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Back in the mid 1990s, people started to say that you HAD to have a website. So, you hired someone to code up a few pages and it was good… You were done.
Ten years later, those same people were telling you that you HAD to have a blog. The cool thing was that you didn’t necessarily have to hire anyone, you could just toss one up. So you did it… and then it kind of languished after the first couple of months because you didn’t get any direct business from it. You were done.
A couple of years later, you finally started hearing from some of your peers that that blogging thing actually worked… so you dusted it off and started posting. You were done.
Seemingly, 30 minutes later, the consensus was that you needed a Twitter account. But before you could call it done, you needed a FaceBook Fan Page… then you needed a YouTube Channel… and a Yelp presence…
Now, if you aren’t on Google+, you are just wasting time with the rest of your internet program… or so say “the people”.
When does it end?
Does it end?
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Nope. It doesn’t. Technology and “what’s cool” keep marching on. There is always a new site and there is always a new way to engage consumers. There are always new channels and there always will be.
What’s worse… or better… is that they are unfolding faster than EVER before. Newspaper dominated for centuries. Radio dominated for generations. TV dominated for decades. Websites dominated for years. Now we are down to weeks… Maybe days.
But that doesn’t mean that you have to try to ride EVERY wave that breaks on the shore. In fact, it means that you shouldn’t. A hundred years ago, you couldn’t go big if you weren’t in the newspaper. It would take a while before the next wave came in. Now we have waves breaking constantly.
Pick your battles. Figure out what you are going to be able to do… alone or with your team. Learn ways to automate without destroying engagement. Aggregation and Syndication can be your friends. Link and leverage your networks. Pick your battles.
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You aren’t done.
But you never really were…
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I ran across this infographic about banner ads. Many of us use banner ads on other sites to promote our websites to prospective buyers and sellers… and making banner ads that accomplish the goal of increasing the right kind of traffic is key to success. If we toss up bad ads, we are just throwing money away, and complaining about how low conversion rates are.
