A Reckless Simplification And Uncool Provocation
September 18, 2011 by Remco | 0 comments
Sangat Pedas, a blog that loves the use of exaggeration and sarcasm. We love controversy, provocation, discussions, drama and an occasional confrontation.
Some of you might remember the post in with the snappy title “Social Media Marketing is a HOAX!” in which I personally argued, amongst others, that the value of Social Media is highly over-rated. Well, people got upset, big time!
When waking up with a hangover this morning quickly checking my Twitter there was an unusual amount of mentions. Lucky for me no “Red Square girls” and after quickly disregarding the mentions by the Tokobagus team members fishing for a salary raise (not even when I’m drunk guys) there were 28 MENTIONS left. All came from the same person whom I’ve never heard of before.
Having become a celebrity myself *kuch* I’m used to having many friends *kuch* and many media attention. But there’s a dark side to being a celebrity: the 
Millions of companies world wide fall victim to Social Media Marketing companies every day #FACT! One of my tweets today that pretty much expresses my feeling about the Social Media Marketing Industry. I also said that the profession Social Media Marketeer is somewhat like a taxi driver, but for the last job you at least need a drivers license and a permit. Pretty bold statements and btw not meant bad towards all the nice taxi drivers.
Recently I wrote a post claiming that according to the statistics 
Got your slick powerpoint presentation ready? Did you give your business plan an extra boost? Already have a few visitors on your start-up in stealth mode? Got your blue shirt and kaki pants back from the laundry service? Memorized your elevator pitch? Made yourself familiar with Valley slang? Came up with a cool logo and an even more cool name for your company? (fruggle is already taken)
Everybody running websites is always chasing after more traffic because traffic equals money and thus the more traffic you get the more money you make (I’ll explain it later dad). So I’m writing my ass off in this blog to build a solid amount of visitors so that hopefully by the time I’m 70 years old I can retire in a tiny apartment on Bali.
Probably not surprising but still impressive to see how Facebook slowly but surely beats any local competition in almost any country. Thanks to the diligence work of Italian Vincenzo Cosenza we can give a clear insight in the current social media market and the development over the last 18 months.
Sysomos recently published some nice research on Twitter statistics in 2010 compared to 2009. The highlights of this research shows: