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Re: How to Be A Successful Social Media Guru

briancarter — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 08:11:18 -0000

Well he already did the Redneck Twitter Tips! http://briancartersocialmedia.blogspot.com/2009...

But Larry could never be bald. At least not in the mullet back of the head part of him.

Re: How to Be A Successful Social Media Guru

briancarter — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 08:10:08 -0000

lol that is weird, calling yourself an all around good guy repeatedly- sounds like the behavior of Mark Whitacre from "The Informant"- but in his head- this guy says it out loud.

Re: How to Be A Successful Social Media Guru

briancarter — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 19:52:27 -0000

lol well yer alright in my book for having a sense of humor about it :-)

btw if I ever show signs of balding at all, I will join you.

Re: “Twitter Rape Case”: MC Hammer’s Cousin Arrested

skinner — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 02:47:06 -0000

I agree with you Nikki: what was that woman doing in a hotel room with a strange man? She sure likes to live dangerously--and this is the result. In fact, I doubt the whole thing. Sounds like someone planned it to me.

Re: Sponsored Tweets Launches: The End of Twitter As We Know It?

briancarter — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 18:00:10 -0000

It makes it easier for acupuncturists to remotely diagnose him.

Re: Sponsored Tweets Launches: The End of Twitter As We Know It?

briancarter — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 17:56:04 -0000

Brent, I do AdWords PPC a lot, so I understand your concern- ultimately it's about ROI- a PPC model for twitter marketing makes sense, but then you pay for the viral effects of RT's too- it's a trade off. Twitter marketing services like IZEA, TweetROI, RevTwt, etc. are still in their infancy. Geotargeting and context/semantic targeting is coming soon. So I believe it's not a flawed model, but a very young marketing channel.

Re: Sponsored Tweets Launches: The End of Twitter As We Know It?

briancarter — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 17:50:09 -0000

I actually conceived TweetROI as an answer to small and mid-sized businesses struggling with how to achieve their objectives in social media. All you need to do is try to train 5 or 6 of them on how to use Twitter for business, see where they're at in 3 months, and you'll understand.

Re: Sponsored Tweets Launches: The End of Twitter As We Know It?

briancarter — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 17:47:24 -0000

lol this article has gathered together some of todays top cynics, quite an accomplishment! (yes that's sarcasm, said jokingly) :-)

Re: Sponsored Tweets Launches: The End of Twitter As We Know It?

briancarter — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 17:39:12 -0000

oh you're right! TweetROI. There. Are you happy now? LOL :-)

Re: Sponsored Tweets Launches: The End of Twitter As We Know It?

briancarter — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 17:38:05 -0000

Agreed- talk radio hosts are constantly selling sleep number beds etc. Maybe it's only because radio listeners can't talk back about it that there are no complaints, lol. One thing about social media people, they love to TALK. And some are so utopian that... well I'm not going to go there :-)

Re: Sponsored Tweets Launches: The End of Twitter As We Know It?

briancarter — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 17:36:12 -0000

Except for your time. You don't really think that's worth nothing, do you?

Re: Sponsored Tweets Launches: The End of Twitter As We Know It?

briancarter — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 17:34:31 -0000

I don't think all of this is ad-spam. You can recommend something you actually like... and get paid. That's not spam. It's incentivized word of mouth. Money does not automatically make all people inauthentic. And yeah I guess your name is sorta cool. lol

Re: Sponsored Tweets Launches: The End of Twitter As We Know It?

briancarter — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 17:32:07 -0000

I've seen dozens of reputable quality twitterers do it with TweetROI. These are real twitterers who converse with real people, and who get retweeted.

Re: Sponsored Tweets Launches: The End of Twitter As We Know It?

briancarter — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 17:29:31 -0000

Very prescient, Erik :-) Twitterers can control whether you see ads by unfollowing. But if someone you like recommends something and gets paid for it, you might like them enough to consider it. TweetROI uses UserRanks that measure influence- if a Twitterer loses followers by spamming, they will make less money and possibly not even see campaigns. If you spam, you lose influence, and then you can't make money tweeting.

Re: Sponsored Tweets Launches: The End of Twitter As We Know It?

briancarter — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 17:25:59 -0000

OMG @tedmurphy we have rocks in our heads! noooooooo!!!!! lol

Re: Sponsored Tweets Launches: The End of Twitter As We Know It?

briancarter — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 17:15:54 -0000

Holly, TweetROI allows personalized tweets, and magpie allows this now too. And so does IZEA... not sure about RevTwt. But that's industry standard now. But anyway, how are retweets any different? They are often the same message cluttering up the stream, no?

Re: Sponsored Tweets Launches: The End of Twitter As We Know It?

briancarter — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 17:10:04 -0000

Fascinating to me Ted, how IZEA and TweetROI are taking very different approaches to bidding and Twitterer filtering. In IST (IZEA Sponsored Tweets), Twitterers set the price first- whereas in TweetROI, marketers bid first. Our UserRank system I think will do better to scale for larger reach while maintaining influence/cost, preventing spam, and reducing campaign admin time. But it will be interesting to see how it plays out :-)

Re: Hacking, Cyber Crime, TechCrunch & You…

skinner — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 14:44:04 -0000

Thankyou Kat, I'm honored. :) I think anyone else confronted with the temptation probably wouldn't go for it, considering how opinion, and as you say, karma would be pretty much stacked against them: doesn't seem as if it would be good for business to me. I don't really subscribe to the theory that there's no such thing as bad publicity. Bad PR really can work against you dramatically online.

Re: Hacking, Cyber Crime, TechCrunch & You…

skinner — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 14:39:46 -0000

According to a poll by Alltop.com over 75 percent are against TechCrunch publishing stolen material, so I'd say the trend is overwhelmingly in favor of ethics. Quite comforting.

Re: Sponsored Posts Microsyntax: AD Better Than #ad

briancarter — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 21:31:26 -0000

True dat- he said in his thread "For example, the FTC views a brand that sends a product for review, without asking to control the published experience and without requiring the product back, as a sponsored conversation. In turn, an ad (using this as an example) would require the recipient to post language that the brand requires/approves as a paid spot. Do we create two forms of disclosure? AD and SP (sponsored)"

Re: Sponsored Posts Microsyntax: AD Better Than #ad

briancarter — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 21:20:33 -0000

Agreed. AD is also more likely to be seen as inauthentic than SP. Many paid tweets are authentic sentiment, at least in TweetROI- and I've been watching about 90% of them. I think SP is more fair to everyone while still disclosing the payment.

Re: Sponsored Posts Microsyntax: AD Better Than #ad

briancarter — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 21:18:44 -0000

I'm for SP. I think PR people will use it and won't like AD at all.

Re: Hacking, Cyber Crime, TechCrunch & You…

skinner — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 14:52:24 -0000

Hi Randy, this is precisely my point: in fact, stolen information can cause a lot more heartache than stolen posessions don't you think?

Re: Hacking, Cyber Crime, TechCrunch & You…

skinner — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 14:50:41 -0000

Hi Noah, thank you :) It is not clear at the moment how it's all goign to end up, but so far TechCrunch seem defiant that they have the right to publish this stolen info. I wonder how they'd react if their own personal and business information was up for grabs?

Re: Sponsored Posts Microsyntax: AD Better Than #ad

briancarter — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 17:53:40 -0000

Would be good then to get someone in PR who does PR 2.0 via social media to contribute to the discussion of which microsyntactical element (lol is that what you call it?) would be appropriate.

I agree about hashtag, doesn't have to be one. And in fact, more mainstream people find Twitter overwhelmingly geeky at first because of the # and @'s all over the place :-)