Welcome aboard Stephanie!

On the professional side I'm looking forward to:

* revolutionizing new tactics in social marketing.
* delivering outstanding solutions to clients and exceeding all expectations for marketing results.

On the personal side I'm looking forward to:

* volunteering time to give back to communities and people in need, people who are less fortunate.

* helping my friends and family in every aspect of their lives

agree with that all the way; sort of along the lines of providing them the right content to get out there and share. thanks for checking in Todd!

quite the contrary. in most every situation social media causes a multiplier or "halo" effect where we see increased benefits to businesses from active social campaigns launched along side other marketing initiatives. - thanks for visiting!

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Lorien,

That's a very astute point you make: establishing roots in twitter during pre-launch is a great tactic. I've seen this first hand as well.

Thanks for stopping by 10e20 blog. Cool site/service you have there!

Jason,

On the DM box being a column of classifieds: it really becomes a joke how companies and "marketers" think that they can actually make pitches work on auto-reply. You have to assume they are just playing a numbers game, which at the end of the day (long-term) may not be the best approach to social media. Short term wins are perhaps okay for some, but it's being effective in the big picture and the long term that counts as well.

Couldn't agree with you more Case! When the relationships are real, ongoing and related that's one of the best quality indicators.

Thanks for stopping by and reading the blog.

Thanks Bill for stopping by and reading through. It seems that this is overlooked time and again by business owners. You can definitely garner some real quality linking (or "merit based" as you mention) by working hard in the relationship channel.

"...but may become frustrated if asked the same annoying question for the 10th time."

:-) that's funny.