DISQUS

Great job done. Facebook and twitter are vital. Not to forget seesmic :) The rest are just not going to reach mainstream at anytime sooner.

The rule : Just do it! Pump your content & Rock on.. Dont worry about stats.. Just be happy and rock on.. Stats would improve by itself slowly.. Only if you be sincere and you must have fun on what you do!

I wish I had the accessibility to buy such media online... Living in Asia :(

Chris.. Always willing to help :)

Chris, I hail from Malaysia and the amount of people who actually get the social media are finger countable. Even though I try providing such services, questions such as "What for?" etc... arises.

I think the solution to this would be not to talk social media to them. But what we have to do is to promote to them tools such as twitter or facebook in an older fashion way. Some way that just makes them say, that's cool! And to grow usability. As far as my goal is concern, I just want the normal folks to increase their usage on the internet and its tools. We should speak internet to them, rather than what is social media.

Majority of folks here, when I speak social media or try to educate them such, the responds I get its boring.

I guess the social media study, adaptation and preaching should be left to we, social media junkies and just leave and persuade the general public to adopt tools for daily life use.

Its a fact that most, technology oriented people are the one's who actually try out these tools. For example, a guy who owns a blog possibly may be on twitter. But that's what needs a change. A regular teen on the go should tweet or be inclined with a specific tool.

People have such mind blocks such as time constrain, depreciating values of tools as so on within them. What we should do is to introduce specifying tools to them that would help them communicate better. For example, "Person A" may only use Twitter in his life to communicate efficiently and "Person B" uses facebook to network efficiently. It has to be based on individual wants and needs.

Hailing from a very backward society, I am in the process of trying to setup an organization in order to try and identify this individual needs and wants ; promote a specific tool ; and let word of mouth do the rest. All this organization does is to create awareness among the real world individuals.

People would need to understand Chris' situation. He gets information overload at times. I guess its fair to wait for a response. If he does not, as he said, send him back a reminder after a week or so. Im sure it will get his reply back.

I personally have mailed Chris a couple of times. He responses like a perfect gentlemen. Give him some time to reply to you.

Marvelous Piece once again Chris!
I decided to just go for it.
Extra hard work.. Extra Hours.. That's the secret.

Having you as in my no 1 priority on Social media has never failed me.. Chris you are simply awesome and you really know what you say jo! Hatz Off to you!

Nice List.. Happy Blog Day Chris & to others as well.

It's reality Chris.. I'm pretty sure it would work. A small crowd at the beginning might end up seriously huge and profitable as the word spreads throughout the social media.

Now I do get what you mean... Sorry I guess I interpreted what you said on the post wrongly.

Friend Feed is great but just how many people would actually use it?

Majority of people prefer to stick to seperate social networks. Do correct me if I'm wrong.

Somehow until today, I have never had the thing for Friendfeed. I guess it still misses something.

Chris... You never failed to astound me! Been reading and reading.. and I bet you are right! Reading improves writing a lot!

Chris... What if you had a day job and a freelance Job at the same time.

Or you had multiple jobs. I cant be placing every single job title that I have right?

Could I just Have a Name & Contact Options at the front and Have a link of profiles at the back. Which then people could logon to know about you?

The key questions here is, Is it alright not to have a job title printed on cards.

Nice one Chris. The best thing I learnt throughout my journey in social media was not to claim as an expert. There is so much to explore and there are so much changes happening day after. Ethics change and etc.. Its a learning process and will always be learning no matter how many clients we take up. Im glad to say, You are also a Guru to me in a way.

Thanks a bunch chris.. Im not that an expert to say anything against all the guru's who commented here..

@Dennis Howlett Please do share what you think Chris has missed out.

Chris.. I just love your post more day by day..
I'm eagerly waiting for your case studies you mentioned sometime back.

Glad you are happy man!... Keep rocking on friend..

I only wished if BzzAgent supported internationally. Is there any such similar agent or alternative for those folks who are not in the USA,Canada & The U.K. ?
To be specific, for people living in Asia.

One word??? Why?
I guess people are just running out of service ideas?

Chris, When is your usual schedule to send out the newsletters? I subscribed to it I think few weeks back.. I am just wondering if I went wrong somewhere as I have not received anything yet.. Anyways.. followed your link and subscribed again.

Man.. This is awesome.. They did look like girls though.. Seriously applause for a great job done.

Very informative indeed.. Helps not only for small towns.. As well For many developing countries, where social media awareness is in dim.

Hey Sir,
It's my honor to get inspired by you. For your kind attitude from your nature of speech which inspires me.
I do like to point out that, I think I do not deserve a Sir at the end. Ha ha. I believe I do not have much experience in life as Im only
18 Sir. I believe, I am the one who should give you that respect. thank you for your modesty.

Im in Malaysia Chris.. Social Media is really slow over here.. Its tough to convince people that there is an opportunity online.. Clients are finger countable.. very few.. But I do have hope.. Its pretty interesting to spread an awareness.