Stop it… Just stop it.

Let the lemmings do the #FF and all that.  You’re job is to provide something of meaning, something of real, lasting value that is going to help people know you, love you and understand you.

Look, I get the temptation, I’ve tried it in the past too, that’s how I know it doesn’t work.

I say we replace Fanpage Friday and Follow Friends Friday (or whatever the hell it’s called) with something more meaningful like Refer a (real) Friend Friday.  The person you refer must be someone you’ve actually done business with and would refer to your mother  – yes, someone you have THAT much faith in.  Why?  Because that’s meaningful.  It has depth, it’s REAL and not full of BS like the other “tactics”.

How useful is it to you to have five thousand fans or followers that will never actually buy anything from you?  That’s what these meme’s get you…. nothing.  Nine times out of ten, those new friends and fans unlike / unfollow you after you like and follow them anyway.

Are 10,000 fans going to pay your mortgage?  NO!  The only thing they accomplish is stroking your ego – and that doesn’t pay the mortgage either.

Read the following V E R Y carefully…

If you want to know how to make that happen, I am more then happy to chat with you.  But I’m not going to talk to you about how to get more fans or followers or friends.  I’m going to talk to you about how to get the ones that matter… the one’s that will buy, and why having a small community who loves you is a thousand times more useful then a huge community who could care less if your alive.

I’ll step off my soap box now.

What are your thoughts?