tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4329299219981352935.comments2010-02-23T01:15:56.992-08:0013 Degreezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10823488661374348850noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4329299219981352935.post-61770825049253769952010-02-23T01:15:56.992-08:002010-02-23T01:15:56.992-08:00Another social media is Hi5SERGIO PINEDAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00664523424344785951noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4329299219981352935.post-74096183093300998602010-02-23T01:06:21.029-08:002010-02-23T01:06:21.029-08:00Wow! My ignorance was big, but now is bigger, because I didn&#39;t know the most of these social media... Thx for writing your blog. Actually, I&#39;m trying to use Facebook to advertise my small business (the truth is that it is very small hahahaha). I opened a Twitter account yesterday. Today, I thought to post my first blog in blogger and to write more in MySpace... Everything, with the objective to grow my small (very small)small business. I need to learn a lot of this. Congratulations for your blog, it&#39;s interesting. I will be reading more.SERGIO PINEDAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00664523424344785951noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4329299219981352935.post-62125325419228514312009-04-07T07:54:00.000-07:002009-04-07T07:54:00.000-07:00Hi Mark,<BR/><BR/>I believe you are correct in your assertion about having a strategy to be successful in SMM, plus the SMO. I always ask a client what is their "goal" with social media. Is it to build an online brand, to sell their product/ services? The people in the company? Or is it figuring, if they throw enough things at the wall, something will stick?<BR/><BR/>SMM to be effective for business needs to have a plan and execution; benchmarks need to be applied too. A business cannot "sorta stick their toe in the water"; they need to commit and stay the course as one should for any marketing plan to be worth the time and energy.13 Degreezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10823488661374348850noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4329299219981352935.post-82352344556920756482009-04-06T18:39:00.000-07:002009-04-06T18:39:00.000-07:00I am but a babe in the woods with respect to the phenomena called "Social Media Marketing", so please cut me some slack for being a newb. Yet even I can see this phenomenon potentially causing a paradigm shift in the way marketing is done. From my perspective, it begs the questions: Is it simple in concept? Yes. Is it easy? No!<BR/><BR/>Perry Marshall is probably one of the hardest working people I know in cyberspace. He literally wrote the book on Google Adwords and became a financial and professional success because of it. Did he stop there? No. He promotes his products and services by promoting through cyberspace and baiting his hooks unlike anyone else I’ve seen. He is one of the few people whose e-newsletters I get that I save consistently because of the potential gold nuggets they contain that I want to keep under my bed for a rainy day. <BR/><BR/>I agree with your perspective pertaining to warmer selling opportunities as opposed to cold calls. You may even have 2nd chances too, if you blow the first one. However, you probably will have few if any opportunities if you don’t stay the course and continue your quest to establish mutually beneficial relationships. I don’t see SMM being successful for those that don’t have a strategic plan to utilize this. People remember the person in high school that threw the parties almost every weekend as opposed to the person that just threw one. Which one would I want to be?<BR/><BR/>To approach SMM with the goal of being successful in that spectrum, I would want to be the Perry Marshall of my industry. I believe that those who are able to be successful in this medium will achieve incredible success. As to how to achieve that in a strategic manner, well….that is the question, n’est-ce pas?Markhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08072405820261125690noreply@blogger.com