Turtleknife's Online Marketing Blog

For some reason, no one in Social Media is really allowed to make any money. It's verboten. It's against the community spirit. It's the wrong thing to do.

That's just, plain stupid. Yes, the new digital channels are primed for those who are looking to connect, communicate and engage in conversations, but if there is no benefit in the end, then all is lost. For some, that end benefit will be dollars in the bank, for others it will be social capital (check out Tara Hunt's amazing book, The Whuffie Factor, for more on that), for some it will be the growth of their personal brand (which in turn will help them create ventures in other channels for monetary gain), and others do it simply as a way to stay connected and learn from more people.

Breaking Bad is launching it's third season soon and to find top quality television like this outside of HBO and Showcase is rather rare. But to me AMC is a business more like HBO or ShowTime, except that they don't run 100% their own productions. In fact, if you surf through AMC's lineup its filled with old westerns and classics. On the other hand, with 2 industry leading and critically acclaimed series in Breaking Bad and Mad Men AMC can run crap all day interjected with a few of these home-spun productions and make some serious money.

I think a lot of people are having difficulty placing this product and it's uses in their line-up properly. I have been delaying getting a mac-book because I wanted to see how the iPad would work for the limited duties I wanted the lap-top for.

For those of you not into casting black magic spells of doom on online marketers with a different opinion, and do realize SideWiki is here to stay - I have used it in a number of ways to keep my pages active, create new inbound links, and add content to my complimentary blogger blogs. Try some of these tactics to mix up and spread out your social media strategy;