Phatlalatso ea Phatlalatso le Khoebo ea Influencer

Re ntse re khutlela morao ho li-eyeballs

Haeba u setho sa LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, kapa YouTube, your user interface always includes recommendations for others to connect with or follow.

Ke fumana hona ho tšoenya.

I’m not excusing myself on this, either. I’m always looking to grow my online following and promote it at every chance. Go to any site with a company or person seeking authority online, and you’ll see them asking for more followers too. It’s out of control.

Ka nako e ts'oanang, batho ba kang Facebook ba iketsa eka ba amehile ka boinotšing ba hau - ho fana sephiriacy guidelines that you should only connect with Family and Friends. Really? Then how come Facebook is always recommending that I connect with people who are eseng lelapa la ka mme ba eseng metsoalle ea ka?!

On the other hand, Twitter is pretty blatant about what they’re trying to do. In their privacy guidelines, they state, Most of the information you provide to us is information you are asking us to make public. and they tell you that they are, indeed, pushing that content to the world in real-time.

As security breaches and privacy information become more and more prevalent in social media, this urge to grow everyone’s network by sheer volume needs to change. As well, the benefits of more eyeballs need to be aggressively downplayed by marketers. We’re sliding right back into leihlo la mahlo mode regarding social media. Traditional media touted big numbers forever, and it’s never worked.

Anyone can cheat and go add tens or hundreds of thousands of followers (go find someone who has no authority with over one-hundred thousand followers and begin following all of their followers – I’ll guarantee most of them will follow you back). Once you do, you’re immediately sought out as one of influence by any applications online – even sophisticated algorithms are being manipulated.

As disturbed as I am, it’s the game we’re in today. If my clients are going to compete and I’m going to try to reach and sell more to more, I’m going to play the game, too. I’m also going to recommend that my clients grow their following. When a friend from a company recently asked me how to break into Twitter, I gave him three pieces of advice:

  1. Fana ka boleng ba balateli ba hau.
  2. Bua ha ho na le ho hong ho lokelang ho buisanoa.
  3. If people don’t follow you, buy followers to jumpstart your following.

Holy crap, did I advise someone to buy followers? Yes, I did. Why? Because you guys keep following people with a large following instead of caring about the relevance of their content. Not all of you, of course, but most of you. (PS: There is a risk involved in buying followers… if you suck at social media, they’ll leave. It’s not a considerable risk, though, so everyone is doing it nowadays.)

Eventually, we’ll reach a point of saturation where everyone is following everyone, talking about nothing, and the medium will be abused and diminished as we’ve done with every other traditional medium in the past. At that point, marketers will forget about the volume and start acting responsibly to sponsor social media resources with a relevant audience.

Until then, I guess we’ll keep collecting eyeballs.

Douglas Karr

Douglas Karr ke CMO ea Bula LITLHAKISO le mothehi oa Martech Zone. Douglas o thusitse batho ba bangata ba atlehileng ho qala ka MarTech, o thusitse boitelong bo nepahetseng ba chelete e fetang $5 bilione ho reka le matsete a Martech, mme o ntse a tsoela pele ho thusa lik'hamphani ho kenya ts'ebetsong le ho iketsetsa maano a bona a ho rekisa le ho bapatsa. Douglas ke setsebi le sebui sa MarTech se tsebahalang lefatšeng ka bophara. Douglas hape ke sengoli se hatisitsoeng sa tataiso ea Dummie le buka ea boetapele ba khoebo.

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