28 StumbleUpon Marketing Tips

[mandy]

StumbleUpon or SU, can be a great asset for your online marketing strategy. Here are 28 tips to take you to SU heaven...

7. Concentrating on quality is the most effective way to stand out from the crowd. In a competitive environment it is quality which is the most important element when it comes to attracting friends and influencing people
8. Having more friends and fans means your stumbles will be seen by more people. Stumbleupon allows you to friend only 200 people, so make sure each one you friend, friends you back. Make sure they are active stumblers too, if someone hasn't logged on to their account they are not likely to be of any use to you. Drop them and friend someone more useful.
9. If your focus for using SU is business then you are not on StumbleUpon to make friends to meet hot partners of the opposite sex or even the same sex if that's your bag. As Marlon Brando in the Godfather says, "It's only business." I keep this in mind as I use SU. Forget making friends or meeting the love of your life, that may happen, but it's not why you are there.
10. Keeping focused on business means: Not friending every hottie in a bathing suit (they are probably fake accounts designed to sucker you in anyway). Keep in mind that networking can sometimes be better described as notworking...

full article: http://blog.hubspot.com/blog/tabid/6307/...rstar.aspx

[BellisimaJ.]

8. Having more friends and fans means your stumbles will be seen by more people. Stumbleupon allows you to friend only 200 people, so make sure each one you friend, friends you back. Make sure they are active stumblers too, if someone hasn't logged on to their account they are not likely to be of any use to you. Drop them and friend someone more useful.

Yep. Good advice. And the same thing goes for other types of networks, such as BlogCatalog, Entrecard, etc.. 

[meeleend]

Thanks for the tips.