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Re: Beware of Potential Drawbacks of Social Media Marketing

Charles — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 23:48:33 -0000

@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.

Re: Beware of Potential Drawbacks of Social Media Marketing

Charles — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 23:47:19 -0000

@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.

Re: Beware of Potential Drawbacks of Social Media Marketing

Melissa — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 06:49:27 -0000

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...

Re: Beware of Potential Drawbacks of Social Media Marketing

Anna — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 05:30:53 -0000

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?

Re: Beware of Potential Drawbacks of Social Media Marketing

Charles — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 18:44:49 -0000

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.

Re: Beware of Potential Drawbacks of Social Media Marketing

Anna — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 11:22:48 -0000

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?

Re: Beware of Potential Drawbacks of Social Media Marketing

Cindy Krum — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 11:48:24 -0000

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