Everyone has a story to tell right? So there must be a lot of static over the airwaves, how will you make your message stand out? How can you get others to relay the message, champion your cause?

Bloggers

Being new to the game has lead to the exploration of the community of bloggers recommended to me by other twitter users. I’ve found a wealth of information created by intelligent individuals, which they provide for free. Its easy to figure out why this information is free, each blogger is most likely trying to create a name for themselves on the internet, and in the business world. So how do you get the to champion your message or your personal brand? One of the most successful methods I’ve found is the use of their own messages to bring them around to you!

From experience you know that each time someone talks about you personally, there is a psychological obligation to explore his or her own online profile. This may be their Facebook, Twitter, or blog. The reasoning behind the exploration is the need to figure out why this person would champion your idea. I’ve personally found many ideas and blog posts I have retweeted or championed for another, even with no ties with that person, often a thank you is sent back. Once you create that initial connection a relationship is easy if you pursue it. The ability to champion another’s idea is easy to execute as well as effective in the ability to create traffic and soldiers for your cause.

In a world with billions of voices the ability to make your idea viral is key to the creation of a tidal wave of voices shouting your message.

Coordination is the key, making a small wave is not the goal. You have to have all of your outlets working together. An example would be that your WordPress account notifies your Twitter, which notifies your Facebook. That way you can create a movement that will go across all of your available outlets. Using your blogger relationships you can create circles where people with influence online will retweet all of your posts and create traffic for you. Orchestrating a web of outlets allows for increased efficiency and further ability to create relationships with other bloggers expanding your community. As you build your circle of retweeters each of your blog posts could eventyoually reach thousands of readers.

Create new content, please your readers. Champion others ideas ad posts and build your tidal wave.

Who is your target audience? When are they on Twitter, Stumble, or Digg? These are things you need to know, why post a blog or tweet about something important when no one is looking?

Twitter

Traffic generation from Twitter is best from 11am-5pm central time, as stated by many research sites, which conclude that it is because people are at work, slackers. In good sprit I suggest adding re-tweets as well as original content you have found from other blogs or websites. So you don’t seem like a self-promoting jerk.

From my experience my blog, on the other hand, gets the most hits from 3pm-6pm and 8pm-1am. This is strange I agree, I suppose my visitors check in before and after dinner? Maybe my blog is the dinner conversation, ah wishful thinking! I will take this knowledge I’ve gained from the friendly programmers at Google and adjust my tweet pattern you should do the same.

Facebook Fan Page

The Facebook phenomenon, you have a fan page, yay! So one strange thing, which I dislike about Facebook, is that the most traffic is late night 8pm to 11pm. What gives? I automated my Twitter with my Facebook and LinkedIn, but alas they have different traffic patterns. The best idea is to adjust; you want to show up on their news feeds don’t you.

Digg

Based on a research paper published by HP Social Computing lab, I guess people Digg things at the same time as they Tweet. The highest traffic is around weekday afternoons, during “work.” No surprises there but consider the way you get submitted, its one thing to submit yourself, woo-hoo, its another to get naturally discovered, your site is worth more to an algorithm if found by unique people. I know harsh, don’t cheat the system it will fight back and never put you in the rotation. You have been warned. I don’t know if there is a Digg “best practices” but you can link your blog or website in comments, as with any social tool, I recommend staying relevant to the topic discussed and providing good content or else its just spam.

Stumble

So you’re creating a stumble account and stumbling your own posts? Not recommended. Apparently the SU algorithm tracks repeat postings, something I learned very recently. Well what can you do?!? Internet crawling has let me to believe that there are prolific users of stumble, unique and wonderful creatures called, cue god voice “Stumble Power Users.” What in gods name is that? It’s a stumbler who consistently writes detailed review while they thumbs up or down. Repeat, repeat, repeat and bam you’re a “Power User.”

The key is to find favor with these stumble gods, find them, network and ask them to check out your stuff! I know, more networking, get used to it.

Per the usual recommendation, its best to be stumbled during early morning and afternoon, does anyone actually do work?

Reactions

My late night researching has led me to believe that sites like Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter are very powerful. The flipside is things like Digg and Stumble can create much more unique traffic for your site, utilize them well in combination with unique content and you will have a viral blog or website.

With all of this content squeezed into your brain, will you submit me to Digg and Stumble if you have a moment? J