What is a Blog? Where do you start?
How Do You Blog?
Those are a few questions you need to get answered before you start your own blog.
This is a short list of tips on blogging for beginners. It is just a start and I will post a lot more on this topic in the future.
Blogging is really common nowadays. Almost everyone from all age brackets has a blog or at least visited one in the past few months. If you have a blog, you may have only a few casual readers and even fewer followers. Getting tips on how to blog can help you generate more traffic to your blog. Continue Reading
Social Media Tribes and Tribe Syndication – What is it All About?
Tribe syndication has become some of a buzz word in the social media industry recently. Why is that?
Social media tribes is something that will be crucial to bew a part of in the future of marketing online.
Having a tribe can mean several things – a group of people that follows you and adores you (kind of a fan base),
but it can also be a group that you have put together that you work closely together with (kind of a mastermind group).
Either way, a tribe your tribe is a group of people that will help you out and spread your word.
Anyway, My definition of a social media tribe is to have a group of people where everyone helps each other out to spread their content (blog posts, videos, articles).
It can do amazing things for the exposure of you and your content to be a part of a tribe,
And the core tribe is just the first level. They will in turn have built up other relationships that will help them (and you) out and spread content.
Being a part of a tribe can definitely have a viral effect on your exposure if you do it right.
Famous people withing Social media like Gary Vaynerchuk (@garyvee), Mari Smith, and Seth Godin have all built up their tribes of follwers that help them out but that is more tribes based of a fans.
Now you it’s time for you to do it too! Even if you are not so famous (yet) you can still put together your own tribe and start syndicating each other’s stuff.
Watch the video aboce to learn how you can take advantage of the tribe and start building your own online presence with more power.
The leverage a tribe can do for you shall not be underestimated!
To the Tribes,
Dr Jon
PS. please write a comment and rate this video if you like it.
I also have a question for you: How much did you know about tribes before you read this post and watched the video?
If you are on Twitter, I’m sure you know what follow Friday is (and if you aren’t on Twitter yet, sign up for a free account and start tweeting).
Anyway, follow Friday is a very good concept that someone invented to tell their followers which people they recommend on Twitter.
I think the intentions for this was very good when it first started out a long time ago, but as of now, it has (to some extent) evolved to look more like a kind of spam.
Heck, people even hijack your twitter id (and your attention) by using it together with the followfriday hashtag (#ff of #followfriday) and their own affiliate link (or some other crappy link).
Ok, this post isn’t about how to aviod these hijackers but my intentions are to get you to think about how you use this follow friday hashtag.
I believe that the power of Followfriday (from your point of view) will be much greater if you try to stand out from the crowd when you tweet your #ff tweets.
You see, most people just throw in the hashtag and a bunch of twitter IDs there with no description what so ever who these people are. A few maybe add a single word to describe why they recommend these tweeters (like “Leader”, “Favourite” or something) and even less people gives a better motivation.
What I suggest You should do is that when you send out a #followfriday for some people that you want to recommend, you should throw in a short motivation why you recommend this or these people. By doing this, you will stand out a lot from the crowd and it will result in those recommended people getting more followers then by just an ordinary shout out and tt will also give you more credibility in the eyes of the person that is recommended!
I believe it is a win-win situation to do this so start develop a plan for how you should do next time it is Friday!
To all Your follow Friday success,
Dr Jon
PS. Please write a comment and tell me what you think about it! and ReTweet if you like it!
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