[Yes, Ponn had a couple of Pillar Posts up her sleeves, ready to hit ‘publish’ whenever she wanted/needed to. So, don’t be deceived; Ponn will not be able to return to work for at least 2 full weeks of bed-rest, medical observation, and trying some new drugs. (By the way, Ponn is most grateful for your lovin’ support & prayers. She’s having a tough time turning her painful tears into cheerful ones, but that’s what’s family is for. Thanks everyone!) Guest Bloggers from our Team will begin immediately. If YOU are interested in writing a Guest Post to help us out until Ponn returns, please submit a 500-800 word article based on our new Internet Branding Categories and a 1-3 byline for our consideration. Now, back to some of Ponn’s good ‘ol “how-to’s”: ]

Now that Sk-rt.com completed their migration to a dedicated server…they’re working terribly hard to upgrade the software that sk-rt is built on to make some much requested end-user features that are more common in top social networking/bookmarking sites, such as Digg, StumbleUpon and Del.icio.us to name a few.

Interestingly, they’ve only been in existence for 3 weeks, and they didn’t anticipate needing to move to a high-capacity dedicated server until at least 1-2 months…so Many Kudos to their great publicity and popularity thusfar!

Before I share some tips how to position yourself as a Power User and Why…I want to share this disclaimer:

These tips are written from one online women entrepreneur to another. Our goal is to become a Power User, quality-user in social networking/bookmarking sites because it helps us gain more readers/visitors/traffic to our websites and/or blogs to a target market: you–a woman. I understand many women are active at sk-rt primarily as a fun-enjoyable networking/bookmarking web forum, and if you feel there’s no need to try and position ourselves as Thought-Leaders/Experts in our areas of expertise, I apologize if you disagree with my content. Please share your thoughts and issues in the comments below. Please know that we offer many products and services that have a great benefit to you and other women; and social networking/bookmarking sites are an excellent place to target our internet marketing efforts…to bring you here: our website/blog

So, how can W.E. (women entrepreneurs) position ourselves as a Power User on Sk-rt.com?

Here’s some tips (in no particular order):

First and foremost, work with their limitations and push the services to the edges…as best you can. How?

1. Vote Regularly and Systematically.

Vote regularly on these categories in this order:

• Up & Coming - Since you’ll probably be the 1st or 2nd voter, so support new members and share a quick comment or two, quick way to network with newbies. Least time intensive networking activity.
• Front Page/Popular - Help members who submitted good stories for the particular day, vote, try to comment, be-friend/network well.
• Categories of Interest To You - Probably were you’ll spend the most time, so indulge yourself, enjoy, educate yourself, support other members, network within your niche, etc.
• Top Stories - The highest ranked posts (those with the most votes of all-time)…if you haven’t visited it yet, spend good time here and find members with similar voting habits, network, enjoy, etc. This can be very time-consuming, more for fulfilling your pleasure than your needs. This may not be a category that you spend time in much, so it can be eliminated, and be a quick few seconds, if they’re still the same posts since your last visit.

2. Be-friend everyone who votes on your submissions.

At the very least, when you submit a story add each and everyone who voted for those posts as your friend.

3. Craft thoughtful comments.

Try to make an educated, thoughtful, supportive comments, and if you disagree, share your views politely. Add those who voted on that post as your friends.

4. Customize your profile as much as possible.

In your profile, put a little more about yourself in your “Occupation” line. See what I wrote? You want to give your profile visitors some reason to be-friend you…and there’s limited space to show your “personal” side, besides sharing your link to your website.

5. Check out the voting patterns of others.

A feature I like a ton in other sites are “friends who voted the same”, so when I’m voting on stories and see that someone has similar voting patterns, I try to network/reach out to them. Unfortunately, the email feature is so slow that I’ve never successfully gotten through to email anyone within sk-rt. An alternative is to email a member directly. While I, myself, do not publicize my email address…its easy to figure out to fellow yahoo IM and Google Talk members, because my username is my email prefix.

6. Everyone who visits your profile, be-friend them.

7. See where everyone is! Look at the tag cloud and its blatantly obvious…top groups:

• Parenting. While, not where my focus is here at EmpowerWomenNow.com the popularity shows that mom bloggers are truly dominating the scene as submitters, voters, and networkers. So, Mom Bloggers! Hop on! For all the mom bloggers visiting this list, please consider all the reasons why you should link to EmpowerWomenNow.com!
• Fashion. Undoubtedly, a woman’s topic! If you’re a fashion website publisher or blogger–hop over there right now!
• Business?? Yes, this is one more plug for this category, as 6 business women bloggers have followed-up and requested this category as well…but, the real question is “Is Women in Business a sk-rt-able category?” [A tag is totally different than a Category, mind u]
  • I think so…if you do, please contact sk-rt right now by emailing them now and comment below!

8. Power User or Top User?

The Top User category is really a mere numeric-alphabetical list of all the members of the sk-rt database. If I had time (though I recommend someone to try it) I’d research to see if I use a unique numeric-alpha username like:

1ILoveSkrt and see if I get more profile views than ponnsabra

But, PonnSabra is my username everywhere and I don’t have the time to experiment…but if you do, please let me know and report your results here!

You can see everyone’s published submission and published votes ratio. But, who has times to go through ~67 pages of sk-rt members to see who’s a Power User!? Not me…

Anyways, a PowerUser is someone like the Top Stumblers at StumbleUpon or Top 100 Diggers, those who are the most active users who have a great submission to front-page/published ratio. These are the ranks I’m trying to get you and I too here at Sk-rt.com because W.E. (women entrepreneurs) have a significant opportunity to capitalize on the fact that sk-rt just launched this month.

For example, most of the Top Diggers were the users from the start-up phase for that particular social bookmarking site.

And, why do you want to position yourself as a Power User on Sk-rt.com? Because if your target market are women, then here’s a great referral site to drive traffic to your website and/or blog!

9. Make your submissions count.[Come on, u know u wanna love ‘em up!]

A colleague of mine is testing what are the results in her referral traffic if she submits multiple posts to sk-rt.com

While I’m a proponent for gaining a good submission/publication to the front page ratio.

As stated above, I believe mom bloggers/website publishers as well as fashion bloggers/website publishers have great leverage here at sk-rt right now.

Then, again…many things can change…as I hope, once this page is posted and submitted

10. Get in now!

Sk-rt.com has not even met their one-month anniversay yet…so, W.E. (women entrepreneurs) all have the potential to highly-influence what gets submitted, voted on, made to the front page, published in the Top Posts, become a Power User, and much, much more!

I’m also finding that many of the friends I made are not website publishers/bloggers…meaning they don’t have a website/blog; therefore they are women internet browsers who enjoy what they’re reading and now have a venue to submit and vote on sites they visit while networking with like-minded women.

Therefore, women entrepreneur website owners/bloggers have a significant opportunity to gain many new readers, visitors, subscribers, clients, etc.

There’s great potential for all involved if you jump on sk-rt.com now and become an active Power User.

Was this worth your lovin’ in sk*rt? Then, love-it up, plezzz.

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Posted on July 10th, 2007 by Ponn Sabra
Filed under: Blogging, Internet Marketing, Online Networking