Comments on: How can you use Social Media to generate leads?

By: Lee Smallwood

Lee Smallwood — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 22:42:14 +0000

Thanks Robbie. It's true though isn't it… It's like we need a similar system to RSS in order to 'feel the force' when someone is asking 'virtually' for a solution???

Maybe in a couple of hundred years we will lhave evolved into an iPhone and have a built in app to help us do that…

By: Roberta Ward

Roberta Ward — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 03:17:43 +0000

I love this comment you made Lee: “a virtual hand in the air – that they are interested in talking business with you.” That is such a powerful analogy and one that everyone will 'get'. I might even have to pinch that and pretend I said it myself!

I suspect lots of marketeers are wondering how this whole thing works and trying to fit the old square pegs into the shiny new round holes of social media and finding they are not making it work by bashing ( 'pushing' )it like mad! I dare say there are some pretty frustrated types out there right now who find it difficult to draw a graph to explain it all! heh heh, I quite like that really. It gives the little companies as much clout as the big ones-in fact more so in many cases.

By: Lee Smallwood

Lee Smallwood — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 22:48:02 +0000

Hi Trevor. Thanks I love your turn of phrase 'return on involvement'. That is perfect. And I agree with you that it's about new connections, conversations, giving and helping first. If businesses can get that right they'll stand a greater chance of being involved at the 'right time.'

Thanks for taking the time out to respond

Chat again soon…

By: Trevor Lever

Trevor Lever — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 22:37:24 +0000

Hi Lee – nice post and I agree with pretty much everything you say. I've also managed to find new clients, and help my existing one, through using social media. But that's not the reason I spend the time and effort in working with these new tools. It's about making new connections and conversations. It's about helping and giving first, rather than pushing that “special offer” or “click here”. Large businesses struggle with this approach as it is so contrary to what they instinctively do. Where's the ROI? they ask. Well, for me, ROI in the realm of socail media = Return on Involvement. And you don't measure this in purely financial terms.

By: Wendy Jacob

Wendy Jacob — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:00:33 +0000

How can you use Social Media to generate leads? http://bit.ly/2aYoGY << Some great points by @LeeSmallwood

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