It’s no secret that social networks have quite literally taken over the world. With networks such as Facebook and Twitter boasting billions of users, social networking has become front and center for just about everything we do in life. So much so, that most people don’t ever unplug.  People are constantly on social networks primarily for personal endeavors, like posting pictures, videos, updates on everyday life, and talking with friends. Is there social networking for everything? New networks are popping up every day, many with specific purposes. In addition to dedicated social networks, many existing sites are also adding a social aspect as well.

Here are some industries that have recently been infiltrated by social media:

Real Estate

It only makes sense that renting or buying/selling a home or apartment would go social. In the past, if a person had a house to rent, they had to rely on a sign in the yard and word of mouth to let people know that the space was available. Now, there are several social networks dedicated to helping people find places to live. A few examples:

• Trulia, which invites response from real estate agents
• Crashpad, which can help you find an apartment as well as a roommate

Travel

Travel sites are nothing new; booking travel online has become a way of life for many people. But the social aspect of booking travel online is a relatively new scene. Sites like Trip Advisor and Home Away not only offer hotel and airline reservations, but they also have reviews of popular attractions and local businesses. Another idea that is new to the travel scene is home swapping. Website pair up people who are interested in travelling and they arrange to stay in each other’s homes, eliminating some travel costs. If this isn’t social, then I don’t know what is.

Restaurants

Social reviews of restaurants has probably been around the longest. Sites like Urbanspoon and Yelp have offered people the ability to rate and review restaurants (and with Yelp, other businesses as well) for several years now. I have to admit that Urbanspoon is one of my favorite sites to visit. It’s fun to read about other people’s experiences at restaurants. These sites can give you an idea of what to expect from the perspective of other patrons, not just food critics or the restaurant itself.

As always, it’s important to exercise caution when using any of these networks. Beware of how much personal information that you broadcast, the internet is an endless archive and once you put that information out there, it’s going to be there forever. And remember, just because a restaurant has great reviews on Urbanspoon doesn’t mean that it’s really all that great!

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Social Media is an important part of any Business. Social Media is the future. It is the biggest component of the Internet by which a Business can reach millions of people. With so many companies competing for the spotlight you need to have some clever techniques for staying at the top and get the maximum social media exposure possible. 

1. Find the right time

There are two ways to find the right time. One is to use your own experience, and the other is to use different tools. Experience is the key in most cases. The only disadvantage is that experience is built over time. You will probably run some trial and error methods for a few months before you find success.

From my experiences, for Facebook and most other social media sites, the best time to share would be when most of your friends are online. When your friends are online, they would easily see your updates and if they comment you would be available to reply to them as well. Another advantage is that people tend to be online on multiple social media sites at once. Statistically, that gives you a great opportunity to convert.

In case of Facebook pages, the most clever way to share is to first understand the locations of your fans. For example, if you’re in the US and the majority of fans are Asian, you need to keep in mind the time difference. It doesn’t help when you post an update when the majority of the Asians are asleep at night. If you have fans from all over the world, then you need to schedule your posts in a cycle. We will come onto that a little later.

People visit social media sites predominately in the morning and late evening after returning home from work. These are key times when your prospects will be online. So, keeping in mind your time zones, you need to concentrate your sharing around these times.

There are plenty of tools available, especially for Twitter, which allow you to see when most of your followers are online. One such tool is Tweriod.

2. Never Reveal Too Much – Be Descriptive Yet Short

People like way too many things and follow way too many people on Facebook and Twitter. So, naturally when they login to their accounts, they are bombarded with hundreds of updates per minute. Within those hundreds of updates your updates needs to stand out.

On Twitter, there is a 140 character limit. You need to be more descriptive and to the point so that your potential customers click on that link. Facebook, LinkedIn, and Google+ don’t have that limitation. Writing too much when you update can kill the suspense and curiosity in your reader.

You should write in such a way that it presents an opportunity for your readers to learn something new. Saying more with fewer words is the key to getting that click we all want.

3. Understand Your Own and Your Reader’s Psychology

Before trying to figure out the psychology of your readers and what they love, you should understand your own psychology.

