Comments on: Smart Kids (& Marketers) Never Get Bored

By: Barney Austen

Barney Austen — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 16:04:35 +0000

Hi Lisa. Really enjoyed this post and as a daddy, I agree that children always find something to do if they have to. The telly goes off, the playstation is removed and they are obliged to get creative – and it works.
Same applies to social media marketing as well in my view. It can be as boring or as exciting as you want to make it. Like a child, the only limitation is imagination – which is limitless :) – so we need to get creative. I am still a newbie in this area, but every day is a learning curve and I’m really enjoying it.
Thanks for sharing

By: Matches Malone

Matches Malone — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 15:47:05 +0000

If you’re bored, you’re boring, I always say….

By: Alison

Alison — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 13:47:21 +0000

One of the things I hear myself saying often to my kids is, “There’s no such thing as bored.” It’s so true! Where I work, boredom is never an issue – but frustration is. It’s a similar type of issue. Instead of complaining about the tools or the processes, smart people find ways around the frustration and make things happen.

By: DJ Waldow

DJ Waldow — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 13:35:43 +0000

Lisa –

As I just tweeted, my “professional” crush on you just grew with this post. I’m looking forward to meeting you face to face sometime soon. Your snark, sarcasm, brutal honesty, and marketing savvy are unmatched.

Your posts continue to make me smile, laugh … and THINK. Amen, right? My favorite line from this post (by far) is, “If you’re bored with what you’re doing, blame yourself instead of the tool.” I can’t recall the last time I was bored. Seriously. Well – not entirely true. Every time I get bored, I tend to find a new gig.

Keep kicking ass…

DJ Waldow
Director of Community, Blue Sky Factory
@djwaldow

By: Money Funk

Money Funk — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 20:05:47 +0000

I agree, sometimes stepping back, a moment to breath, and find things outside the box can do wonders to refresh a situation/goal. Love your mom’s ideality. And its true, I used to keep myself plenty busy outside until the street lights came on and it was time to come in.

By: Amanda

Amanda — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 13:20:46 +0000

Your mother and my mother must have been raised in the same school. Nice to find another like-aged girl that played street hockey for hours!

On a topical note, this article was fantastic, timely, and riddled with the simple truths most of us overlook in our nose-to-the-grindstone workdays. A declining client list or depreciatingly effective business strategy is an opportunity to rededicate your efforts to think outside the box.

Anything else (e.g., calling something ‘dead’) is akin to throwing your hands up in the air and declaring “I quit” in your most annoying whinetastic tone.

By: Kim Kolb

Kim Kolb — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 13:06:47 +0000

Lisa, Wow.. My mom use to do the same thing to us. I think you bring up a great point. Somehow we managed to make a cardboard box or the high grass we called the woods seem fun.
I think that Social Media has gotten more involved. More things are linked together, which we think make it easier, but sometimes it makes it harder. I think people get overwhelmed with the choices just as if your mom would have given you 10 things to do outside you would have had to make a choice. I don’t think people don’t give social media a chance, just like when we were first told to go outside, it took us a while to figure out what we could and couldn’t do and what our boundaries were. I agree that today’s social media does set the really or “smart” people as your mom says apart.
Great post!

By: Nick Nerbonne

Nick Nerbonne — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 19:32:58 +0000

Bottom line: in SEO, social media, or any marketing activity for that matter, real effort will be rewarded and simply ‘doing it to be there’ will be quickly recognized and pushed aside by increasingly savvy users. If you do it right and put in the work, you’ll get results no matter how stiff the competition, IMO.

By: Suzanne Vara

Suzanne Vara — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 18:34:30 +0000

Lisa

I think our moms were trained together – never ever ever were we allowed inside in the summer (grew up in burbs of NJ). Even in the winter she would tell us (me and 2 sisters) to bundle up and get outside and play for a little bit. We did. We had to and we had to find things to do outside.

If people are whining as it is harder than it was 2 years ago as they have been on easy street, then move over and let the rest of us who enjoy what we do and love the challenge of learning something new. I think it is something that is within us as some check out when the tough gets going whereas others fighter harder.

I guess for some the social media honeymoon bliss is coming to an end. It was bound to happen as I am sure that if you pulled a list of the seo companies in 2003 and compared it to now, maybe less than half would still be here today.

PS – we do become our mothers in some ways. My son is 5 and he even tells people that we are “outside people.” Unless we have a wind advisory, heat advisory or it is dark, you will find us outside.

@SuzanneVara

By: Ross Hudgens

Ross Hudgens — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 17:25:32 +0000

Social Media is Dead is the new SEO is Dead. Scoble, where are you?