tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-568240374417619442.comments2012-02-20T09:26:19.645+05:30Amitha Amarasinghehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10742463793100754860noreply@blogger.comBlogger335125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-568240374417619442.post-56952930094860259982012-02-20T09:26:19.645+05:302012-02-20T09:26:19.645+05:30100% agree about the SEO analogy. Same thing happened with Web Design/Development too. Can you remember the &#39;pyramid scammers&#39; who identified themselves as &#39;eCommerce companies&#39;? It was the same situ too.<br /><br />Because of these people, general public and business community build negative perceptions towards these new concepts, like SEO, Web, eCommerce, Social Media etc. They judge the whole thing, based on their own bad experiences.Amitha Amarasinghehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10742463793100754860noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-568240374417619442.post-86447680383484660332012-02-20T09:18:21.854+05:302012-02-20T09:18:21.854+05:30Excellent article covering most things you need to be a social media marketer. The main reason for the rise of fake experts is general public not aware of what social media marketing is. Something very similar to what happened with SEO. When people don&#39;t understand something it is easy to look as a expert by citing some technical stuff. I don&#39;t think SEO industry has still addressed this issue, but maybe SMM can.Nishadhahttp://rumblinglankan.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-568240374417619442.post-39477385541080548972012-02-10T20:01:06.034+05:302012-02-10T20:01:06.034+05:30Hi Himal,<br />Twitter verification, IMHO is never a “Success story” for any brand. Those are just feel good factors. Say, even if you don’t get the “Verified” badge on Dialog Twitter profile, we all know it’s truly Dialog. (Sorry to say yaar! :-D)<br />But I believe, Dialog may have a bigger story to tell as a ‘success story’, if at all if the company is willing to publish it. It may be a story about how the company reversed some negative sentiments about the company published by bloggers, forum posters, Tweeps, etc by using Social Media as a platform. How the brand managed to increase the “likeability” (rather than the ‘likes’) among social media users in SL etc.Amitha Amarasinghehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10742463793100754860noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-568240374417619442.post-21528221951887379002012-02-10T16:09:08.259+05:302012-02-10T16:09:08.259+05:30Wouldn&#39;t you say Dialog&#39;s being Verified by Twitter counts as a success story? :)Himalhttp://himalkk.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-568240374417619442.post-42906097007360714822012-02-10T08:42:34.977+05:302012-02-10T08:42:34.977+05:30@Anonymous at 12.41PM,<br /><br />What&#39;s so cool about the page? How do you conclude it&#39;s a &#39;success story&#39;? How good does Rainco do on other social platforms?Amitha Amarasinghehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10742463793100754860noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-568240374417619442.post-86340766596435463172012-02-10T02:11:47.048+05:302012-02-10T02:11:47.048+05:30check the RAINCO pageAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-568240374417619442.post-51939392844747043892012-02-09T16:37:38.042+05:302012-02-09T16:37:38.042+05:30Hi Chamindra,<br />Yes, educating the market is the key to solving this issue. The problem is, we Sri Lankans are very reluctant to do detailed research and studies, before executing something. We always do things randomly. How many of our brand managers are open to learn these things? How many of our agencies are willing to think long-term, rather than focusing on short-term like counts? <br />If this continue like this, Social Media in Sri Lanka will face the same fate as what happened to web development in Sri Lanka. People who barely know how to set up a web page, went to clients and charged big money to do a simple website. In few months, client realize the website doesn’t serve any purpose and they concluded “having a website is useless”.<br />Same thing will happen, if this madness for attracting more ‘likes’ continue like this.Amitha Amarasinghehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10742463793100754860noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-568240374417619442.post-61733251440961833222012-02-09T16:16:50.095+05:302012-02-09T16:16:50.095+05:30Hi Amitha, Super Post and Very True . it is indeed difficult to find social media success stories in Sri Lanka. As you said correctly any brands are chasing after likes , followers and circles ( in google plus) to gain more attention and the brands with the most likes, followers and circles always seem to be end up on top. <br /><br />Somehow i feel that it is not a bad thing since in social media that is how you can show the results , that is how you get customers to visit your brand page and check it out. ( it is the mindset of the customer and as a brand u need to target their mindset to get their attention). <br /><br />But to show be a &quot;Successful&quot; Brand in social media, you need to check the offline behaviors of the customer too. How many are buying the actual product and using it? is that particular brands sales rising due to its social media campaign ? those questions need to be answered too. Seems like the example you have given &quot; Go nuts &quot; are getting both those things correct. That is how you can call them a successful brand who succeeds in social media. <br /><br />Sadly, many doesn&#39;t seem to understand theory and just stick to the likes and the followers and say to the rest that they are successful. I guess it is important to educate them about the real meaning of social media and how to use it more tactically in order to be a successful brand. <br /><br />Just my thoughts :). Would love to hear your thoughts on it. Great Post again :)<br /><br />Cheers !!buildingmbrandhttp://buildingmbrand.