Recently I posted a video clip of Permission Marketing guru Seth Godin’s comments about ‘worthless’ social media networking in reply to a comment from Sarah (5nz.com) re fake Facebook friending.
We’ve discussed this before. Remember the fortune-cookie?
I’ve just seen a related clip (but still only 2 minutes) which expounds on the ‘giant cocktail party’ of the web, and the distinction between ‘real’ and ‘fake’ networking.
Where are your real relationships … including sleeping in a (real) friend’s living room in New Zealand. (My lounge, Seth? Sure!)
Networking is always important when it’s real and it’s always a useless distraction when it’s fake. — Seth Godin
Most of the shallow ‘internet marketing gurus’ pitching get-rich-quick through affiliate marketing and traffic trading are equally worthless, in my opinion.
But what do I know?
I think that today’s internet marketing products are similar to the new tax liens/deeds, Blue Chip, Blue Peak and poorly located 1990s Gold Coast apartment products. The organ grinder will stop after a few years to ‘retire’…
Welcome to The Paepae.
Yes, I think you’re right about the similarities and the underlying ‘fakeness’.
Some operators appear far better are convincing other people of their expertise than they are at actually demonstrating it. [This is, of course, the challenge of education. (Those that can, do etc)]
Sadly, much skulduggery is performed behind a sometimes beguiling mask of so-called ‘education’ … almost as much as is done in the name of ‘charity’ or ‘God’s work’.
But I digress… – P