Comments on: Should You Pay To Outsource Your Social Media Marketing?

By: Richard

Richard — Thu, 19 May 2011 11:46:29 +0000

Good Article.
Following are some useful steps to how to use social media for marketing that guarantee to get word out of it :
Start doing marketing by setting up few pages to some social networking site like Facebook, Twitter, Squidoo, Weebly, Tumblr and HubPages etc. These drive extra traffic and link to your site.

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 19 May 2011 11:44:54 +0000

Thanks for such useful posting.
Now the question of how to use social media for marketing is very simple and easy. All you have to do is just communicate with different social media sites friends and contacts that trust you. If they get any good idea there millions of them will pay attention to that as a result millions of people will be pulled toward your brand. Business houses have been blessesed with Social media for marketing technique to get proper exposure, create the brand awareness, with which they can establish a strong foothold in competitive market.

By: SA Music Man

SA Music Man — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 10:15:49 +0000

It’s unfortunate that marketing, necessary as it is, can come to the point where it completely overwhelms other forms of communication on sites that are technically there to provide social interaction, eventually causing the marketing itself to become completely ineffective due to the frequency with which it is forcced on people

By: Clean Cut Media

Clean Cut Media — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 16:55:09 +0000

haha since I am relatively new to your site, I was going to comment on this article then I realized it was posted in 2006. Still a good read none the less.

By: Link Degisimi

Link Degisimi — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 08:40:07 +0000

Good point ideali – I have been meaning to place a “print this” option on my blog – I’ll get to that right now.

Thanks for the feedback!

By: Kimberly

Kimberly — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 01:10:33 +0000

I have mixed feeling about Craigslist. It seems that every post I have made on there is flagged for removal and I don’t post as spam. It’s just that so many people want to delete whatever they can, and on craigslist it’s easy to do that. Just hitting ‘flag’ once can delete your posting.

As for MySpace, you need to be careful about what you post. I recently had my account deleted (with over 15,000 followers) because I posted a bulletin about a free contest where all you had to do was create a fan sign for my blog and you could win makeup or a book of the winner’s choice (winner based on highest rated). Seems pretty harmless, I mean it’s a free contest, and people are always promoting their sites, blogs, bands, and worse of all their bodies. We’ve all seen porn starts on there with a link to their adult sites in which you have to pay to sign up a membership or however it works.

Yet, I was deleted because I was promoting a contest which is against MySpace rules. So be careful in what you are posting. You don’t want to lose thousands of your followers over a silly MySpace rule where they don’t allow a free contest to be promoted but will allow a girl to dress sexually suggestive with a link to her paid membership site. (I reported several of those and was told by Myspace they were within the MySpace rules and would not be deleted.)

By: Sanjen

Sanjen — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 12:12:16 +0000

Hi Yaro,

Great post. I’m wondering from an SEO standpoint, what might be the risks vs the rewards to using a service like http://www.superexpansion.com/ .

Regards
Ant

By: Marc

Marc — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 20:52:58 +0000

Yaro, thank you for writing up such an extensive review. We’re honored that you turned down so much money yet chose our service to write up. Time will tell if our idea is part of the social media zeitgeist or not.

To clarify, yes, we are selective about who we promote. For one there’s almost no effectiveness to advertising ringtones. Posts like that are ignored. We feel our service is best used by bands, companies looking to see something viral such as a video on YouTube. Imagine how much quicker a viral might spread if given a boost by our service?

Without promoting just anything, we feel we’re keeping the credibility of our account holders in tact. Whether or not we’re violating the TOS of any company isn’t something we’re too concerned with. A TOS is not a law. There’s no reason for us to follow it. If you were hosting your site on blogger, built a huge readership and then accepted a paid review, it would be exactly the same thing. We’re just leveraging someone’s popularity instead.

Right now we’re working with one major entertainment property which will be the primary source of revenue. We keep all of our clients confidential, of course.

Thanks again for the review. I was equally selective in picking blogs for reviews and I’ve been reading yours for quite some time with great admiration. Keep up the good work!

By: Yaro

Yaro — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 07:25:34 +0000

Justin – exactly, well said. It does feel “easier” on a site like myspace, but then again it also feels easier to get banned if you went and posted the same add in every major city on craigslist. If suddenly hundreds of companies started doing so then the quality of craigslist would drop significantly because it would be hard to sort out the “business offers” vs. the real individual offers.

By: Yaro

Yaro — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 06:51:17 +0000

Good point ideali – I have been meaning to place a “print this” option on my blog – I’ll get to that right now.

Thanks for the feedback!

By: ideali

ideali — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 19:14:52 +0000

Thanks for an article, but please do care about print version of your articles. Nice, that you have done so much stuff for your site, have a lot of subscribers, etc. But, when I want to read something while I am on my way home at metro, I want a nice printed article, but your article is hard to print, and impossible to select in order to drop into word or something else. IÐ° you really care about the feedback, please.

By: Justin Kistner

Justin Kistner — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 17:06:46 +0000

Great post, great promotional tips. It’s an interesting question about whether or not businesses should pay for bulletins and the like. As you said, from a pure marketing point of view, it’s a great idea. I think the challenge is simply how does one pay for MySpace bulletins without looking like “that” company. Bulletins are an interesting channel because their power comes from personal endorsement. Making the bulletins feel sincere seems like the biggest challenge.

Seeding forums or Craigslist feels like an easier challenge because they are less personal communication channels.

By: Tony

Tony — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 16:08:05 +0000

Well ultimatly the idea here is the same as one behind ReviewMe – except that instead of blogs and readers you’ve got profiles and ‘friends’.

I think this trend could be extended to any media, following the basic idea of “you know a lot of people, I’ll pay you to let all of them know about my product/service/name”.