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Jesse Stay On How To Raise Your Profile Online. Video Tip.

I asked Jesse Stay, Cheif Community Officer at i.tv, to teach us how he raises his profile online. His answer is similar to the one that Robert Scoble gave me. He interacts with people on social media sites.

I’ve watched Scoble pull out his cell phone in between conversations with people and start chatting on social networking sites. I’ve seen Jesse on sites like FriendFeed, Twiiter and Facebook so often that I image he does it at every possible moment too.

So here’s the question that I have: is it really possible to spend that much time chatting online AND build a successful business at the same time?

October 9, 2008 | Filed Under Interview 

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4 Responses to “Jesse Stay On How To Raise Your Profile Online. Video Tip.”

  1. David - Los Angeles Internet Marketing on October 10th, 2008

    Andrew,

    I’d be interested to hear more specifics… I do do a little social media, I bump into some people occassionally, but it’s just a heck of alot. I sometimes log into my google reader, often to sphinn, and almost never to friendfeed… and I don’t drive much traffic to my blog, and nor do I have alot of relationships, rather keeping to a few - mainly business partners…

    Of course, I would like to do more of social media - I’d love to hear what actionable idea you took out of this interview.

    David J

  2. M!hai @ Freshome on November 6th, 2008

    One things I can say about your question, is that this task can be really overwhelming sometimes, because the more you grow the more relationships you have to keep, and you are only a human with 24 hours.

  3. Andrew Warner on November 6th, 2008

    David & H!hai, I wonder the same thing. How much social media interaction is useful and how much is taking attention away from the real work?

    For companies with a staff, I could see the value of having a dedicated social media person who interacts with the community. But for 1-man companies or a person who’s building his/her brand, how do you know what’s useful and when to stop?

  4. M!hai @ Freshome on November 10th, 2008

    You’re the only one who can decide what is useful and what is not according to your actions and the results you get from those actions.

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