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To the newbie Affiliate Marketer, Social Bookmarking is not only just another craze but a complete maze of how to do this successfully. There appears to be for those on the insider secrets to Social Bookmarking which include automating the process in order to generate profits. The difficulties for the newbie Affiliate Marketer is which automated software do you go with - all say they’re the best, the cheapest and will - what do they call it - “having Google spider your Social Bookmarking sites within 24-48 hours”. All claim that Social Bookmarking has never before been made so easy.

Social Bookmarking software does offer some good incentives to those who are cash rich and time poor. For example:

o “You too can discover the secrets to Social Bookmarking
o The software is all automated and completed in minutes.
o Support to generate profits and targeted traffic and create a high number of Backlinks to one’s website.
o The future has now arrived in the present
o Get high page rank with Google and other search engines
o Reap in the profits and you’ll see the difference in your bank balance.

For the newbie Affiliate Marketer this sounds like just the thing that is needed. After all time is money and why slave over a computer for hours on end writing and submitting to Social Bookmarking sites when all one has to do click the mouse and the software does it all for you.

In many respects with a variety of Social Bookmarking software all promising to put your Social Bookmarking on autopilot so the marketer can reap in the rewards, it comes down to - which software do you consider will do what it sales pages (or landing pages) inform you it will do.

Some software to review and compare are:
o Bookmarking Demon
o Social Bookmarks Submitter
o Scuttlr Social Bookmark Submitter
o Traffic Android
o Ping Spider

Beware- submit slowly so as not to be banned by the search engines.

Some questions to ask are:

o Will this software save me time in the long run?
o Is this software efficient or will I need a degree in how to use it?
o Can I try before I buy?
o Is the price right (one off or monthly fee) and is it affordable?
o Are Free updates included in the price
o Are there any other hidden costs?
o Does it have the “pinging” capacity so Google spiders will pick up my blog and other contributions to a variety of Social Bookmarking sites?
o Would I rather do this myself - write and manually ping my Social Bookmarking sites?
o What is the guarantee - is there one - if I’ve made the wrong purchase?

There is a range around so choose carefully and prices do vary quite substantially.

If you want to know more go to: http://www.tipsnclicks.com

I love Twitter. I check it every morning over breakfast, and at spare moments throughout the day. If you’re unfamiliar with the phenomenon, Twitter.com is Internet social media at it’s simplest– yet most profound. After a simple free registration, you have a page. You can then choose to “follow” other users and they follow you. At any time, you can leave a 140 character message describing something you’re doing or, perhaps, passing on a link to something interesting on the web. Your messages appear on each other’s pages. You don’t have to follow someone for them to follow you, though. That’s it.

Early on, the most popular users were web celebrities like Leo Laporte (@LeoLaporte), Kevin Rose (@kevinrose) and Justine Ezarik (@ijustine). For fans, it was fun to keep up with these people on a day-to-day basis and, in turn, celebs found that tweeting had many perks. If you have hundreds or thousands of followers, you practically have your own personalized online support desk for most anything you can ask. Celebs also found the site a great way to get word out about their various appearances and activities. And they make a lot of new friends.

After Barak Obama (@BarackObama) came on and rose to the top of the follower lists (even though he wasn’t tweeting personally) during the election, Twitter changed forever. “Tweeting” has become the latest hot pastime for the coolest of the famous. Top users now include ashton kutcher (@aplusk), Jimmy Fallon (@jimmyfallon) and RainnWilson (@rainnwilson) of The Office.

It’s now easier than ever before to access your favorite stars. Rather than mailing a letter to a Hollywood studio, all you have to do is click their reply arrow and type 140 character message. However, most of these people receive so many messages that answering them all isn’t practical. Here are some tips that will increase your chances of some celebrity interaction.

Catch Them Early
Celebs are starting out on Twitter all the time. While their follow count can rise very fast, if you catch them the first few days after opening an account, there will be much less competition for their attention and you can offer some useful newbie advice. Celebs already on the site will often tip you off to new celebrity user– other fans will, too.

Sound Like a Normal Person
When messaging a famous person, don’t get all gaga about how you’ve always loved them or anything like that. They hear that all the time and it gets boring. On the other hand, don’t be rude, either. Twitter is basically a big cocktail party. Be your polite and likable self.

