Comments on: Social Media Riches: Review

By: Terri Weston

Terri Weston — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 12:50:56 +0000

Michelle
I found the ebooks have valuable info.
There is a new wave for marketers and I want to catch the wave!

Can you recommend a webdesigner who understands torrents, web2.0 etc to be able to implement all that technology unto a website?

I sell top tier products and need the newest technology.

Thanks!
http://www.travelbizcash.com

By: Michelle MacPhearson

Michelle MacPhearson — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 23:41:27 +0000

Well I wish you the best of luck in your transition to online! There are a lot of differences, but overdelivering and positioning yourself outside of the pack are principles that work whether you’re online or offline.

The biggest thing people need online is traffic. If you can master traffic, you can do just about anything.

By: Alan

Alan — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 23:26:34 +0000

Absolutely, I can understand how perceptions are different from everyone. I’m just coming at this from the point of view of a guy who runs a bricks and mortars business and where my competition can see every move I make – new products, pricing etc. and can even sit for a day and watch how my sales are going! Maybe that’s why I find the online marketing world to be so different. Right now I’m looking to set up a site in my area of expertise and wondering how I might ever make an impact in that area. Hence my interest in this book and my probing comments

By: Michelle MacPhearson

Michelle MacPhearson — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 23:12:27 +0000

Well, yeah, LOL.

I do know my “average” customer very well, via customer support interaction, surveys, etc. Marlon Sanders is a big advocate of the customer (or prospect) survey, and I am now as well. I commend you on being so proactive in a world where most people aren’t.

That said, you could just hit the payment link and see the name of the company you’re sending money to, right?

I will continue to privatize most of my domain registrations. There are markets that I do business in that are none of the other marketers business.

That’s why I wrote “Itâ€™s interesting how different people perceive different things.”

To each his own, eh?

By: Alan

Alan — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 22:57:25 +0000

As the well known adage goes “you are not your customer” – what you may think is entirely different from what a customer (i.e. me) thinks. If I don’t get enough information on the site about who is selling the product and I revert to ‘whois’ maybe 1,000’s of others do too – all potential customers…

By: Michelle MacPhearson

Michelle MacPhearson — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 22:41:33 +0000

Most customers don’t know how to look up “Whois” data, so it’s got nothing to do, from my perspective, with the customer being “king” or not

Also, having contact information on a website to allow a potential customer to reach support alleviates any of those concerns, in my mind.

Re: Digg type sites – yes, there are too may of them. “Social Media Riches” doesn’t cover them. It covers only sites that pay for content submission.

By: Alan

Alan — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 22:30:52 +0000

Finally, could I ask your thoughts on digg-like sites? Are there too many of them now do you think? Does the book cover anything like this?

By: Alan

Alan — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 22:27:32 +0000

I can appreciate the spam bit, but presumably there are ways around that? e.g. set up a specific email address for domain reg only?

As for other marketers knowing your business – well that’s something I wouldn’t know anything about but it sure would make a good article and see what others think. Is the customer no longer “king” if all these other considerations come into play. As far as I’m concerned, if someone is selling me something and payment is transacted – the customer should know who they are buying from. Why should an internet business be any different from any other business in this regard?

Alan

By: Michelle MacPhearson

Michelle MacPhearson — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 21:59:03 +0000

[quote comment="1662"]That’s cool – good enough recommendation for me then. I’ll buy as soon as my CC is in a fit state! oh, and just so you know, I do a whois on all domains of ebooks before I buy. If I see the domain is registered by proxy, I say “bye bye” and won’t “buy”. If the author/promoter of the product doesn’t want me to know who they are, then I won’t buy from them.[/quote]

That’s interesting to me… I usually do private registration just to keep spam down (and to keep other marketers from knowing my whole business), but it’s not a reflection of hiding from customers. But with this site I forgot to privatize.

It’s interesting how different people perceive different things.

By: Alan

Alan — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 21:49:33 +0000

That’s cool – good enough recommendation for me then. I’ll buy as soon as my CC is in a fit state! oh, and just so you know, I do a whois on all domains of ebooks before I buy. If I see the domain is registered by proxy, I say “bye bye” and won’t “buy”. If the author/promoter of the product doesn’t want me to know who they are, then I won’t buy from them.

By: Michelle MacPhearson

Michelle MacPhearson — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 21:42:14 +0000

I liked it enough to buy resale rights!

One thing you’ll notice about this site is that from time to time, I do product reviews, and they are mostly positive. I do this because I refrain from being negative and just try to highlight the stuff I use and like myself. Most of the stuff that sucks I actually do own (I buy just about everything in the market) and just let it die it’s own slow death, alone & unmentioned.

There was a ebook launch about a month ago in the “Web 2″ market that I didn’t say a word about. Not ’cause I didn’t read it…. But because it was speculative crap.

“Social Media Riches” I’d purchased, loved, and then bought resale rights to.

By: Alan

Alan — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 21:30:56 +0000

Sounds like an interesting read – I’m a little confused though – how come you are the registrant of socialmediariches.info – when reading your review it seems like you have no connection with the product at all.

Alan