Good Commenting
Monday, June 22nd, 2009Marketing via Social Media is a new trend online. People are using blogs/facebook/twitter to market and promote themselves and their businesses. However, this has two sides as can be discovered daily with writeups about rude and irritating marketing strategies. Case and point: How a furniture company used Twitter to market in a non-to-favorable way. (At least not to avid twitter users.) It’s important to keep reading about this area as it’s new and many business are learning the path to success. Here is a great article about the proper way to comment on a blog when you might be promoting yourself or your business.
Add something to the conversation. Often I will read a post and think ‘wow, great post!’ But go past that, highlight issues that the blogger addressed, and add your own take. You don’t have to agree completely, and you don’t have to stick with their point. If one example they mentioned reminds you of another instance from your own experiences, mention that. But try to avoid simply repeating what others have said. And this is easier to do when you…
A great article with commentary that works for business and with individuals simply trying to promote their own blogs.
