4 Must-Have Social Marketing Blog Shortcuts to Help Spread the Word

social-marketing-tipsYou’ve just written an amazing blog post, uncovered an incredible new tool or piece of software and now you want to tell the world about it. The problem is, you don’t want to come off as too self-promotional. Nobody likes a “social marketer” who just markets themselves.

So how do you make it easier for your followers, groups and friends to share your message? You integrate it with your blog posts and vice versa! Here are the easiest blog tools to make sure you’re maximizing your social networking efforts by making it easy for people to share your posts in just a few clicks.

1. Twitter Tools -  Alex King’s helpful Twitter Tools plugin will integrate your blog posts with Twitter and optionally let you create digests every day or week of your tweets and/or posts. Easy to install and start using – this is a Twitter blog plugin that you won’t want to be without!

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What You Can Learn from a Social Bookmarking Failure

…And no, it isn’t me ;)   But as a frequent social bookmarker who won’t hesitate to stumble, digg or sphinn good, solid content, I see site owners consistently struggling to get their site seen by the major social bookmarking players.

The truth is, there’s a lot of competition out there.  And whenever someone claims to have a unique “advantage” that will blast your site to the top of the social bookmarking heap, people flock to it like ants to a picnic.

But you don’t need to pay for a fancy piece of software or a website service to submit your site to the social bookmarking networks.  All you need to know is what not to do.  Like this:

 

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