For example, have you ever thought what kind of articles you read and why do you read them. What makes you come and read them in the first place? Was it the catchy title that everyone brags about? Was it something new? Was it your own curiosity? Was it something that’s closely related to your personal life? Just think about it.

Have you ever noticed how your readers interact with others in the social media environment. Have you ever noticed the type of updates they comment on and what they write in their comments. Reading others comments can give you an outlook of what he/she likes and he/she expects to read in the coming future.

This is applicable for any niche that you may be in.

4. Connect Your Social Media Accounts

Connecting your social media accounts is important because it helps spread your word quickly and simultaneously. Bloggers, webmasters, and business houses are very active on social media sites. Have you ever thought why?

It’s because their potential customers are lazy. Normal people come online to relax, take a break from their daily routine and chat with their friends. They don’t come online to buy something so that you can get a commission out of it. It’s a hard fact. In order to make a sale, you need to change your reader’s mindset from “Do I need it ?” to “I can’t live without it”. This is something which Apple’s late CEO Steve Jobs did with revolutionary products like IPod, IMac and Iphone.

But in order to this, you first need to get their attention. Now, the good thing is that people remain online on multiples sites like Facebook and Google+ at once. This is your chance to show them what you have to offer. Chances are they may not click your link at first glance, but when they see your updates on multiple sites, they may have a second thought and click your link to see what you have to offer. That’s why connecting your social media accounts is important.

5. Schedule Your Updates for Bigger Social Media Exposure

To run a successful business, you need diversified income and that can only happen when you have a diversified audience. The problem with having a diversified audience is that it’s difficult to reach all of them, or most of them, because of different time zones and other factors.

Scheduling your updates is the key to this. The best way to achieve is this take your best 15-20 posts and schedule them in a timely manner with suitable intervals into multiple cycles that runs for 24 hours. Next day, you take another 15-20 of your posts and do the same thing with them.

This is a great way to get some pretty big social media exposure because if someone misses one of your posts or all your posts in a cycle, then he/she can easily find it in another cycle because the cycle runs multiple times in day.

6. Advertisements

Along with social media, the art of advertisements has also changed.

On Facebook, if you have a fan page, then you can advertise your fan page or your posts. Both of them are pretty great for increasing your likes in my experience. Recently, I spent about $40 on Facebook Advertising for two of my posts from my facebook fan page. It helped me get hundreds of likes and a great amount of traffic as well. Here’s a screenshot of one of them.

For $30, it reached 16k people

If you have a budget you can easily get this started.  It gets attention fast and a lot and it’s very effective.

Conclusion

All of the tips have to be implemented simultaneously to get some decent traffic to your blog. These things takes months to develop and you can’t stop when you start getting social media traffic . You need to constantly work them for continued growth.

Lahaul Seth is an engineering student who loves to write articles on blogging tips, seo, internet marketing, social media. He is also a programmer and an addicted web developer. He is the Founder and Administrator of Lion Blogger.

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Quite a few things have changed for Facebook since the company went public almost exactly one year ago.

In addition to offering stock to employees and others who were interested, Facebook’s public trading debut has been the precursor to many changes for the company. Originally, Facebook was perceived less as a business entity and more of what we truly think of as a social network – a place for people to connect as the bottom line. Going public has obviously changed that image. Mark Zuckerberg might not have planned to own one of the biggest business success stories of the twentieth century, but he absolutely does.

Facebook is now up to approximately 1.1 billion active users and has a staff of 5,000 in its California headquarters. As a personal user, there have been many surface changes made as well.

I’ll explore a few of the changes:

More Blatant Advertising

In the past, advertising on Facebook has been a very minor annoyance, if any. Ads appeared on the right side of your screen if you were using the traditional site to browse. In the mobile app, there was virtually no advertising. This has changed with the advent of sponsored posts. Sponsored posts as well as “suggested likes” are now appearing even in the mobile version of Facebook. While it is understandable that the company has to generate revenue like any other, this change hasn’t been well received by everyone.

