Comments on: Some Snake Oil with your Social Media? http://www.elasticbrands.com/blog/2009/12/some-snake-oil-with-your-social-media/ Marketing Advisory Wed, 14 Jul 2010 19:40:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Social media is dead: long live social media! http://www.elasticbrands.com/blog/2009/12/some-snake-oil-with-your-social-media/comment-page-1/#comment-1934 Social media is dead: long live social media! Tue, 15 Dec 2009 20:59:23 +0000 http://www.elasticbrands.com/blog/?p=907#comment-1934 [...] a recent interview I conducted with one particularly fed up, overhyped, victim of the Snake Oil salesmen, whom I’ll call [...] [...] a recent interview I conducted with one particularly fed up, overhyped, victim of the Snake Oil salesmen, whom I’ll call [...]

]]> By: Tim Dempsey http://www.elasticbrands.com/blog/2009/12/some-snake-oil-with-your-social-media/comment-page-1/#comment-1930 Tim Dempsey Mon, 14 Dec 2009 22:29:21 +0000 http://www.elasticbrands.com/blog/?p=907#comment-1930 Alex, I really appreciate your comment. The signal to noise ratio on "social media" or whatever we want to call it this quarter, is simply too low. Lots of offers to help, few results to show. That's fine -- my point is that it's typical of tulip crazes, gold rushes, and internet bubbles -- not of real life at least as I have to live it (college bills, mortgages, and the like). By the way I really love your site and it looks like you've got a great thing going out there. "Cap in hand," /t Alex,
I really appreciate your comment. The signal to noise ratio on “social media” or whatever we want to call it this quarter, is simply too low. Lots of offers to help, few results to show. That’s fine — my point is that it’s typical of tulip crazes, gold rushes, and internet bubbles — not of real life at least as I have to live it (college bills, mortgages, and the like).

By the way I really love your site and it looks like you’ve got a great thing going out there.

“Cap in hand,”
/t

]]> By: Kilted Alex http://www.elasticbrands.com/blog/2009/12/some-snake-oil-with-your-social-media/comment-page-1/#comment-1929 Kilted Alex Mon, 14 Dec 2009 20:32:33 +0000 http://www.elasticbrands.com/blog/?p=907#comment-1929 The irony of your post, and even indeed our own - is now WE are sounding like the very "Douchebags" we write about. I'm losing track of how many sites now rip into so-called experts in the pursuit of traffic. (Yes we did it too ;) I think the goal in 2010 is just for us genuine hard working people to work harder and prove through our actions that the snake oil peddlers, gurus, mavens, experts and douchebags are wrong. because much as it pains me to say it, all we're all doing is pointing fingers right now and it's making us look kinda petty to the oustide world we rely on for work. Let them hang themselves by their own pathetic egos and ineptitude and lets get on with doing good work instead ;) The irony of your post, and even indeed our own – is now WE are sounding like the very “Douchebags” we write about. I’m losing track of how many sites now rip into so-called experts in the pursuit of traffic. (Yes we did it too ;)

I think the goal in 2010 is just for us genuine hard working people to work harder and prove through our actions that the snake oil peddlers, gurus, mavens, experts and douchebags are wrong. because much as it pains me to say it, all we’re all doing is pointing fingers right now and it’s making us look kinda petty to the oustide world we rely on for work. Let them hang themselves by their own pathetic egos and ineptitude and lets get on with doing good work instead ;)

]]> By: Tweets that mention Some Snake Oil with your Social Media? -- Topsy.com http://www.elasticbrands.com/blog/2009/12/some-snake-oil-with-your-social-media/comment-page-1/#comment-1928 Tweets that mention Some Snake Oil with your Social Media? -- Topsy.com Fri, 11 Dec 2009 19:16:32 +0000 http://www.elasticbrands.com/blog/?p=907#comment-1928 [...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by tdempsey, MyCrowd.ca. MyCrowd.ca said: RT @tdempsey - New Post: Some Snake Oil with your Social Media? - http://clicky.me/5F7 [...] [...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by tdempsey, MyCrowd.ca. MyCrowd.ca said: RT @tdempsey – New Post: Some Snake Oil with your Social Media? – http://clicky.me/5F7 [...]

]]> By: tdempsey (tdempsey) http://www.elasticbrands.com/blog/2009/12/some-snake-oil-with-your-social-media/comment-page-1/#comment-1927 tdempsey (tdempsey) Thu, 10 Dec 2009 22:54:42 +0000 http://www.elasticbrands.com/blog/?p=907#comment-1927 <strong>Twitter Comment</strong><br><a href="http://twitter.com/tdempsey" title="Twitter Comment" rel="nofollow"><br><code class="ccimg1" title="tdempsey (tdempsey)" style="background: url(http://purl.org/net/spiurl/tdempsey) no-repeat;float:left;margin-right:10px;padding:0;width:60px;height:60px;"><br><br></code><br></a><br>New Post: Some Snake Oil with your Social Media? - [link to post]<br /><br /> - <a href="http://chatcatcher.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Posted using Chat Catcher</a> Twitter Comment



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