Comments on: My Social Networking Mistake

By: Kian Ann

Kian Ann — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 02:25:14 +0000

Of course, customer engagement is one of the best ways to unseemily market your business – however, like you said, as the number grows, the task of replying all the DMs gets unmanagable.

how do you deal with that?

… and this is actually not something you can “outsource”, because these people want you, no a “twitter DM replier” you tasked the job to.

By: Yvonne Y

Yvonne Y — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 04:10:28 +0000

Great post. Thanks for sharing. I started blogging this year and have so much to learn about engaging with the communities that interest me.

By: Best Man Speech

Best Man Speech — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 22:42:02 +0000

Brian, great post. Social networking certainly takes a lot of time and I think that it is important for people to ask why they are using it. Many people hear of using social networking to increase web traffic and then go headstrong into only to disappear just as quickly because it takes so much effort. I think social networking is for some but not all. Before spending the time, people need to ask, “Is the traffic benefit worth the time that I am putting in?” And, “is this good traffic for my purposes?”

By: Dieta

Dieta — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 12:23:25 +0000

Answering personaly is a VERY important thing. Nobody likes getting a standard generated response – it feels like talking with a bot.

By: Anthony Kirlew

Anthony Kirlew — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 00:40:18 +0000

When Twitter first came out, I was not a big fan because I feared it would create “yet another arena to respond to people through.” Don’t get me wrong, I know it;s about people, but with all of the methods of contact, I think people can lose focus on actually getting work done and stress out about all of their connectedness to the online world.

I guess it depends on the person, but I could not imaging replying to 1,000 emails or tweets per day would ultimately be productive – unless I had someone assisting me. I have recently heard the question asked about “high volume” Twitter users as to whether or not they are responding on their own or if they have staff members do it for them.

By: Steen Seo Öhman

Steen Seo Öhman — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:16:19 +0000

As new to Twitter I must say its an almost overwhelming task to follow even a small percentage of the Tweets coming your way. I follow approximately 50 people, and some of them make more than 50 Tweets a day.

My strategy with Twitter has been to gain some inspiration in the field of social media, seo and online marketing. Most of the people I follow are in that field, and they use Twitter as a marketing or even sales platform.

Most of my personal friends in Denmark are not on Twitter yet, so Twitter is not that personal for me yet. But this could change when more people join Twitter here.

By: Tamal Anwar

Tamal Anwar — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 08:11:01 +0000

I use twitter and within the past few months I got social for this. I tweet a lot and love to interact with people. Guess it’s the way twitter is meant to be!

By: Egipt

Egipt — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 09:21:55 +0000

Got this post via twitter. I will send to my friend. Greetings, Egipt.

By: Utah SEO

Utah SEO — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 22:20:43 +0000

Good post Brian. And another buzzword to the table…”persistent engagement.”

By: Bloggeries

Bloggeries — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 19:34:34 +0000

Danny said it best

“It’s kinda like the celebrity syndrome where a mega-star will complain about being photographed. Then they’ll complain about not being photographed. Then they’ll complain about autograph hunters. Then they’ll complain about lack of autographs.”

Just tweet however you feel like tweeting. Sometimes social sometimes broadcasting. There is no wrong or right way to do it.