Comments on: Earning and Spending Your Social Dollars

By: Andrew Wee

Andrew Wee — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 08:14:06 +0000

Good question.

btw, a person is “dumb” only if they don’t understand something and keep quiet about it. The fact that you’re clarifying something you don’t understand means you have a desire to understand.

Authority is an example of “having power”. You get the power because of your title/position – eg. a general in the army, a congressman in the senate.

Social power is a form of conferred power – people give you the power. The key is that the “people” are involved, and it’s given to you. Social power can come together with a position (like a well-liked US president like Bill Clinton, JFK or Ronald Reagan), or it can come independent of a formal title or beyond what the power associated with that title might typically give. would typically give. Examples of this might include Mother Theresa, Princess Diana of Wales, Gandhi, Bono (of U2) and Angelina Jolie. They all punch above their weight.

By: Andrew Wee

Andrew Wee — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 02:53:18 +0000

In reply to Cay Cole aka Jael @ WF. Tks for bringing this up. The link has been fixed. [It was a technical issue from typepad]

By: Rakesh Raina

Rakesh Raina — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 01:39:50 +0000

Hi,
I am a little lost/confused.
Firstly you say president is more powerful than trump; later you say that ‘having power’ and ‘given power’ are not the same! Maybe I am dumb!

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By: Cay Cole aka Jael @ WF

Cay Cole aka Jael @ WF — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 21:48:16 +0000

Andrew, I tried the link to the bloglog posts and not having any luck making it work. I’ll go look for it another way, but thanks for mentioning it here so we can go learn more.

Looking forward to hearing more from you and my first ever affiliate summit (Vegas!)

By: Cay Cole aka Jael @ WF

Cay Cole aka Jael @ WF — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 21:46:04 +0000

Andrew, I tried the link at the top of this article to see the Bloglog posts. Appears to be not functioning. I’ll go try to find it another way, but you might want to fix it when you have time.

Looking forward to hearing more and making it to my first ever affiliate summit (Feb!)

By: Amit

Amit — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 01:35:50 +0000

Hi Andrew,

Great Post! Social power is indeed very real. Look at top blogger like John Chow, and Shoemoney. There are many internet marketers out there who make more than them, however, they don’t have ANYWHERE near the social power that these individual have.

Sincerely,
Amit

By: Chris Jacobson

Chris Jacobson — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 14:35:15 +0000

I’ve been using social sites to promote for a while now, except for Facebook. I don’t want it to turn into another MySpace, which is overloaded with spam by internet marketers who don’t quite know what they’re doing.

By: Andrew Wee

Andrew Wee — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 14:11:04 +0000

In reply to BeachBum Michael.

Hi Michael,
Social influence, and by extension, social marketing is more than just a popularity contest which is what rankings tend to be.

If you’re popular, you can get people to take action.

If you’re unpopular, you might get even more people to take action.

social influence is not related to popularity, which is fickle and changes from day-to-day (and sometimes hour-to-hour on the Internet – go look at the technorati top tags for example).

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As to whether power or money is better, you can find the answer reading the post again.

Hint: neither “power” or “money” is better because there’s something even “better”. it’s mentioned in the post.

By: Andrew Wee

Andrew Wee — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 14:04:19 +0000

In reply to Nenad Ristic.

Nenad,

I pay for my own ticket too.

It takes some enlightenment to see beyond the cost alone to realize the benefit you’d get…

By: Andrew Wee

Andrew Wee — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 14:02:49 +0000

In reply to Ruck.

Ruck,
No worries, you can look forward to some interesting stuff coming up.

The affiliate summit is in Vegas in Feb next year, and you’ll find that your time spent there will be well worth it.

By: BeachBum Michael

BeachBum Michael — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 11:16:11 +0000

I never thought of social marketing as a fdorm of power. looking at the top blogs on MyBlogLog I see how they could influence others to take action.

Which is better power or money? Could Donald Trump pay The President to do something?

BeachBum Michael

By: Nenad Ristic

Nenad Ristic — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 06:21:15 +0000

Interesting article, and it does make a lot of sense. I think that money is overrated as a measure of power (after a certain limit, a lot lower than most people think)… social influence is important… Wish I could make the affiliate summit, but nobody seems willing to pay for my plane ticket.

By: Ruck

Ruck — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 06:01:48 +0000

Very inspiring Andrew,

Pretty much covers all the points on kind of why I stopped putting the hammer down on sites like Myspace and Craigslist. Wish I could make the Affiliate Summit to hear more about this, but hopefully you will throw some breadcrumbs out there 🙂