MARS Gives 10 Tips To Social Media Success – MSE Episode #87
Posted by Marshall Wayne | Posted in Blog Tips, Facebook Tips, Youtube Tips | Posted on 02-09-2010
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Movie Star Entrepreneur Show – Episode #87
10 Social Media Tips For Social Media Success
1. Be interesting and interested - Post things people will enjoy, think is intelligent or witty, comical, and things people can respond to. Not just business things. Post about your workout, some new healthy food you’re eating, or anything else that frames you in an interesting light.
2. Post interesting videos - Video is able to separate you from everyone else. The trouble is, right now, most people only post long winded videos that nobody wants to watch.
Learn how to edit video. Study what makes videos interesting.
Get a flip mini HD, a kodak zi8, or now the iphone 4 has hd video that I’m fond of.
3. Learn to use Photoshop to make fun Photoshopped images:
Since my brand is as The Movie Star Entrepreneur I’m a fan of doing Photoshop tutorials on how to Photoshop yourself into your favorite magazines.
These images attract attention when I post them and people then want to learn more, they follow me more closely, and go to my blog to learn more.
4. Say thank you to every single person who wishes you Happy Birthday:
I just had my 33rd birthday on August 25th. Between two Facebook accounts I had at least 500 people who wished me Happy Birthday. Even though they probably didn’t expect me to personally respond with a thank you, I did.
To every single person. I even commented back to some of them about recent things I’d remembered from their status updates.
I’ve had several people comment about the fact that they saw that I responded to everyone and couldn’t believe I took so much time to do that.
It took maybe 2 hours to do…maybe 3 or 4 on second thought, but was well worth it.
5. On Youtube, from time to time, do a product review for a tech product and get as many back links to the video as possible to increase it’s search visibility. It gets significantly more views than other videos do.
I did an iPad review and it has 315,000 views. For quite some time it ranked higher in the search than the reviews from every single tech outlet including Mashable, CNN, iJustine, and every other popular outlet.
6. By creating posts that engage others, it tells Facebook that you’re a person that needs to be on the popular news feed section more often. I’m not exactly sure of the algorithm on this, but I know that I see the people more often whose updates I comment on most.
That’s another reason you want to respond back to every birthday wish. You’ve now let Facebook see that you directly have 2 way communication with hundreds of people. You’re bound to show up on their news feeds more often after your birthday.
7. Delete Hateful, Negative People: I delete people all the time who I do not like. I’m fond of having great people around me and I do this by keeping bad people out. I know that the great people will shy away from commenting on my status if they know they’ll might be hounded by haters.
8. Strictly For Me: I toss in some swear words and semi-offensive updates from time to time. I’m not a fan of people who are easily offended. If they’re easily offended it means they’ll look for something to be offended by more than I care to listen to.
To weed these people from my Facebook account you’ll see me intentionally adding an ‘F’ bomb into my status updates from time to time. This’ll cause some people to defined me. Over time I’ll have weeded my friend group down to people I can openly discuss anything with without fearing someone will be offended.
Two weeks ago I prominently repeatedly publicized my interview I was doing with Chantelle Austin who is a world renowned expert on the swinging lifestyle.
It offended some people. I was more offended that people think they should tell others how to live their life. I only want people around me who focus on living their own life to the best that they can and leave their nose out of my life and others lives.
9. Use Traffic Geyser or Tube Mogul to push your videos out to many social media video sharing sites.
It’s like free advertising to get your message out there. Make you more well known. Plus it’s a way to get more backlinks to whatever site you’re looking to improve search rankings to.
10. Direct Everything On Your Social Media Accounts To A Word Press Blog
….better yet, a page on your blog with an opt-in form.
Social media sites are amazing, but they should be considered your secondary outlets. Your WordPress Blog should be home base. Direct all your traffic from your social media accounts to
