Comments on: Share Your Stories on Credibility in Social Networking

By: steve weaver

steve weaver — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:25:16 +0000

I personally believe it's fine to promote YOURSELF on social media, but leave the product pitches to your website. After all, your products will interest the people you interest. Links to blogs and websites are expected…but PLEASE quit trying to sell me spambots!!

By: Claudine Motto

Claudine Motto — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:49:06 +0000

Nancy,

Your posts are always thought-provoking – love it.

Two things came to my mind right away that show a disconnect between what people say they do versus what they really do:

1. After receiving a very well-known marketing guru's newsletter for several months, I wanted to know more about his/her coaching programs. When I called, this person was not pleasant at all. In fact, he/she sounded annoyed that I called, as he/she "was no longer doing one-on-one coaching."

I realize everyone has bad days, but that experience turned me off to this person enough that I would probably never do business with them.

2. I find that many of the people that tweet about the importance of CONNECTING on Twitter do not follow their own advice.

I realize people are busy, and if they have thousands of followers it must be very difficult to respond to every request – but then if it were me, I would feel funny/hypocritical to tweet about connecting.

Feels good to get that off my chest!

Claudine

@CoachClaudine

By: Maritza Parra

Maritza Parra — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 09:49:39 +0000

Hola Nancy!

This one is really general, but annoying… I really dislike the auto – DM tweets when you follow someone that say "Get 1000 followers in 5 days" or even higher numbers and you go to their twitter profile and they have 76 followers… Yucky!

Or the "get rich instantly with no work involved" types of profiles… Just like anything, your business is something to nurture and build and yes… *gasp* work on…

I love to work out, not because I actually enjoy sweating and lifting weights or running, but because I know the health benefits. You can't expect to go to the gym a couple of times and have a healthy body instantly… anything worth building takes time, decision, resiliance and persistence.

ok tiny rant over!! Thanks for the opportunity to share!

Love,

Maritza

@MaritzaParra

By: George Tran from Soc

George Tran from Soc — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:33:02 +0000

One of the biggest turn offs for me is people using twitter as a spam engine for their MLM or affiliate stuff. There would auto-tweet their offers repeatedly without offering their followers good quality content...or real life timeline updates. It's defeating the spirit of social media. Your listeners want to be informed, engaged and entertained...not sold. Great blog Nancy! Sincerely George Tran Author of "The Social Marketing Manifesto" Success Strategies for Small Businesses using Social Media www.socialmarketingman.com www.twitter.com/georgetran George Tran from Social Marketing Mans last blog post..How to get a Facebook Vanity URL