Comments on: Social media marketing – participation or procrastination?

By: Gaurav Jha

Gaurav Jha — Thu, 13 May 2010 12:56:59 +0000

I don’t think we can simply call spending time on “social media” as a waste of time. It’s more about what you want to gain out of all those interactions. Different people have different motives, and sales organizations are aggresively trying to cash in on this. I talk about this and more in my post http://blog.insideview.com/2010/04/27/connecting-the-dots-how-sales-2-0-can-help-you-connect-with-prospects/

By: Santosh Shukla

Santosh Shukla — Sat, 08 May 2010 06:15:28 +0000

Hi John,

Excellent post. Social Media is the most essential weapon of any sales or marketing guy.
However, people tend to spend too much (time) on social media and are not able to get the desired ROI.
Here are some tips that I use to get the best of social media without spending too much time: http://blog.insideview.com/2010/05/02/investing-too-much-time-on-social-media-how-to-boost-your-roi

By: Dawn

Dawn — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 12:52:39 +0000

Thank you James for such a great post, I just wrote an article about social bookmarking where I let the secret out of the bag that you don’t have to get on the “front page” to take advantage of the benefits social bookmarking for your business.
Businesses need to figure out what works best for them and their business and allocate time according to this. You shouldn’t cut off your hand to spite your foot, but you should manage your time wisely,.

By: Bryan Schell

Bryan Schell — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 20:21:26 +0000

Wow, I’m sad I didn’t come across this blog before I wrote on my company’s blog about social media procrastination ( http://www.pageonepr.com/blogs/thepagewonders/2008/10/whats-your-ape-score-social-media-tools.html ). Your distinction between just “re-tweeting” third-party content and creating your own quality content raises my understanding of the space to new heights! Well written article.

As far as your comment about porn being passed up by user-contributed content… it seems as if you had a pretty good hunch back in March! http://news.zdnet.com/2424-9595_22-221587.html

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By: James Duthie

James Duthie — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 09:55:02 +0000

Thanks Carinett. Glad you enjoyed the article.

By: Carinett

Carinett — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 22:15:42 +0000

favorited this one, bro

By: James Duthie

James Duthie — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 00:10:12 +0000

@ Barry – Yes, I always try to add a unique perspective to my articles. Whether I’m actually successful at though is another matter…

@ Tin – It is indeed a challenge to gain awareness and recognition with so much content being published. I’m hoping that persistence pays off…

By: Tin Pig

Tin Pig — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 15:50:29 +0000

This is a good post and I agree 100% that, in the end, the best link bait is quality, original, content. That said, I also believe that there’s a bit of an unhealthy relationship between online content creation and consumption right now, causing both to be highly inefficient.

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