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i agree that SMM does have merit, however for me, it just doesn't produce the best results for my time

but perhaps the reason i'm saying/have experienced that is that i have not found the best ways to leverage SMM- because i do think it would play well with some of my sites including this one

the big problem i have with the strategies i've tried is that they are very time consuming, and as you point out in your articles aren't a one-time thing- it's constantly very time consuming

that's a luxury i don't have, so my choices are:

> outsource it- however i would need a great deal of faith in that person, and would want to see measurable results for my $ (which can be tricky with SMM)

> find more time efficient practices- know any good ones?

crestcap, may I ask how you are measuring that success?

matte wrote:

slightly off topic but aligned - if you look at this page http://www.orientalcookbook.coDOTuk/ you will see the ability to easily add to Digg, Redit etc

Is this done with a plugin for wordpress?

Usually..... Look at the bottom of my posts; http://www.huomah.com/internet-marketin … eting.html

Those are an addon for Joomla .... same gig. Most Blogging apps have simple modules for that stuff.....

@CC - what Charles said. It's not about being able to hit one out of the park now and again. It is about what conversion metric is achieved and what is the associated cost. Considering it is all but a Branding excercise, we have the age old struggle of assessing the value of branding activities.

I have had a TON of traffic from Social Media as well as traditional media sources (SlashDot, TechCrunch etc..)... question is what do they do? Where do they go? and what does it mean?

I know what it all means to me, I now have to figure out what it means to my clients. I am gonna have to play with a Ginuea pig outside of my comfort zone (charles?)

Last edited by TheGypsy (2007-11-29 08:27:34)

We have also seen SMO as a mixed bag. AT best we have had one day rockets for items we have alerted the socials to go look at...

I also assume that we do not have the time to fashion articles and link bait properly for the socials due to owner / operator time constrainsts.

My number one benefit seen from socialism online is that it defers my clients from calling me everyday asking what they can do to help. Many clients want to go faster for less money and will give you a helping hand to properly promote their Internet real estate. So we tell them.... go look at Digg and submit an article or use twitter, me.dium or other demographic matching socialist marketing arena. Typically we consult the first day on the ins and outs and the do's and don'ts to avoid getting flagged as astroturfers even though they are the real owner.

From there the client will engage in daily activities two to three times a day. The more viral and passionate the client the better our search engine optimization modalities meet the expected outcome or exceed the expected outcome for client satisifaction and retention [//another ball of wax]

Thank you for the interesting SMO thoughts to start our day off with; reminding us that all aspects of Internet marketing are important 'drops' in the bucket to conversions and return on investiments.

cordially,

Seharness

Last edited by seharness (2007-11-29 10:50:06)