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]]> By: skinkade http://www.aspirekc.com/Blog/2010/01/09/2-tools-for-maintaining-your-social-media-garden/comment-page-1/#comment-334 skinkade Wed, 13 Jan 2010 04:04:28 +0000 http://www.aspirekc.com/Blog/2010/01/09/2-tools-for-maintaining-your-social-media-garden/#comment-334 Jerry,<br><br>It's a great question - I see a lot of people (even those that have been using Social Media for a while) stepping back and trying to figure out where to go from here. I don't have all the right answers, but I'm looking at it the same way I look at 'real world' networking.<br><br>It takes a long time to build a networking presence, find the right kind of partners who will refer you (and who you can refer), but if you can get established with the right network, you can drive a lot of business in the door.<br><br>However if you stop attending networking events, don't see people for weeks at a time, don't follow-up or follow through with opportunities and referrals they give you, then your connections will dry up.<br><br>On social media, I think you can make a push for events, activities, new products that are more like campaigns, but I also think there's value in just letting people know that you're out there...still doing stuff, still thinking about things and ready to help them out.<br><br>If you get wrapped up in the tools and the number of followers, you're likely to lose your way...but if you continue just trying to connect and let people know who you are and what you're about, then there's still a lot of value.<br><br>Just like continuing to attend networking events.<br><br>I'll have to give some thought to a more complete answer - maybe a different post. Thanks for the question.<br><br>Shawn Jerry,

It's a great question – I see a lot of people (even those that have been using Social Media for a while) stepping back and trying to figure out where to go from here. I don't have all the right answers, but I'm looking at it the same way I look at 'real world' networking.

It takes a long time to build a networking presence, find the right kind of partners who will refer you (and who you can refer), but if you can get established with the right network, you can drive a lot of business in the door.

However if you stop attending networking events, don't see people for weeks at a time, don't follow-up or follow through with opportunities and referrals they give you, then your connections will dry up.

On social media, I think you can make a push for events, activities, new products that are more like campaigns, but I also think there's value in just letting people know that you're out there…still doing stuff, still thinking about things and ready to help them out.

If you get wrapped up in the tools and the number of followers, you're likely to lose your way…but if you continue just trying to connect and let people know who you are and what you're about, then there's still a lot of value.

Just like continuing to attend networking events.

I'll have to give some thought to a more complete answer – maybe a different post. Thanks for the question.

Shawn

]]> By: Jerry Smith http://www.aspirekc.com/Blog/2010/01/09/2-tools-for-maintaining-your-social-media-garden/comment-page-1/#comment-333 Jerry Smith Tue, 12 Jan 2010 23:03:16 +0000 http://www.aspirekc.com/Blog/2010/01/09/2-tools-for-maintaining-your-social-media-garden/#comment-333 Hi Shawn<br>Those are good tools for sure, and there is no doubt that consistency of effort is really important. However I have noticed, a week into 2010 that a number of people have said - "I can't see how having a social media presence translates to business bottom line." <br><br>In other words, have the tools and cool stuff become an end in themselves and once that twitter following is built, the FB friends are there etc. then.....now what?<br><br>Interested in your thoughts as to how social media can really help bottom line growth. There seems a disconnect that leads to either hard sell messages on SM that put people off and don't help connections, or connections and conversations but no real way of turning that into real business revenue.<br><br>What do you think? Hi Shawn
Those are good tools for sure, and there is no doubt that consistency of effort is really important. However I have noticed, a week into 2010 that a number of people have said – “I can't see how having a social media presence translates to business bottom line.”

In other words, have the tools and cool stuff become an end in themselves and once that twitter following is built, the FB friends are there etc. then…..now what?

Interested in your thoughts as to how social media can really help bottom line growth. There seems a disconnect that leads to either hard sell messages on SM that put people off and don't help connections, or connections and conversations but no real way of turning that into real business revenue.

What do you think?

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