 You may notice that I have a new badge on the left side of this blog. I am sharing, gracefully, the 2008 Social Media Ninja award that is given out by the folks over at Collective Thoughts, the latest rave in social media blogs. I believe that I got the popular vote at 20, at least what is showing, in the comments at the voting post titled Social Media Ninjas - Unite!. I share this award with another good friend of mine Ann, aka SEOSmarty. Just a short note on Ann. I think it is remarkable that someone with a persona starting with "SEO" wins anything to do with social media. Sometimes I think the social crowds imagine there is a fence between SEO and social media marketing. I think that is changing. So, everyone is wondering how I did it, right? I will tell you. I pulled out my "friends" trump cards. 1. I placed a link at the top of my blog at Bart The Bear Says asking for your vote. 2. I shared the post with my friend's list over at Stumbleupon asking for their vote. The post, Social Media Ninjas - Unite, where Collective Thoughts announced the candidates for the award, was submitted by Kimberly, aka spostareduro. With 17 reviews and 50 votes in Stumbleupon, this probably sent a wave of traffic over to Collective Thoughts due to the Stumble Effect. I usually get about 2,000 to 7,000 unique visits at this level. I am not claiming responsibility for all of the votes and reviews for this post. I just helped things along. 3. Did not vote or comment over at Mixx.com...until today. I think I remember sharing it with my list of 300+ Mixx friends asking them to vote for BartTheBear. 4. I got embroiled in a discussion about the courtesy of leaving a comment with voting a topic down, which I wrote about in the blog post titled Hitting A Social Media Nerve and got some very controversial exposure with my blog from the Mixx.com post titled Social Media - Dealing With The Negative Vote. I am sure a lot of people were watching this. It sits at 80 votes which I think is pretty high for a Mixx post. 5. I then delivered a post titled Secrets Of Stumbleupon - Going Viral and shared it with my friends list over at Stumbleupon, giving my vote request link in #1 above a second round. Stumbleupon topics always draw a great number of readers for me. I seem to have developed a following and am sitting at 265 Stumbleupon friends. This includes the 200 that reciprocate friendship. 6. Lastly, and these are the folks who have known and supported me for the longest time, I announced the birth of my new persona "BartTheBear" over at the Plug In Profit Site forum after changing my forum signature read "Bart The Bear Says". They saw the vote link in my blog and I got a number of votes. I could and should write an ebook about Stumbleupon. A lot of my friends are in both Stumbleupon and Mixx. Thinking that I usually get about a 10% response to the requests that I send or share over at Stumbleupon and at Mixx, I figured that I could get at least 20 votes. That is exactly what I got according to the comments over at collective thoughts. I am wondering if there were any votes emailed? I thought I had a chance to get this award if I executed my campaign effectively. Bottom line, I used my network of friends to generate traffic and gather votes. This is the same thing that the politicians are doing with social media for the current election. Maybe BartTheBear should be running for President? I want to thank all of those who participated and especially my own network of friends for supporting me in this adventure. Friends rock! Isn't that what social media and social networking is supposed to be all about?
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12 Comments:
Congrats!!! I voted for you, just because you are the Social Media Ninja.
5:39 PM
Great Job bartThe Bear, we knew you had it in you. Of course all the wonderful information you give us had something to do with it.
5:58 PM
Grats on winning... I kind of dropped off the face of the earth and forgot that was going on... But I did get 3 votes anyway so that gave me the warm fuzzy feeling. You deserve it for sure :D
-Dave Winget
6:12 PM
Hi SMM! Thanks for the vote!
6:13 PM
Great job Bart. Glad to hear you won, always enjoy your posts on social media and networking.
To your success in 2008!
Matthew Sherborne
8:51 PM
Congratulations on the award. I love SU traffic. About 20% of my blog traffic is residual stumblers from posts that went popular months ago. A few visits to the Buzz page doesn't hurt either.
11:04 PM
Killer! Way to go Bart!
11:52 PM
Grats Bart for the award, you truly deserved it, as you clearly used best SM to your advantage.
4:04 AM
Bravo Bear! No one deserves the recognition more so than you.
Congrats!
Doug Gorman
5:41 AM
Congrats Bart. I saw the voting and was like wow, I need to check this guy out.
BTW, how in the world is a smart guy like you involved with PIPS?
11:46 AM
Thank you all for your kind words.
Gab,
I wanted to work from home. Getting involved with the Plug In Profit Site was the smartest thing that I could come up with. I also bought SEO Elite 4.0 software early in the game. I continue to use this wonderful tool.
Where else can you go but the Plug In Profit Site to learn everything there is to know about internet marketing, making money online, and get the support (Warrior Forum) to do it? It is a great package
Ironically, I am taking my SEO and social media marketing talents on the road and looking for a new job.
Anyone want to hire a guy that has 3,775 well placed search phrases in Google for his website?
Check out my stats in Seo Digger.
Len, aka BartTheBear
3:19 PM
Wow! @.@...That's Awesome Bart! Congratulations!..Keep it up!
2:44 PM
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