In a move that stunned many of his fans, Alejandro Reyes announced that he was selling his hit social media blog Successfool.com to the highest bidder!
In a live stream show that included a lot of nose blowing and emotional outbursts from the viewers, Alejandro explained how he was no longer going to brand himself as SuccessFool because he was spending too much time on television and radio.
The exciting part about all of this is that Alejandro is proving that using social media correctly will place you in a position to be able to impact a larger audience… especially a local audience. But he shouldn’t stop there.
It would be great to see him take to the airwaves with his very own radio show, and then move to television. I think Alejandro has what it takes to draw in a large national audience! So thanks for the great times on Successfool.com, Alejandro and may your 2010 be even bigger than 2009!
Wordpress announced version 2.9 last week and I upgraded a few of my blogs to it. So far it has been working fine for me, but I am using a specific set of paid plugins, so most of my blogs have remained at version 2.8.6 because I am awaiting the word from my plugin manufacturers. But here is why you might have to wait a little longer.
Wordpress is already beta testing 2.9.1 and will have it rolled out very quickly because of a problem they have found with curl not working properly in some cases. Curl is a php function that many of the plugins that we use take advantage of, especially in the social media world! I know that WP-Ping.fm needs curl to work properly, so if you know that some of your plugins are dependent on curl, you may want to wait until the release of 2.9.1 to get your blog up to date.
I have noticed that version 2.9 (on the couple of blogs where I didn’t need the plugins) runs very efficiently, and my importing of RSS feeds is working very well, with no problems.
So if you are a social networking maven and you use your blog as your social hub, I recommend you hold off and stay with 2.8.6 of Wordpress until the release of the next update to Wordpress.
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When I started out 2009, my goal was to increase my brand awareness using social media. The plan was to create accounts for myself on various social networks with links pointing back to my blog in the profile. This strategy is very sound and has provided a lot of great attention to my blog when I used it correctly.
One afternoon in October, I received a $26 commission from eBay and I was surprised. I had only been advertising eBay on 3 blogs and I had not seen that much traffic to these blogs. But apparently I had done something that caused my blog posts to attract buying eBay customers. What had happened was that my Social Net Effect plugins were sending my blog posts to social networks and the people searching for specific items were being alerted about closing auctions and were buying.
Now this got me to thinking that I had been creating blogs for some time, but not all of them had their own twitter accounts created for them. Thus, by having social network accounts for each of the niche blogs, I was in fact making it possible to have the results appearing on the scene immediately when a post was going on my blog, which meant more buyers heading to eBay to make purchases.
After experimenting, I found that the higher the price of the items you are driving traffic to on eBay, the better you are doing with earnings per click, which is what eBay pays out in their current structure. So if you can set up your blog to communicate to the social networks on a regular basis and you are communicating relevant, up to date content, you are more likely to drive a lot of high value clicks to eBay’s partner network and generate a significant income.
