Comments on: Social Media Consultation: Because Even Tiger Woods Has a Swing Coach

By: Jerry Griffin

Jerry Griffin — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 18:43:26 +0000

Hey Gary, I agree completely with your Social Media Expert comments. I’m going to pass your thoughts along to Don Moxley at Lemonade — he’s got a tremendous interest in the same subject.

By: Scott Chapin

Scott Chapin — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:21:01 +0000

Great post Gary. We definitely still have a need for “advanced” consultants (I’ll avoid the term experts), whether it is in social media, HTML, or plumbing. There are too many moving parts on the ‘Net to keep up with everything.

By: Gary Moneysmith

Gary Moneysmith — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 22:06:24 +0000

Spike: Firstly, thanks for your comment. Conversation is good, just trying to have some constructive dialog with other like-minded people in the biz. Secondly, I agree with you to a point — things are changing so fast that very few people have “expert” credentials. But like grad school, a portion of the students are ahead of the curve. You’d feel comfortable going to them for help after class as you know that some day (probably soon), they’ll graduates and will be considered “experts.” Those are the people I’m hoping are contacted for consultation; the snake oil salesman will eventually be exposed for what they are…hopefully. Thanks again, Gary

By: Spike Jones

Spike Jones — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 21:47:47 +0000

Thanks for the link (I think), Gary. And nice points you make. But I have to say that I don’t believe there ARE any SM experts as you alluded to your last sentence. We’re all in SM grad school. We’re all figuring it out. We’re all exploring. And we all need different solutions for different situations. And the overwhelming majority of people who claim to be experts and are yelling the loudest have no case studies to show for it. Experts? Yeah, right.

Thanks for keeping the conversation going.