Would you consider an online forum a ‘social network’? If so, well not millions (yet) but investing time on, in our case, DIY-forums by giving free advice (and when appropriate linking to our own site and/or blog) we’ve seen a good increase in DIY-clients from all over the UK.

Worth a thought IMHO

Karin H.

Kenneth – agree totally. I used to spend a lot of time on Digg, Reddit, Newsvine etc etc… and after ananlysis found I was getting didly squat from all that effort in terms of visits. And the back links I got were not worth the time it took.

I even tried software to help with the submissions process but after all the hype on the sales letter for that software about how quick and easy it makes Web2.0 submissions…. after purchasing it, the help file pointed out you must not submit frequently of you run the spam/blacklisting gauntlet.

I was waiting for someone to comment here about the millions they’re making by submitting to social networking sites — but I think I may be in for a long wait.

Certainly in my experience there are much faster ways of getting traffic (I wrote about the main ones in my book) and as Karin said, a lot of those ways result in a social effect anyway.

Thank you for both commenting – really appreciate it.

-Ed.

It becomes a game in itself that sucks time from what you should be going. Entrecard has gone that way.

Kenneth

Would like to add something to this: if you implement various ideas from your book effectively my guess is that your products, services almost automagically end up on those so-called social network sites due to the – hopefully – massive word-of-mouth your ‘fans’ start generating
And it doesn’t even costs you more efforts

Karin H. (Keep It Simple Sweetheart, specially in business)