Self promotion in ten minutes a day

Here's how I promote myself on social media - mostly Twitter and Linkedin. I write a blog post in my area of expertise - in my case, writing SEO press releases. I post in on my blog. I shrink the link via bit.ly because bit.ly also lets me track how many people click on the link.

Then, I tweet links to the blog post and also post a link on Facebook - I use ping.fm, which can simultaneously update all of your social networking sites at the same time.

I say something like "Here's a link to my latest blog post - how to write an SEO press release - retweet if you find it useful!"

I generally get anywhere from several dozen visitors to several hundred visitors from each tweet/Linkedin post. These are very targeted visitors -they chose to click on that link or post. Some of these visitors turn into customers!

And it's as simple as that, folks. If you are writing about an area where you truly are an expert and you have good info to share - whether it be SEO or organic gardening - it shouldn't take more than a few minutes to write that post.

Oh, another tip - I link to popular old posts of mine ALL THE TIME. Nobody complains "Oh, I read that before!" because they probably missed it the first time. Only a tiny percentage of my Twitter followers/Linkedin connections are going to see each link that I tweet. Using old posts saves me time, and it helps spread good, truly useful information.