Comments on: Delegate Social Media Tasks? Ouch!

By: Saurabh Sharma

Saurabh Sharma — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 07:09:08 +0000

Amazing read! There is no best person to handle social media who does it for fun and not deliberate marketing. If you won’t enjoy it, how you gonna make it enjoyable to others. These are the ones who lead a social media website to develop further and not hesitated to experiment. The common SMOs often doesn’t like many updates unless it fulfills their needs or help them to boost their presence.

By: Social Media Marketing

Social Media Marketing — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 18:17:36 +0000

If you’ve looked at the size of the task and weren’t inebriated at the time, then outsourcing your social media marketing, or at least portions of it, is really the only sane solution to cover the numerous items that need to be performed on a regular basis.

By: Ian

Ian — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 09:30:45 +0000

Is it me or is this stuff getting harder.
Social media fragmentation is just one more thing I need to pay attention to.
I would never outsource anything this important. I’ve tried it in the past but I always feel that I would have done a better job myself.

Nice article.

By: Forest

Forest — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 18:26:59 +0000

Some of these big time list spammers are ridiculous! I doubt some of them have even worked in the last few years, it’s all sorted by VA’s.

By: ticboo (Ian Evans)

ticboo (Ian Evans) — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 05:04:41 +0000

The internet is a great place to share insights and I believe sometimes the process is more important than the destination, every thought deed or action may cause a reaction, therefore cosistancy is something to be admired. A robot serves a purpose and at a later date can be discarded. Naturally favourable content is to be voted for my vote goes to you David for a continuation in cyberspace.

By: Juan Lulli

Juan Lulli — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 16:30:27 +0000

Hey David, the term “outsourcing” in the context of acquiring specialized talent and skilled services is less apropos. What firms need to assess — based on their own unique circumstance, capacity, and opportunity — is whether to gain specialized services and skillsets — AND desired results — by “partnering” with an outside firm. Not outsourcing, per se, which implies a negative ROI, but partnering — which implies a mutual commitment and loyalty to achieving clearly agreed upon opportunity.

Specialties like Legal, PR marketing, Accounting/Payroll, Sales, and in this case, Social Media Marketing are often-times gained more productively and results achieved more effectively via partnership. A good, solid, honest Social Media management firm will be able to counsel brands on the best way to proceed to achieve their social media goals. Juan

By: Mitchell Allen

Mitchell Allen — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 07:57:39 +0000

David, this is an insult to teen-aged girls everywhere – except those with marketing experience. How dare you!

I’m sure this isn’t the first time that a guru has regretted “outsourcing” or delegating a critical operation. Personally, the only delegation I find helpful is Twitterfeed. That works because I followed Gail Gardner’s advice on GrowMap: carefully select a few sites whose content you know is consistently good and that only update only periodically.

When I first started using Twitter, I delegated the “get followers” to some robots. Guess how that turned out. I had to get another robot, ManageFlitter, to undo the first robots’ damage.

Machines will ruin us all!

Cheers,

Mitch

By: Ileane

Ileane — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 16:42:08 +0000

HA! I know exactly what and who you mean. Thanks for the chuckles.