Share Faster – Start a Link Sharing Ritual

The first step to better sharing is faster sharing.

Organization helps dramatically, so step one of the seven steps to more effective sharing is to develop some type of habit in your link sharing, starting with how you gather links and where you share them.

I like to start with people who’ve commented on my blog (with legitimate replies, not borderline spam or paid comments), then links people have posted to Open for Web Business (Facebook Group link), then links I’ve shared myself on Facebook.

Once I’ve gathered all my links, I split them into groups. You’ll likely want to save all the links to a social bookmarking site, and share most of those via link collections. Then there is another subset that will be remarkable enough to vote on, or submit to social news sites.

You are also expanding the areas in which your links are shared by posting to multiple places.

This is why I continue sharing after I’ve bookmarked. The ones that are relevant to my blog topics, I also splice into my feed or blog using plug-ins to automate the process.

This is the special group of links I only share on del.icio.us that get spliced into my site feed as well, as a service to my readers.

Then, I go to Stumble Upon and share the best of the links. I later submit the ones that I don’t see getting deserved attention to social news sites. I also vote on the ones that are already submitted.

This may sound like a lot of work, but the entire ritual takes less than an hour because I use tools that automate part of the process for me, that leverage RSS or applications found on Facebook that let me do more than half of my social meda marketing from one place.