If you’ve ever had stumbleupon, digg or technorati melt your hosting (raises hand) you know what I mean.

But here’s what your favorite marketing guru didn’t tell you about social network marketing and driving traffic through social networks.

Hobby oriented networks consistently get more users than social networks or business networks.

But then, a lot of marketers tend to forget that we’re flesh and blood people with personalities,  hobbies and interests… not just opt-in prospects to be captured by a squeeze page and measured by an analytics program.

Do you have hobbies?  Like, besides Internet Marketing? Maybe look for some hobby networks that you can actually have real conversations in.  You know… the kind that don’t include squeezing anyone.  You might just be surprised at the connections you make.

It’s amazing how interested people become once they actually know and like you.

Read the entire social network report at eMarketer.com

Go into My account ->  Videos, Favorites, Playlists -> Manage my Videos.  Then click the “About this Video” button.

You’ll be able to see how often your video is viewed in different geographic regions. You’ll also be able to see details of the lifecycle, such as how long it takes your vids to become popular and hit peak for views.

If you’re using video for business or marketing concepts, take a minute to wrap your brain around the power of that kind of information.  You’re welcome.

As a side note, some of the comments on the YouTube blog are interesting.

Joffrey’s Coffee & Tea Company is trying a crazy new promotion… a Java Beta Test… which means a free sample of “Jamaican Me Crazy” coffee to 10,000 bloggers.

Lucky me – I’m one of them!

There’s 1100+ bloggers in already, so go sign up while there’s still coffee for the giving.

Yes, it’s for real and has been buzzed by Mashable and CNET.

P.S. Yes, I’ll let you know what it’s like as soon as it arrives.

By 2012, women online are predicted to outnumber men online by 8 million or more.

Walk, run or jog to your nearest bookstore or library and grab a copy of  EVEolution. It’s written by Faith Popcorn, dubbed “The Nostradomus of Marketing” by Fortune Magazine.

Start learning the differences between how men and women shop, buy and use the Internet. Especially if “think pink” is your idea of marketing to women.

Statistics say that women today make or influence over 80% of all purchases made. And isn’t sales the driving force behind SEO? You didn’t just want to be on page one of Google for the ego boost, did you?