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There are so many Social Media tools out there, coming up with a profile and reputation building strategy is a good way to approach it. Why not just dabble a bit in everything? Dabbling in a bit of this and a bit of that ‘can’ be good but if you spend time and effort really building [...]

There are plenty of ways to get traffic online. Sure, you can pay for it but you can also get Free Online Traffic. Very often, the free traffic is the best type because it can be pre-qualified and go really viral. Here are some tips that can help you get more traffic without having to pay [...]

Article Marketing is a fantastic way to increase your online success. It does several things for an internet marketer: • Pre-sells potential customers on a product you’d like to sell them. • Establishes you as a subject matter expert. • Sends traffic to your website. • Increases the number of links pointing to your website which could increase your [...]

Are you using FaceBook to get back in touch with old high school friends and chat up family and friends? You could also be using it for your Internet Marketing efforts. If you’re not yet using it, here are some ideas to get you started: Update your status line on FaceBook with your other web 2.0 microblogging [...]

The web 2.0 movement has spawned a lot of social marketing tools that some people just don’t ‘get’.  Microblogging might be one of them. If you’re not on the micro blogging bandwagon, you might just be missing out on something fantastic. Tell The World What You’re Doing in 140 Characters Or Less Well, why? Why does the [...]

If you want to succeed in internet marketing, making online friends can help you. Once you make online friends, it can get you some great results such as: Get you new leads Get you help in the social sphere Help You sell more stuff Get help with problems Get new leads when you stay in touch in online water coolers [...]

Being an active member of an online community such as MySpace can take up valuable amounts of time each week. Some people end up getting sucked into spending more time on these sites than they do promoting their business and figuring out how they can sell more online. There’s a point when social marketing and Web 2.0 can turn into a time waster.

Too Many Online Communities?

That’s where you need to be wary of how many online communities you join. There is no definite number, and what one person finds to be unmanageable might be just the right amount for someone else.

The key to getting the most out of your own online communities is to find out what your happy number is. If you get to the stage where keeping up with them all is getting difficult – and your work is suffering as a result – then you know you’ve got too many.

It can also depend on how particular online communities are set up. Some are much easier to understand and use than others, and by their very nature it’s going to be the easy to use ones that will get to stay if you find you need to start paring down your efforts in this area.

Get the Best Response

But you should also consider which sites get you the best response, and funnel the largest amount of traffic over to your website. Those will ultimately be the ones that should stay, since they are bringing in the largest volume of interested people.

Social networking has great potential when it comes to locating the target audience for whatever you are selling. When the sites don’t allow you to advertise directly to other members, you can still make a name for yourself because people will start looking for you and your website.

So choose your online communities wisely. Sometimes less really can be more.