Be Relevant, Pay Attention, and Be Useful
This is the most important tip on the list. Most of these people receive tons of junk messages. Don’t ask dumb questions like “did it really hurt when you got shot in (movie)”. Your tweet will be most welcome in answer to a question the celebrity has asked or is in reference to something the person has just said. Get a feel for topics the celeb finds of interest and pass along a link or some information now and then (but not too often).

Be Clever/Creative/Unusual
Most celebrities are very creative people and appreciate an imaginative remark or unique insight. You don’t have to come up with it yourself, though. Mention something your best friend told you or something you read. Still, it never hurts to try and look at things from a fresh perspective.

Read Their Blog
Many tweeting celebrities also keep blogs online. Often their blogs are read by fewer people than their Twitter messages and it gives you the opportunity to leave a comment. Most everyone who writes a blog reads every comment and considers the points made in them. Once in a while, you’ll get an emailed response.

While you are not likely to make a Hollywood party guest list (although it’s possible), tweeting with celebs can make your day and give you something to brag about at the water cooler.

Before I get into the article, I have to say from my own experience how much web 2.0 and its free content sharing sites has increased my business.  I have a very affordable site of my own that I am in the process of perfecting.  But, having access to these free sites helps me to set up my presence online - branding myself as an expert and posting content in many different places.  The result of this is a synergistic marketing system that brings prospects to me.  You can do this, not only is it fun to do, especially if you like the subject you are writing about, sharing your good quality content with others is very gratifying- knowing that you are giving something beneficial to everyone.

How is it possible to post content online for FREE?  Using the web 2.0 tools allow anyone, even someone with no computer skills at all to write articles about virtually anything of interest online and share it with others, This new model allows you to share hobbies you like, teach about something you are good at, or even advertise your business.  Some of the sites you can use online at no cost to you are:  Squidoo, a blog, Ezine articles, etc. These are great ways to start building a prospect list on a shoestring budget, once you have started generating traffic and monetizing on them, (to be discussed in another article) then you can take your business to the next level and possibly purchase a full website if you want, or pay for other advertising to further grow your business.

I not only suggest you use one of these free sites, but use up to three of them, Oh I forgot to add YouTube - the video sharing site.  Unlike sharing content you can use video sharing sites to share content via video if you would like.  Anyway the reason I suggest using as many of these sites as possible to share your content is: The search engines begin to find you quicker pushing you up the search engines, because you are providing many articles within these sites usually 20 to 30 posts are good numbers.  You begin to establish yourself as an expert in your field, Finally, depending on the keywords you use in each article could take prospect to one of your sites, if you only have one location where you post your articles it would be harder to find you.

What is a blog?  I will give you a brief description of what a couple of these sites are and how they work.  A blog is very similar to that of an actual website, you can pay a small fee per month to have more control of your blog meaning the design of it and you actually own it.   Or you can go through Blogger, among other blogging sites and set up one for free.  The visual difference between a blog and a website is a website usually has pages within it that you can either link to or navigate to, whereas a blog deals with posting articles, it maintains its front page with the posted content of the day.

These posts are archived in the margin of the blog along with your opt in box or your profile etc.  Also with a blog you tend to post to it more often, sometimes 1 to 3 times a week whereas with a website a page is added not so often.  Finally, blogs allow your readers to post a comment on each posts you create- the number of comments you allow on your page is up to you, but this is good it shows you have a following when new prospects find you and view your blog.  Otherwise, you can have links; have an opt-in-box, etc. just like a web site.  The more you share content the more you become that blogger guy or gal.

What is a Squidoo?  When I first heard that terminology I said, “WHAT THE HECK IS A SQUID THAT’S A FISH”, well, I found out it was another wonderful way to post great content, and build my prospects list.  A Squidoo is much like a website and a blog, you share content for free however, in my opinion a Squidoo is much easier to set up and use.   Network marketers who have no experience with the web or doing business online, should start posting content with Squidoo, it is a great place to get your feet wet to start.  Search Engines love Squidoo’s so post lots of content their.  The Squidoo pages are referred to as lenses, the language goes like this “Hey everyone I just posted a lens on Squidoo about how you can get rid of wrinkles in 45 minutes.” Very cool, I love it; this makes it fun to use sites like Squidoo.

