Sex and Social Networking Sells: Fake User Profiles in Marketing Campaigns
Thursday, December 18, 2008 at 12:57AM The above headline was dated November 28, 2006. At the time big marketing corporations were creating fake profiles in social media sites to attract new prospects into their marketing campaigns. Not very honest, you thought you were making a new friend, and you were really setting yourself up to get spammed.
Fast Forward to the Present
The number of social websites has increased geometrically, for the savvy marketer they are a source of unlimited opportunities for income.
Unfortunately, just like the corporations misusing the social sites there have been many unscrupulous marketers that have used spamming techniques to try to line their pockets without regard to what their practices do to the integrity of the social site.
A perfect example of this is what has happened to myspace.com. Spammers, mostly populate this Social site, which has been responsible for the exodus of its members to other sites like facebook.
What is needed is Social Media Training
Recently Mike Dillard the Author of Magnetic Sponsoring sent a message to the members of his list and recommended to watch a video by Perry Belcher.
From this single email message it was generated an outstanding 18000 views for Perry's video, in just a few days.
Perry does and outstanding job of explaining how to use the social media sites to create a huge audience.
Well just this week Mike Dillard and Perry Belcher have come out with a Internet course, that promises to be awesome.
Perry is going to put four Webinars together and teach people how to create an audience using social media. Perry has over 8000 people following him on Twitter alone (I know, I am one of them) and he is also in facebook, digg, squidoo, and several other social sites.
I have been following Perry for a little while now and I can tell you that the guy is always providing value to his followers, so I am sure that his webinars are going to be packed full of useful information.
It does not matter, if you are a network Marketer, or a business owner of a traditional business, the social media sites are the wave of the future.
Are you ready to tackle the challenges that are coming your way? Do you have the knowledge necessary to create a presence on the Internet like the one Perry Blecher describes on his videos and classes?
Even if you are not very computer literate, there are programs such as the Renegade Univesity where you can quickly learn the basics, so you too can take advantage of the information that people like Perry and Mike put out.
Reader Comments (1)
Hi Roberto,
I agree with what you're saying about social sites and spamming, but I also think that there are many people who are new to "attraction marketing" and using social networking sites who don't understand how to use it effectively.
I read an interesting article yesterday and the headline was "Why I Don't Follow You on Twitter". Cathy made a great point about not following someone until she viists their site and finds out what they are about. You can usually tell from the front page whether the person offers valuable information or is just out for themselves.
Wishing you much success,
Theresa