Muhammad Saleem, the Social Media Maven, tells listeners tips on using social media effectively. (Follow Muhammad on Twitter)

Special thanks to Muhammad Saleem for his input and time to tell us all about basic Social Media tips.

5 Basic Social Media Steps anyone can use:

1. Building Relationships
2. Being a part of a community
3. Understanding the dynamics of different communities
4. Sharing the right kind of content
5. Voting and commenting on other peoples content

Social Media Manual: 10 Steps to take to become the Next Social Media Maven

Why Do you love Social Media?

The community aspects: you become a part of the whole process of submitting, voting, commenting, engaging and being a part of the process of opinion on things you’re interested in or passionate about.
3 Tips for Beginning to Intermediate Social Media Marketers

• Understand the community before you start participating: what the age demographic is, what stories are popular, avoid mistakes
• Build relationships with other visitors: talk to people, IM, comment on their stories, bookmark their stuff
• Make sure your main goal is to not just promote yourself: create value for the community by submitting other peoples stuff, vote and comment on other peoples stuff, be part of the community, share content from other people to create value that doesn’t come directly back to you - it’s more than just scratching one another’s back - it’s bigger than that

How does effective SMO influence a website’s presence?

• Traffic, Traffic, Traffic: 10s of Thousands of Unique vistors, thousands of page views on a post
• Building links: hundreds to thousands of links - the more links you have, the higher you get ranked in search, which makes long-term organic traffic from search engines.

“Too many people that are Expecting Value without Creating Value.”

Thanks again for your information Muhammad. Stay tuned for more podcasting at MollerMarketing.com.

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Stay tuned…tomorrow I will be posting an interview with the “Social Media Maven” Muhammad Saleem.  He is one of the Top Diggers, Top Stumblers, and basically Top Social Media Gurus in the industry.  In the interview we talk about what beginners should know about Social Media Marketing for their websites.  Muhammad gives his advice on which social media tools to use,  he talks about strategy, and much more.

Here are some other bits of information from his resume:

present experience:

author, copyblogger.com, may 2007 - present
-copywriting tips for online marketing success (statistics)

author, pronetadvertising.com, january 2007 - present
editor, pronetadvertising.com, march 2007 - present
-social media news and marketing (statistics)

author, newassignment.net, november 2006 - present
-open-source reporting gets tested

netscape navigator, netscape.com, august 2006 - present
-professional social bookmarking

past experience:

author, 901am.com, december 2006 - april 2007
-new media news every morning (statistics)

author, themulife.com, september 2006 - january 2007
-experience social media, minus all the static

author, blogherald.com, november 2006 - december 2006
-the premium source for blogging news and commentary (statistics)

education:

the university of chicago, chicago, il., a.b. in economics, june 9, 2007

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I found this really cool picture while doing my daily Stumbling. If you haven’t already, I recommend you set up a StumbleUpon account and use it to build your online reputation. One thing I’m attempting to do more of is find cool stuff like this that can help my clients realize that building a business is fun, it’s exciting, and there are NO RULES on how it has to be done. Just because your friend, family member, or whoever says it can’t be done doesn’t mean they’re right.

As I think back to the first few days, weeks, and months of my dance bags and clogging shoes website, I remember some of the initial reactions I received about my ideas: “A clogging and dance website - how you going to make money with that?” or “No one’s going to buy shoes online without trying them on first.” or “What’s clogging?” This could have really had an effect on my decision but thank goodness it didn’t or I wouldn’t be sitting here at 11:50 p.m.

The best part about getting negative feedback like that to me is thinking: “I’ll prove you ALL wrong - watch me succeed!” I know certain people who doubted my ideas initially are now full of questions every time I see them - “When can you help me build my site? How’s ClogOn? What else do you have going on these days?” I just chuckle and remember how doubtful they were before. EXPECT SUCCESS!

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