5 Incredible Ways To Increase Your Presence on Social Media

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5 Ways to Increase Your Presence on Social Media

Be Yourself!

We all know that the road to success online depends on getting people to know, like and trust you. Make connections with people by showing your personal side so that people can get to know you. Stop with the constant promotions that fill your stream with nothing more that post after post or Tweet after Tweet of links to your blog posts.

I’m not saying that you need to share what you had for dinner everyday but share something about your personal life. What school did you go to, what was your favorite subject or a teacher that you remember. This is how you can connect with people that are like you and people that think like you. Showing your human side will go a long way for building relationships and in turn your presence on social media.

Improving your social presence on YouTube

This tip comes via +Sheryl Loch from the +Hot Blog Tips weekly Hangouts on Air over on YouTube.

It’s a great way to boost your profile on YouTube. Sheryl suggests that you get in touch with one of your friends on YouTube and get them to add your channel to their favorites. Of course you reciprocate by adding them back to your's as well. 

A word of caution on this: don’t contact people you don’t know or who have channels with unrelated content from your channel. 

UPDATE: A few days after publishing this post I asked Matt from +vidiSEO to add me to his favorites list and he did it!! Matt has an awesome YouTube channel with over 15,000 subscribers and I'm really honored to be listed there.

vidiSEO on YouTube with Ms. Ileane Speaks on the sidebar! 

Clean Up Your Following on Twitter and Google +

Whether you did it intentionally or not, your Twitter and Google+ followings are bursting at the seams with dormant accounts and people who haven’t followed you back. You can use JustUnfollow to clean up your Twitter account and trim your following. 

I’m pleased to introduce you to new tools that are available for cleaning up your Google+ circles. 

Upload videos to Facebook via OneLoad

OneLoad (formerly known as TubeMogul) is a service that is used to save time uploading your videos to many different video sharing sites at once. For example I upload each one of my YouTube vids up to the following sites:

• Meta Cafe
• Daily Motion
• Flickr
• Photo Bucket

The newest addition to the OneLoad family is Facebook!! Woohoo!! 

This means you can post to your Facebook page through Oneload. This will save time and it will ensure that you are getting more traction from your videos.

NOTE: One of my videos has over 10,000 views on Daily Motion!

ADDITIONAL NOTE: Within a couple of hours the video posted on my Facebook page via OneLoad was played 9 times and got more attention than other videos I’ve posted in the past.

You can also upload to YouTube through OneLoad. Here’s the OneLoad tutorial I recorded

STEP AWAY FROM THE COMPUTER!

That’s right I said it! And I really meant it too. Get out and connect with others in the offline world. I attended two events recently and the pics are posted here:

AWeber https://plus.google.com/u/0/112829233906811093453/posts/jKQR1YGPDXn

You can watch the AWeber slide show video if you want to see the bio wall, game room and the pool table. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mvpjl0hUmAc

Seer Interactive https://plus.google.com/u/0/112829233906811093453/posts/HtivGSNiw3L the #SearchChurch
+Wil Reynolds is very generous and let everyone who attended "Breaking Down the Silos" grab books of their choice from his book shelf. If you ever get a chance to visit the Search Church at +SEER Interactive here's a sampling of what you'll see on the shelves there.



Have you tried any strategies to increase your presence on social media? 

What's your favorite tip?

How To Get Email Subcribers and Keep Them Happy

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How to Get Subscribers and Keep Them Happy

Bloggers know that email subscribers are very important people. Before we get started, I would like take a minute and t if you are already a subscriber to my newsletter, I want to take this time to say thank you. With each email that I send you, feel free to respond. When you send me a question, I'll respond personally and I look forward to your feedback and suggestions.

Click here if you want to subscribe to my newsletter and get exclusive content and other updates. 

And if you want to get started with building your own list you can use this link to sign up for AWeber. That is my affiliate link, and I will earn a small commission, but it doesn't effect the price that you pay. 

MailChimp is another popular service among bloggers and they offer a free service up to a certain number of subscribers.

I want to encourage you to start building your list now, even if you're not ready to start sending out an email series yet, it's a good idea to get started on building the list ahead of time. 

FeedBurner & RSS Subscribers 

RSS subscribers get some type of notification each time you update your blog. Most bloggers do offer their RSS feed through FeedBurner. Here's how to find your feed [excerpt taken from Basics of FeedBurner]:

"But Where is My Feed?

