Comments on: Social Media Profile: Business vs. Personal

By: The Bloggin’ BUZZ » What’s Your Personal Brand?

The Bloggin’ BUZZ » What’s Your Personal Brand? — Sun, 17 May 2009 20:42:46 +0000

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By: Deidre Hughey

Deidre Hughey — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 13:42:00 +0000

YES! What’s interesting is that so many people teach this as a method to using social media (force-feeding).

Just as in face-to-face conversations where most of the conversation is geared towards offering value to one another interspersed with information about our business, social media should be the same way. It’s simply conversations that have been moved from face-to-face to online. Don’t change the way you relate with people just because you’re in a different medium.

Thanks for the comment, Ann!

By: Ann Quasman

Ann Quasman — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 14:44:07 +0000

Deidre, I totally agree with your advice. Often, when I go through my tweets or on FB, I see many who are just selling what they do, do, do and I often feel as if they are force-feeding me. I love seeing someone’s personality come through and getting to know them on a personal basis. That’s how real relationships are built.

By: Deidre Hughey

Deidre Hughey — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 02:23:16 +0000

Scott – thanks for coming by and commenting! Too bad about your friend. Hopefully you can help him out by letting him know the effect it’s had on you and how he may be able to keep his humorous tweets with the integration that you suggest. Seems to me that everyone would then win! (And, he would probably sell more!)

By: Scott Barrett

Scott Barrett — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 20:59:52 +0000

I agree with your advice. Case in point – a good friend of mine was always lauded to other Twitterers by me as ‘the funniest Twitterer I know’. 2-5 Tweets/week, always hilarious, and gave me some insight into what was going on in his life.

He was recently RIF’d into starting his own online shopping/Amazon/Ebay consulting gig, and now his Tweets are much more often (3-5/day), but 100% niche business focused around his line of expertise. I’m sure it’s good info, but it seems to be thrust into a sea of similar content. And, there’s no personality. He could keep the old personal tweets in there at the old level, and all of a sudden he a real person, not an info-bot (albeit a good one I’m sure).