Search

This is the newly re-named search function in Facebook. Now through Facebook Graph Search, instead of typing in someone’s name and searching for them, there are many other ways to find people who are interested in similar things, or any number of other correlations. For example, you can now search “friends of John Smith who like canoeing” and people meeting the said criteria will show up. Interesting, but some feel as though their already somewhat precarious privacy is being invaded by the new search.

Facebook Home for Mobile

– Facebook Home is new software that you can download to your smartphone to put Facebook front and center. Some companies are also now selling phones with Facebook Home pre-installed. The software makes it so that Facebook is essentially always open on your phone. It also gives you the ability to post directly to Facebook from several other apps.

Overall, Facebook has made quite a few changes in its first year as a publicly traded company. Some have gone over well with its users and some have not. Facebook and its staff need to continue to carefully consider any changes that they make in order to keep their massive and loyal user base.

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I recently received a call from a young designer who I met when she was in art school. I reviewed her portfolio and several years later at a local graphic design group meeting, she reintroduced herself and thanked me for being kind and helpful in that review. She became an avid reader of my articles on the design business and while telling me on that phone call about a job from hell, she said she needed to “borrow (my) bastardness.“

Apparently she thought I was tough in client negotiations and thought she was being too timid with a no-win situation from which she needed to expel herself. I laughed and told her it wasn’t that I was a bastard to clients – I just knew how to face difficult situations.

“It is only one who is thoroughly acquainted with the evils of war that can thoroughly understand the profitable way of carrying it on,” I told her, as I was fond of quotes that may strike chords of easy understanding in odd situations.

“What?” she replied. It wasn’t meant to clear up her problem but to ease her opinion of my business acumen.

“It’s a quote from Sun Tsu’s (Sun Tzu) The Art of War,” I explained. “I’ve been through this many times in my career, so I know how to combat the situation.”

After some advice on how to deal with her problem and a few more Sun Tsu (pronounced Sun Sue) quotes… with detailed breakdowns of how they applied to business and dealing with clients, she followed the advice, delivered the project and got paid. A victory for her and the client survived and offered more work a few weeks later.

In the end, she learned an important lesson from Sun Tsu: “Build your opponent a golden bridge to retreat across.”

Who Was Sun Tsu?

Sun Tzu, also known as Sun Tze or Sun Wu in other translations, was a military general serving under King Helü of Wu but his life is placed somewhere in the period of 722–481 BC. He is a historical figure whose authenticity is questioned by historians. Modern scholars accept his existence and place the completion of The Art of War in the Warring States Period (476–221 BC), based on the descriptions of warfare in the text, and on the similarity of text’s prose to other works completed in the early Warring States period.

Whatever you may want to believe, the book is not only standard reading for military theorists and many great generals throughout history but has also become increasingly popular among political leaders and those in business management. Despite its title, The Art of War addresses strategy in a broad fashion, touching upon public administration and planning. Although the text outlines theories of battle, it also advocates diplomacy and cultivating relationships with other nations as essential to the health of a state.

How It Relates To Business

Are the principles of war really different from business? Planning, negotiation, outflanking, victory and restoration are key to both war and business. How often do you hear, “I’m fighting the client on these points,” “it’ll be a real battle when it comes to getting paid for all of the changes they ordered,” “we need to negotiate a few points with the client before all hell breaks out,” “that ended up as a victory instead of a bloody defeat” and other statements you’ll witness or speak during and after a project?

One of Tsu’s quotes, “the supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting,” encompasses the ultimate goal of a business negotiation. While Tsu also covers the use of deception in war, business should be absolutely transparent. The approach and process should be the utmost between client and vendor or worker and boss, but does that truly happen in reality? More often interpersonal relationships in business is more of a chess game. Some say it’s greed and fear that drives all business relationships. A sad view on business, indeed.

“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle,” wrote Tsu. Does this point to the need for transparency in all dealings or just that every consideration and angle must be understood before acting?

Acts Of War!

When a client makes an outrageous request, perhaps for free speculative work, it’s an attack on your livelihood. When scope creep begins in a project, he is invading your agreement. When milestones are not met with the required payments, your treaties have been broken. These are acts of aggression.

