How StumbleUpon Benefits Your Business

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How StumbleUpon Benefits Your Business About the author Eirik Vold started his first business with a partner in 1996 and sold it five years later for millions. He used some of the cash to start a second business, with services aimed for Media & IR Contacts, during a period of 3 years served more than one hundred thousands clients, and Eirik ultimately sold that business to a larger international media company. After working as a consultant and marketing strategist for small and medium businesses on four continents, Eirik realized his passion and talent was helping other entrepreneurs be supersuccessful (online & offline) and in 2005 coined the term Marketing Coaching to describe his work. Internationally recognized as a business advisor and author, Eirik has worked with thousands of small and medium businesses whose names you’ll never know, but whose entrepreneurial owners have pocketed a substantial sum in increased income and proceeds from sales. (50% year over year client growth is typical, and 100% sales increases are not uncommon) Thousands more have read Eirik’s publications, cources and reports, including his wildly successful website nofluffreports.com. “No Fluff Reports” has hot little reports with topics and some of the best strategies for marketing your business online as well as offline, to make more profits and serve your customers better. These reports is a must read for anyone in the "biz".

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I. What is StumbleUpon? Have you ever wanted to find a cool site you can share with your list? If you’re doing any sort of marketing over the net, or running a membership site or moderating a forum, your answer is most likely: “Sure I have!” But how much time does that take? You know yourself how easy it is to waste hours searching and researching. Then copying. Then firing up your social networks to patiently report your finds on each one. But what if you could cut out wading through dozens of Google search results, and search only sites ideally suited to your interests? And on top of that, what if you could do that all from within one site, where a simple click would allow you to not only access a new related site straight away, but also give you the option to: Share the link you’ve discovered instantly on other social networking sites Save hours of time researching subjects, or surfing to find links to share Refine your results every time by letting the site’s internal search engine know your likes and dislikes

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Veto sites that are a waste of time, without having spent more than a few seconds glancing at them (and no longer be shown other similar sites) Advertise through this central site – driving targeted traffic interested in the your specific topic directly to your site

That’s exactly what StumbleUpon lets you do! StumbleUpon is a social bookmarking site that provides you with web surfing on steroids. It allows you to narrow sites you want to surf through by topic and interest, and it hands them to you, ready cooked, on a platter. You then have the choice of approving or disapproving each website. Your likes and dislikes allow StumbleUpon to present new sites to you in an even more tightly focused manner. Climbing to the Top StumbleUpon also holds the number 2 position right behind Facebook, garnering a full 25% of all social media traffic generation. In fact, Facebook (which has made a strong recovery recently to forge even further ahead in its first place positioning) has taken to copying StumbleUpon. No longer will you be clicking the “become a fan” button – it’s been replaced by a “like” button identical to StumbleUpon’s.

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(In fact, if you have a Facebook Fan Page, make sure your “become a fan” button is replaced as soon as possible, or your account may run into problems with Facebook.)

II. The Advantages of StumbleUpon One of the best parts about StumbleUpon is that you don’t have to save links, then access Twitter, write a post, shorten your URL with bit.ly, Tweet it… then repeat the entire process with Facebook. Several times a day. What’s more, when sending a link to Facebook, you instantly get your choice of adding a thumbnail of any photo within the site you want to recommend, to spice up your Facebook post. And you can do all this in one single click. What does that work out to in the Real World? Nothing less than condensing all that necessary daily social networking you’re constantly being told to do for your business into less than half an hour in the morning (or whenever you like). What’s more, if you use StumbleUpon’s own URL shortening service, Su.pr, you can do all this plus schedule your social Tweets and posts for any time of the day.

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You can create all your Tweets and Facebook posts in the morning, within that half-hour interval (or less!)… and have them appear, spaced regularly throughout the day, so you’re not “missing” important networking contacts, or prospective or existing clients, who don’t normally visit Facebook or Twitter at the same time as you. StumbleUpon is one of the biggest social networking time savers you could ever luck onto! And… it’s drop-dead easy to use.

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III. Setting It Up Signing up for StumbleUpon is easy, and the process of setting up your profile is much the same as for any other social networking site. You can also get a StumbleUpon badge for your blog or website. These “dynamic badges” have just been improved, according to StumbleUpon; and adding one will get your site or blog Rated Stumbled Shared …by the more than 12 million estimated StumbleUpon users. (When they click on your badge, they’ll get a tiny popup that allows them to instantly and easily perform these 3 actions.) You can be “stumbling” within minutes – it’s that easy to use. And the buttons on its easily installed toolbar (one click) allow you to instantly share your finds with your Facebook and Twitter accounts. (One particularly nice feature is the automatic use of thumbnails from the sites you find, to enhance your Facebook post. And if the selection of thumbnails is not suitable for any reason, you can turn them off as simply as clicking the little “no” checkbox.)

