Comments on: Should You Post Affiliate Links in Your Facebook Status? http://www.nextlevelblogger.com/should-you-post-affiliate-links-in-your-facebook-status/ Blog tips and internet marketing strategy from Christian Russell Mon, 19 Jul 2010 18:35:18 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Christian Russell http://www.nextlevelblogger.com/should-you-post-affiliate-links-in-your-facebook-status/#comment-2564 Christian Russell Sat, 03 Jul 2010 21:28:44 +0000 http://www.nextlevelblogger.com/?p=199#comment-2564 Right on Jim. I do appreciate your comment. I can see how this would be taken the wrong way. I'm not against monetizing your social media presence on principle, but I write primarily for small biz owners who are running a business and using social media and blogging as a means of marketing their business. So many are concerned with how to "monetize" their blogs and such that they get distracted from their actual business plan. If you have a high profile presence and want to monetize your feed with ads of various sorts, it's legit as long as you disclose what you're doing. But if you're a small business owner who sells books or consulting or houses, etc, and you're so concerned with making a few bucks here and there that you resort to blasting affiliate links to your list of 200 people, you're barking up the wrong tree :-) Right on Jim. I do appreciate your comment. I can see how this would be taken the wrong way. I’m not against monetizing your social media presence on principle, but I write primarily for small biz owners who are running a business and using social media and blogging as a means of marketing their business. So many are concerned with how to “monetize” their blogs and such that they get distracted from their actual business plan.

If you have a high profile presence and want to monetize your feed with ads of various sorts, it’s legit as long as you disclose what you’re doing. But if you’re a small business owner who sells books or consulting or houses, etc, and you’re so concerned with making a few bucks here and there that you resort to blasting affiliate links to your list of 200 people, you’re barking up the wrong tree :-)

]]> By: Jim http://www.nextlevelblogger.com/should-you-post-affiliate-links-in-your-facebook-status/#comment-2563 Jim Sat, 03 Jul 2010 17:54:58 +0000 http://www.nextlevelblogger.com/?p=199#comment-2563 It really depends on the magnitude of this. This post sounds a little bitter and misguided. I think there are plenty of opportunities to capitalize on those mediums, but you have to build your brand - which is probably different than what you were trying to get across in this post... but I feel it came across wrong. It really depends on the magnitude of this. This post sounds a little bitter and misguided. I think there are plenty of opportunities to capitalize on those mediums, but you have to build your brand – which is probably different than what you were trying to get across in this post… but I feel it came across wrong.

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