“Hence that general is skillful in attack whose opponent does not know what to defend; and he is skillful in defense whose opponent does not know what to attack,” according to Tsu.

When asked for speculative work, remind the client that you have hard costs that must be covered or even the “free” job costs you money. When scope creep enrages you, confront the client with costs associated with such creep. Communicate to the “enemy” the costs of aggressive intrusion and breaking the treaty (or contract, so to speak).

“Order or disorder depends on organization; courage or cowardice on circumstances; strength or weakness on dispositions.”

All negotiations start with your confidence in not only your ability to complete a project with superior results but in being paid for those results and the efforts behind them. When being asked to work for free, whether upfront for whatever reasons, or increasing your work output for no extra fee, which lowers your final tally, you must find your courage and strength and control the dispositions or you will lose. In war you lose your life. In business, you lose your livelihood, although what is it really all that different except one ends your suffering quickly.

“Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.”

Simply, know your business before negotiating. Go into talks having won because you know your bottom line! There will be pushing and taking and giving and meeting half way here and there. Unless you have a posted price list for your services, you are in the business of negotiating. Even with that, you are in the business to survive and make a profit.

“Tsu” Your Company!

“A leader leads by example, not by force,” Tsu advises future generals. Having been in a position of leadership and in positions of being led, I agree wholeheartedly as I’m sure you do, too!

Likewise, “when one treats people with benevolence, justice, and righteousness, and reposes confidence in them, the army will be united in mind and all will be happy to serve their leaders,”Tsu also wrote.

This deals with employee engagement. Who will work harder and with more loyalty? An employee who is at odds with the company because they feel threatened or because they feel they are part of the team and valued? At one large corporation for which I worked, they posted manifestos through the hallways and departments stating how the employees were “number one.” Unfortunately, employees were treated like “number two,” if you know what I mean. Engagement was almost non-existent and despite yearly surveys where employees rated treatment and confidence very low, the company refused to address the concerns. Profits sunk, layoffs increased, engagement continued to sink and eventually the company will lose the battle against competitors.

Can you count on your employer for fair treatment? Tsu obviously has a unique view: “All warfare is based on deception.”

Unfortunately, you may, if without fear of termination, want to go into the company cafeteria and shout your displeasure with how employees are treated. That’s not good advice and you won’t find it in The Art of War. However, along those lines, my uncle, as I entered my first corporate job, advised me to, “keep every piece of paper.”

I followed his advice and found that the deception of having the backup of information, although some might label it as evidence, and Tsu would call it weaponry, was vital in conflicts that arise in the workplace. The deception is doing one’s work with a happy smile and still locking the door behind you. A famous passage from some Sinbad movie is, “trust in Allah but tie up your camel.” Good advice.

As for the time when you must use such paperwork (i.e., emails, notes, post-its, corporate memos, etc.), my favored advice from Tsu is, “let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.” Let them know you mean business by feeling the tip of your spear.

Tough times force businesses to adapt but it is HOW they do it that promotes their future sustainability. To quote Sun Tsu, “anger may in time change to gladness; vexation may be succeeded by content. But a kingdom that has once been destroyed can never come again into being; nor can the dead ever be brought back to life.”

Are Coworkers “Frenemies?”

In “office politics,” there are odd interpersonal relationships between people with different personality types. As sad as it is, you have to agree that in many office situations, large and small, there are clashes between coworkers that eventually spiral out of control and someone has to win while someone has to lose. It is not always the one who is right who prevails. As with warring nations, there are allies one must seek and with who you must bond for strength and protection. The employee who stands alone is vulnerable.

Think about your present or past situation in the office. Tsu has several thoughts that will help reign in dealing with that on a daily basis.

“Supreme excellence consists of breaking the enemy’s resistance without fighting.”

Discourse in an office is met not with siding with the party that may be right but with the quickest and easiest way of ending such discourse. It is often the person who is easiest to replace who is sacrificed.

In many office situations, especially in hard economic times, those who you deal with on a daily basis and share close quarters, you will call your “friends.” Too often I hear people ask me why their “friends” have abandoned them once they have left their former company. We all experience it. Is it out of fear for one’s own existence or just proximity that creates bonds so easily broken? There is no easy explanation; only the realization that it exists and must be a consideration in all dealings in the ugly world of office politics and the allies one has to collect.