Just like a blog prospects can give feedback to each lens you post and you decide how many comments are posted on your page.  You cannot have an opt-in-box but you can create anchor text which re-directs your prospects to another website or perhaps a lead capture page.  A lot of sites will not allow this in the body of your article but Squidoo is very laid back with this.  Unlike a blog or website, Squidoo ranks your article based on the category your article falls into, which gives you an ideal of how popular your article is.

Finally, at the end of each article you write with Squidoo, there support gives you feedback on how you can improve or optimize your lens and encourages you to continue to write more in a fun way.  There is a lot more I can tell you about these sites, but I said enough to get you interested in checking them out.

How does using all these free websites build my prospects list?  As I expressed a little when I expressed my own experience with this, it’s kind of like networking but easier, you see the more people you talk too allows you to make a name for yourself.  The more of a good service provider you are sets you up to becoming an expert in your field.  Well when you use all of these resources, (I only spoke on two of these but there is a lot more) it is a form of networking and the more content you post to these sites the more popular you become.

The more of a service provider you are (giving your prospects something they need or something solving their problems) the more of an expert you become.  When your prospects see you have something to help them with a need, they will follow you wanting more.  You will have them opt-in to a sign in box, which gives you permission to keep in contact with them.  After that they will most likely want what you have to offer, (your network marketing opportunity) because now they trust you and believe in what you have to say and it is all because you educated them, you became their mentor, what a great way to create your down line in your own image.

Getting prospects to duplicate what you do makes for more consistency in promoting your opportunity, and makes more success for everyone within.  So go an start building your business using these sites, write about aspects of your business and what you have to offer your prospects, how you can help them with their needs.  Make 20 to 30 plus articles or videos and spread them all over the web, remember once they opt-in to your sign in box that gives you permission to keep educating and finally, offer your opportunity.  This is synergy, the perfect marketing system.

In conclusion, building a prospect list using web 2.0 tools- free websites is a great way to make your network marketing business successful.  You now know what a blog is and why it is important to set one up.  You now understand that starting with Squidoo, as a beginner on the web is a good place to start.

You now understand how using many forms of web 2.0 tool to post your content creates a synergistic affect that snowballs into your opportunity. And finally, having many point of contact sites all over the web sets you up as being an expert and increases your chances of being recognized by search engines which means your prospects will find you.

If you have paid even the smallest amount of attention to emerging trends in online business marketing, then you have surely heard about social networking websites like Facebook. These sites’ primary function is to keep people connected to the family, friends and coworkers in their lives. The interface of a site like Facebook is quite clean and clutter free; it is also very fluid and intuitive, allowing people to share items of interests with their friends; post pictures; and comment on practically anything imaginable while doing so.

To remain competitive, then, it is important that you give your company a presence on a site like Facebook. Setting up a basic account there is free; however, just the act of opening an account on Facebook by no means guarantees any sort of immediate gains. Adding people to your friends’ list can be onerous and quite time consuming, but when done correctly, you will have a large and varied selection of people to share your message with in an easy, unobtrusive way.

Being unobtrusive is, in fact, one of the biggest draws to a site like Facebook. Unlike many other sites that scream at you with loud ads and effects, Facebook relies on understated, clean cut appearances to make itself heard. The same goes for people who participate on the site; those who choose to buck the prevailing trend and spam their friends almost always end up getting blocked - the same as, essentially, hanging up the phone on an irritating telemarketer.

When marketing your business using a site like Facebook, the last thing you want to do is alienate your customers by getting in their faces and lambasting them with news about your products and services. Study how others communicate on the site to get a feel for how to subtly get your point across. The goal is to keep the friends that you have - and to keep them from blocking status updates and other news from you. Therefore, keep the information relevant, interesting and not annoying.

Selling your company image and expanding your customer base are great goals to have when setting up a Facebook account for your business. However, like any other type of advertising, make sure you are adding people who would truly be interested in what you have to offer. Familiarize yourself with how to search through people on Facebook to narrow down your results to the demographics that matter most to your company. Add easy to use buttons on your main company website so that visitors can add you on Facebook with a simple click of the mouse button.

In addition to interacting with existing and potentially new customers, Facebook is an excellent resource for keeping in the loop as far as your company’s industry goes. Therefore, make sure to add peers from within your own industry to keep yourself as up to date as possible on any emerging trends or important news. This is also a great way of getting new ideas for conducting yourself on Facebook; see how other companies are going about it to find innovative new ways of using Facebook to its best possible effect.

