Monday, March 15, 2010

How to Avoid Spoiling Your Audience's Appetite

Back in grade school, children and teens alike took to trends as fads. Whether it was the MC Hammer Pants or the throat-constricting turtlenecks, we’ve all been there. At the time, these fads were the center of our worlds but I’ve since them learned that they always end up in the Salvation Army bin by the end of the year. Like fruits, fads often spoil when you least expect it, even when you’re aware that it’s still there.

Spoiled fruit can upset a stomach, but what about spoiled methods? Is your way to communicate outdated if not expired? Why not give your audience something new to taste?

Cross-networking in the twenty-first century has become an easy way for businesses and groups to broaden the borders of their website. Networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter, and Ning allow users to hold events in their local communities, promote their products or services, and encourage followers to “fan” their pages. Bloggers on WordPress and Blogspot can add widgets to track their followers and add links of their other networks to the sidebar so that their audience may be directed to one of their other designated sites. Each site works hand in hand with the other, allowing followers and fans alike to jump from one destination to another, tasting every possible stream of information that you share. These interconnected networks are like cross-bred hybrid fruits: new and refreshing for the parched throat. Definitely a fruit to be savored, not left out to rot.

 

[Via http://socialmediafruit.wordpress.com]

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