© 2007 - 2010 Allan Cockerill All Rights Reserved
I have covered a lot of ground here this week, from marketing on Facebook, to paying it forward, and buying flowers, with a whole lot of stuff in between!
If I were to sit down and analyze a common thread though, I would have to say that it all comes down to relationships, both on and offline!
A meeting for coffee yesterday with a friend, who is also a Facebook friend, followed by the flowers finished a busy week, and set up some interesting debates over the weekend!
My friend Ric Raftis made a comment once about how many friends that you could expect to be able to manage and relate to on a site such as Facebook.
I guess that if you were viewing them in the light of traditional relationships it could be hard, but I wonder how different it is in the sense of networking?
Comments and thoughts on this are both invited and welcome!
My friend Teeg and I have been discussing traffic that is generated from sites such as Stumbleupon.
The discussion has also covered questions such as the Adblock addon for Firefox, and what difference this makes to revenue from ‘Insta-ads’ from Adsense and others.
While I gain a lot of traffic from stumblers, and heartily appreciate it, the content really has to be what they are looking for, otherwise they are on the site for a number of seconds, and then gone.
It’s no different than going to a restaurant, ordering steak and salad, and having a plate of beans land on the table. You might get caught once, but you don’t hang around, and usually, don’t go back!
What people need is consistency, and delivery of what is promised. As far as possible, titles and tags need to match the promised content, as do the advertisements.
While talking about Stumbleupon, one of my favourite bloggers, Caroline Middlebrook wrote a great piece about connecting with others in your niche while stumbling.
Networking, relationship, friendship are all part of our lives in one sense or another. How much success we derive from them depends on how much we put in to them.
And another word that comes to mind is respect!
One of the things that I feel strongly about is people posting irrelevant ads in groups, while taking no active part in the group itself. This isn’t networking, but to me, a gross sign of disrespect and selfishness…
And that my friends is my mini rant for today!
Meet Me On Facebook!
Not a member of Facebook yet? To join and have a look, click on my Facebook photo at the beginning of this post. It will take you to my profile!
Once signed in, or signed up, feel free to add me as a friend, I’d love to get to know you!
Have a great weekend!
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G’day Allan,
Yes, I did say that. It’s one thing to “collect friends” and another to service them.
At one time on Facebook you could do a mass mail to all of your friends at once on the Superwall. I got one out. No advertising or anything, just a newsletter to “touch base” with everyone.
Seems Facebook have put a stop to this.
Odd that you can have 5,000 friends on Facebook when you have no means of contacting them all apart from 10 at a time. That’s ridiculous.
Cheers,
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This is perhaps my biggest beef with Facebook, it doesnt “really” facilitate “connection, or networking” per se. Or it isnt really being used that way by and large. But it could certainly be used that way and being that it is a web 2.0 app it should be set up like that