If you’ve spent any time on twitter, you may have noticed people closing tweets with a text like this:

#3turnoffwords

or

#followfriday

or

#tcc

You may wondering, what do those mean?

Well, those are called “hashtags” and essentially they are topics that people are talking about. In the current version of twitter, the application is kind enough to show you in the sidebar what the most popular topics are at any given moment.

If a topic you’re interested in isn’t in the sidebar, no worries, you can actually perform a twitter search and find all of the conversations with that hashtag in the last 55 days, roughly.

How do you participate?

To participate in a discussion, just add the hashtag to the end of your tweet. So for instance to take part in the above #3turnoffwords topic you would tweet something like this:
whachu talkin bout? #3turnoffwords
That tweet would then show in the #3turnoffwords stream.

What’s the point of these tags?

There really isn’t one. I mean, people use the tags to help other people find or keep track of topics that people are talking about on twitter, but there really isn’t a “point” beyond that.

Can I get my own tag?

Sure, if you’re thinking about starting a topic and using a hash tag, do a search to find if anyone else is using that tag for something else already, and if not, just start using it. Sure, there are websites that “register” the tags, but you don’t have to use those sites, nor do you need to get permission from twitter or even the previous user of the tag before you start using it.

In fact, I encourage you to start using/ creating them and get more involved in the Twitter community.

When I was growing up as a nerdy teen on Long Island, needless to say I wasn’t one of the Popular Kids. Back then we called it Junior High rather than the current appellation Middle School and now nerds are now the new cool kids. In my youth, we didn’t have reality shows where beauties met their geeks, Bill Gates hadn’t yet gone to, let alone dropped out of college, and the Steves were still eating fruits rather than making Macs. We didn’t even have computers, phones still had dials on them, and we all watched one of three network TV channels and read newspapers that came in the afternoon. And all of our parents bought American-made cars.

Ok, enough nostalgia. I give this as background, to explain my own behavior when I started getting involved in social networks. My first thought was to collect as many “friends” as I could, to grow my network quickly and add just about everyone that I had an email address for. Now that I have accumulated a bunch of people on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and Plaxo, I have a different strategy.

I want quality rather than quantity. As my networks have grown - and they still aren’t as large as my college-age daughter (see, it is that underdog feeling again) - I have seen the “feed” streams that are produced from all these people just burying me in the details and status updates of their lives. I try to dip into this vast, deep flow of information on a daily basis, but it quickly overwhelms me. I run back to the relative comfort of my email inbox, where at least I can hit the delete key and pare things down to a reasonable single screen of to-do and action items and people that I have to return messages to.

Burger King ran a promotion not too long ago where they asked people to defriend 10 Facebook friends in order to get a coupon for a free burger. They were swamped with thousands of requests, thereby establishing the value of a friend at somewhere around a quarter. That is pretty depressing. I always thought a friend was worth at least a couple of bucks, if not more.

I also want to grow my networks slower, because like anything else on the Internet, I am concerned about customer retention and my networks are my customers. You are the people that will (hopefully soon, puh-lease) pay me money to speak at a conference, write an article or white paper, produce a screencast video, or do some custom product consulting. So I don’t want to just spam you with needless updates about what I had for breakfast or insights about my pets or family vacations, although I did get some interesting feedback when I mention the books that I read in my last missive.

So I have gotten pickier about who I add to my various networks. And while I don’t want to be as snobby as that Jr. High clique of popular kids, I do think we all need to take a step back and consider what our friending - and more importantly defriending -policies will be going forward.

Over at Twitter (where my network is still “just” a few hundred followers), there is a lot of activity around third-party apps that will automatically increase your network with all sorts of tricks. This is a bad thing, because those networks become less valuable as their feeds become larger. You will be adding more noise to the signal, and as a result, miss out on the important stuff.

I am still figuring out Twitter, to say the least. But I can tell you that my Twitter activities have saved me a grand total of $140, which is the overdraft fee that Bank of America initially charged me when I deposited a check to the wrong account. Through the miracle of social networks, I was able to tweet my bank, email them the information and get them to call me and correct the problem, and probably keep me as a customer.

