Its interesting to hear someone give an alternative view on the current bandwagon that is social media – I think like anything there will be those who succeed and those who don’t – but it certainly is not the “Golden Egg” that it is sometimes made out to be.

The people who “Crush It” do so because of a lot more than a few timely tweets or a nice page on Facebook – the age old priciples of marketing do not change simply because you can communicate more directly with an audience than ever – but I think they do mean that if you communicate effetively you can potentially gain a lot more than you would have pre- social media.

Tim

If they happen to check out my site, then that’s where I offer quality content, products and services. I’m slowly building my list based on your teachings and will continue to focus on “Traffic + Conversions”.

LOVE your sage wisdom and solid advice always. That’s why your list is one of the few that I continue to read, the rest are just empty product-pushers and get deleted.

In life, people are super-lucky to have five REAL friends. The social media sites are rarely good for anything other than keeping in touch, although sometimes we do get to reconnect with lost friends and relatives, which is a nice benefit.

Thanks for a great article as always.

Donna

Interestingly enough its the 3rd piece of the puzzle which allows both traffic and conversion to continuously improve. “Measurement & Testing.”

Regards,

Garrett Todd
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I’ve always viewed building my site as creating virtual real estate where you define your own “corner” in the “town” you want to be located in. It never made sense to build someone else’s real estate, and it never made sense to spend my limited time building something that was temporary or ephemeral rather than a real asset (like lists, products, or my own site).

In a world where time is at a premium value and my own site requires more tasks to complete than I have time, I’m glad to see someone with authority (yes Ken, I view you as having credible authority!) put it all into perspective so succinctly.

Thanks.

If you generated that many views on your videos and didn’t monetise then you are doing something wrong…

Email is great, social networking is great but you are right, if you don’t have a solid product behind it then what’s the point?

Wait for it…

Wait for it…

Blam!

The stones from social media experts when they find out what you just wrote on this blog.
It’s amazing how much simpler the truth is. It just needs good old fashioned hard work to be effective.

You better stop telling the truth, like any prophet, you’ll probably get stones.

Gogo