DISQUS

Robin Good's Master New Media: Social Media Marketing: Is It OK To Make Money on Personal Recommendations?

  • Giovanni_Gog · 1 year ago
    I'm just an estimator of the dutch painter ... ;-)

    I agree with You:
    for sure get a commission/bonus for word of mouth reduce credibility.

    I was not really thinking about word-of-mouth, not in its common sense.
    I was thinking to GENUINE wom, positive AND/OR NEGATIVE.

    My real goal is that kind of marketing generated by the masses via web.

    It's not simply "hey, CHECK out this tool, this service...".

    It's more "let's BUILD (and/or DESTROY) TOGETHER this tool/service".

    To increase:
    1) social utility/value of that tool/service
    2) profits for all contributors

    To reduce costs.

    To do this You need freedom from money, so Your being genuine is not "just on words":
    You need to be paid THE SAME if You publish a positive feedback or a negative one.

    So You are free to publish negative recommendations and destroy something that's not useful for You.
  • RobinGood · 1 year ago
    I remain doubtful about getting paid to provide any personal advice
    whatsoever.
    It makes difficult for others to tell your final true goals.

    To BUILD (and/or DESTROY) TOGETHER any tool/service I think we have better
    tools and means such as Open Source, collaborative work methods (to build)
    and blogs - when needed - (to destroy)

    But maybe I am not understanding you fully.

    :-)
  • Giovanni_Gog · 1 year ago
    May be it also depends from which is the source of money: if we do a forum with adsenses, we write on that forum and we share the adsenses ?
    I think in that case our final true goals would be to be cooperative micropublishers and write about our interest/passion, the same as a single blogger that gains from adsense.
    The difference is that in the first case there is a result from many persons.
    In the second case the result comes just from one.

    Or we could imagine a kind of "vertical" wikipedia where authors write about cars (with freedom to criticize them) and share profits from sponsors such as Ford, Renault, Mercedes, ...