Now, I don’t have all the answers here. Or even some of them. And I am glad that I don’t have to deal with the hyper social strata that are Middle School today. But I can take some small comfort that none of my 20-something children have Twitter accounts, at least not yet.

During the short war between Hezbollah and Israel the social networks came alive calling for peace. Many teenagers on sites like Facebook were all in a buzz over the faked pictures of civilians being killed in air raids. Of course anyone who knows how terrorist organizations work knows that these groups use humans as shields. Even hiding behind hospitals and schools while shooting rockets into Israel, then if an Israeli helicopter shoots back, they have a bunch of people lie down pretending to be dead and bring in the cameras.

Still, with all this going on and many close to the scene knowing this, the kids on these social networks think they are somehow saving lives by calling for the end of war? Yet, they fail to call Hezbollah to stop firing rockers into Israel. A similar situation happened during the Hamas conflict last year and these things keep occurring. Not only do these terrorist organizations use the media to recruit and propagandize, now they are using online social networks tapping into the youth of the world.

These kids do not realize that in essence they are supporting terrorists and they do not understand. Many kids in the USA have joined in solidarity with the terrorist groups. One can only wonder that if they lived in a US Border city and rockets were being shot into their city they might think differently. Now the Israeli Intelligence Service has issued a warning to its citizens.

It appears that terrorist groups are trying to get younger citizens to come and meet with the opposition to the Jewish state to kidnap them, hold them as bargaining chips or recruit them to work within Israel against their national interests. In fact, there have now been cases of people on Facebook offering money for information within Israel.

No one should be surprised at this new development, as these social networks have been doing this on an on-going basis for quite a while now. Only now it’s getting even more serious. Please consider the implications of this. Social Networks are being used by terrorists to recruit spies, terrorists, receive donations and shape public opinion. Scary stuff.

So you want to develop a social networking website? That is Great! You have come to the right place to learn how to develop your own social network. The following article will assist you by creating the step by step process you should take to reach your goal.

But first, let me explain that there is much thought that must go into creating a social network before jumping into development mode. You MUST take the right steps to plan your path.

So You’re Ready To Get Started? Great! Let’s get started by getting the definition of what a social networking website really is.

An online social network is an online community of people who share interests and or activities, or who are interested in exploring the interests and activities of others. A social network also provides a variety of ways for its users to interact with each other.

From reading the definition, we have come across the first few steps needed to begin.

Step 1) Selecting a Niche Topic for people to share their interests and activities. This is the first big decision and the first point everything can go wrong. Make sure you select a topic for your niche social network website that you are passionate about but that others are passionate about also.

Step 2) Determine the Functions You Want for your users to be able to interact with each other. Almost all social networks have the same set of features which are considered essential to qualify as a social networking service. This includes personal profiles, member comments, privacy settings, blogs, photo albums, groups, forums, uploading videos, applications, and widgets. There are many other functions that can be added and created for your specific social networking website. The sky is the limit on the types of functioning applications that can be built for social networks.

Step 3) Build Your Social Networking Community by choosing one of the three solutions by which you can make your own social network. The first two categories include “White Label” solutions which is software you can brand and integrate tightly into your existing domain or create from scratch. The final category is a custom social network that can be created from scratch or by customizing one of the first two solutions.

* Social Network Platforms

* Social Network Scripts

* Custom Social Network

Step 4) Creating Content is one of the first and most important things you must do once your social network has been setup. Content can be articles, posts, tools, videos, audio or links. You should first learn why and how to create unique, quality content. Many people rely on their visitors to create content, but this is unlikely to happen if there is nothing to draw them to the website in the first place. You must create the base content for your users to build upon. You should spend the first month or so with your website developing content. You want to keep in mind that the content you create should:

* Be informative and engaging.

* Accurately portray the mission of your website.

* Provide multiple ways for users to locate your content.

* Create plans to release a continues stream of content.

Step 5) Building traffic to your social network is the most important of all. If people don’t know your website exists, no matter how good your content, you won’t build an audience. It is content plus marketing which will build traffic to your website. Marketing via communication channels are what bring people to your website. The main reason the majority of websites fail is because of a lack of marketing. The following is a list of easy to use marketing tips, and the best part is, most of them are FREE.