Some say the best way to stay out of trouble is to stay below the radar. In fact, it is, in my experience, those who kept their heads low in the trenches and stayed silent that survived. It was those who charged the guns of challenge and rose to champion causes of change and innovation that fell.

Tsu advises, “engage people with what they expect; it is what they are able to discern and confirms their projections. It settles them into predictable patterns of response, occupying their minds while you wait for the extraordinary moment — that which they cannot anticipate.”

“When you surround an army, leave an outlet free. Do not press a desperate foe too hard.”

If you press a coworker or supervisor too hard, even in a situation where you are in the right, you will be viewed as “combative” or “confrontational.” While it is true that you should protect your career in situations where you are accused of wrongdoing but know you are innocent of any charges, cornering your accuser, especially if they are in a management position. Part of the battle is to overcome and succeed but you must leave your foe an out and let them save face.

“Ultimate excellence lies not in winning every battle, but in defeating the enemy without ever fighting.”

“To secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.”

There were incidents over my career where I knew I had to use my enemies to tie their own nooses. After heinous meetings, I found I could either use their own confused emails against them or send an email that lured them forward into a trap. In one instance, I wrote about the disbelief of an action on the part of one enemy and sent it to another in a “divide and conquer” move. The email was returned with enough input as to act as a piece of evidence against the other person. Sometimes you must form an alliance with your enemies against a common foe. The old saying is, “the enemy of my enemy is my friend.” That wasn’t Sun Tsu, as far as I know but it fits into his teachings.

“If you wait by the river long enough, the bodies of your enemies will float by.”

Everyone eventually gets what’s coming to them. I’ve seen horrid managers who seem to cruise through their careers. I’ve cursed the powers for letting good people leave or be fired due to these wastes of human flesh but, I have also seen these people eventually fall and they fall hard, never to regain the same position, money or power and to them, that is worse then death.

“He who knows when he can fight and when he cannot, will be victorious.”

Sometimes, you just have to let things go. Don’t sweat the small stuff. Even small battle have a winner and a loser. Any general will tell you that small skirmishes will only drag out a war and be too costly. Actually, Tsu has another apt quote on that (as if you couldn’t guess): “There is no instance of a country having benefited from prolonged warfare.”

Be A Leader By Example

“When one treats people with benevolence, justice, and righteousness, and reposes confidence in them, the army will be united in mind and all will be happy to serve their leaders.”

“Hence a commander who advances without any thought of winning personal fame and withdraws in spite of certain punishment, whose only concern is to protect his people and promote the interests of his ruler, is the nation’s treasure. Because he fusses over his men as if they were infants, they will accompany him into the deepest valleys; because he fusses over his men as if they were his own beloved sons, they will die by his side. If he is generous with them and yet they do not do as he tells them, if he loves them and yet they do not obey his commands, if he is so undisciplined with them that he cannot bring them into proper order, the will be like spoiled children who can be put to no good use at all.”

There was a general, although I don’t remember who, that insisted he live like his soldiers, eating the same food, living in the same tent, wearing the same clothing and suffering the same hours and elements. He said it was so he would know how far they could be pushed. Aside from that knowledge, he had the side effect of having his army admire and respect him and so, they fought harder and followed all of his orders without question.

Think about when difficult assignments come your way. Are you given a task that is impossible and your manager walks away, expecting it to be done without question? How much grumbling do you do? How many shortcuts do you take? Do you truly care about winning?

“The control of a large force is the same principle as the control of a few men: it is merely a question of dividing up their numbers.”

As a leader, it is important to play to people’s strengths. Whether a large department or small, dividing numbers and assigning jobs based on people’s strengths will create a strong and effective force.

Is one designer great at type but terrible at color? Pair them with someone who is the opposite and the team will create top level work. Create “squads” of people to work as a team, based on individual strengths and the whole will be stronger and more productive then just the individuals.

