The Social Media - which one are the best for my business?

Everyday we spent a lot of time writing blogs, posting information on our facebook pages, tweeting, uploading videos on youtube and etc.

Recently I was questioning myself - which platforms are the best to grow our business? Let's face it it's impossile to use them all. So I did a simple comparable.
Let’s take a look:

1. Active Rain

• I connect with other professionals
• I learn something new everyday
• Helps me to implement different tools to grow my business
• Offers a lot of training
• Brings the google juice
• Great for SEO
• I’m seen as local expert

2. Tweeter

• Enables to send a very short messages (no more than 140 characters)
• Easy to monitor what others are saying about me
• Easy way to promote my business
• Help me engage with friends and customer
• Bring traffic to my website
• My tweets shows on google
  

3. Facebook

I can:

• Build my profile
• Connect with my friends
• Share my opinions
• Build my brand page
• Use different facebook application to grow my business
• Not to great for SEO
  
  

4. YouTube

• Enables a video sharing
• I’m seeing as an interent PRO
• Easy tool to brand my business
• Bring traffic to my website
• Great for my SEO

After writing this short summary I did some research and I came across this very visual scheme from cmo.com - CLICK HERE OR ON THE IMAGE (it will enlarge so you can read). The diagram shows all the advantages of using social media including linkedin, digg, stumbleupon, reddit.

My only question is. Why Active Rain is not on the list?
Which are YOU using the most?

Can Your Twitter and Facebook comments affect your credit?

Twitter and Facebook have already huge impact on your everyday life. Everything what you reveal online may cause unintended consequences. As a Real Estate Agent you are trying to be visible and active on at least few social network sites. And those sites are being used, and checked, and red. So far, I have heard about employers checking profiles, comments, pictures and any available content of their applicants.
Recently, I came across an article written by Erica Sandberg. She is stating that everything you and those in your network do and discuss online may be compiled and provided to creditors. Of course, if your settings are tuned to public. This includes your Facebook status updates, Twitter "tweets," joining online clubs, linking a Web site, and even posting comments on a news blog. Since you are desired to be found by as many potential customers as possible you keep your profile public.

Some Financial Institution access the information that you and your friends reveal online. Watch your behavior patterns - what you like and dislike, want and don't want, do well and do poorly. They gather all your social networking transmission in hope to help them identifying good credit customers and promote certain products.
Another reason - is lowering lending risk. Creditors are able to look how people in your network are handling accounts. If they are responsible cardholders or not. There is a better chance you will be too.

What you can do:

• Don't accept all invitations, check out the profiles first
• Be aware of what you write about
• Don't public information you don't want to be public
• Take an annual inventory of all your social networking sites, people and information

to read more: www.creditcards.com (Social Networking: Your key to eady credit?)