Comments on: 14 Signs Social Media Won’t Bring In Clients For Your Photography Business

By: Paul

Paul — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 16:42:48 +0000

I’ve found twitter to be an exceptional marketing tool, I use it to interact socially with a lot of my target markets (yes more than one market) as well as following those influential in my areas of interest (photography, web design and graphic design).

As such I can directly attribute over $15K worth of work to twitter, it can work, but you have to be 100% genuine and be prepared to connect with people, not just try and sell at them.

- paul

By: Oscar Del Santo

Oscar Del Santo — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 15:18:58 +0000

Compulsory reading for anyone intent on setting up a social presence worthy of that name.

By: Walt Sorensen

Walt Sorensen — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 22:36:20 +0000

Great list, thanks for sharing.

I would suggest that #1 should be raised to at least 300, all too often I find people’s followers/friends/fans list is only people they know at less then 300.

By: Greg

Greg — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 21:57:14 +0000

The ugly side of Twitter is the fact that it has become just another marketing piece.

Sure would be great if people would have meaningful conversations on there.

That said, I could spend all day following useful links from Twitter and learning all kinds of great things (like Photography advice). I haven’t made a single Twitter-related -purchase- yet, but I sure do follow a lot of links.

So yeah… it can be good marketing. It’s just a shame that it’s primarily a marketing tool already. It’ll stop being good marketing when people realize that the conversations on Twitter tend to be empty UNLESS they’re non-marketing conversations.