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This is what the basic toolbar looks like:

You can customize it with several more options, to include components such as channels, groups or specific people or authority site archives whose work you want it to stumble. It’s as simple as clicking on the icons.

IV: How StumbleUpon Works We can all agree that clicking a little button is simplicity itself, but the real reason StumbleUpon works so well lies in the quality of the content it instantly serves you. Not only does that include websites and blogs, but you can choose (or refuse) to have content served by channels for WikiPedia or the News media; plus you can search videos, as well as images and photos only, too. There were, at last count, over 500 topic categories to choose from. With one click, you can press the “All” button on the toolbar and select a specific topic instead from the drop-down menu. Even the “All” is not generalized – it’s something you are able to customize and align with your own specific interests when you set up your account, which is free.

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You can also take advantage of StumbleUpon’s “one-click” blogging capacity. StumbleUpon is like a personal assistant doing loads of research for you – presenting you every time you arrive with a selection of sites and resources she knows you will find particularly interesting. It is supported by 5 of the top browsers: Firefox Internet Explorer Google Chrome Opera Safari (NB: The latter 2 browsers are third-party-built.) A Solid History StumbleUpon has stood the test of time, too. It’s no flash-in-the-pan social phenomenon, quick to die off. Its developers have a solid track record of listening to users and refining the service so that it performs ever better. Born in 2001, it grew from just under 2 million users in 2006 to 12 million and counting in April, 2010. A brief stint of being owned by eBay ended in 2009 when a group including 2 of its original developers, Garrett Camp and Geoff Smith, bought their baby back.

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V. Drawbacks of StumbleUpon If you’re thinking StumbleUpon sounds almost too good to be true, well, there may be one little fly in the ointment. There are many complaints of users acquiring viruses through sites stumbled. However, the risk would be just as great if you were manually surfing multiple sites. There are 2 concrete actions you can take, however, to make sure you never run into this problem: 1. Make sure your virus protection is thoroughly up-to-date. If your areas of interest are in particularly high-risk sites, prone to frequent spyware, malware or viral attacks (for example, adult sites, indiscriminate music download sites, gambling sites or marketing sites) this will be particularly important to your success in never encountering a virus problem. In addition to a good virus program (a “professional” version is highly preferable over a free one) you might want to specifically add an anti-Malware or Spyware program. Many people really speak highly of McAfee’s Site Advisor, which rates sites with “red” or “green” lights as you visit them, warning you of possible risk. WOT (Web of Trust) provides a similar service (for free, though you can upgrade to a pro subscription).

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2. Use Mozilla Firefox for browsing StumbleUpon – even if you prefer to use a faster browser like Google Chrome for everything else. The reason for this? Unlike Internet Explorer, Opera and Google Chrome, which are Microsoft Windows based, Firefox is Linuxbased. Most viruses and malware are created strictly for Windowsbased browser operating systems – far easier for hackers to access than Linux-based ones. But what about Safari, created for MAC users? The jury is out, with half being firmly convinced that viruses aren’t a problem for MAC users on Safari; the others insisting there are vulnerabilities. Your own vulnerability, however, really does depend more on the type of sites you access and the validity of your anti-virus and anti-malware protection.

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VI. Why StumbleUpon Works On top of ease of use and sharing, your delivered content only gets better with each stumble! By using the little “thumbs up” or “thumbs down” icon to instantly rate what you’re seeing, not only will you have an instant bookmark of the sites you do like (saved automatically in your “Favorites” folder) but you’ll be teaching StumbleUpon to refine what it serves you even more tightly. It’s like instantly dividing a pile of folders that your personal assistant has brought for you to check out to the right or the left: (“No…. No…. Yes, I like that one… No…. Yes…”). She goes away knowing you really didn’t want to see all those folders of Mexican and Tropical vacations: She’s learned you don’t like hot climates, and camping in the wilderness is really what turns your crank… so next time, she brings you only folders about camping or temperate climate wilderness vacations (along with a good few unique surprises you’d have never thought of, on your own; but which delight and please you.) You then score Brownie Points with your camping club by sharing these few super-folders with them. So why waste time hopping from social network to network, or running Google searches and hunting through competitors’ sites or blog posts to find material to please your list… when you can do all this daily, in minutes, with StumbleUpon? StumbleUpon mimics real-life social and business interaction – at the speed of light! Let it fast-track you today.

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Advertising on StumbleUpon - and the feature that can be both a drawback and a benefit

Troubleshooting StumbleUpon - 5 common but easily solved issues - and 8 mistakes I don't ever want to make!’

How StumbleUpon works best – and why that’s a big advantage to me!

And so much more! If that sounds good...

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