Comments on: 25 Reasons to Love Social Media

By: Brenton

Brenton — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 01:00:48 +0000

Woah…Terry it’s all good my friend…no reason for the ego blows and credential questioning. I am very secure with my Twitter following and never said/ don’t believe I am a social media guru (don’t like the word rock star much either). Knowing that I hope that you will rest easy and take this post as just a fun and semi sarcastic list.

By: Terry

Terry — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 00:23:05 +0000

Dude you have like 1,000 Twitter followers and this makes you a social media expert? What are your qualifications exactly? How are you any different from any of the other “social media gen y rockstar/gurus/ninjas” out there? Yeah no shit brands like Dell sell via Twitter, it’s Dell. A giant company. A company founded pre-Twitter selling *gasp* an actual, you know, product, that is logically going to have tons of Twitter followers much like every other big brand.

By: Brenton

Brenton — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 18:36:20 +0000

Hey Anthony,

Thanks for shooting off the always important question of ROI and $ signs. You may not like this answer but the ROI and money involved all depends on who you are. For individuals like ourselves social media channels can act as a very strong funnel to your products and services. Just like search another other methods on the web, social can help direct even more targeted people to your product or service while possibly having viral sharing implication and setting the foundation of your success on what matters (the people/ customers). If these people trust you they will begin to see direct and sustainable results for your efforts (there are analytics that can track this as well).

As for brands and larger organization. Social media works the same was but at a higher and faster rate. Look at brands like Dell that sells million of $ of products through Twitter, big name artists that can link sales directly from their Twitter, Myspace or FB…these examples are growing rapidly.

Here are some direct examples of #10
-sponsoredtweets.com: Brands pay you to tweet.
-social media based affiliate programs
-high volume digital product distribution
-Virtual currency.
-App sales model.
-Social offers

and the list goes on

Hope that helps

By: Anthony Adams

Anthony Adams — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 17:18:57 +0000

Hi Brenton,

How does any of this contribute to actually making money? I mean it’s great that I can tweet @ Shaq but it’s still not a real relationship. You can follow me on Twitter but it doesn’t mean I am going to give you any of my time or money, even if you tweet at me, send me compliments, etc. I just feel like there is all this talk about how great social media is and how important it is to have a Twitter account at the expense of what really matters, which is selling a product.

Do you have any specific, verifiable examples of the list you propose above? Specifically number 10? Maybe I am missing something?

By: Brenton

Brenton — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 03:36:48 +0000

Maybe I should have put Princeton or something.

By: Carl

Carl — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 03:32:27 +0000

No, it just takes a Harvard undergrad to create…

By: Derek Manuel

Derek Manuel — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:42:02 +0000

Well done Brenton, this is a fine list you’ve compiled. I never would have been able to communicate with celebrities, professional athletes, and billionaires without social media.

#26 – Real time and unbiased news
#27 – Distractions other then rechecking your e-mail a million times

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