* Network to bloggers

* Participation in other websites

* Create social media accounts

* Article submission

* Traditional online advertising such as purchasing ads

* SEO

While the term ‘Web 2.0′ may not have any real meaning to you and I, as internet uses, we can not deny the symbolic value of this term. Internet gurus say that Web 2.0 basically represents the paradigm shift in the way we consume the Internet. You and I are no more just the passive consumers, who got involved, excited or got offended by something we read, saw or heard on the Internet, but could not do anything about it. With Web 2.0 we got our voice back and we can now easily voice our opinions. We are now ‘prosumers’ (a consumer who produces content as well).

With this new found status, individuals have started to create value that they can share with others on the Internet: thus came into existence ’social networking’ and ’social bookmarking’ web sites.

As we, the user, creates value we should expect to reap rewards as well. By rewards I mean real rewards: cash, followers and clientele. The question is how do you convert your reputation share into real money? I will not claim that this is an easy task or that this article is a magic potion. The process will take time but the point is, it is possible to make money using these ’social’ sites.

Let’s first understand the nature of the Internet. The Internet is just a medium, a medium through which you communicate, share, experience, shop and access information on the things you want to know about.  What differentiates the social networking sites like Facebook, MySpace, twitter, plurk, orkut etc., and the social bookmarking sites like Digg, reddit, StumbleUpon, del.icio.us etc., from rest of the web sites is their power to extensively communicate and broadcast. To draw an analogy from the broadcast medium we can say, these sites are prime time slots of the Internet.

Where to start?
A product or an idea can be a good starting point but not the perfect one. Everyone has a product or some idea, which they think is ground breaking, but not everyone, earns a reward from it. So, before exposing your products or idea to social networks, you need to build trust. This is the essence of peer-to-peer recommendation; this is ‘the thing’‘. This is what most marketing campaign, even word of mouth marketing lacks. Once the required trust is in place, we can then start marketing our products.

Instead of spamming all our contacts with every product we have to sell, we should hand-pick the contacts from our list and provide them not only informational material on the product, but also the experience you and others have had using the product. This micro-targeting will have higher conversion rate as the product information will reach the right hands and will have the required personal touch to it.

What to sell?
Anything that is safe, ethical and beneficial to others. You can sell anything you are passionate about and that has demand among people. You can pass on your affiliate links of favorite movies or books, or you can ask your contacts to check out your particular website or online store. You can even invite your contacts to visit your blog or web site which in turn may build regular traffic to those sites.

Which tool to use?
The answer to this lies in the age-old wisdom: what is your goal? You can use networking sites to build brand awareness or to provide detailed information about the things you liked. Bookmarking a site can be used to make announcements about the recent updates. The mixture of these strategies can even attract referral traffic for your blogs or web sites.

You can also consider using twitter and plurk to keep your audience posted, for immediate announcement of your product with links, and these can also be used as teasers to pull visitors to the page of your liking.

Always remember, it is ultimately the product or the idea that sells. Social networking and social bookmarking sites can potentially provide you with new visitors or can induce trial for your product or idea; it is the product that ultimately will get sold, so quality both in product and accompanying information must never be compromised.

If you are one of the many work at home social networking women then you know how time consuming it can be ‘tweeting’ to make potential business connections and keep up. I find too it’s hard to stay focused with all the interesting people on Twitter and links to cool sites. Fun, yes. Profitable? Not so much.

I often wonder how these people who have thousands of follows have the time to attract them let alone keep up with them. I know I have spent my share of late nights following new people, tweeting and direct messaging to feel too burned out for any kind of marketing the next day or to meet the demands of my family.

Have you noticed? It seems as though every other person on Twitter has a link in their message to increase your followers in one week, one month, 60 days, while you sleep,… and the list goes on.

Have you noticed? There are Twitter accounts that have actually generated tens of thousands of followers within an incredibly short time. They appear to be the large businesses with a staff doing the tweeting for them or celebrities who don’t even follow anyone yet have over 100,000 followers.

So, how does a smart entrepreneurial woman work from home and play in the big league without compromising her family obligations or bank account?

The solution? Good social networking software tools and by good I don’t mean those free viral, multilevel programs that everybody else is signing up for.

If you want something that works, do your research and be prepared to invest a little bit of money in a program that will not only increase your followers, but that will also teach you how to market to your new followers in a hands off, highly effective approach.

That way you can be a social networking mama and manage to do it all, make decent money and still have time for the most important things in life.