How to push Messages via Shareaholic

Overview:

I felt it necessary to show some love to a Tool that I use on a daily basis, that has asked very little of me, as far as compensation goes. This tool can speed through your push marketing efforts in not time, not to mention the reach you get by using it (and your boss will love you for it too).

Shareaholic for Firefox, is probably the only add-on for Social Push Marketing that you may ever need. This thing is like a Tonka truck for Social Media (sorry ladies-boy reference). Once you setup your sites that you would like the ability to push to, its a snap to get your message out to the masses quickly. Lets take a look at what it is first though and the possible reach you can have using the tool.

How To:

Go to Firefox>Tools>Add-Ons and search in the “Get Add Ons” button to access and download the tool. Then, setup all of your Social Sites that you use, LinkedIn, Bit.ly, Twitter, and so on for easy access right from the icon in your browser. When you are at a website that you want to share, just click the little icon in Firefox to access and push any url to any Social site you wish-it truly is tht simple.

Reach and the Power of Push Marketing:

Now for the reach part… think about this for a moment, you write a blog post (yes I will be using it shortly after I finish this one), and you want to let your audience, friends, followers know of the masterpiece you just completed. With a few clicks from Shareaholic, you can send it to bit.ly to shorten the url for reduced character counts, push that right from bit.ly to Twitter for followers to see (15,240 Followers of mine will see it-let’s keep count here).

Next, you want to send it to some connections on Linkedin to let them know how proud you are of the piece you just finished, again using Shareaholic, its really easy. Here you have a few choices to make on the LinkedIn portion-for me I have 10,000 connections in 1st degree, so it would be impossible for me to sit there and type in 50 at time names for me to send it to, but if you have a smaller network this should be a snap. So I choose to push to my Groups, of which I have 49 (Invited to over 1,200 at one point), and I carefully choose which Groups would find this relevant and useful. By selecting the Group, and putting in a short comment, each group member will see this as a notification on their Home Page, then when they visit the Group under the “News” section again. Take note that many do not use this feature, which gives you a leg up (at least until the others read this). Numbers here for me across my Groups are well over 800,000 members in total across 49 Groups. Se if you sent it to every relevant Group you have that’s at least 800,000 people seeing your message (add that one to 15,240).

NOTE: Make sure you add a “Comment” in the box, which let’s a Discussion be started and goes on front page of Linkedin

I won’t bore you with the other add-ons, search it out and you will see how you can power up your push marketing quickly and efficiently, by having this little baby in your toolbar.

Measurement and Costs to You:

So, within 5 minutes or so of you writing your masterpiece post or article, you can share this with (in my case) almost a million eyeballs-FREE. Are you kidding?

Let me know some of the other ways you have found Firefox Add-ons useful, as well as other “Sharing” tools. I love this stuff. Video below from Steve Anderson, “Renegade Aussie” on how he uses Shareaholic with the ProBlogger site as an example.

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