The virgin (or default) feed for every Blogger blog uses this format (replace “blogname” with your blog title) :

• Atom: http://blogname.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default
• RSS: http://blogname.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss

The raw (or default) feed for every WordPress.com blog uses this format (replace “blogname” with your blog title):

• Atom: http://blogname.worpress.com/feed/atom/
• RSS:  http://blogname.wordpress.com/feed

The default feed for Typepad blogs use this format (replace “blogname” with your blog title):

• Atom: http://blogname.typepad.com/blog_folder_name/atom.xml
• RSS: http://blogname.typepad.com/blog_folder_name/rss.xml

Feeds come in two flavors, Atom and RSS, (RSS 2.0 feeds are often used for podcasting) to accommodate the multitude of readers that are available. FeedBurner is going to help you sort through all of this."

I'm a fan of using FeedBurner too, but I want to caution you that there is a strong possibility that Google (they own FeedBurner) is going to make some changes or possibly do away with the service. They recently announced that they are shutting down Google Reader so there is good reason to believe that FeedBurner might be on the chopping block soon as well. 

Read: Sharon Hurley Hall Uses Feedly not Google Reader

Build Your Own Email List

With the uncertainty of the longevity of FeedBurner, bloggers need to plan ahead. Be proactive instead of reactive and plan out your future. Look down the road and think about where you want to be in terms of having an email list and how your readers will have access to your blog updates. 

You can use an email service as a replacement for FeedBurner to notify subscribers of your blog updates - once again, I want to give a shout out to AWeber since they are the pros when it comes to email marketing. I recently visited the AWeber headquarters and here's a pic of me in front of their "green wall" and waterfall.

Ms. Ileane at the AWeber Open House 2013

 "Exclusives" Keep Subscribers Happy

Once you sign up for my email list, you'll see that from time to time, I have special offers and giveaways that are exclusives to my subscribers only. 

You can do the same thing with your email marketing campaigns. 
Feel free to copy the ideas from some of my subscriber exclusives:

#1. I received 3 copies of the single site license for SEOPressor Plugin Version 5 from the developer and I held a giveaway that I only shared with my subscribers

#2. I did a presentation at the Social Media Examiner Content Success Summit and gave away a free pass valued at $600

#3. I upload tutorials to YouTube that teach people how to be more productive or use the internet more effectively. I make sure my subscribers are the first to know! One example of this is PicMonkey which you can use to edit images or add text and quotes to Facebook or Pinterest. Here's a link to the list I mentioned.

Remember to do things in "layers"
I don't mean to overwhelm you with a ton of action items. Take things one at a time. Think of it in terms of layers. Perhaps you'll start with building your list, then move on to the next thing like starting a YouTube channel or a podcast. 

If you need help, or if you have a question, remember you can leave a voice mail on SpeakPipe and I might end up including your question in and upcoming episode of the podcast.


  

5 Ways to Grow Your Email List With YouTube Videos

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Building an email list is an important task for any blogger or webmaster. In this episode we explore 5 ways you can use YouTube Videos to get email subscribers for your newsletter.

Grow Your List With YouTube

Over the last few months several people have subscribed to my email list after watching one of my YouTube video tutorials. 

Here are 5 methods I used to grow my list:

• Add a link in each video description to my optin form
• Ask - I simply ask people to subscribe
• SlideShare Pro users can upload videos and capture leads
• LeadPlayer Plugin for WordPress
• Viewbix - is by far the most effective tool for growing my email list with YouTube Videos.

Additional resources mentioned in today's show:

Join my Email List
AWeber Email Marketing

LeadPlayer Review by VidiSEO

A Marketer's Guide to SlideShare

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5 Reasons to Start Building Your Email List with AWeber

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AWeber is one of the most popular email marketing services around. 
My top five reasons for using AWeber to build an email list are: 

• WordPress integration through the free plugin
• Ad tracking keeps track of links that are clicked
• List segmentation based on various characteristics
• Facebook application allows for easy sign up
• Rapportive - an extension for Google Chrome that works inside of Gmail.

Take AWeber for a test drive 

If you have WordPress, you'll also need a great plugin like 

New to blogging? 

Then be sure to check out The Beginners Guide to Blogging Series and free tips and resources to help you build a better blog and expand your audience! 

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