Social Network Overload - when is enough enough?

Lynne Level 1

October 16, 2016, 2:56 am

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I know that having your website on social networks is a great idea, I have seen how social media marketing can increase awareness of your business and drive loads of great traffic to your website.

But here's the thing there are so many new social networks popping up all the time, there are also loads of really good established social networks that are great for business.

But now I have 3 websites and I also have my own personal profiles. So for each social network that would be like 4 different profiles. Or like for some social media websites it would be one profile with 3 pages for example. But then there are also groups... ok let's just forget about groups for this discussion.

The point I am getting to is that I am on about 6 social networks where I am very active but where do I draw the line and say ok that is enough now, I am not doing anymore?

I have recently joined Instagram and the results have been awesome, and I also started being active on Quora... but now what about Tumblr, Slideshare, StumbleUpon....

Where do you stop and why?

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I've actually wanted to get more into quora, slideshare, stumbleupon and a few others. I've been researching a few awesome ways to generate traffic from slideshare and I think I'm going to post a discussion to let people know what I've figured out

But besides that, I think that quora will be a good source of traffic to my websites after I build up my profile. I have heard that if you post about certain niches and leave links, you could easily get banned. So I'll have to do a bit more research on that topic before I start posting any kind of links

As for how much is too much, I would say that too many is when you're working more than you're making. A good example of that is if you're putting in 10 hours a week into a social platform and you're not making any money off of it. Let's say you think you should be paid $15 an hour for your time, then those 10 hours a week are equivalent to $150. You could easily pay someone $50 a week to post for you from your own profile. I've seen plenty of great services here for quora and yahoo answers that charge like $20 for 20 answers, so if you paid them $50 a week you could have a good amount of links coming from these question and answer websites

You always have to think if the time invested is worth it in the long run. I usually do it a little backwards now and pay someone to do posts for me on newer, or less populated, social networks so I can see if it's worth my time building my personal profiles on there. The big secondary platforms such as quora, yahoo answers, tumblr, and stumble upon seem to be good in my opinion, but I don't know how much time I'd be able to invest into them. And in the end I have to evaluate if it's better to outsource it to someone over seas who isn't affected by any kind of language barrier or if I should do the posts myself.

Just remember, time is money