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Online Social Media Frontier: Beware of Potential Drawbacks of Social Media Marketing

  • Cindy Krum · 1 year ago
    Hey Charles,

    Thanks for the mention. Can you e-mail me or DM me on Twitter. I have a quick question for you.

    Thanks,
    CK
  • Anna · 1 year ago
    Thank you, this is very good advice. And it is far less dispersing when one keeps in mind that it is not necessary to be hyper-active on 200 Social Networks.

    I also recently and started to search for some Social Bookmarking sites on my niche. I think I need to do that a bit more.

    I think it's also important to really build up one before you move on to too many others. Not just for Social Networks but for general Web 2.0 activities. Like Squdoo - I realized that once I have made a lens I should probably put some time into making friends and commenting on related Squidoo lenses, etc, and building up in that arena, before moving on to many more 2.0 projects. Same with Hubpages, Facebook, Myspace. Once you've set up a profile, use it and get it going instead of just getting overwhelmed in 50 new profiles on new sites. That's my idea. What do you think?
  • Charles · 1 year ago
    Anna... The slow roll is ok but there is also power in working 5 - 10 networks at once because many of the networks interact with each other in useful and time saving kind of ways... This will also allow you to get a feel for the differences in communities and how a community on one may be more beneficial to your purposes than another.
  • Anna · 1 year ago
    That makes sense.

    When you refer to Social Marketing, do you include things like Hub Pages and Squidoo, or just Social Networks, or also Social Bookmarking sites?
  • Melissa · 1 year ago
    This can get quite confusing! social bookmarking, social networking, social media, etc.... which is more effective, bookmarking (but how do you know they're getting read?) or networking? Or what?

    Just looking for more free traffic...
  • Charles · 1 year ago
    @Anna ... I include everything... what is important is to focus on the networks where your target audience is socializing.

    Read my report: http://www.seo2020.com/smm/

    This will help you to choose the networks that are right for you.
  • Charles · 1 year ago
    @Melissa ... social networking is very different from traditional Internet marketing and many, many times more powerful. You can't use IM techniques in social media sites... It requires a different approach.