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Re: The Unbreakable Rules of Social Media

spostareduro — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 20:32:13 -0000

Sadly, some take advantage of this. :-(

Re: Why our customers are smart (Scripting News)

Ohdoctah — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 20:19:04 -0000

yeah I like your answer. There are stupid people in the world worse off ignorant. People that want to tell you how things should work, when they have no idea HOW things work. You can't please everyone. If you have a good product people will want it period!

Re: Why our customers are smart (Scripting News)

spostareduro — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 20:03:11 -0000

1. Customers are often MANIPULATED into purchasing a product or utilizing a service, whether it's 'the best' or not. - FEEDBACK helps determine this.
2. If they are stupid, they will return to a place where their FEEDBACK is ignored.

The only logical way to proceed is to:

Treat the customer with respect by not ignoring feedback, good bad or indifferent. Only then can you 'learn and build'.

Re: If you only had one social site

spostareduro — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 22:40:06 -0000

Me. Twitter. Addict.

Re: Learning SEO Secrets

spostareduro — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 14:05:38 -0000

See how you are! lol ..Thanks Patricia, can't wait to read it.

Re: The value of an idea

spostareduro — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 09:05:43 -0000

Great discussion and I agree. I don't take offense to disagreement, it's natural and makes the world go round. I can use your insight as pieces of a bigger picture. I learn from you too. :-)

I was making reference only to the generalization of 'ideas'..

Ideas aren't impractical in and of themselves. Sometimes it takes quite a while for ideas to materialize, sometimes yes they are stolen (ok, maybe more than sometimes. It's already happened to me) sometimes they are improved upon by someone else etc..

When those things occur, it's not the ideas that were impractical, it's typically due to faulty implementation. or, sadly enough, because we trust in ones we shouldn't trust. (stolen ideas)

Re: The value of an idea

Wade — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 08:37:02 -0000

Kimberly, respectfully I disagree. Ideas can often be impractical due to technology being insufficient at the time (think airplanes in the 1800's), lack of the necessary knowledge base or funds to properly market a concept, or even an idea that in itself is great - but easily stolen by well placed competitors.

Sorry to be negative, but this is a great post & discussion.

Re: The value of an idea

spostareduro — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 19:31:38 -0000

Like a peanut butter and jelly sandwich..

The bread is still bread. The peanut butter is still peanut butter. Neither of them are any different that the original.

Not like typical media today, (social, TV, radio etc)..

Much of the media seem to enjoy distortion.

They have bread. They have peanut butter. When nobodys looking, they scrape the peanut butter off the bread and give us baloney instead.

Re: The value of an idea

MarkDykeman — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 18:51:34 -0000

But if it is changed into something workable, then is it the same idea?

Re: The value of an idea

spostareduro — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 12:03:06 -0000

An idea is never impractical.

If noted by the right ones, it can be expanded upon, rearranged, bent, twisted and molded into something completely different.

It takes a reader/hearer of the idea in question, to have an open inquisitive mind. One that doesn't know how to "settle" for 'deficits'.

Re: 17 Reasons Why You Need to Grab Your Space on Twitter

skinner — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 04:26:40 -0000

Hi Kimberley, yes the bots are a nuisance but not enough to spoil my enjoyment of Twitter. I agree: I've met some fabulous people, yourself included! It is no exaggeration to say it has changed my business life altogether.

Re: 17 Reasons Why You Need to Grab Your Space on Twitter

spostareduro — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 04:13:15 -0000

I've met some awesome people by way of Twitter. I've also met some annoying bots. lol, to be expected in the spamosphere though..argh..

Analytics is made much simpler by way of Twitter and Plurk..or any other instant messaging platforms that allow us to go viral in 125 characters or less. ;-)

I've learned so much from each personality type as well. It has encouraged me to delve deeper into social sciences. I guess we could refer to Twitter being a "social science optimizer."..uh oh..I think I'm writing a post for that one now..sheesh, what have I done?

In every community, we will feel feeble @ 1st. but when it becomes more comfortable when you find like-minded people to kick it wit. ..Like U. ;-)

Much love

Kimberly

Re: A Lesson to Deadbeat Clients: Why you should never, never rip off an SEO

skinner — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 16:45:04 -0000

Thanks Kim, this is food for thought. I might do that. I am going to take down links I set up for them and take a few other steps myself that will have subtle repercussions. They deserve it.

Re: A Lesson to Deadbeat Clients: Why you should never, never rip off an SEO

spostareduro — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 16:21:27 -0000

I've read Violent Acres before also. I didn't like the site at first, but it grew on me in the same ways you speak of. Telling it like it is..

