Comments on: Social Media Marketing Manifestos and Percocet

By: Gina

Gina — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 08:25:52 +0000

Well done!

While I have a lot of followers (a good portion bots i bet) I have found amazing people (like Duff and oh..Eric!) I would have missed had I followed only "special" people or "friends" . Living on a small island the whole point of social media for me is to feel like I am a little more out in the big world

As a Nutritionist I have desired to find clients who need my services (eating disorders nutritional counseling) on the internet as I do most of my work by phone. Yet I have been unable to find a method of marketing that can live with.

Actually it was easier to support 2 brick and mortar health food stores back east for 12 years with only word of mouth (pre social media days) advertising than it is to find a steady stream of clients for a one gal nutrition show with all this social media at my fingertips.

I think I'd have a gaggle of interest if I could suck it up to write a "squeeze" page and promise the moon but I don't do well without sleep.

So I guess I'll just keep on tweeting and blogging and enjoying the ride.

Eric you are amazing even on pharmys

Aloha~

By: EricSchiller

EricSchiller — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:47:54 +0000

Thanks Toby, I appreciate the encouragement!

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By: EricSchiller

EricSchiller — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:47:20 +0000

I love the way you put this Ivy, thanks for the comment.

By: Toby

Toby — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:16:08 +0000

Eric you nailed it with this post! Thanks for your good insights!

By: Ivy

Ivy — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:35:25 +0000

There are three kinds of ways to make a living: work, sales, and bullshit.

Work involves creating a product or providing a service. It includes everything from software to pens, legal representation to teaching, art, porn, teaching, writing, building houses, building Websites… all real work.

Sales involves selling the product or service. It can be honorable (the man in the convenience store) or dishonorable (used car salesman). It can be something you do along with your real work or something you do by itself. As its best it's a skill that connects people to the things they want or need.

Bullshit is everything else. MLM schemes. Complex currency arbitrage with pretend money. Self-proclaimed experts that do nothing but sell products to become the same kind of self-proclaimed expert. People who sell things that they claim will change you… when the truth is that you have to change yourself (not services to help you change yourself). It's being famous for being infamous. It's reality TV. It's SEO and social networking and personal branding — with no product apart from ego and no purpose aside from money or fame. All bullshit.