Media Profile

RJacobsen — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 13:09:22 -0000

Great post! I've been looking for someone to break down the whole social media thing to me, so that I can better understand many of the rules (unwritten or not) and which social media sites are the most beneficial. I will likely return to this page to read more from some of the others who you've linked to. Thanks!

Re: The 10-Minute Daily Guide to Building Your Social Media Profile

Commenter — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 17:24:26 -0000

The whole social media movement has made me slip a bit. For some reason I really cant get into the whole thing. However the article has cleared up a couple of things for me. Still have a ways to go before I get it.

Re: The 10-Minute Daily Guide to Building Your Social Media Profile

Ben Yoskovitz — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 10:00:57 -0000

@Kalidasa: There's no shortage of advice out there for bloggers getting started. Read what you can, put together a plan for yourself, and you should do just fine.

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Kalidasa — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 00:18:02 -0000

I am starting a blog soon, and I thought just writing it would be a lot of work! There really is a lot more to it as I have been learning. Thanks for making what looked like a chore much easier. And, you gave a couple of links that will be very helpful for me.

Re: The 10-Minute Daily Guide to Building Your Social Media Profile

Ben Yoskovitz — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 21:26:36 -0000

Fred - Using social networks and social media is easy from a technical standpoint, but it does take some time to get used to. My suggestions would be to try one or two out, do some research (use Google or Google Blogsearch to search for best practices), and see what happens.

More specific advice would be dependent on your niche, goals, etc. I hope that helps!

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Fred Stopsky — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 17:17:03 -0000

Thank you for the great resources and information. Do you have any suggestions for those who are not as technically inclined as others?

Re: The 10-Minute Daily Guide to Building Your Social Media Profile

Ben Yoskovitz — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 23:45:02 -0000

Hi Sia - thanks for stopping by and commenting. Hopefully you'll subscribe to Instigator Blog permanently and keep letting me know if I'm hitting the mark (or not!)

Re: The 10-Minute Daily Guide to Building Your Social Media Profile

Sia — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 20:45:42 -0000

The whole time I was reading this, I thought "don't forget to bookmark this !" and "gotta show this to my husband!" "Stop the madness indeed!" I shouted a little too loud (scared the dog). Slowly I found that simply organizing my time with an excel file (google docs) that it helps me track everything. Thank you for the post. Reminds us all that we are on the right track.

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Online Presence :: Make Money — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 04:39:44 -0000

Ben,

Thanks for link to my post. I appreciate it.

~Anuj

Re: The 10-Minute Daily Guide to Building Your Social Media Profile

Ben Yoskovitz — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 11:01:42 -0000

@Eddie: Actually, I don't consider any of what I've described to be non-productive work. It's almost completely strategic.

Who said "all that social media stuff" doesn't bring in paying customers? In fact, I view it specifically FOR that purpose.

Re: The 10-Minute Daily Guide to Building Your Social Media Profile

Eddie Baki — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 02:45:38 -0000

Why just 10 minutes? All these activities sound like leisure. So take your time. Blogging, commenting, RSS feeds, Digg & co, voting on posts, collecting friends in the diverse networks... That is all non-productive work. Bottom line: How much turnover does all of that produce? Would not all that time be better spent seeking paying customers and getting a contract or job, nstead of doing all that "social media" stuff and starve?

Re: The 10-Minute Daily Guide to Building Your Social Media Profile

Personal Growth — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 19:50:23 -0000

Great Post man i really liked it a lot it was very informative. And the points that you mentioned in it were also very good i liked it.

Re: The 10-Minute Daily Guide to Building Your Social Media Profile

Ben Yoskovitz — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 17:02:29 -0000

Good questions, Susan. Not questions that can be answered in a simple Comment Box. I want to present some ideas on why to use social networks in the first place, benefits, their value, etc. and then maybe delve deeper into issues of etiquette, etc.

So stay tuned!

Re: The 10-Minute Daily Guide to Building Your Social Media Profile

Susan Delz — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 15:58:19 -0000

Hi Ben - Been following the comments. You outed the elephant on the facebook / linkedin network, how should one use their friends? Any best practices, etiquette or details your readers should be aware of? Tips and for creating quality friends?

Re: The 10-Minute Daily Guide to Building Your Social Media Profile

Ben Yoskovitz — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 15:48:37 -0000

@Mike: Social media sites as time savers? Who said that?!?! *chuckle*

That's definitely not the case. They take an investment to get a reward out of them (like pretty much anything.) And it's a slippery slope into spending TOO much time on them with minimal return. I think that's the biggest issue - people don't quite know what to get out of them, or how, short of "lots of friends" so they spend hours and hours accumulating useless friends. How you use your friends (which I know sounds bad, but makes sense) is key...

@Chris: Outsourcing your social media profile...hhhmmm...

Recently I saw a TV program about companies in Eastern Europe and Asia that will play your characters on video games for you (like Heroes) to power level them up, so you don't have to invest the time. Totally genius...not sure it applies to social media profiles though! *laugh*

Re: The 10-Minute Daily Guide to Building Your Social Media Profile

Chris Gray — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 14:02:50 -0000

You forgot to mention outsourcing your social media profile building activities ;)

No really, for me the key (as you mentioned) is focus. I constantly find myself wandering around aimlessly when I go to say, respond to a comment on MyBlogLog. The next thing I know, I am off on some tangent that has totally sidetracked my original task of simply answering a comment. You have some good advice here. I’m definitely going to give your 10 minute guide a shot (might give me some extra time to actually put a blog post together)!

Re: The 10-Minute Daily Guide to Building Your Social Media Profile

Mike — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 12:37:20 -0000

Great post! I'm trying to figure out this social media thing and see where you could drown in all the sites that are out there. I keep hearing that social networks are great time-savers, but so far I'm spending time, not saving it.

Re: The 10-Minute Daily Guide to Building Your Social Media Profile

Ben Yoskovitz — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 09:26:49 -0000

Tad - First, I wouldn't necessarily befriend everyone. Befriend those that have similar tastes. Of course, since they stumbled your story, there's a good chance they have similar tastes.

As for the value of votes from friends or not - I can't say. I'm sure others have evaluated this in depth. What I would say is that there's other value in having SU friends beyond just their specific vote value. For example - you can share stories with them to encourage them to vote, you can communicate more easily via SU's in-house messaging tool to share tips, etc.

As well, I would look at the network effect of having more friends. If I have more friends, and by extension, more people stumble my content regularly, it's also reaching out to their friends and beyond, who watch those stumbles...

I think you have to value friends more than just the value of their voting power.

Re: The 10-Minute Daily Guide to Building Your Social Media Profile

Tad Chef — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 05:12:12 -0000

"Track who stumbles stories on your blog, befriend them". I doubt that it's the best way to deal with SU. Track them but don't befriend them all as SU does not count friends votes as much as those of strangers it seems.