Comments on: How to Lose Friends and Waste Your Social Media Efforts

By: Jennifer Fong

Jennifer Fong — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 19:17:27 +0000

Amen Carol!

By: Carol Firth

Carol Firth — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 18:58:15 +0000

Thank you so much for more pearls of wisdom Jennifer! People who self-promote need to learn the phrase “know me, like me, trust me!”

By: Jennifer Fong

Jennifer Fong — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 18:06:25 +0000

LOL

By: Kristen Lands

Kristen Lands — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 17:49:48 +0000

Jenn, I think YOU should start spamming the offenders. OBVIOUSLY, they don’t subcribe to your blog! GREAT article! Thanks for the giggles!

By: Sarah Wood

Sarah Wood — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 01:09:19 +0000

Jennifer, funny post. It always amazes me how this advice is given over and over but people STILL embarrass themselves with self-promotion. Appreciate the list of things that will make your SMM experience a complete waste of time. Thanks!
Sarah Wood

By: Julie Leithner

Julie Leithner — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 20:51:43 +0000

I am continually turned off by “sales”. I don’t like being approached to buy something randomly from someone I don’t know. One of the biggest reasons I started my business is to do something for myself, broaden my social circle by meeting new people, and sharing something I believe in that I would with any real friend of mine. I don’t like such direct efforts as mentioned above like throwing their business card in my hand and only talking about their success and whatever they’re selling. I aim for quality relationships and the bonus in the end is that relationship, not the sale. The product should sell itself in my opinion.
As good as my intentions are to create these relationships with people I’m not close with (aquaintences), I’m not getting results so I’m researching better methods. I look forward to learning more with your help.

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By: Diane Aksten

Diane Aksten — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:15:40 +0000

Jennifer: I couldn’t agree more; I’ve actually “unfriended” a number of individuals on FB because all I ever saw on my feed were endless videos and links for their “ground floor opportunities”. I still maintain that people want to do business with others they know, like and trust–that starts with providing valuable content (as you’ve always taught us) and forming relationships by just allowing people to get to know you, both personally and professionally.

Thanks again, Jennifer, for an excellent post–unfortunately, the people who need to see this probably won’t recognize themselves and will continue to do what they have always done but I hope your post provides some with an “ah-ha” moment.

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:09:54 +0000

Thank you for you comment Larna! I appreciate you taking the time to do so.

You make such a good point…those that continue these spammy behaviors are absolutely going to be hidden. And that defeats the purpose in the first place. But there’s even more bad news coming down the pike…specific social media sites are actually putting in “No MLM” clauses. That’s going to hurt us as an industry if we don’t do something about this, and quickly!

Thank you again, my friend. I appreciate you!

Jennifer

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:08:20 +0000

Thanks for commenting, Karen, and also thanks for the shout-out on your blog! If enough of us spend the time talking about this, hopefully it will begin to solve a pressing problem that is going to have more and more negative consequences for direct sellers everywhere.

Jennifer