Social Media Blog Carnival – June 8, 2009

My good friends at NMLab.com asked me to host one of the Social Media Blog Carnivals, so I am honored to present this week’s best post submissions. This week saw a wide variety of submissions, but I have narrowed the best down to three. So in true countdown fashion, here are the best from June 1-7, 2009

3. 42 Sites Where To Submit Your Tutorials

PCHacks.com gives a good list of where you can get good traffic for that tutorial you just built. My advice here is to not submit to everyone, but those that make sense to those people you are targeting. Not all traffic is good traffic. Keep in mind you want your business to work, not just be seen.

From Wikipedia

2. Black Swan Phenomena

This is an inspirational post from Jerry Esperanza about how with social media we all have the opportunity to be the Black Swan. Don’t just copy someone else. Give that great idea a go and utilize social media to get yourself noticed. You might be the next big thing and help others in the process.

1. Support Problem? Twitter to the Rescue

This is by far my favorite post this week. Marino notes a phenomena that many companies are starting to catch the train on. Utilizing social media to identify those customer service issues and develop relationships. In this story, the companies identified not only helped the customer, but also built a relationship with another provider that will help each grow their business by utilizing the other business’s knowledge. The takeaway here is that while you might not see an immediate increase in the bottom line, social media allows you to grow your company’s relationships in such a way that will guarantee it’s long term success.

Next week’s carnival will be hosted at Christie Media. Best of luck, and keep talking!