Marketing Through Social Media is Not Easy. Plan Accordingly. | Kyle Lacy, Social Media - Indianapolis

Marketing Through Social Media is Not Easy. Plan Accordingly.

January 18th, 2010 Posted in Social Media Community, Social Media Expert, social media, social media marketing, social media mission

If you haven’t figured this out already… running a small business is not easy… managing a network of 100 sales professionals is not easy… running a marketing department with a budget of $100 million is not easy. Accordingly

Marketing your products and services is not easy.

Nothing in this world… that is worth anything of value is EASY to obtain. Well…unless you grow money on trees or you are just THAT good (Ben Affleck in Boiler Room)… The majority of us have not found the seed to grow a tree that sheds Mr. Benjamin Franklin ($100 bill for the layman) twice a year.

It is hard to get to where you WANT to go in life. It shouldn’t be easy.

I am amazed that people want the easy way out. How do we make this tool easier to use? How can we spend the LEAST amount of time possible to get a project completed? Why do we have to spend money on marketing? How can I get to the 4-hour work week? No thank you.

Integrating social media into your marketing is not easy and it is not cheap. If you want the intangible (branding) and tangible (product sales) benefits of social media you have to agree to work hard or pay someone to work hard for you.

Don’t confuse or try to convince yourself that social media is the answer to all your problems and concerns. It works when you combine the new with the old, the traditional with the web 2.0/3.0.

If it was an easy thing to accomplish wouldn’t everyone be doing it? Wouldn’t everyone be successful at it?

What is the first step to tackling the monster? We use an acronym to explain the process of marketing through social media.

MOST: Monitoring. Objectives. Strategy. Technology.

Listen. Build. Plan. Interact.

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This is a great article by my friend, Kyle Lacy. Kyle really gets it about social media. I'm always trying to explain to my clients that simply joining Twitter, Facebook, etc. won't be the magic behind huge sales. It's planning and guidance coupled with the understanding of which tools to use and how. Mark Wolfe Design can provide that type of guidance and help.

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