Comments on: Seth Godin’s Social Media Experiment

By: Paul Brinkman

Paul Brinkman — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 13:39:01 +0000

Thanks, Robert, for pulling together an excellent, detailed analysis. Although the analogy is imperfect, I’ve always approached web-based relationships the way I approach relationship building in general: quality over quantity. And this philosophy has personal and professional dimensions. Don’t get me wrong: I’m human. I often respond to follower growth with delight and, on occasion, find myself feeling validated by the numbers. But as you point out, engagement is the key. In fact, I find no greater validation than truly connecting with a given follower, with a name, a face, a bio and something engaging to share that day. In fact, since I come to this space to listen and learn…before sharing…I find it most gratifying when my “social life” complements my overall mission and goals…where numbers simply tell a part of the story. Keep up the great work, Robert. Always appreciate your posts.

By: Robert Clay

Robert Clay — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 15:41:03 +0000

You make some very good points Olivier. I agree. I personally approach it as outlined here: http://marketingwizdom.com/twitter

By: Olivier Blais

Olivier Blais — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 22:12:01 +0000

I think that the best way to act is to avoid following yourself people just to follow them. It is logical to follow accounts that interest you. I like to look at the following/ followers ration because it shows people who only follow in order to be followed. At that point, I agree that they could spend more time interacting with their followers. In other words, better have a rich conversation with few than nothing with 10,000 people.

Great job!

By: Robert Clay

Robert Clay — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 08:25:00 +0000

It’s pretty easy to focus in on those who are advocates among your followers. There are numerous tools available to check who interacts with you; who retweets your messages etc. Just set up twitter lists for people in each of these categories then focus your interactions mainly on these self-selecting followers and rebuild your network around them. You can also have a big clean out and unfollow everyone who is not on one of those quality lists, there are numerous tools that allow you to do so.

By: Scott Couchenour

Scott Couchenour — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 16:44:00 +0000

So what do you tell the person reading your post who has generated a lot of likely faux followers to do now to mograte to that quality of followership? What do they do now?

By: Paul Mackenzie Ross

Paul Mackenzie Ross — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 09:48:27 +0000

You don’t have to be Seth Godin or to even read his words to know that quality is better than quantity any day. That really is schoolboy stuff.

As for the sentiment “just do more viral” that’s really easier said than done. I know the focus is narrowed to twitter here, but who constantly and regularly tweets viral content? Isn’t viral supposed to be viral in its own context rather than viral because of the status and reputation of the source?
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Stating the Obvious | paulmackenzieross.com — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 09:31:03 +0000

[...] as the modern day guru [Other gurus may be available] Godin recently stated, as pointed out in Seth Godin’s Social Media Experiment post over at Robert Clay’s Marketing Wizdom blog, that (my distaillation of the points here), [...]