Comments on: Social Media is Garbage!!!

By: Seo Expert Pasquale

Seo Expert Pasquale — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 17:16:57 +0000

John,

I like what you said. You are fantastic. WELL SAID. Somebody has to say thing.

I agre with the fact that all the people do the same thing over and over again. Why? Because we all try to be the same this days. NOone is thinking wuth their own head, they just follow. We are all followers. But if we go against the current then we became millionair. That is the way the new millionair are thinking this days too.

We need peolple like you to say what other do not like to hear. But the truth is not sweat.

Love you man.

By: Kate

Kate — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 12:17:51 +0000

I agree with you to a point…I found Michelle MacPhearson on twitter, and now I’m part of her Crowd Mountain group – and LOVING it. She’s awesome.

She thinks you are awesome, and that led me to you. It’s likely I will become a customer of yours to learn outsourcing.

This all happened as a result of social media! Very cool.

With that said, I completely agree that we have to manage it strategically and not let it manage us.

Thanks for this post. It’s a great “re-focus” piece!

Kate
@kate_saunders (follow me on twitter! grin.)

By: Holly Powell

Holly Powell — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 14:18:15 +0000

Finally someone who nails it. I have friends/associates who spend hours and hours and did I say hours on these time wasters.

So what if you have 10,000 twitter followers. The so-called guru’s are NOT wasting their time on these sites. They are outsourcing it.

Not only that but your comment about spending time where the buyers are–right on. I too loved Michelle’s social media guide.

Seriously here is the cycle some are following:
open your email
open your tweetdeck
open your youtube
open your facebook
and 3-5 times every MINUTE you are refreshing that!

Get off those sites and find the buyers.

Thanks John for this very refreshing and honest post.

By: Amaete Umanah

Amaete Umanah — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 16:49:29 +0000

I agree with you 110%! Just like you, I am on all of the big Social Media sites and then some. I spend 90% of my time on Google, Yahoo, MSN, Ebay and countless affiliates trying to make money.

By: Susan Caverta

Susan Caverta — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 04:15:20 +0000

I am never wrong, I am just late or early!

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By: Dan Shaw

Dan Shaw — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 12:14:27 +0000

Agree totally. Web 2.0 is overhyped and way overblown as a marketing tool. It may have it’s place for SEO but that is more slanted towards blog and forum commenting unless the publisher has a nofollow tag attached to comments. It seems that eventually the social sites get over run by marketers and it ends up being more marketers trying ot sell their stuff to other marketers.

ROI is the bottom line.

If your niche is heavily into social media then of course there may be a good ROI but it all boils down to where your target market is.

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 05:14:15 +0000

Well I have to totally disagree with many of the comments and with you Jonas, respectfully. Mostly because the average person doesn’t know how to use social media, plain and simple(Michelle’s report does a great job of cutting to the chase on SM’s usefulness). Most are filled with HYPE that they don’t see the real use – to develop influence and to get people off that social network to your site. That, and too lazy to test to see where their traffic comes from – I get 30% of my traffic from social media from doing about 15-30 minutes a day and the traffic converts! Really people – find a network, join a relevant group/forum and contribute. If it doesn’t send traffic or convert, drop it and move on to the next one. Oh and stay off of twitter while trying to work ;D…wasted a lot of time there and while its useful for directly connecting with many people in real time, unless you have aims for status, its not a high converting site – its good to be there but guard your time is the bottom line. Peace.

By: LJ Jones

LJ Jones — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 20:29:05 +0000

You make some good points about what social media is good for. And I admit a lot of people have been duped into thinking that Social Media would do everything from guaranteed traffic to curing cancer. And while it won’t cure cancer, it does have some great marketing value beyond SEO and is far from being called garbage. Its a terrible place to try and sell something, but is a great place to connect with your audience, get feedback, have a conversation and build your brand. For years marketers have been doing things that don’t have a specific ROI tied to them. For example, Gatorade sponsoring the NFL with orange coolers. You can’t put ROI on that orange barrel being dumped over the coaches head at the end of the game, but it is the very essence of the brand. Like sponsorships, social media is difficult to measure ROI, but great for building a brand and connecting with your customers.

By: Michelle

Michelle — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 19:53:37 +0000

It’s fun to learn, both for personal and for professional reasons. A friend stopped by recently, totally jazzed about how Twitter had completely changed for him, and he’s been tweeting it for a while. So “social media” today may be completely different next week, that’s cool either way. Thought provoking. Thanks!