Comments on: What Is The Benefit of Social Networking?

By: Custom Metal Fabrication

Custom Metal Fabrication — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 14:52:25 +0000

Social networks are an amazing addition to an already over-stuffed Internet with way too many sites that clog the tubes. What these social sites bring to the community is engagement on a number of levels, creativity and the ability to share and communicate with like-minded individuals.

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 14:00:09 +0000

@Top Rated I have been wondering about the amount of time needed to devote to social marketing, how much to blogging, etc. Can some of that be outsourced? With my busy schedule I don’t know if I can devote the needed amount of time for it to be the most productive.

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By: Fifty Studio

Fifty Studio — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 15:25:31 +0000

We’ve actually picked up some pretty nice work from social networking because people are often finding it easier to just float work to their networks.

By: Eva White

Eva White — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 04:13:19 +0000

With so many social networking sites breaking onto the scene doesn’t it make life easy to popularize your blog.

By: Eco Tech

Eco Tech — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 03:28:33 +0000

Cant say I ever really caught the social networking boat. I know that LinkedIn is pretty popular. Seems unecessary to me

By: search engine Optimisation Sydney

search engine Optimisation Sydney — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:39:15 +0000

Social networking overload here to many sites . Facebook is losing traction…

By: Annie

Annie — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 08:05:04 +0000

yeah I think social network sites is great too, actually I used Friendster, becaus eits more Asians

By: Carnival of Making Money Online

Carnival of Making Money Online — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 02:03:49 +0000

I wish there was a way to maintain multiple personas on the major social networking sites. I want one for friends, and one for business contacts in each of my business verticals so I can make sure that my interactions/posts are relevant. But almost all of the major sites limit you to only one account. Shame.

By: Robbin Block

Robbin Block — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 19:39:34 +0000

I agree with some of what you say, but I’m always careful about absolutes. Like your statement, “The days of anonymous marketing and communication are dead.” Not so fast. Traditional marketing methods, such as TV, radio, direct marketing, etc. are still in heavy use and are effective. Even the Web didn’t replace existing communication tools. Take the latest round of Apple ads — they’re doing a great job of reminding people what is great about a Mac. I consider social media just another element of the marketing mix. And what’s so important about identifying the communicator behind the product if you’re just selling toothpaste?

By: Forumistan

Forumistan — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 14:04:34 +0000

Blogging and having a website is a good way.

By: watch gilmore girls

watch gilmore girls — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 20:09:30 +0000

The only reason i use social bookmarking is some nice backlinks. Though on one of my site i got amazing traffic from some social bookmarking. And i didn’t for other sites =/ I’m gonna keep experimenting though

By: Poems MD

Poems MD — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 12:59:56 +0000

Social networking is really able to assist in increasing the traffic to one’s website and blog. It is the very tool with the help of which one can make one’s reputation among those who are doing online business.

By: Thriveal

Thriveal — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 19:18:32 +0000

I’ve used online social networks to continue to enhance our firm’s brand. I’ve even starting finding new clients through online business social networking sites (like LinkedIn).

This is unusual for a CPA firm, and we are still testing it’s viability. We may be rolling out other “virtual digital” offices through out the country and staff them with work-at-home-moms (with no actual brick and mortar office locations). This will happen over the next 5 to 10 years, and it’s still to be seen if its a viable business model.

We’ll see.

Thanks, Jason M. Blumer

By: Stefanie

Stefanie — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 17:20:14 +0000

I’ve always been interested in how the hiring process for social networking works. Do you judge them by whether they’ve made something popular on Digg, gotten hundreds of thumbs-up on StumbleUpon, gathered followers on Twitter…?

By: Music Recording

Music Recording — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 16:16:08 +0000

For those who are interested, a classic success story of personal branding through all possible media including the social networks is that of Tyra Banks. Just google her and see what happens!

By: Jon Marks

Jon Marks — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 14:02:15 +0000

I just started testing out a new theory. Many of these sites (like Digg) allow you to add several links back to your site from your profile, using your own anchor text. I have a test account with several outbound links and am doing nothing but commenting on High PR threads. We’ll see how/if it works.

By: Musashi

Musashi — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 20:14:21 +0000

I had a funny meeting last month.
It was called “speed meeting”. Businesspeople meeting like at a “speed dating” with 1 minute time for each person to get the message through. Then changing of business-cards and of partners.
Very funny.

By: SEI Design Group

SEI Design Group — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 17:35:56 +0000

Just yesterday was invited to a local social networking group starting up. Been in existence for a week or so, and already having a meet-up next week!

By: Ann Arbor Web Design

Ann Arbor Web Design — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 13:33:10 +0000

The advantage of using social networks cannot be underlined enough. But the sheer number of social sites cropping up everywhere these days can make it quite overwhelming.

By: Lana

Lana — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 02:59:57 +0000

Yes I agree that social networking is really important to build reputation in online business. Just like when you build communication with colleagues in other kind of business.

By: Top Rated

Top Rated — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 00:44:54 +0000

Blogging does seem to be a better ROI then the whole social networking thing. Unless maybe there’s a tipping point somewhere for the A-listers that make it worthwhile. I just haven’t gotten there yet.

By: Women's Clothes

Women's Clothes — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 09:37:33 +0000

Nevre really got into this.

By: Strong One

Strong One — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 19:36:43 +0000

I like this post.
I am on the fence about the social networking worth. It has many personal benefits, and from what I’ve read from you post, seems like there could be a lot of business ventures as well.
I’m still ‘green behind the ears’ with my new blog, not sure if social networking is for me.
Thanks for giving me food for thought.
Great blog by the way!

By: Online Products Shopping

Online Products Shopping — Fri, 30 May 2008 20:10:36 +0000

I really do not find any good benefit for social networking, i found good response to blogging than social networking.