Now that the dust has settled on the latest Empire Avenue event known as [X]Pendapalooza, you may be wondering how to make the most of your sudden gains in connections, share price, and portfolio wealth. Here are the Empire Avenue (EAv) strategies I recommend to capitalize on your [X]Pendapalooza gains.

1. Say Thank You.

If you have not already, go write thank you on the profile of every investor you gained during the [X]Pendapalooza. Or, if appropriate, write you're welcome instead. Most of us remember to say please often enough in social media, but social superstars throw in equal measures of thank you and you're welcome to create effective engagement.

An estimated 1.4 Billion* people worldwide use social media, but the top 13* worldwide social media sites estimate to have 5 Billion* user accounts. That means if you just take into account the top social media sites and split them evenly across the social media population, each person on average then has 3 social media accounts. Now of course you will have some people who use just 1 account and other "power users" who use around 7, but from the numbers I have gathered you can easily tell that the trend for more people to use more than one social site is on the rise. Now take into account that there are plenty of other smaller social sites out there and that more and more people each day are becoming new social users and your mind starts to wonder where we will be in one year!

"OK, so now that you have a website for your business, it's time to get active on social networks. Go ahead and create accounts for yourself on Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and LinkedIn, and don't forget that Facebook, Google+ and LinkedIn also have special pages for businesses that you need to set up and be active on. Next, create profiles on YouTube, Flickr, SlideShare, Quora, Foursquare and Yelp, MySpace, Bebo, Orkut, Viadeo, Vine, Pinterest and Instagram, and spend time each and every day engaging followers on every network. Oh, and keep an eye out for new social networks so that you can join up early and get a head start on your competition."

"Nearly 8% of school-aged children in the U.S. have received a diagnosis of AD/HD and nearly 1 in 5 U.S. school-aged children have some form of dyslexia." According to Joan Brennan, creator of the patented Reading Focus Card, there's a growing segment of our population, both children and adults, who are dealing with these kinds of issues and struggle to read. In 2009, she developed a low-tech tool to help people focus their eyes on just one or two lines of text, and block out all of the surrounding text so that they can concentrate on the words they're trying to read and digest them.

Take one glance at Joan's Pinterest boards (http://pinterest.com/brennajn2000/), and you can see how dedicated she is, not just at selling her product and building her business, but also at providing resources and educational information that people and parents will appreciate.

Pinterest has grown to be a major social networking site that has the potential to greatly increase the traffic to any website, allowing the owners an opportunity to achieve their goals. Whether their goal is to increase revenue sales on a business website or spread the word about a certain topic on a blog, Pinterest will can be a major factor in their success. Although there are a great variety of benefits that come along with Pinterest, lets go over a few reasons how using it will increase traffic.

In the Age of Information, the ability to “curate”, or gather and arrange content, becomes one of the most important skills you can have. After all, the information is out there for everyone to see. What makes you stand out from the crowd is how you locate and present it. This process can be a grueling one if you go at it alone. That’s why the smart content curator will find tools to make their job easier in siphoning the best material off the top of the web, and presenting it in the purest and most palatable of forms.

Here are five such tools that will allow savvy social marketers to make it happen.

1. Scoop.it