You fully understand that rung #1 of the ladder is spamming and you've gotten past rung #2, noise.
You get it -- that in order to really make a dent in the social grid, you have to get folks engaged. You need to get a response -- to get noticed.
Quite often, the first step is following the big boys, the leaders of the social media pack.
You read their blogs, you comment, you try to get noticed for your clever observations. You join Digg, Disqus, Reddit, Newsvine and others and post your comments and even check that you want to "follow the dialogue". But the transom is silent.
You "retweet" their posts on Twitter. You shift your strategy to retweeting the posts of people that you know and follow.
You comment on their YouTube videos and even venture out into doing video comments.
Perhaps you are bold enough to launch your own blog or post articles on eZine.com. You even add a Google FriendFeed to your blog to give the hordes a way to signal their response.
While you are pursuing relationship and engagement, which is better than noise,
at this juncture, what you are still doing says loud and clear, "Listen to me! I matter!". It simply isn't enough to just talk or to hope that you can elicit a response.
Getting past the response stage takes time and energy. Getting to dialogue isn't easy, but the good news is that it is possible.
Stay tuned. We're going there next.
Chicke Fitzgerald | co-founder | Word of Mouth Media
Love the relationship ladder Chickie very relevant at this time of growth and escalating change for everyone to focus on in these principals. Keeping relevant and recent is one battle staying authentic in this pursuit is another one entirely.
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for your input. I think we can easily lose site of the authenticity and relationship pieces in search of reputation and recognition.
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ReplyDeleteRung #3 RESPONSE
Outstanding hierarchy of relationship ladder.
I look forward to our WOMM team creating these principles in a YouTube audio-video format - for viral marketing and word of mouth purposes, indeed.
Social media authorities, strategists, proteges, I believe will join us in championing it as well!
Already done! See http://www.youtube.com/my_videos_edit?ns=1&video_id=qPst7dwBMdU&next=%2Fmy_videos%3Fpi%3D0%26ps%3D20%26sf%3Dadded%26sa%3D0%26sq%3D%26dm%3D2
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