Nowadays, Social Media has become such phenomenal that it’s almost can’t be ignored. Instead of the usual way of just getting to know new friends, share news and information or simply engaging in social games or chat at your favourite social media sites, like Youtube, Facebook or Friendster, you can in fact do much more than that.

Tons of other Social Media sites has spurred up steadily, some popular ones include, Stumbleupon, Digg, Twitter and Google Friend Connect, Myspace etc. Well, it’s basically impossible to engage in all the social media available but there are some you will need to join in order to maximize your blog shop exposure.

Let us show you some example of popular Social Media and their benefits that they can enhance your blog shop.

Youtube

YouTube is a popular video sharing website on which blog shop owner can upload and share video clips about their latest products and spree, and view them. Thousands of potential customers are watching the videos every single second and it’s a great and free medium to publicize your blog shop.

Facebook

Facebook is a popular free-access social networking website. Users can join networks organized by city, workplace, school, and region to connect and interact with other people. Blog shop owner can also add friends and send them messages, and update their personal profiles to notify friends about themselves. You can also create personal blog shop group at Facebook and invite your friends to join you.

Digg

Digg is a social news website made for people to discover and share content from anywhere on the Internet, by submitting links and stories, and voting and commenting on submitted links and stories. You can submit your blog shop, latest products information or current sprees to digg and generally get dug by other shopping fanatics too.

StumbleUpon

StumbleUpon is an Internet community that allows its users to discover and rate Web pages, photos, and videos. It is a personalized recommendation engine which uses peer and social-networking principles. You can stumble your latest spree and blog shop to share with those online shopaholic. You can also create group and add friends with similar interest to promote your blog shop. For easy access to StumbleUpon, you can install the friendly browser tool bar and start sending your sprees to your friends.

Twitter

Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read other users’ updates known as tweets. It is sometimes described as the “SMS of the Internet,”. Blog shop owners can use Twitter to tweet and push their latest spree to their customers instantly.

Google Friend Connect

Google Friend Connect is an online service by Google that allows users on the Internet to connect with their friends on different websites. Some of the benefits of using Google Friend Connect are,

1. E-commerce site: Allow users to check whether friends purchased or review the product you are interested in on the product web page.
2. News sites: Allow users insert comments and opinions with their real profile.
3. Organization Sites: Increase marketing and communication within members of the organization.
4. Blogs and Personal Websites: Increase communication within author friends.
5. It can be customized to include a spree shout out box.

Flickr

Flickr is an image and video hosting website, web services suite, and online community platform. In addition to being a popular Web site for users to share personal photographs, the service is widely used by bloggers as a photo repository. Blog shop owner can upload the images of their products and share with the masses.

Friendster

Friendster is focused on helping people meet new friends, stay in touch with old ones and sharing online content and media.  The website is also used for dating and discovering new events, bands, hobbies, and more. Blog shop owner can share content including videos, photos, messages and comments with friends via their profile and their network. Friendster is very popular in Asia and particularly in Singapore.

MySpace

MySpace is a social networking website with an interactive, user-submitted network of friends, personal profiles, blogs, groups, photos, music, and videos for teenagers and adults internationally. You can customize and design your profile at MySpace into a blog shop, post items at the bulletin and allows a group of users to share a common page and message board.

Conclusion

Can you imagine the power and benefits these Social Media can bring to you once they are incorporated into your blog shop? We can possibly explained all the benefit of each individual Social Media but just bear in mind, by simply using few of these Social Media is a sure fire up for blog shop publicity and increase your chance against your fellow blog shop competitors. You can surf around on the net and join any Social Media which think best suit your taste. For our personal opinions, concentrate on few and use them intensively rather to join many which you did not managed to cope.

Meanwhile, SpreeCrunch used Social Media too!  Remember to stay connected with us on these  Social Media!