Comments on: Do’s & Don’ts of Social Media Marketing

By: Clovia Hamilton

Clovia Hamilton — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 17:28:24 +0000

This is great advice! I am a procurement counselor and strategic planner. I will share this with clients!

Clovia Hamilton, President, Lemongrass Consulting
@lemongrassplans

By: Clovia Hamilton

Clovia Hamilton — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 12:28:24 +0000

This is great advice! I am a procurement counselor and strategic planner. I will share this with clients!

Clovia Hamilton, President, Lemongrass Consulting
@lemongrassplans

By: Ronnie Saini

Ronnie Saini — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 15:10:17 +0000

Great Post!

all the valid points touched and very informational, thanks for sharing!

By: Josh

Josh — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:52:29 +0000

Your welcome Bhavya, I have found it much easier to get people on board with doing SMM with stats. Many people don’t realize just how used these social media sites are used. I have many stats and other pieces of information if you would like them feel free to contact me.

By: Bhavya

Bhavya — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 13:24:16 +0000

Thanks for the great feedback and comments, everyone.

Walid: you raised a very valid point, verified accounts can definitely help increase the trust quotient.

John: I don’t know, unless they are total newbies, how can they not realize they are spamming?

Wayne: So true. Case in point: I should have responded to all your comments earlier, but I only got around to doing now, for which I am really sorry.

Ron: great tip, checking out the competition is something I’ll endorse too.

Patrick: very true, many of us make the mistake of jumping on to the bandwagon without quite knowing where we want to go.

Josh: thanks for the stats, will be sure to use them in a post

By: Paul Ostrowski

Paul Ostrowski — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:17:48 +0000

Great article – concise, informative and very helpful for those out there sticking their toe into the vast Social Media pool of information. Kudos!

-Paul

By: Archana Sunil

Archana Sunil — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 19:23:25 +0000

Very enlightening write up. Just as I was getting overwhelmed with taking the company I work for into the SMM world, I saw your article. Everything you said makes great practical sense. You hit the nail on the head with tweeting not more than once a day. I always wondered about that. I also agree with you on being the first to respond to any posts.

All in all, thank you very much.

Archana

By: Josh

Josh — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 18:31:23 +0000

First of all, great post! Good information and worded very well. One thing I might add is some stats on social networking. Such as, about 8% of time spent on the internet is spent on Facebook. Around 61% of people on Facebook are over the age of 35 yrs old. Around 120 million users of Facebook login at least once a day. The average user on Facebook becomes a fan of about 4 pages a month. Twitter has around 1.9 million tweets a day. The percent of Twitter users between the age of 25-54 is 62%. There are about 17 million twitter accounts and about 23 million unique visitors monthly.

These stats just prove how important SMM really is. Can you remember the last time you watched the news and they did not try to get you to go to their facebook or twitter page? Social Media has become part of society in a major way, and if business’s do not take hold of that, they will be left in the dust while their competitors cross the finish line.

By: Claire

Claire — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 10:00:55 +0000

Excellent article – I’m a fan of your social bookmarking service too, great to learn more about the people and the thoughts behind the service.

By: WebSuccess

WebSuccess — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:13:52 +0000

I agree with Onsip. “Trust quotient of your site” is one of the most important and overlooked element in your online marketing and branding efforts.
Thanks for this excellent article. It is one of the most informative post on SMM I have read in a while.