#Follow Friday FAILS
Yup you read that correctly and I said it out-loud and in a BIG way giggle!
Got your attention and that’s the point. Are you Failing in #FollowFridays?
Let’s start off by asking some deeper questions…
How useful is it to give a Mass #FollowFriday tweet like this:
#FollowFriday these are my sweet tweet @Unmarketing @BobBurg @VAinParadise @AlexKaris @Shanemacsays @hankwasiak
- How did that tell you anything?
- How did that validate the poeple in my tweet?
- How did that give any darn value?
- What the Heck-fire did that say?
NOTHING-Nada-Zelch-niets-아무것도-שום דבר
(english, spanglish,slang, dutch, korean, hebrew)
How about instead using a simple easy formula (for those busy folks-like no one else is busy huh, giggle)
I #FollowFriday @Dave_carpenter because he knows how to listen to my heart and cheers me up when I need it.
See how simple that is?
OR EVEN…
Ever wanted someone who was smart about WordPress #followfriday @Deauxmain is twice as smart
Now, is your noodling cooking yet? you ready to roll out your Follow Friday dough?
Show us how you can create powerful, helpful and creative #FollowFridays, I know you got it in you (otherwise you would not be on Twitter)
Another colleague Scott Stratten is really outspoken on what I call stupidness, I love his irreverent humor #FF
I have added some info to this post from last year to give more information
As my friend @Divacoachdabney says “You wouldn’t go to a party and hold up a sign in front of your face (vs using your picture as our avatar on twitter) so why you doing it here #SMManners”
(We would love to have you join us every Tues. 10pm ET for Social Media Manners twitter chat, just tweet us using hashtag #SMManners and share your insights, experiences and thoughts.)
Ask yourself this:
- What would I want folks to know about my friend on twitter?
- What do they do in my world to bring me value?
- How have they helped me this past year?
- Who can I help by sharing their expertise with others?
- What was the spirit of Follow Friday about in the first place? Then go give that energy in your messages.
Thanks for reminded me to add info and re-post to engage in some interesting dialogue.



