Take a look at your Twitter feed for one minute and you will notice that some of the hottest topics today are “social media” and “personal branding”. Everyone and their grandmothers are looking to promote themselves or their products through social media channels these days. The problem is the majority of these people tweet a few times, create a new Facebook Page and get discouraged when only their friends support the cause.  There is a better way!

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While we’re working extra hard to finish strong before the year is out, rushing to get all our holiday needs accommodated for Thanksgiving and Christmas; sometimes it can be a little hard to remember what this holiday is all about. Well just a quick reminder; Thanksgiving is about giving thanks! And in our fast paced lifestyles we can still do a few things to easily give thanks and show our appreciation of others this time of year.

Have you ever “TwitPic’d” something?

What about sent a link to a YouTube video out on Twitter?

If you’re like most people you’re probably saying “YEAH, plenty of times!” Well, YouTube and TwitPic would like to thank you for building their site traffic and making them a ton of money. But that’s the problem… You don’t even get a thank you from those sites and you’re doing all their branding and traffic generation for them.

I find Twitter to be a HUGE leverage point for young entrepreneurs to build instant credibility. By using Twitter, I have found business partners, constantly get sent tons of free stuff (books, cd’s, food, etc.), made money, drove tons of traffic to my blog, been invited to private parties, met my idol, been on radio and TV shows and the list goes on and on. The only reason if you believe Twitter does not work, is if you don’t work. Plain and simple. You must have a reason to be on it in the first place or you will end up like a lost child in a theme park.

There are 40,000 new blogs started everyday. Pretty impressive number. My question is how many of those stick? Some tend to say blogging is a dying species. I say it is evolving and exploding. No one wants to create a blog that lands in the internet graveyards after the first post.

Every single young entrepreneur should have a blog. In my honest opinion, there is no faster way to get your name out there and to start making some noise in your industry. To make it successful, it must be content rich. This means you are not in it just to make money…

One of the most underutilized tools in the social media strategies employed by entrepreneurs and community leaders is the niche social network. It’s like having a Facebook like site for your brand or industry. Businesses exist within communities, and struggle every day to find ways to add value to those communities and to effectively engage with their audience. A social network can be the perfect way to accomplish all of these goals in one place.