@33 - Where is the networking credibility? Yeah, how about a social network that doesn’t whore them self out and filters the trash? - I am not saying all facebook businesses are trash, but where’s the credibility? b2b is not done this way, c2b maybe.

Interesting post on TechCrunch about Facebook publishing a guide to viral marketing on their site. See below for a full embedded version:
Facebook Insider’s Guide to Viral Marketing - Get more documents
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Facebook is *the* best website for professional networking & business building, in my experience. You have to train yourself to ignore 90% of the “visual noise” and just unfriend the spammers. And if you have a Group/Page/Event where peeps are spamming, have your assistant take care of the housekeeping & delete those kinds of messages.

FaceBook has made an attempt to provide value to its members through an informative guide for new marketers. Most Social network members are not tech savvy nor marketing sophisticated.

How brilliant was it outside of that? Well it certainly got you critics talking.

To EH, who is another self proclaimed expert: My spammy sounding web site is keyword rich for SEO and PPC, be happy to direct you to some basic 101 on the subject so you can make more educated marketing evaluations in the future!

Amazing insight on the topic at hand…riveting, even.

Great point, I see what you’re saying now - FB definitely hasn’t perfected their model as far creating a new profit center based upon marketing and advertising efforts on their network. Their self-serve ads are actually pretty effective if used correctly, but the problem is that they require a little more social media know-how and marketing savvy than a simple Google text ad. This is probably where the disconnect begins which really hurt their ability to capitalize on their ginormous network of super-engaged users.

Also, remember that Google was just a really good search startup that was burning through a lot of cash before they realized that they could roll out the ad programs that they have now. I think that they’ve done ok since then.

I think that Facebook just needs to find a way to monetize the product ina way that doesn’t directly effect the experience that their users have grown accustomed to. That’s why the Google model worked, even after they added the AdWords application to their product mix, it never changed the feel of their product. Sounds simple enough, right?

Here is another piece of advice, try making a profit off of something or heck being good at it before you go around giving people advice that is more generic than they have become.

Boooooring. Can we move on to an interesting company with a real profit center please?