3 Creative Ways to Use Google+ Circles

Although circles are Google+'s answer to the problem of social network relationship management, that's not the only thing it's good for. People on Google+ are using circles for all sorts of creative activities, some of which aren't obvious as first glance. 

1. Take Advantage of Empty Circles

Circles do not have to be shared with anyone at all. In fact, you can create an empty circle, and name it whatever you want. Knowing this fact, you can use circles in several different ways - as a bookmarking tool, a diary, or notepad. This brilliant idea was gathered from +Brian Swetland and +Arun Shroff .

To start, just go into your circles page. Click on "Create circle".

Re-name your circle to what you want it to be, and then click on "Create empty circle."

Select your Scrapbook circle to see your Stream.

Start adding content to this circle! No one will see the content but you.

You can use this personal circle as a diary, an exercise log, a notepad to keep track of ideas, or maintain a to-do list. You can also create multiple empty circles to cover all your needs.  If you are an Evernote user, you can add your Evernote email address to this circle. Posts to this circle will show up in the default Evernote folder. Via +Steve Bryson . You can save voice memos to your private Stream, using your Google+ Android app. Remember to enable Instant Share, which will save photos and videos to a private Picasa album for you. Turn on the Camcorder app on your phone and hit Record. Say what you need, and then click on Stop. You'll be able to go into your Google+ account and open up your Photos page. Click on "Photos from your phone" and you'll be able to select your recording to share to your private circle. Via +Arun Shroff . You can use the empty circle as a Drafts folder. When you're feeling ready to share your thought, link or photo with the World, just click on the Share button, and add the circles. (You will get a warning that your original post was not meant to be re-shared. Just ignore and post.) You can create a "Read Later" circle and share stuff to it that you'll catch up on later. 2. Keep a Journal Between Friends/Significant Others

Just as you don't necessarily need to add anybody to a circle, there's also nothing wrong with adding just one or two people to a circle. For example, I send my husband funny links and videos all the time via email. It's much faster now that I set up a circle for my husband specifically.

5 Top Affiliate Program Promotion Strategies - Smart shopper ...

Article by Jason Johns

One of the biggest myths of the Internet is the good old line, “If you build it they will come…” So many people throw up a website and sit back rubbing their hands with glee convinced they are going to become supremely wealthy.

Months later they are wringing their hands with regret wondering why they’ve had five visitors, four of which were their friends!

A website does not just automatically appear high in the search engine rankings and get traffic, you have to do some work in order to get this traffic and start making sales. There are thousands, or even more of sites competing for the same traffic you want – depending on your niche and keywords, there could be millions of sites!

You need to promote your website and your affiliate program and get it noticed – not only in the search engines, but in other places where you will get targeted traffic who are interested in your website.

Strategy 1 – Directories

There are a whole host of directories on the Internet. Just search for your keyword and “Directory” or “Link Exchange” or anything similar and you will find hundreds of places to put your links. Yeah, it is hard work to do this, but you will get links and traffic to your site. If it’s too much like hard work for you – hire someone to do it at elance or rentacoder! Search for “Affiliate Program Directory” to find a whole host of sites waiting to specifically list your affiliate program.

Strategy 2 – Articles

Articles are an excellent way to gain traffic and promote your site. Submitting your article to directories will get you backlinks and if they are quality articles, will get you known across the Internet as an expert. Newsletter and website owners will pick up your articles and use them as content. This will help to promote your site to a much wider audience. Mention you affiliate program in the resource box or the body of the article (remember that a lot of sites don’t like links in the body of the article but there’s nothing wrong with you mentioning your affiliate program). You can even write articles about how people are earning so much with your affiliate program too.

Strategy 3 – Viral Marketing

Viral marketing is a concept that has been around for some time. It’s a very powerful method of getting traffic to your site. You have all seen those cute or funny emails and videos that people send to all their friends? That is viral marketing. If you can tap into this through a book, a video, games or anything people will want to pass on to their friends, suddenly you have a whole lot of people promoting your site – for free! If you can make it something related to your product and include details of your affiliate program in it, then you are getting free advertising!

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