When The Battle Is Over

So, is war truly like business? In war we see the best and worst of humanity. There is cruelty, barbarism, sadism, heroism and self-sacrifice in both. Wars eventually end and the rebuilding begins. Every conqueror in history has always kept an eye towards what happens when the enemy is vanquished. How trade and commerce and normalcy will be restored under changed territorial lines. Over the past couple of millennium, leaders have realized the truth of an aforementioned quote, “… a kingdom that has once been destroyed can never come again into being; nor can the dead ever be brought back to life.”

In business there are liars, backstabbers, thieves, scammers, ruthless people, sadists, heroes, mentors and those who seek to innovate for the good of the company and coworkers.

“The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace,” as Tsu wrote, “whose only thought is to protect his country and do good service for his sovereign, is the jewel of the kingdom.”

It was said after ten years of the Vietnam War, that battlefield medical actions and innovation helped evolve the treatments and knowledge of the medical field by over 100 years due to the forced need to keep the wounded alive. When dealing with bullet and shrapnel wounds, front line doctors and nurses had to rely on quick innovative methods to save lives. Experimentation was the only avenue available when a soldier teetered on the edge of death and traditional methods of medicine just wouldn’t work. War, in this case, pushed innovation out of necessity. In business, survival should also drive innovation.

Unfortunately, there are those who stop at nothing to suppress innovation, control power and destroy others merely for self-satisfaction. The “enemy,” so to speak. If you wish to survive their declaration of war upon you and emerge victorious from their attacks and campaign of battles, I suggest you pick up a copy of Sun Tsu: The Art of War. There are numerous books and articles available on becoming a better businessperson. You’ll find most are based on the man who said,“Thus we may know that there are five essentials for victory: (1) He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight. (2) He will win who knows how to handle both superior and inferior forces. (3) He will win whose army is animated by the same spirit throughout all its ranks. (4) He will win who, prepared himself, waits to take the enemy unprepared. (5) He will win who has military capacity and is not interfered with by the sovereign.”

Speider Schneider  writes about web design, technology, social media, and business ethics for global blogs.

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Guest blogging is fast becoming a powerful tool to get more traffic to your site as well as bump up your search engine ranking. Guest blogging can also be a fun way to share ideas and content with people who have similar interests. It is also being use commonly for businesses, as a way to link-share and gain business interest and customers for all parties involved.

Guest Blogging Tips

Here are a few do’s and don’ts when it comes to contributing to a blog and accepting guest posts:

Do be timely. It’s important to establish a guest blogging schedule or timetable that everyone agrees to.

Don’t be selfish. Most guest blogging relationships are a 2-way street, unless one party is offering payment to the others. Offer to reciprocate if someone guest blogs for you.

Do invite guest bloggers who will benefit from the relationship.

Don’t just ask anyone and everyone to guest blog in order to get more traffic. It won’t be beneficial in the long run.

Do contribute quality content as a guest blogger. It won’t help anyone’s hits or search ranking to host a poorly written article.

Don’t just write about anything – to write the perfect post for your guest blog, carefully consider your audience and gear your post towards them.

Do come back and check for comments. Being an active guest blogger is appreciated, and your host blogger may not feel comfortable answering questions directed specifically to you.

Don’t forget to be polite to the readers of the site you are blogging for.

Building Relationships through Guest Blogging

Guest blogging can be a onetime relationship, or it can be ongoing. Either way, it’s possible for both parties to benefit from the swap or post. Guest blogging can be a fun experience.

If you do decide to approach other writers about guest blogging, there are a few matters of decorum that you should consider. Don’t be overly complementary or sickly sweet. Just lay out the facts as to why you think you would be a good guest blogger for their site or vice versa.

If they see value in the relationship, great, if not, move on to the next one. It’s also wise to start small. Start with blogs that have about the same readership as yours or a little less or more. Of course, we all want to guest blog for the big sites because it will equal a larger increase in readership, but it’s often best to get your feet wet with smaller blogs first.

You can also send writing samples or topic ideas with your guest blogging pitch, this way, the blog writers can see what kind of content you can contribute to their site before they make a decision.

Happy guest blogging!

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