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August 27, 2012

5 types of social media strategies

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The awesome marketing cartoonist Tom Fishburne's commentary on social media strategies:

It's important to consider not just the merits of social media in general but also how social media can be used in particular. Social media is not a magic bullet. It’s an enabler. Social media won’t make an antisocial brand suddenly social. But it can facilitate and amplify the role that brands play with their audiences.

Which strategy are you employing?

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Very often the importance of social media in creating fashion is overated.

Posted by: Nadia Komik at Aug 29, 2012 3:23:58 PM

Not only is this too true - but when someone does follow the last strategy, they are inundated with self-promotional comments. There's nothing more fun that asking "How can I help you achieve your goals" and hearing "Read my ebook on social media" and "I wrote a post on that very subject- check it out at...."

Conversation has, for the most part, left social media and it has been replaced with push messaging (the other 4 strategies listed above).

Great piece!

Best, Pat

Posted by: patmcgraw at Sep 1, 2012 8:40:24 AM

In the RSS feed version of this post the Tweet button doesn't work, it just shows a blank Twitter box. When you come to the webpage the Twitter button works fine. FYI

Posted by: Muskie at Sep 1, 2012 5:39:43 PM

Thanks Muskie! I'll take a look.

Posted by: Jackie Huba at Sep 1, 2012 5:59:00 PM

Nice one... I think I'll go all too rare. I wonder who made it to that quadrant though.

Posted by: Shaleen Shah at Sep 8, 2012 7:46:07 AM