13 signs that you are over doing the self promotion on social media

Posted by efficiencycoach on Mon, 16/04/2012 - 11:49 in Blogs 1280 3 comments | report

I was having some fun when I wrote this blog post – and despite anyone thinking otherwise, I have not based this article on any one individual or group of individuals. I am sure that I am guilty of some of these!

You send messages to individual twitter contacts with links to your articles
You attach your company’s hashtag to everything you tweet or retweet, even if you are tweeting on behalf of a conference
You rarely share articles written by anyone else on any platform
You regularly message your network with where you are next speaking, regardless of whether they would be interested or near enough to attend
You treat your social media presences as personal PR channels
People stop believing that you ‘really are getting great feedback’ on the blog you have written
The number of ‘likes’, ‘mentions’, ‘comments’ on your blogs, articles or tweets starts to decrease
It becomes harder to get time with the people who matter to you and your business
People stop messaging you on skype
You mention where you have been name checked in an article or a blog, regardless of who wrote it and where the article appeared
People start talking about you as more style than substance
You find the amount of twitter lists you are on decreases
your klout or peer index score decreases

What would you add to this list?

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blogging facing tweeting 1 thanks

carnmores | Wed, 18/04/2012 - 17:49 | Permalink

its given perople with nothing to say a chance to say it

mea culpa

Sign number 14

Brend201 | Mon, 23/04/2012 - 20:58 | Permalink

When you know so much about social media that you are able to identify 13 signs that people are over-doing the self-promotion.

lol

carnmores | Mon, 23/04/2012 - 21:20 | Permalink

Cracker

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