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What Traits Define a Social Media Marketer?
techipedia.com — Social media consultants, bloggers, marketers, search engine optimizers, and social media addicts communicate what they considered to be essential skills and characteristics of the most efficient and results-driven social media consultants.
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- Hakicoma, on 07/08/2008, -0/+5Very very interesting!
- pws1970, on 07/08/2008, -0/+7Wow, a lot of top class contributors in that post, it may take you a bit to get through and possibly a few breaks in between but its a MUST read !!!
- canewediggit, on 07/08/2008, -2/+2i'd like to define them as people that routinely ***** all over any good site with a decent size userbase until the point it becomes unusable. if you doubt me, go wade through the upcoming section for 5 minutes.
- tamar, on 07/08/2008, -0/+6I don't know if that's a fair assessment. You can't equate spammers with marketers. But in a way, you're right. Some people do give them a bad name. I guess that's why you say "routinely." But when I wade through my Akismet blog spam and see 1000+ comments about Viagra, I don't consider those coming from marketers. I call those people spammers.
- canewediggit, on 07/08/2008, -0/+2all those viagra comments are coming from companies that are engaging in what they call internet advertising or social media marketing. you call them spammers b/c it annoys you. i call them spammers on digg b/c they submit, digg, and comment on ***** articles trying to promote themselves, their company, or a client. no difference. just because someone pays you to promote something on digg doesn't make you any different than someone paid to leave comments on a blog.
- ZakNicola, on 07/09/2008, -0/+2spam comments on a blog have no value. There are times (not always) that the people getting paid to submit stories to social news sites do in fact add value.
- tamar, on 07/08/2008, -0/+6I don't know if that's a fair assessment. You can't equate spammers with marketers. But in a way, you're right. Some people do give them a bad name. I guess that's why you say "routinely." But when I wade through my Akismet blog spam and see 1000+ comments about Viagra, I don't consider those coming from marketers. I call those people spammers.
- tamar, on 07/08/2008, -0/+8Fair enough -- but I think if you give this article a full read, you realize that those people do not fit within the category that I allude to. In fact, it's all in the conclusion. Those people aren't connecting with the community, don't know what the community wants, and don't fulfill the proper goals of "social media marketing." Maybe they are "marketing," but they do a horrendous job at it. Consequently, to me (and to you), they're spammers.
- ZakNicola, on 07/08/2008, -0/+5Anyone can call them self a social media marketer. This post clearly points out what makes a successful one. The spammers clogging the upcoming section have no desire to submit something of interest to you or me. People like Tamar often find and submit articles that make them no money and are of value only to the community. Its the ability to see the same qualities in a marketing campaign, and create content around that for the community that make social media marketers successful.
- lorisa, on 07/09/2008, -0/+3This was fantastic - not what I was expecting at all. The photos, in particular, were really great at evoking a certain "feeling" about social media and its ability to connect human beings. Very cool.
- ironeus, on 08/01/2008, -0/+2Ironically enough, with all these expert tips you would think this article would make the FP.
- ColonelTribune, on 07/09/2008, -0/+1You'd also think more folks on Digg would link their Twitter/FB/etc. accounts here. I've always found that strange.
Then again, most Diggers tend to enjoy anonymity, I think.
- ColonelTribune, on 07/09/2008, -0/+1You'd also think more folks on Digg would link their Twitter/FB/etc. accounts here. I've always found that strange.
- smallchaz, on 07/13/2008, -0/+1Good stuff. But got a little bored at the beginning with all those people saying the same thing with different words. But I guess that's what makes them good social media marketers.
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