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Robbie sees a Social Media Bandwagon
Thanks to Duct Tape Marketing for this eye-catching picture.
These helpful social media experts are springing up like weeds, to coin a phrase. Actually, we’re coining very few new phrases these days. Especially when it comes to learning how to use social media.
Imagine that The Emperors New Clothes is finally addressing today’s housing bubble. Or the dot com bubble or many others before that. Sure looks like the “how to use social media” market is inflating.
Are you sensing a bubble in the number of social media experts these days? SO many gurus are hustling their own programs and books, teaching us how to use social media — blogs, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and now Google +.
I do my best to learn how to use social media, and I mean no disrespect to any of these experts, but can they all be recommending unique strategies? Or is everyone describing the same small number of best practices and tips? And are the rest of us just seeking the style of teaching that suits us best?
One of these days, I expect we’ll all post perfect blogs and status updates in the blink of an eye, optimized automatically. We won’t bother to learn how to use social media best practices — they’ll be handled by software.
The money follows the market. How many portable tape cassette players are being made these days? Want to get into that market? Want to triumph in a Ponzi scheme? Get on board early, while there’s still a market.
God bless it, our competitive marketplace never gives up. Now, or soon, we will see new companies teaching entrepreneurs how to be social media gurus. They’ll be selling books and programs to people who’ll all wind up selling essentially identical books and programs. Until the “guru” market collapses.
How much time and treasure do you devote to learning how to use social media? Does it all pay off?
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