Quality, Not Quantity Part 1

Social events in general, are usually gauged on their success by the number of people that attend. But there are also additional factors that lend to the success of an event...the atmosphere, the food that was served and the actual quality of people that were in attendance and what they brought to the table as soon as they walked through the door.

I like to look at the people that I interact with on social networking sites in the same manner.  Although I love to say "I have 900-something friends on Facebook," I do evaluate each and every person before accepting them as a friend on my private Facebook profile. The reason I do this, is because my profile is private, for multiple reasons. When I accept you as a friend, I'm not only welcoming you into my business world, but my personal world also. My personal world involves the people that are closest to my heart; my family, my dearest friends, my children. It is an honor to you that I trust you with these pieces of my life when I accept you as a friend. That's the nice thing about a personal profile on Facebook, you can pick and choose. When it comes to your Official Business Page on Facebook, you don't have that luxury. People can "like" and support your page without your approval at any time. Now, this can also be a blessing in disguise...because the Official pages are searchable and have some SEO capabilities, people can find out about you and your company via your Official Business Page quicker then they would find your personal profile. This is a huge advantage for your business!

Back to the party on my social networking sites, I try to surround myself with people that are entertaining, keep the conversation going, have an opinion and an open-mind (at the same time), a sense of humor and have good hearts and intentions. I love to that Facebook and Twitter are two virtual platforms where I meet, greet, collaborate, discuss, support, hang out and shake my booty from time to time! That's what makes it social! But sometimes, there are people out there in the social media world that can actually impede your business growth just by association on social networks. I wanted to take the next few days to share with you some ways that you can filter out people that are spammers on Facebook, fantastic tools to clean house on Twitter, what to do once you've cleaned house on both Facebook and Twitter and finally how to show up on social networks (hint: just be yourself:).

So stay tuned for the next post in this series: "You might be a Facebook Spammer If...."