Comments on: Launching Your Next Venture Using Social Media – 5 Lessons Learned

By: mysapce

mysapce — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 18:30:42 +0000

I use to use social websites, but I stopped soon I will again though.

By: Do-Follow Comments Blog

Do-Follow Comments Blog — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 04:01:59 +0000

I agree that timing is everything when submitting to social sites!

By: Yadira Galindo

Yadira Galindo — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 19:44:27 +0000

The information is very useful. As a blogger it is so easy to produce the content and make things look good, but if no one is reading it, well that’s a problem! For me the difficulty is blogging isn’t the only part of my life and I get so caught up in its creation I don’t always have the time to give my 95 percent. Everything I’m reading however says I better start doing it! Thanks for the tips Mark.

By: Sarah Johnston

Sarah Johnston — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 18:02:20 +0000

Totally agree on the concept of giving and sharing 95% of the time and asking for help 5% of the time. I think it’s vital for people to realise that they need to put in the time and effort in social media in order to build relationships and trust. After all, somebody who knows you a bit and hopefully even likes you and what you do is far more likely to respond to a request for help than if you’re effectively a stranger. It’s only logical and fair…

By: العاب شمس الدين

العاب شمس الدين — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 09:29:01 +0000

This is an excellent post , I’m grateful to you , thanks a lot .

By: Prasanna

Prasanna — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 07:45:19 +0000

Informative one. Now a days we don’t actually need a press release to announce the launch of a product. The use of social media sites like Facebook, Digg, StumbleUpon, Twitter can achieve this if used effectively.

By: J.D. Meier

J.D. Meier — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 06:58:06 +0000

I like how you boiled it down into a precise prescriptive guidance from experience.

By: Ted Murphy

Ted Murphy — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 02:42:24 +0000

Mark,

I think you nailed it, social media must now be part of every new product launch with a geographically diverse target market. A local retail store does not need to launch with social media — at least not the internet kind.

I’d like to know your thoughts on how b5 media network might do a social media campaign launch for a third party product. If you could figure it out, the guys at entrecard and stumbledupon might rethink their current strategies.

By: mark_hayward

mark_hayward — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 21:08:17 +0000

Hi Melissa – I would recommend trying to spend 15-20 minutes of quality time in the morning and afternoon on maybe one or two social networking sites.

I realize that you have a full time job, but wherever you think you can really add some value (prior to your launch) is where I would be spending my time, so when you are ready to announce your project the community is already comfortable with you. It’s all about trust.

By: Shafar

Shafar — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 18:02:16 +0000

Informative post, thanks.

By: melissa

melissa — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 13:42:32 +0000

I’ll be sharing this with my partner momentarily. We definitely struggled through all of this with our soft launch this summer, and we’ll face it all again with our “relaunch”, which is upcoming.

What I struggle the most with is having the time to be involved. My full time job doesn’t allow me to be very active during the day with social media. By the time I get home to participate I always feel like everyone else is done for the day. Anyone have any thoughts on that?

By: العاب شمس الدين

العاب شمس الدين — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 11:02:37 +0000

This is an excellent post , I’m grateful to you , thanks a lot.

By: charles

charles — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 06:24:24 +0000

Yes! Social Media Websites are definitely important!

By: mark_hayward

mark_hayward — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 10:49:34 +0000

*Hi Kim Woodbridge – when I read Jeff Pulver’s 95 and 5 rule I thought that it made good sense. That is great news about your logo, too! Is it for a new site.

*Metroknow – thanks for letting me know that you had not heard about us even though you are following Leo…It’s been two weeks since the launch and we are currently discussing some other methods to help spread the word.

*Hey Terence – thank you for your continued support!

Dan Paterson – It wasn’t so much a conscious choice as it was practical. We didn’t push DIGG too much because we didn’t think that our story could front page and also (I think it was Darren who broke down SU statistics before) Stumble traffic tends to stick around longer and return. Twitter was also a no-brainer for us just because it is quite easy to re-tweet a launch announcement. If we had more time….ideally we would have focused on all forms of social media.

By: Blue Duck Copy

Blue Duck Copy — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 03:18:55 +0000

I am such a social media-phobe. Thanks for helping to nudge me a little closer to testing the waters.

By: Michael Martine, Remarkablogger

Michael Martine, Remarkablogger — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 02:25:19 +0000

What really makes this work is the appeal of the humanitarian element. For an “average person’s” blog, the key is advance planning. Plan your social media campaign in advance. Write posts in advance and set them to auto-publish while you build up social media networks. For more info, see my post The Blog Launch Formula.

By: Will

Will — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 01:00:59 +0000

Good article, but how do you specifically find influential bloggers in a particular niche – and how do you know their numbers/following, etc?

I just launched a new site that teaches guitar improvisation/metal without using influencers because I haven’t found many people that actually blog on the topic. Any more specific techniques would be appreciated.

Thanks

By: Steven Snell

Steven Snell — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 22:03:15 +0000

Mark,
After hearing about this project a while back it’s great to see it’s been launched. Congrats on the early success!

By: mark_hayward

mark_hayward — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 21:34:45 +0000

*Hey Gary – in answer to your question, “So how did you do?” That’s the follow-up post. :)

*Lainie Petersen – yes, next time I will shoot for about 10:00 – 11:00am U.S. east coast time

*Hi Mike Nichols – and I am still guilty! We had torrential rains down here last week so I have had to spend quite a bit of time re-landscaping. Subsequently, since Twitter and SU currently provide me with the most value that’s still where I am devoting my energy…

By: mark_hayward

mark_hayward — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 20:30:01 +0000

* Hey EdAtAAFR – you ask a really important question! I can;t speak directly to your Darren inquiry, but I can tell you that less than a year ago Darren & Leo Babauta had no idea who I was…and probably even less than 3 months ago I didn’t know who Chris Brogan was and he sure as heck didn’t know me.

I know you were at the conference so the circumstance is a little different but when i contact someone for the first time I send off a very BRIEF email initially, wait patiently (I give it two or three weeks) and then go from there….