Social Media Self PromotionI’m rollin’ like a pimp slappin’ blog posts turnin’ tricks, submittin’ all my business to Sphinn and Mixx. Got a million clickers on my adSense every day and when I drop a thumbs down the bitches go away.

They call me big G cuz I’m the Google Masta’ if you leave a bad comment I’ll just write back and blast ya. My SEO’s just betta then you stupid perps - don’t believe me? Take a look at the SERPs.

Aaaand now that I got that out of my system… A lot of people who use social media to promote their websites use it only for shameless self promotion. It is so much more than this and that is one of the hardest things for social media noobs to learn.

When I started using forums back in the day to promote my website that’s all I did… promote my website. I was quickly seen as a marketing guy and the community shunned me.

It wasn’t until later, when I found a forum on a topic I was actually interested in and knew about. I asked questions, answered questions and just got involved in all of the fun discussions and actually MADE FRIENDS some of whom I still talk to and keep in touch with to this day.

That’s the real gold of all of this Social Media, making friends, networking, chatting it up and rubbing elbows with all the big names in your niche, the people you look up to - use social media to surround yourself with the best in the business and learn from them.

Social media shouldn’t be about shameless self promotion - it should be about bettering yourself.

Posted Tuesday, December 4th, 2007 at 10:02 am
Filed Under Category: Personal Thoughts, Social Media
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