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

By: Bread

Bread — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 14:32:59 +0000

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.

By: Joshua Dorkin

Joshua Dorkin — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 01:12:28 +0000

That’s great to hear, Marc! I’m glad I’ve managed to help you connect with some important people in your life. I’ll catch you around the site . . .

By: Marc Faulkner

Marc Faulkner — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 23:12:07 +0000

Again Josh, thanks for all that you do! I have been messing around with social networking and posting on forums asking and answering questions for some time now. While I have made a few connections and gotten some website traffic from my activities on sites like FaceBook, Twitter and LinkedIn, I have also made my share of mistakes and wasted time, spreading myself to thin spending too much time trying to be everywhere at once. My father would say, “Jack of All Trades/ Master at None.”
You are right in saying that is is just to time consuming to be involved in all of these social networking sites and it is better to some research and find sites that you will actually enjoy working with. If you can’t contribute in a useful way, you may be just taking up dead space in some networks and if you don’t have the time to respond to post you make on forums, blogs, articles, etc, I believe you can actually damage your online reputation. I am also guilty of spending hours online when I should be out there doing real deals. With that said, I have also goten my fair share of business and have made life long connections from interacting with folks I have met on your site here at BiggerPockets. I am certain the first time I ended up here was because I did a Google search on a subject I was interested in and was directed to one of the forums here! If that is not proof that social networking works-I don’t know what is……
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By: Derek

Derek — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 18:35:11 +0000

Absolutely you can have too many profiles. They are exhausting to keep up with, for one. But two, you cannot possible maintain that many – it’s a full time job just keeping up with one or two!

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

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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: 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 20:21:05 +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.

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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By: Vlad Zablotskyy

Vlad Zablotskyy — Wed, 06 May 2009 17:01:49 +0000

Josh,Yes I think it is easier to manage your reputation if you have extra accounts out there. I would try to link them up pointing to the one's you are most active on and if needed give them an extra "push" so they come on first pages of search results for your own name.Vlad Zablotskyy’s last blog post: Trace Richardson And LeadPress Are Falsely Attacked on Ripoffreport

By: Joshua Dorkin

Joshua Dorkin — Wed, 06 May 2009 16:48:14 +0000

Michael – Perhaps you can address the point about spreading yourself too thin?

By: Joshua Dorkin

Joshua Dorkin — Wed, 06 May 2009 15:34:49 +0000

Thanks for the feedback Vlad! While the article is certainly opinionated, I am interested in hearing the opinions of the community.

Are you saying that it helps to have many profiles for reputation management purposes or less? I can’t figure it out.

What would you recommend people do?

Do you think having dozens of profiles is the right approach, or less, more focused ones?