Comments on: Social Media 101: Be Prepared to Work

By: blondishnet

blondishnet — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 12:14:26 +0000

The only difference is that they are not there in front of you. For me, I am comfortable in person or online meeting people. I agree with you. As for your personality being believable… it is more like… just be honest. Because even car salesmen try to be believable.

By: shkhanal

shkhanal — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 06:41:29 +0000

I found social networking not different than the real world circle. The major achievement is build up reliability. Get your personality believable. Thus it takes time and lot effort as well. But it worth the time and effort. You have more friends, there are less chances that you 'll get drowned even in hard times. My recent post The First Step of Blogging – How to Start?

By: blondishnet

blondishnet — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 01:40:48 +0000

I really do not think there is any harm for a business to take up learning how they can harness social networking. In fact, I would encourage it. The problem is that working with small business owners, they may not have the extra money to invest. BUT, if you educate them on how to put some of their social networking on auto-pilot while designating a little time each day (even 10 minutes will do!!!) then they could build a following online.

I am in the process of creating a Southern Illinois focused website as when people ask me "What is there to do in Southern Illinois?", it was like telling them to go farther into the boonies. When people think about locations in Illinios, they think about Springfield and Chicago. And as businesses are awakening to social media and social networking, they can find a place to help promote their presence.

By: @AndreaVLewis

@AndreaVLewis — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 20:57:20 +0000

Hi Nile.

First off thanks for taking the time to read my post. Secondly, I couldn't agree with you more in terms of how much strategy, time and dedication is really involved in growing and maintaining a presence online, even if it's just your own. Coming from the advertising agency side, where we're accustomed to doing a little dance for our dinner for clients. From my experience it seems like clients pay agencies so they have someone to yell at when the campaign isn't as successful as they wanted. Most campaigns have a few months of turnaround time.

My decision to leave the advertising world was mainly due to my agency's lack of wanting to embrace social media. I remember in 2008 when clients were asking about Twitter and the director of media made EVERYONE sign up to try to "figure what its really about" before giving up on it weeks later.

Now, that I'm (trying to) freelance as a social media advocate, I'm sure the time will inevitable come when I'll have to school the client on the proper way to use social media.

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By: Suresh Khanal

Suresh Khanal — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 19:27:00 +0000

Thank you for referring that nice article. Building social network circle is no way different than building real world circle when regarding time and effort it takes. Differences lies in tools available on this two different worlds.