Comments on: Are You Engaged With Your Audience?

By: Martin Ng

Martin Ng — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 04:14:31 +0000

You can also use ‘Real Life Media’ to get your message out there! Don’t forget that traditional marketing methods aren’t dead. Practices like public speaking and even television advertising still serve many markets well.

Whether it is your market that it serves is the pertinent question

By: Mistchelle

Mistchelle — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 22:10:59 +0000

I think that engaging the audience involves receiving feedback from them and taking it seriously so that you can implement the feedback and use it to improve.

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 19:14:34 +0000

Same with me Hendry Lee. I am not really active too but I can say that promotion content using facebook is really good.

By: Hendry Lee

Hendry Lee — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 18:24:07 +0000

@Dawud

It is still too early to say anything good about content promotion using Facebook. I’m not very active with it.

I’m still building my profile page and befriend people who share the same interest.

By: Karen Swim

Karen Swim — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 01:55:29 +0000

Dawud, deciding on the consumer brand relationship in advance is critical, which includes how intimate you will be with consumers. There is a great brandchannel article that addressed this topic several months ago. You must then be true to that relationship which means if you build a community, don’t stop listening to them.

By: Sales Trainer

Sales Trainer — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 18:57:58 +0000

For startup sales mentor, my site on sales training for the small business, the startup, and the entrepreneur, the main focus was my blog. Initially I got the word out through LinkedIn and Plaxo. Then I started sending an e-letter. Now I am working on twitter and built a linkedin group. Slowly but surely I am also working on links from do follows and squidoo. Bottom line, my marketing is 100% social and it is moving along nicely.

By: Kadir

Kadir — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 12:00:09 +0000

I am blogging to make money online. Do you think promoting products in my blog will do needful to reach my goal?

By: Business Card Guru

Business Card Guru — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 17:53:04 +0000

Too often communities created by businesses seem “fake” and everyone person can feel it.

I think the main difference between fake and non-fake is openness… openness to listen and acknowledge what the people are saying and understand that they can be right.

By: egi

egi — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 13:57:43 +0000

communities media is very important

By: DaveMurr

DaveMurr — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 01:31:51 +0000

I have taken an active by not participating in the conversation directly but indirectly – by listening.

I’ve done this to see what the conversation is really all about. How are people in a variety of demographics, businesses, organizations, etc, communicate and interact with each other? What I have learned is that you can learn a lot by people watching online.

You see what works and what doesn’t. You get a feel for how people can become passionate about certain subjects and how they express this online. Or better yet how they want to express this online.

Though I don’t have a business of my own – I feel right now my business is to learn how communities work or don’t work. Maybe that’s the key – the communities that don’t work, don’t listen to what is being said by its members.

Further study is required – is there such a thing as a Social Mediaologist?

By: Tommy

Tommy — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 13:44:40 +0000

Social media is good because you directly connect with your customers. While the Internet does offer a lot of benefits, it has separated businesses and consumers somewhat. Engaging with your customers on a personal level is important to retaining their business.

By: Dawud Miracle

Dawud Miracle — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 11:57:53 +0000

Ramana,
Great question. My guess is that most ’serious’ bloggers are deeply entrenched in the internet. For that very reason, I think, you see most business blogs focused on web-based business.

For myself, I’ve helped business both online and offline. And while I do focus on web-based business myself, much of the content on my blog applies to any business – online or not.

I know you mention you don’t have the time to engage in social media. One consideration, however, is that if you see a hole in the blogosphere regarding offline business, try to fill it. It does take time and effort to write and to get known, yet I’m confident you could find a strategy that would allow you to blog in a manner that’s manageable for your business.

Tamal,
That’s a pretty nice feeling, isn’t it? Personally, I enjoy when the readers of my site answer each other’s comments.

By: Tamal Anwar

Tamal Anwar — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 07:25:45 +0000

Well, people are enjoying to read my articles and they are feeling like that are in their own blog. They have started to interact with each other

By: Ramana Rajgopaul

Ramana Rajgopaul — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 14:32:25 +0000

I am not in any kind of business, web based or otherwise. I am a consultant. I do not use social media for the simple reason that I do not have time.

I have a question. Why is there so little blogging about normal non web based business?

By: Dawud Miracle

Dawud Miracle — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 13:28:21 +0000

Hendry,
What sort of responses are you getting from Facebook?

Tamal,
And how has focusing on user participation changed your blog’s success?

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By: Tamal Anwar

Tamal Anwar — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 08:14:42 +0000

In the beginning of my blogging (6 month ago) I wanted to make more traffic; as I get more knowledge, I found that user participation is moe important.

Thats why I created user inspiring posts like asking them to leave linke, comments. Building mentality to make them to leave comments. Asking their advice. etc.

Blogs are more interesting and someday self made blogs could even become popular than social sites than facebook.

By: Hendry Lee

Hendry Lee — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:01:28 +0000

I’ve been using a blog (not the blog I list here) to build community of loyal readers. I think you’ve been doing it successfully.

I also receive group invitation in Facebook almost every day. That’s annoying. I am accustomed to click on the “No” rejection button.