Comments on: Breaking The Rules – What Twitter Taught Me About Community

By: Tom Lyons

Tom Lyons — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 17:29:51 +0000

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By: Tom Lyons

Tom Lyons — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 17:29:48 +0000

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By: Matt Stigliano

Matt Stigliano — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 10:42:29 +0000

Bob – I’ll have to look for a new contest to try and match the two up and see how they perform.

Tyler – No one likes spam – no matter where it comes from. I guess the question is when are we spam?

Dan – The great thing about it was that my local community joined in and supported me. I met quite a few new people too (both local and real estate-based), who are no following me and talking to me – all thanks to the contest. I was really pleased with the local response.

Ken – I think the key to whether or not it was viewed as spamming had a lot to do with relationships. People who knew me were accepting of the non-stop nature of my attempt, because they wanted to see me win. If there’s one thing I can say I have acquired since arriving on “the scene,” it is a lot of support from agents who want to see me succeed.

Paula – Yes, we do need to meet! As someone who gave me a spark not too long ago, I can’t wait to meet you for a little face time talking. Perhaps we can solve all the world’s problems in one go?

Nick – I do think it became “social” which is why it worked. My social “sphere of influence” (to put it in old school terms) wanted me to win almost as much as I wanted to win. Everyone likes to be in on a winning game plan. Look forward to meeting you as well.

By: Rail Life

Rail Life — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 13:26:15 +0000

Hi Matt,
you make some excellent points. I like, “Having a definitive reason behind what I was doing made it easier for people to swallow.”
People like to be a part of something and you made this interesting and even fun to cheer for you to win. This was “social” and it was a way for your friends to participate. Yes, it could have been done “better” or different but, in the end, it was what it needed to be. Effective.
Some people get way too carried away with thinking there always has to be a right way and a wrong way to use Twitter ( or Facebook or ?? )

I am looking forward to seeing you in Las Vegas!

By: Matt Stigliano

Matt Stigliano — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 01:20:26 +0000

@adamwaid @reblogworld Thanks for the mentions of my AgentGenius post about Twitter. http://ow.ly/tviP

By: REBlogWorld

REBlogWorld — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 22:48:12 +0000

Breaking The Rules – What Twitter Taught Me About Community (AgentGenius Blog) @rerockstar http://ow.ly/tviP

By: Paula Henry

Paula Henry — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 22:04:36 +0000

Congrats Matt! So glad you won and are going to BlogWorld. At some point, I will get to meet you a one of these shindigs.

Best!

By: Adam Waid

Adam Waid — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 15:56:27 +0000

"Oh great…another Twitter post?" http://bit.ly/4yz7Pk great article by @rerockstar

By: Ken Brand

Ken Brand — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 12:00:08 +0000

Rules? I think the “rules” are more like shades of grey.

Do this, except….

Don’t do this, except…

This works for this, but not for that….

I think experimentation and creativity; when, how, what is wise….it’s called progress.

I was happy to support you and I didn’t perceive any spamming or inappropriate pimping.

Cheers.

By: Dan Connolly

Dan Connolly — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 02:48:40 +0000

Well at the end of the day you somehow ended up with free passes to the event, so you did win, even if you weren’t first place, you got what you were hoping for.

I gave you two or three retweets. I think your fellow Realtor bloggers who understand why you wanted to win would support you but it’s the silent masses who read this stuff and never comment that I would wonder about. I wonder if it helped or hurt with your real estate clients who follow you on Twitter.

Anyway are you glad that you did it and would you do it again?