Learn To Use Social Media Tools and Social Networking Strategies To Promote Your Business & Attract More Customers

Cover via Amazon A few weeks ago when Gary Vaynerchuk @garyvee of Wine Library TV, announced that he was coming to Seattle on October 20th as part of this book tour for his first book, Crush It! I was really jazzed. Then when he asked me to rally the peeps in the Seattle area about him coming to to...

My good friend, Doug Firebaugh, recently wrote an incredible piece about dreams and the home business life. I couldn’t keep his goodness to myself today, so I’m sharing it with you! :) If you haven’t been to Doug’s website, Passionfire.com, you are missing out!!!! So much killer training and persona...

Going through my bookmark file of blog posts, I realized I could easily create one of those "My 1001 favorite social media posts" that all the gurus say you should do when creating a list...make it big...make it huge! Well...that's not my style. I'll ALWAYS prefer quality over quantity! Instead t...

In today's economy, there really is no better time to become an entrepreneur and utilizing social media networking to build a business online. With the growth of social media and networking online, it's fairly safe to say that people WANT to use social media marketing to make a living online and fro...

Wow, another week has passed. Where did the first half of 2009 go? I've spent a lot of my 2009 working out in our organic veggie gardens and diving into the new fitness social network of Team Beachbody. Super cool. But when I'm not blogging, on the phone about business, or even sleeping...I'm readin...

Welcome to Social Networking Lifestyle - the Blog that helps people use social networking methods to develop income streams from their passions through social media. My name is Timothy Carter and I’m a full time social media networker from Seattle making a living from this new and dynamic way ...

EVERYONE has been talking about needing more money, the recession, getting laid off, hearing about more layoffs, the mortgage crisis and it just continues. My wife was even the casualty of being laid off. Several million people and counting have been DEEPLY impacted by what they call an economic cri...

Do you know how to use Social Media & Social Marketing for success in your business? You will when you read and use these 7 Universal Laws. There are lots of differing opinions about how to be successful with Social Media and Social Marketing, and whether it is worth it at all. To that en...

In Social Media Marketing -Words are powerful. Even more than we realize. There are 7 words that are CRUCIAL to making your social media marketing efforts successful, whether you own’a traditional business, a home business, or work for a business. And many do not even know them let alone use th...

I have hundreds of friends (shocking I know) that actually DO NOT understand the why of Twitter. I found this video about Twitter that was so good...I had to post it. :) Well? What do you think of the explanation of what Twitter is in plain English? Beneficial? Annoying?...

YouTube is a great addition to your Social Marketing plan and a great way to drive loads of traffic. At the same time, their are lots of mistakes you can make that limit the amount of traffic coming your way. Let's take a look at 3 of the most common YouTube mistakes and what to do instead: ...

Surfing through YouTube last night, I wanted to see what people were creating content about "social media" recently, and I stumbled upon this masterpiece that I had to share with you. It truly captures the fundamental shift that social media has had on the way we communicate. I contend it's IMP...

Talking and and Listening drive social Media. Combined you have what is called Conversation-both offline and online. Conversation has been something that most of us have been very good at, and have found it natural to do. Some are good at it. Some are really good at it. Until we go onl...

Social Marketing is a powerful force for traffic generation, list building and creating online visibility. And your blog is a powerful part of your social media system. It seems like some people forget that their blog is a significant part of their Social Marketing. Even when online marketers...