Social network marketing – lessons from the elected president

If you haven't heard, there is something called "social network marketing" now, basically using (hopefully not abusing) social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace to make noise about you, your services, etc.

With so many SN sites out there, where is your time and effort best spend? Comes Obama. He's probably not spending all his time updating his SN profiles and interacting with SN friends, but his election team certainly is. It seems to have worked for him (he got elected) so maybe it can work for us, normal folks. If you head to barackobama.com, you'll see a list of "elsewhere" sites, like this:

I would think that the right column is a little too specific, but the left column could probably be considered as a must-have for any online presence, regardless of geo location or niche interests. Do you have (and actively use your) profiles on all of these sites?

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8 Responses to “Social network marketing – lessons from the elected president”

  1. Social Networking Works — Jason Massengale Says:

    [...] This article talks about how Obama (his people anyway) used social marketing to whoop John McCain: http://www.phpied.com/social-network-marketing-president/ [...]

  2. Sorin Says:

    1. FLickr
    2. LinkedIn
    3. Facebook

    There’s also hi5.com, which is pretty big in Europe … but probably not that useful for Obama :)
    And this map: http://valleywag.com/tech/data-junkie/the-world-map-of-social-networks-273201.php which I find it pretty interesting…

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  5. Terri Beghtol Says:

    Hi, nice post, I’ve just saved this link to your site. It’s with out a doubt getting harder to keep up with the ever evolving nature of the social marketing phenominum. Quality work and keep it coming.

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  7. ukbifold Says:

    But it’s not just about having social network accounts, it’s using them and being active. Ok for the President and his army of staff marketers. But the average business finds it difficult to devote the time,engage the customer and be topical. There is just not enough hours in the working day. You should also make sure that the results can be measured, there’s nothing worse than working hard and colleagues not appreciating the fact !

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