Comments on: Social Network Marketing: Can You Have Too Many Profiles?

By: Cherrie Diaz

Cherrie Diaz — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 17:22:46 +0000

There is no doubt about using social networking to gain clients, but i like what you’ve said that it is important to make your presence in the social networking sites but if you won’t able to handle all the profiles you created its nothing. In social networking its not only presence but also building up good connection.
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By: Humanize Your Listings with Social Media « Caliber Pulse

Humanize Your Listings with Social Media « Caliber Pulse — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 20:49:09 +0000

[...] application hoping to reach a different customer base. That approach can fragment your message and leave you with too many networks to maintain. You should ask yourself, “Why do I need this?” every time you want to invest time into [...]

By: Vijay Rayapati

Vijay Rayapati — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:28:36 +0000

Point taken, having too many social network profiles eats up lot of time but organizing them at one place and under single url makes it a lot better. Social Organizer services like GizaPage.com ( I work with them) help you organize your social activity and branding at one place for ease of use and management. Vijay Rayapati’s last blog post: The Social Web and The Next Growth Story

By: Christian

Christian — Thu, 14 May 2009 18:27:45 +0000

It's funny when you see someone's string of social profiles on Friendfeed or wherever, and it's a list of dozens of sites! You KNOW they're not maintaining all those profiles. I work online full time, and I don't have time to competently maintain dozens of profiles. Pick and choose...you can't do it all! The lure of "free and easy" makes us want to overextend ourselves! Christian’s last blog post: Tony Robbins Talks About the Economy and Opportunity

By: Susan Zanzonico

Susan Zanzonico — Sun, 10 May 2009 20:26:01 +0000

Social networking sites do take alot of time. I do think they’re good because obviously they give you the opportunity to market yourself, put positive info out there and hopefully build relationships with realtors, loan officers, buyers, sellers and all kinds of interesting people. As a busy realtor, I can only do a limited amount.

By: Joshua Dorkin

Joshua Dorkin — Sat, 09 May 2009 06:08:31 +0000

@Vlad – I respectfully disagree. No need to rehash, as I’ve posted my argument in the article above.

@Greg – That makes two of us

@Joe – Do people do f2f networking nowadays? This is 2009, man!

I agree that depth is way more important than breath . . . that was why I wrote the article. If you’re just using SM to spread your wares, share your links, etc, I guess it doesn’t matter what you do. I’m more concerned about people who are interested in focus on business networking, not straight marketing.

By: Joseph Ferrara

Joseph Ferrara — Fri, 08 May 2009 21:21:05 +0000

While I think it is good practice to have your static profile (& links) on as many directories/sites as possible, it is a great expenditure of time and energy to try to participate at every social media “party.” Pick the parties you like and interact there. And accept them for what they primarily are– social spaces– not places to hawk your wares. I would wager they are better marketing venues for commodities than services, in any case.

As a publisher, I look at social media a bit differently — I see the sm sites as channels for distributing my content– so my content is on wikipedia, stumbleupon, blogs, blog comments, flickr, youtube, etc. to live a life in Google perpetuity, open 24/7/365 (except during leap years.

My favorite SM place is meetup.com and the old school f2f networking. Heck, I can exchange more information in a fifteen minute f2f or telephone conversation than an hrs worth of SM.

The difference, as I see it, is the SM media net allows for a greater reach but f2f provides greater depth. And depth of influence usually trumps breadth. Just my opinion.

Here is a post I did recently on the subject. http://tinyurl.com/c952su In the post is a link to a great post by Danny Sullivan showing that SM sites are more varied than most people suppose.

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