Update All Of You Social Networks With The Click Of Just One Little Button (PingFire!!!)
When it comes to social network marketing, it can really become a time sink if your not smart about how you manage your time with it.
Thankfully there have been some great tools designed to go hand in hand with the concept of marketing on social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and many others. I’m going to share with you one of the best time saving tools I have come across and then teach you how to access it at the click of a button.
Who knows that if you could update your status, pictures and even videos to more than 40 social networking sites at a time, that would be an incredibly powerful marketing tool? With Ping.fm that is exactly what you can do.
Set up your Ping.fm Account.
You can simply go to http://ping.fm/ and sign up for an account (its free). Once your account is set up, just follow the steps to add the networks you are currently using to your new Ping.fm account. This takes a little bit of time, but it is generally pretty straight forward.
Now you are all set to post a comment in the text box and click "Ping it" the message will be sent out to all of the networks you have added to your Ping account and automatically up date them. Very cool…. All you have to do from now on is sign into just one site to up date the rest from there.
Now let’s make it even easier.
This is where it gets really powerful. You can add a button on you web browser (Mozilla Firefox, this browser can be downloaded for free) so you can open a text box at the click of a button. Then you can write you status or comment and click send, this will be sent to all of your networks without even having to open a single webpage.
Setting up Pingfire.
To download this add-on (called PingFire) visit https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/8365 and click the button to download it. Once you have down loaded it you will have to set it up to run on Firefox.
In Firefox, click on the "Tools" tab and select "Add-ons". A small window opens with a list of add-ons, find Ping and click the "Options" button and then enter you Username and Application Key
Where Do I Find My Application Key?
You can retrieve you application key at by visiting: http://ping.fm/key/?cr You may have to log in with your Ping.fm log in details. The username it asks for is the username/email address you use to sign into Ping.fm
Adding the PingFire icon to the Toolbar.
If the PingFire icon is not showing on your toolbar, you may have to click on the "View" tab, select "Toolbars" > "Customize" and then simply drag and drop the Ping icon from the listed icons onto you toolbar.
That’s it, your done, now just click on the Ping.fm icon any time you wish to update all of your social networks with the click of just one little button.
Is that cool or what??
Lance Jenkins
