Social Media is definetly one of the more engaging conversation platforms that has been developed; from emails, forums, blogs, online chat, video/photo sharing sites, and social network sites; it has enriched the talk and interaction of those who have embraced it. For me it has allowed me to talk with friends and relatives who have moved away, renewed old friendships and established new ones. And to number of us it has allowed us to earn full time or part time from it.
Sadly,Though within aocial media itself there has heen a steady increase of marketing gimmicks that have become annoying. This can be seen is the social network sites, for example Twwitter and Facebook.
Why did you sign up for Twitter and Facebook?
For me, I signed up for Facebook to connect to friends and family and I signed up for Twitter in order to share ideas and links. Now a marketer or a business might sign up for Twitter in order to promote a business or their brand. For Marketers, PR Practitioners and Business twitter is very easy to use since it is basically a headline and a link of your product or service - everything (corporate communication, projects, offers and sales) else goeas around the business. Business marketers and PR enter facebook to attract, talk and build a community via the Page. For business, marketers and PR people social network sites offer another advantage they are basically opt-in communities - if someone on twitter follows a brand then he or she has agreed or opt in to see the tweets of that company and it works the same way for Facebook pages. And for PR and Marketing people the opt in also works.
All then is good? The problem is when businesses, pr and marketing efforts become annoying. Twitter Folowers and Facebook citizens would simply the Dim Mak or Death Touch to the business, marketer or pr practitioner. A Dim Mak is a legendary Kung Fu move that paralyzes or even kills a person you prabably seen this in the first Kung Fu Panda movie when the Wu Xi Finger Hold was applied or in Kill Bill 2 when the Five Point Palm Exploding Heart Technique was used on David Carradine. In social media it could be reasoned that there is the Three Point Touch of Death for Annoying People and Business in Social Media and this include: the Roar of Flame; the Divine Block and Report to Heaven ; and the Supreme Ultimate Fist of Unfollow. All three could be applied.
But when does it become annoying?
One, when it becomes THE TAGS OF FURY in Facebook. Whether you are in the post or not. Whether you are interested is sale, service or product you are tagged.
Two, THE SNAKE IN THE EAGLE’S SHADOW - a link that says one thing but leads to another.
Three, THE GREAT FLOOD OF THE SAME TWEETS - This may come from one to several twitterers. The annoying factor actually increases when the tweet contains a paid link, ie when you click it they get paid.
Four, THE POSTING GHOST AND TWITTERING SPIRIT - This is not really that bad. It depends actually on whet they posted is of value or entertaining.
Five, LIKE PLEASE - LIKE PLEASE - LIKE PLEASE - LIKE PLEASE - LIKE PLEASE - LIKE PLEASE - LIKE PLEASE -LIKE PLEASE - LIKE PLEASE -LIKE PLEASE - LIKE PLEASE - LIKE PLEASE - LIKE PLEASE - LIKE PLEASE - LIKE PLEASE - LIKE PLEASE - LIKE PLEASE - LIKE PLEASE
Six, ATTACK OF THE CLONE POSTS, clone content seen on many blogs, from many Twitter profiles and even Facebook citizena.
Seven, DAWN OF THE AUTOBOTS - This is a case where it, the Autobots, are fun and enjoyable in movies and annoying in twitter.
There are probably more and there will be more annoying techniques developed and designed do effective marketing, promotion and public relation but in actuality do the opposite.
Tbe best salesman are not the annoying ones.
SOME REFERENCE WITH NOTES:
USING TWITTER FOR MARKETING WITHOUT ANNOYING FOLLOWERS. Describes how a business used Twitter effectively by providing what the followers want and establishing routine.
TRAVEL AFFILIATE MARKETERS- BE LESS ANNOYING ON TWITTER IN FOUR STEPS. Twitter and real life is the same thing.
20 BAD TWITTER MARKETING STRATEGIES TO AVOID:
“7. Posting the same promotion over and over and over and over and over again, can turn off people, is upsetting, is boring, is pathetic, and it doesn’t work… You will kill the value of your promo by using this technique”
TWITTER REPLACES ANNOYING DRIP EMAIL MARKETING. Compares Twitter with Email Campaigns.
