Comments on: It’s Not Me, It’s You: Three Pillars of Social Media Marketing

By: Graham Waterfoot

Graham Waterfoot — Thu, 13 May 2010 23:10:41 +0000

I’m a new reader of your blog and found this article very inciteful. What you are saying is really “Provide value to your customers and they will reciprocate with purchases and referrals”. This is true wherever you do business on the internet or in the high street, in Twitter or in a blog (yours is a great example).

By: Chris Taylor

Chris Taylor — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:06:55 +0000

Wow! really enjoyed the read, as well as, all the comments.
As a consumer, I agree with relationship building. Keeping the intended customers happy & feeding with knowledge is key to having them sing your praises.

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 15:03:53 +0000

hay!

Once again great content and yes building up relationship is the most important thing and it is required so that people can trust you.

Anyway everybody nice views.

By: johnhutson

johnhutson — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 07:00:35 +0000

Thanks for getting this off my chest! ) Currently going through this at the moment with trying to change mindset as to not only why Social Media is an immensely important channel to use, but equally important to use it properly.

I refuse to be part of any Social Media campaign that would result in straying away from any of the 3 pillars you mentioned.

As always Michelle – great content!

Thanks!

By: Tony Finbarr-Smith

Tony Finbarr-Smith — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 13:56:41 +0000

hey Michelle, great post as always.

unsure whether someone else already raised this point, but the auto-DMs on twitter as a pain in the ass, and I noticed that Michael S Copeland called for a stop to the Social Media Spam!
Well, on that fron Justin Brooke over at sitefliiing wrote a post on it and how to OPT-OUT of auto-dms from tweetlater.

http://sitefling.com/blog/5-ways-to-stop-the-au…

anyways, thanks for a great post, and I thought this post from Justin might help some people claim back their twitter inboxes!

much love,

Tony Finbarr-Smith, UK

By: Tony Finbarr-Smith

Tony Finbarr-Smith — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 13:56:18 +0000

hey Michelle, great post as always.

http://sitefling.com/blog/5-ways-to-stop-the-au…

anyways, thanks for a great post, and I thought this post from Justin might help some people claim back their twitter inboxes!

much love,

Tony Finbarr-Smith, UK

By: Maureen Killoran

Maureen Killoran — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 04:23:10 +0000

I agree with your article. Thank you for laying out it in a concise clear way. I have a site about personal development, brain entrainment, and hypnosis for positive change. My readers love the freebie’s I set up on my site. I want them to know I give it away to help them to succeed. The unique privilege of getting to help others is of vast value to me as a blogger and website developer, simply because my heart is in helping others. I haven’t hit break even on my investments yet but I am getting to fulfill a life dream of reaching many on a grand scale who may need my free stuff. So at the end of the day I have left the results up to creation. Having posts like this give clear cut directions to each of us when we are in the newbies stage of getting involved on social networks, and are confused about what is a right approach and what is a wrong approach to getting messages out to those who actually may have a need or desire for a particular type of product or service.
Nice post, thank you.

By: David Baldaro

David Baldaro — Mon, 18 May 2009 22:46:39 +0000

Bang on the money. I guess once the dust settles companies might just get it – the way in which many companies are using Twitter and other Social networks is how many still use email marketing – cheaply and with little effect.

By: Dave B

Dave B — Sat, 16 May 2009 14:57:59 +0000

Great post Michelle,

I agree with some of the comments on the IM spam fest as well. As ever some ‘Guru’ trick guide comes out and everyone jumps on board. I’m on there as an IMer and tend to only follow other IMers. So, all I get is a vast wall of promotional stuff.

I stopped autofollowing months back and now never link back to anything about my own stuff in my daily tweets . My blog and lenses update automatically on there and that’s it.

The rest of the time I just rage about the system and make wild predictions about the world economy or put up links to YouTube rock vids. I get far more ‘hits’ to my site or blog from those.

I now only follow people if they appear interesting. No pic… I don’t even check ‘em out. No posts, forget it.

There are people who I follow (and follow me) who are still using Twitter in a purely social sense and they are about the only tweets I actually now read.

I still think Twitter can be a very powerful marketing tool if used properly. So, if you are in the Stock Trading niche (for example) you should be on there as a stock trader and only follow other like minded people.

Enjoy your mails! Keep up the great work.

By: Dan

Dan — Sat, 16 May 2009 04:17:50 +0000

I have read a lot of post on other blogs that say “I have been blogging for two months now and not making any money yet, what should I do?”
I say,” Become a person of value for others and with persistence you will succeed.” What can you do to help other people, without always thinking about the money. The money will follow if you do it right.