YES!!!
But only when it comes to technology. We have all seen the Best Buy Commercial. As soon as you purchase the latest cell phone, television, or Laptop, the technology geeks come out with something bigger, better, faster, compact with knowledge and information.
It’s the same with Social Media. As soon as I had a decent amount of friends, pictures and my blog set up just the way I wanted, MySpace was phased out with FACEBOOK! Well not phased out entirely, but that is where most of my friends migrated.
I will say this: MySpace taught me how to build my own personal space online. I can now build template websites and blogs but I gained the experience through using MySpace. So now that MySpace is a ghost town, Facebook is (was) the place to be.
Oxymoron? Well, I came on the Facebook boat right at it’s Intermediate stage (the stage right before everyone and their kids started joining). Facebook has been around just as long as MySpace, but it’s target market was college students (at first). It’s the same with LinkedIn and Twitter. These two social media havens have been around. And although I have always dipped and dabbled into both, I spent a lot of time on Facebook. But… guess where I am spending most of my time now?
LinkedIn and Twitter. I have recently fallen back in love with Twitter because making friends has never been so easy. And LinkedIn has become my new favorite place to be as well because of the Group element. LinkedIn now has over 100MM professionals. They are growing at roughly 1 Million new LinkedIn members every week – that’s more than one new professional joining the network every second. I am beginning to embark in a business that I have no clue about, and LinkedIn is giving me the opportunity to directly connect with the resources and the people who have the capital!
I read somewhere that Mark Zuckerberg was putting an end to Facebook in March of 2012. And if this is true, I am advising you, as a consultant, to retrieve all of your pictures and open a Flickr account. Once you have done that, pay attention and hop on the next Social Media wave. Learn how to work it. Make it work for you.
Social Media is the bomb.com.net.info.org (me and my girlfriends have been saying that before Tamar of Braxton Family Values…thank you very much!) but just because you connect with someone through Social Media, shouldn’t make you feel entitled! There’s still work to do.
Social media only makes it easier to get in contact with Oprah’ people (or whoever you are trying to meet, reach or connect with). The initial contact used to be the hardest but now it’s the easiest. Remember, you still have to meet them, impress them, make the pitch, and seal the deal. So don’t drop your communication skills just yet. First (in-person) impressions are lasting ones.
The saying is true–>People are waiting patiently on you because you have the solution they need.
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