Mash Pets, SuperPokes, Vampires, or Zombies? What are Your Social Network Ice Breakers?
Posted on | October 26, 2007 | 6 Comments
Social Network Ice Breakers?
Many social networks offer their users some type of online ice breaker to meet other people in their system. If you are an A-list blogger close this window NOW!
- Yahoo Mash has their Mash Pets. These widgets allow you to introduce yourself into the community without being annoyingly in your face.
- Facebook has SuperPoke, Zombies, and Vampires, they are always in your face and are getting to be very annoying, even more annoying when someone like me starts to use them.
- Digg Also jumped into the game recently with Shouts. Digg Shouts are the ultimate in annoying people. More than one or two a day and you will get blocked.
The ice breaker of choice for me has been using Facebooks’ SuperPoke to throw Toilet Paper. It reminds me of long ago nights sneaking about looking for the teachers house. Oops I did not say that did I?
Many of my subscribers I have targeted specifically by using social network ice breakers. I use these ice breakers to pick out key people in the SEO industry with the intent of them seeing me and subscribing to my blog. Once they I believe that they are getting to know me I will go farther and pick off one by one to become closer and enter their inner circles. Once I have reached these inner circles asking for an interview or other such favors will be that much easier.
How can you regurgitate the online ice breaking process to your benefit?
Lets start with Facebook. Have you targeted other bloggers in your niche? I am talking about your A-list bloggers. The A-list bloggers in your niche are people that dominate Google Blog Search every time they write a post. Now add them as your friends and find out exactly what they are reading and searching for online. Once you know what they like, submit something that you think will get their attention, but do not run out and email them. Use something simple like a basic poke. If they poke back great they now are starting to know you. If they do not poke back not all is lost.
You should have at least 50 friends in your friends list for the next step. On Monday morning you are going to start with the top ten people you really want to know. They would have already added you as a friend, so they should have at least looked at your profile. Now you want them to keep coming back and reading at what you are writing. Go threw your list and Poke another ten each day till you have completed your list. While using this technique, you should have a few people that respond. These are going to be your best allies to writing reviews of your work, keep in contact with them. Once every few days poke back throw a sheep, do something to keep them interested. Then just before your next big announcement, contact them and let them know that you would like them to be the first to review your content. Since they are getting comfortable with you, most will be more than willing to write a desirable review.
But now that I have wrote this, the SEO industry is going to be spoiled, go find a niche that pays well too. Tomorrow I need to start working on my next list of bloggers to target…
Their is one side effect from doing this. I have met several people that I am now very privileged to now call friends. If you do not like people… well you would not have read this anyway.
Now it’s time for me to open a new batch of Toilet Paper!!!
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November 13th, 2007 @ 5:15 pm
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June 28th, 2008 @ 5:06 am
It’s looks like social network fever continuing ..:)
I prefer to use more friendly networs – like couchsurfing and hospitality club for example – No ice-breakers needed at all – just friendly talks and contacts.
July 5th, 2008 @ 7:21 am
Pirates and ninjas are also very good for social media web sites
July 31st, 2008 @ 3:20 am
Indeed, the ones from Yahoo Mash are really annoying, but the ones from Facebook are pretty ok. I mean, I find them kind of relaxing after a long day at work.
August 29th, 2008 @ 11:35 am
arghh how the constant zombie/ vampire / werewolf attacks antagonised me on facebook!
Though i haven’t added any bloggers on it’ if blogging is to be seen as a business it should be kept away from social and family life, which adding them to facebook could bring in to the fray.