More often then not I see companies trying to use social media as a way to shout out their ideas, when they should be getting feedback.
I've seen companies or people talk about how awesome they are on social media, at their job or at listening but they never really talk to the other people in their network.
I've seen some people use social media to primarily thank people who follow them or retweet the other people in their network but then they never try to build up their own unique and interesting content. Writing the right kind of content would get them retweeted and thanked for writing great pieces.
How many of your social media friends complain about their lives, the content available on the web or events they go to but how many of those people step up to the plate and try to help others.
Who goes to a party just to see how many people will listen to them shout the loudest? Who enters a room full of people they don't know very well and tells them all they have to be friends, without even having a conversation asks them for a business card. Isn't this what you are doing when your whole online goal is to get 1k or 100k in followers?
My point? If you are going to be a part of the community write great content, seek others opinions, help others be the best content providers they can be, be a teacher not a drill sergeant, listen to what your clients have to say and respond, don't just build relationships on retweets, don't make your whole goal a numbers game make it a relationship game.
What do you think?
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I've seen companies or people talk about how awesome they are on social media, at their job or at listening but they never really talk to the other people in their network.
I've seen some people use social media to primarily thank people who follow them or retweet the other people in their network but then they never try to build up their own unique and interesting content. Writing the right kind of content would get them retweeted and thanked for writing great pieces.
How many of your social media friends complain about their lives, the content available on the web or events they go to but how many of those people step up to the plate and try to help others.
Who goes to a party just to see how many people will listen to them shout the loudest? Who enters a room full of people they don't know very well and tells them all they have to be friends, without even having a conversation asks them for a business card. Isn't this what you are doing when your whole online goal is to get 1k or 100k in followers?
My point? If you are going to be a part of the community write great content, seek others opinions, help others be the best content providers they can be, be a teacher not a drill sergeant, listen to what your clients have to say and respond, don't just build relationships on retweets, don't make your whole goal a numbers game make it a relationship game.
What do you think?
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