November 17, 2008 | In: Conferences, Marketing, Pharma, Presentation, Social Computing, Social Media Optimization, Word of Mouth

5 Myths of Social Media & Marketing

(x-posted from RTCRM Blog)

Last week I had the privelege of speaking at a 4As (American Association of Advertising Agencies) meeting of Kansas City advertising agencies executives. They were in NYC for a day of marketing & advertising fun for the Kansas City Council Board of Governors meeting at AAAA headquarters. It was quite a full bill of speakers with topics ranging from trends in media planning to consumer insights, and of course social media.

I decided to take advantage of SlideShare.net to socialize my social media presentation to the folks at AAAA, and anyone else who might be interested.

This is the second or third time I’ve done this presentation, and I’m now inspired to do a part two. So look out for the 5 Myths of Social Media & Marketing (Part II) in the near future. Here are the Ten Myths of Social Media & Marketing, the first five are covered in this presentation:

  1. Social computing is a niche activity
  2. Only a few people are involved in social computing/media
  3. Only millenials are into social media
  4. It doesn’t matter if your audience are "inactives"
  5. Social computing has hit its peak
  6. If you build it they will come
  7. Social media is free
  8. I should build a community for my brand
  9. Social media has no trackable ROI
  10. Blogging is done

[tags]social media, presentation, myths, marketing, 4as, aaaa[/tags]

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