Every Monday The Social CMO holds “Marketer Monday”, or #MMchat for short, on Twitter at 8:00pm Eastern Time. They feature a Twitter based Social Media conversation about marketing hosted by @TheSocialCMO.
Tonight, a retweet by Matthew Kammerait caught my attention. It included these thought provoking Social Media keywords.
Social Media Golden Rules
@tomob: helpful human humble
@kammerait: playful passionate perceptive
Not surprisingly, these rules tie into what we crave from real life, and long term, interaction. Social Media isn’t an open door to a sales pitch. It can be utilized in many ways for many people. But conversation is crucial. Conversation that isn’t predicated by blatant bottom line motivation.
Think about it this way, what if I walked up to you on the street and said, “I think you would really like my product / services / brand.” Then handed you directions on how to learn more about it before promptly walking away.
Did I win you over? Make a great first impression? You are going to be a loyal customer now right? No? Wait a second. Why not? I put all that effort into engaging just you. Picking you out from the crowd. Just like I read about. You must have missed the line that said, “Without real communication your business will never be sustainable.”
My addition: @iamlucid: respectful resourceful relateable
Do you think the above set provides a good basis for interaction through marketing and Social Media? What are your own Social Media golden rules?
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Oh, double post. Well, feel special ;)
consistent committed communication
:D
Ah, yes. Nicely done Meg :) I’d love to fill up the alphabet with this!
We need vowels. Then we can make acronyms!
Authentic Appreciative Attitude
Eminent Encouraging Evolving
Inspiring Ingenuity Igloo (<--giggle) All together, that could make: C H E A P I R eh. ... that came out wrong. ;)
All good points. Now if I could just BE all that ;)
Joshua:
Nice post – and thanks. I first thought about the 3 H’s years ago when advising a client – global automotive – on how best to engage with their (existing, non owned) community. I told them they will be fine if they do two things.
Put the community’s motivations ahead of your own, and be helpful, human and humble. They did both and had great success driving advocacy for their cars.
Social Media is not really some new thing. SM is people talking to each other. What is new is that we have tools that greatly reduce the historical friction to communication – space and time. So what SM tools to is let people do more of what we have been doing for thousands of years. Communicate to find our tribe and then become part of something.
TO’B
Here is a tutorial for the process I see most people take on this:
1. WANT to be
2. PRETEND to be
3. LEARN to be
4. BE
:)
I agree with you completely. In the current format, it has been readily available for 10 years or so now. But, beyond that, it is simply taking the act of verbal communication in the physical world and making it rapid fire and available to the masses online. Like you said, without the friction and communication brought upon by space and time.
Social Media engagement, and community building, is very straight forward. But to succeed you truly need to be honest. Not only with yourself but your customers, followers and prospects.
Great comment Tom. I really hope to see you back to add more insight in future posts!
Ha, that’s simple and brilliant. Putting those steps somewhere to keep.
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