I'm sorry you have had to learn of the true negative nature behind the kinds of minds that show little care for anothers wellbeing. That's what it boils down to. Not marketing. Not making a dollar. Not friendship or loss of. But humanity.

You appreciate honesty so you are hurt. You've been cheated, stolen from and lied to for a dollar.

We need social change. Responsible marketers. Loyalty to a higher order before greed and MEisms...What's important in this immediate day and age is that we enforce change. Holding people accountable for their actions. No environment lasts long without order and the leverage is certainly not on the good guys side.

I too am one to voice my concerns with curse words, agitation, and unsavory reality checks. It's people like your client that equal the actions of some of the marketers I have bee griping about. Only concerned with whatever gets them to the next level. Period.

Have you ever seen the movie "The Devils Advocate"? Examples of the pressure to conform to what seems to be such winning successful positions to take in career, in life..It brings loss while you fight against it, but for the benefit of lasting gain.

I'd like to think it's not just a movie.

You're not the type of woman to let injustices taint your goodness. Me? Anyone who thinks I seek revenge is probably well on their way to expressing some sense. Does that mean their crooked butts aren't deserving of the exposure? Nope... There's not many people who have been receptive to that besides you and a few others that I call friends.

If you blog names and revenge, you may lose positions that care for your family. You can create changes in our environment by being supportive of marketers, SMers and volunteers for social change so this kind of thing brings repercussions upon those who think they can get away with their funk.

Affiliate yourself with those who will review them, names and everything, and expose them for who and what they are. It's a more sensible approach than losing even more of what you've worked for if they were to respond with equal vigor.

Re: The Whirlwind of Life

spostareduro — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 21:12:01 -0000

I have been so slack on checking out the newest toys..Kinda lost interest recently.

I'm glad you're back. :-)

Re: Audio blog post - about names

spostareduro — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 06:44:03 -0000

Yes, tis true indeed. ;-)

Re: Audio blog post - about names

MarkDykeman — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 06:08:01 -0000

You never know what you'll learn when you read Broadcasting Brain. ;)

Re: Audio blog post - about names

spostareduro — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 00:52:42 -0000

Cool! I like that. Now I know what you sound like.

Oh, and I didn't know about Sanka. :-)

Re: Get Google Rankings for Your Persona on 27 Social Media Websites

spostareduro — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 09:42:23 -0000

As long as our SEO is current, SM networking can be of terrific value. I, for one, had neglected optimizing my own site while embarking upon the SM realm. Yes, it's been advantageous in certain ways. Especially name/idea branding, but as a result, my site's were becoming reliant upon consistent interaction to maintain the presence.

Making certain the the SEO piece is in tact should definitely come first.

~By the way, I feel stalked.

Nah, just kidding *wink*
Kimberly Bock (spostareduro)

Re: Catch the brainwaves of Jeff Quipp

MarkDykeman — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 09:06:43 -0000

Without knowing what their actual costs are, I can't venture an informed opinion on that. But it does seem like a lot of money.

Re: Catch the brainwaves of Jeff Quipp

spostareduro — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 07:39:31 -0000

They charge outrageous amounts of money to accomplish that. It's taking advantage of us.

Re: Catch the brainwaves of Jeff Quipp

MarkDykeman — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 07:04:53 -0000

Hi Kim. The thing is, a lot of people still place a lot of value in face-to-face meetings and bonding in person - that's probably the main thing that keeps conferences going. Yes, you can probably get all of the same knowledge online or in books, but sometimes you get an extra motivational spark or reinforcement through attending in person that you don't get on a screen.

Re: Catch the brainwaves of Jeff Quipp

spostareduro — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 19:10:12 -0000

Great interview Mark.
I love the way Jeff said, "To be honest, I don’t go for any other reason than to socialize and make new friends." haha..as far as the educational piece, where conferences are concerned, it's my understanding that what is available at conferences, is already made available in the SERP's.
First of all, most of the conferences are typically covered by way of live blogging, etc..and secondly, what's taught there, has either been discussed in a wide array of articles/posts beforehand or afterwards. So why spend nearly $2,000 to fill someone elses pocket, when you can save it or invest that money into something truly worthwhile? Can we not make 'friends' online without that cost? or does that make us obsolete? hmm...I guess that depends upon who you ask, ey?

Re: "People Can Not Be Summed Up Easily and Cleanly"

spostareduro — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 16:08:33 -0000

just dropped back by to say thanks for the link. i enjoyed the video. :-)

Re: Quo Vadis Blogosphere?

spostareduro — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 17:41:06 -0000

oh..haha..my bad *rolls eyes* (i always have to talk outta line..its my *uhem* forte' i believe. like a calling). ;-)