To get ahead in this competitive world, you must try and be different. Weather it be by finding a new ‘killer’ product or experimenting with some new marketing strategy, you just have to be different! With the way social media is doing today, having a Facebook page, Tweeting and all isn’t anything special. Everyone else is doing it including your competitors so what now?

This is what businesses ought to ask themselves. Once you’ve gotten onto the social media bandwagon, you have to make sure that you stay on board. With the way things currently are-what does this mean? You’ve got yourself an account in all the top social media sites, you tweet a couple of times a day, you interact, you post valuable content but the point is-everybody else does it!

How do you stand out in this social media mad world? Should you now start to find more ways to get engaged like maybe be more frequent in your tweets or be more updated in your news feeds? Just what do you have to do to get up on top? Maybe it’s all about keeping updated to any news in the social media world. Being the first at everything that comes up. Is that what will get you ahead of your competitors?

The dilemma is this: how far will you have to go in this social media marketing for you to say ‘you’re on top’? In fact, will there ever be an end to how much time and money you put into your marketing?

Does it suggest success in social media is monitoring activity 24/7 so any inquiries or potential opportunities can be jumped on? Does it mean having a dedicated team to create compelling videos, blog posts, tweets, etc.? If so, does that mean whoever invests the most wins?

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There is no doubt that sticking to one site, one niche is probably the easiest way to get traffic up and ranks on the SERP’s up as well. It’s obviously easy to concentrate on a single site than to handle multiple sites with varying topics. Updating them may not pose a problem but the real problem lies in being able to use social media for all these sites.

A number of problems can readily be seen in this regard. For one, the only way that you will be successful on these social networking sites is if you build a reputation on them. You have to get people to believe that you are an expect and an authority on whatever topic you are focusing on. This will be hard if you’re promoting multiple sites.

Think about it: how can you post a tweet or post about cars this minute and then talk about health the next? Pretty confusing! So does this mean you should have a separate account for each of your sites? Now that would also be a hassle to update. Here are some tips on how to juggle multiple sites on social media sites.

For Facebook:

If you are an author of multiple sites, one thing that you can try doing is creating a Facebook page as a writer. This way, you’ll be able to promote all your sites and gain reputation as a writer instead of an expert on some particular subject.

How about creating separate pages for your sites? Well this will help you target specific audiences but you’ll be spending much more time managing them.

Working on separate pages will be great IF you can spare a lot of time or afford someone to do your social media marketing for you.

For Twitter:

Basically, the same principle can be followed for Twitter. Remember that people follow you because they like whatever topic you’re sticking to. Mixing this with all sorts of niches isn’t a good idea.

However, you can create a Twitter profile as a writer and post your blogs updates there.

The bottom line is you will probably have better success if you had seperate accounts for each of your sites.

For LinkedIn:

Since LinkedIn is considered a more business-oriented site to connect, it will be best that you have a single profile. You will be able to post all your links to your blogs after all. The site also gives you a chance to engage in conversations with others who may not be in your ‘group’.

The bottom line is deciding on whether to run separate accounts depend on your time, money and the characteristics of your sites (and their readers). Ultimately, building your social network is one aspect of your business plan and should fit with your resources and overall goal.

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With the growth of social media websites, spreading the word about your blog has never been so easy. Social media sites are perfect for this because they not only allow you to reach different markets that you may not normally reach, but they also give you the ability to share content that might not be appropriate for a blog.  Speaking specifically of social media, Facebook has become one of easiest, most effective, and most popular ways to expand your blog’s reader base.

With currently 500 million users, Facebook is indeed a very good place to try and get traffic for your blog. Here are some tips on how you can use social media to increase your blog’s traffic.

• Use it as a basis for your blogs topics. The thing with Facebook and other social networking sites is that it is very easy to know which topics are ‘liked’ by people more and which don’t receive much attention. With this knowledge in mind, you will be able to tailor your blogs content to fit your audience.
• Don’t make it all about you. It is very tempting to keep on or posting links that lead only to  your site. This isn’t a good idea and will give the impression that you are only after what you can get out of people. Try and post stuff about other things as well.

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If you’re involved in any kind of online business, I got some startling news for you.

The FTC has just changed some of their policies, and you could be severely affected if you don’t know what they are. And those horror stories of losing everything you own etc are plentiful in our field.

Frank Kern just came out with a supremely helpful blog post that will shed some light on how to keep your head afloat these FTC shenanigans. Click the link below to read it now. It might save your bacon…

Frank Kern’s URGENT FTC Article