Published Date: March 22, 2007

I seriously don’t get it – why the hell do people put pure marketing pitches in the comments on blogs? Check this comment that I just got on my “How Can Social Networks become Truly Useful” post I wrote back in August:

A good social networking site for a niche market such as golf would be: iGolf.to – Social networking

Brings golfers together for a round, promotes tee times as well as the industry as a whole. A great use of social netwkring if I have ever seen it.

The comment adds ABSOLUTELY zero value to the post. Of course, there was a link to IGolf in the comment, but I took it out of this post because Brendan doesn’t deserve a link from me for SPAMMING my blog.

Seriously, marketers who still think it’s 1980 and that “cram your message down the consumers throat” crap works — get a freakin clue. The comment is a great example of how NOT to market a company in the blogosphere.

Related posts:

  1. Engaging in the Conversation – Example of How NOT to Engage
  2. The Social Media Conversation
  3. Connecting with Like-Minded Individuals
  4. Large Social Networking Sites the End All Answer?
  5. Questions about Blogging?