Using Stumbleupon To Build Traffic Can Backfire

More than a few social networking gurus will tell you that it is easy to use Stumbleupon, and other services to promote your website. And indeed it is, if you are a paying advertiser. Otherwise, you could be classed as a spammer, and banned from the service altogether. Asking people to exchange links to stumble, … Read more

What A Lot Of Social Media Marketing Gurus Won’t Tell You

Perhaps I should have chosen “What a lot of social marketers can’t seem to understand” as a title. I just finished reading yet another article claiming to have the latest information on how to market on social media sites. The author even compiled a list of sites that included Digg, Propeller and Stumbleupon, and how … Read more

A New Blog For My Social Media Experiment

Following the success of Coffee With Allan, I have launched a new blog, Autofaves.com. I started my Coffee blog, and built it the way I did with multiple (18) categories to test different theories. I was told that multiple categories would be difficult to get off the ground. With visitors numbering up to 20,000 a … Read more

A Quick Tip For Facebook FriendFeed Users

Since adding Friend Feed to my Facebook account recently, I have been impressed with the speed with which it updates my profile page, and the extra dimension that it adds to my social networking. I have friends subscribing to my feed all the time, and I make a point of subscribing to theirs as well. … Read more