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-568240374417619442.post-23302713191563273842012-01-27T18:24:56.355+05:302012-01-27T18:24:56.355+05:30how to activate internet in vodafone 858, can anybody help me plsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-568240374417619442.post-83665588947940963542012-01-19T02:07:41.180+05:302012-01-19T02:07:41.180+05:30Google+ sure has proven that it can compete with the existing popular social networking sites on the web.sell broken electronicshttp://www.cashforsmartphones.com/estimator_step1noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-568240374417619442.post-22867371614834264622012-01-18T08:56:22.384+05:302012-01-18T08:56:22.384+05:30I am too late for this event. Anyway, I&#39;d really love to learn more about internet marketing. When is your next event by the way?private label seohttp://www.seoreseller.com/private-label-seonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-568240374417619442.post-66356565022236814902012-01-17T05:17:46.083+05:302012-01-17T05:17:46.083+05:30I know I&#39;m late to the party here, but I have what I hope is a simple question. <br /><br />Is there a way to eliminate the links to the blogger &quot;back end&quot; or redirect them go to the main blog instead?<br /><br />Thanks.Danny Gnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-568240374417619442.post-70153335259435455072012-01-09T15:57:48.424+05:302012-01-09T15:57:48.424+05:30google plus is good..<a href="http://perth.superbwebsitedesign.com/" rel="nofollow"> website design perth</a>sashahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16838646095740216858noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-568240374417619442.post-80952519406898783472012-01-02T17:56:57.202+05:302012-01-02T17:56:57.202+05:30Google plus will beat the facebook very soon..<a href="http://perth.superbwebsitedesign.com/" rel="nofollow"> website design perth</a>website design perthhttp://perth.superbwebsitedesign.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-568240374417619442.post-53644387803756042162012-01-02T17:45:02.444+05:302012-01-02T17:45:02.444+05:30social media sites are the good way to get huge traffic.love it.<a href="http://perth.superbwebsitedesign.com/" rel="nofollow"> website design perth</a>website design perthhttp://perth.superbwebsitedesign.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-568240374417619442.post-6172140318394019622012-01-02T14:34:05.816+05:302012-01-02T14:34:05.816+05:30Some companies really focus on their Facebook promotion, not knowing that they can also use other social media website to gather more visitors for their site.seo hosthttp://www.aseohosting.com/seo-hosting.htmlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-568240374417619442.post-43503074454807972692011-12-17T04:48:06.971+05:302011-12-17T04:48:06.971+05:30social media is quite helpful in generating traffic<br /><a href="http://perthwebsitebuilders.com.au/" rel="nofollow">Website Design Perth</a>emillyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07055198355541748432noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-568240374417619442.post-50844329353764003032011-12-17T04:47:22.909+05:302011-12-17T04:47:22.909+05:30facebook is a good social media site<br />G+ has to take some time to reach that status<br /><a href="http://perthwebsitebuilders.com.au/" rel="nofollow">Website Design Perth</a>emillyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07055198355541748432noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-568240374417619442.post-22575678829843943222011-12-17T04:45:56.413+05:302011-12-17T04:45:56.413+05:30G+ is a good social media site<br /><a href="http://perthwebsitebuilders.com.au/" rel="nofollow">Website Design Perth</a>emillyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07055198355541748432noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-568240374417619442.post-48171716658527725782011-12-14T22:38:09.184+05:302011-12-14T22:38:09.184+05:30Hi,<br />Thanks, it was very useful tutorial. But there are some questions survey of mine that cannot fit in the Google Doc. I need to do a little bit customization on the form but unfortunately Google Doc cannot do that. Do you have any suggestions? If you do, you can write to this email azrina.suhaimi@gmail.com.<br /><br />AzrinaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-568240374417619442.post-81206985478384397152011-12-10T15:10:10.342+05:302011-12-10T15:10:10.342+05:30This article helped. Thanx for posting.diljimphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15546963508090660340noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-568240374417619442.post-50752189766862357052011-12-08T18:48:32.279+05:302011-12-08T18:48:32.279+05:30Thanks loads.. this has helped me a lot in dng my questionnaire online.... God bless u!Rajinitanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-568240374417619442.post-85502958761703204822011-12-04T16:56:20.665+05:302011-12-04T16:56:20.665+05:30nice intersting article<br /><a href="http://perthwebsitebuilders.com.au/" rel="nofollow"> website builders perth </a>website builers perthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01673734733171578197noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-568240374417619442.post-23584178971255161492011-12-04T16:55:23.595+05:302011-12-04T16:55:23.595+05:30nice article has been shared<br /><a href="http://perthwebsitebuilders.com.au/" rel="nofollow"> website builders perth </a>website builers perthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01673734733171578197noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-568240374417619442.post-54461032477143820902011-12-04T16:54:02.740+05:302011-12-04T16:54:02.740+05:30nice useful article<br /><a href="http://perthwebsitebuilders.com.au/" rel="nofollow"> website builders perth </a>website builers perthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01673734733171578197noreply@blogger.com