Your Opinion Counts! "Social Media Marketing Frustrations"

MY BAD. I need to give my opinion.

My biggest frustration is that there are too many distractions that can pull away your focus from the customers you need to focus on.

My biggest frustration would be other people trying to sell products to me, I just don't reply when they do.

Selling products 99% of the time is exactly what I propose people NOT do on Twitter/FB/etc..

(Miscommunication here on my part, too.) When I made this post, I was actually thinking about this from the perspective of the person who's DOING the social media marketing.

Sorry for the miscommunication, but it's nice to here your thoughts from the other end of this!

Lol you need something from people and start with saying "Ill only ask it once, so listen up" .. thats a good way to get people to take the time to give you information.

My biggest frustration is reaching out to potential customers without paying for ads. Social media is great for free marketing, but it can be really hard to attract members without putting money into your promotion campaign.

@brutecky: Sorry if I came off as an asshole! ;.; I miscommunicated the fun, joking vibe I was aiming for!

@WSDixon: Yeah! "Wanna-bes" are exactly who I aim to avoid with ANY product... not just social media... So I feel we can relate right there.

If you'd be curious for another idea for where to begin from some random dude on the Internet (this'll be a super surface level answer), I was talking with this guy who just dropped over $5K on some Facebook ads. He tells me that he "pulled" 1,000 followers from this little stunt. So, with this in mind, maybe something you could do would be to just drop $100 x 5 different possible Facebook ads that you SUSPECT would be "winners," and then blow it up to that $5K level when you feel more certain of your choices.

Whether you get actual results or not on your first $500 drop, I suspect it'll at least remove some of the freaky uncertainty or "vagueness" of social media marketing.

@pinkgorilla Thanks for this thought! Yeah it can be tough to gather a following, I think. If you happen to be a fan of Marketer Seth Godin, I've read recently what HIS take on viral marketing was. He says this:

"The best approach is to not try to write things that will go viral.

No, the best approach is to write for just one person. Make an impact on just one person. Even better, make it so they can't sleep that night unless they choose to make a difference for just one other person by sharing your message with them.

The rest will take care of itself." (from How to write copy that goes viral)

I feel that Seth Godin can help you more than I can (at the moment), so I'm really excited should this help you even 3% of the way with this frustration.

Thanks again for all of your input! I'm really valuing this right now, and you're probably speaking for THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE when voicing your thoughts here.

Thanks and Massive Blessings To You,

Aaron

The money grabbing, censorship, and unfairness of it all.

For example:

I once got kicked off a what was the top social media site at that time for being too opinionated. I had decided to pick apart the BS in the sponsored article of a large corporation with my opinion, and then backed myself up with all sorts of facts, it got tens of thousands of thumbs up, so they responded by deleting my account with the comment. Now even if someone else submits my website to this one, I will not get any visitors. Their followers will not even know about the submission.

This is quite unfortunately common, many social media sites will not give you a fair chance, and most of them have been bought out by large corporations these days. I would not have realized this myself if it wasn't so obvious the way they used to do this back in the day, nowadays it is much more subtle.

Money > Freedom of Speech

Paid Ad-copy > High Quality Content

Big Corporations often crush Start ups.

This is an interesting read, as are the links the article contains.

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I kick myself to why I didn't get on the bandwagon early! Currently on the new social networking website Directly.me - finally making some good money again -_- before this I was the king of Pinterest but those losers are banning everyone these days.

When I post something at Facebook and Google Crawler not indexed or cached this post. This is my frustrate thing at Social Media.