Tag: social media certification

So there’s been a recent spate of Social Media Certification courses spring up lately. Who knows, maybe they’re great? However, I feel that it’d be remiss of me not to jump on the bandwagon offer my expertise course if you’re interested. Please leave your name in the comments field and why you need this training and agreeing that my results may vary but you’ll still pay me the course fee money.

Official Social Media Person-Type Leader/Follower/Coach/Tutor/Guru/Expert Guy/Girl Certificate of Certification

Sponsored by the Best Upper Level Leveraging Strategy House in Town (B.U.L.L.S.H.I.T.)

Have you heard of that crazy thing called social media? Where you can be in the media (or not) and be social (or not)? No?

It?s ALL THE RAGE!

But don?t worry if you?re missing out ? thanks to the Official Social Media Person-Type Leader/Follower/Coach/Tutor/Guru/Expert Guy/Girl Certificate of Certification, you too can become part of the socially media trend that?s hitting the nation.

For as little (or as much) as I choose to charge you, you will learn:

Who are all these Twits this guy is talking about?

How to do more on Facebook than just poke your best friend?s mom

How to socially media market to people who aren?t even using social media

Get a lifetime?s worth of knowledge in 20 minutes and a CD/DVD

Me following you on your social media accounts so you have followers which makes people think you know what you?re talking about because that?s where the legitimacy and authority of my course really kicks in (punctuation not needed!)

That?s six five great offers!

One for every social media application being used today!! How about THAT for results??

And for the first 100 people that sign up, I?ll even give you a free link to a site of my determination that might (or might not) be worth your time.

But hurry ? offer ends midnight (on some day or other!!)

Sponsored by the Best Upper Level Leveraging Strategy House in Town (B.U.L.L.S.H.I.T.)

: Image by Matt Hamm via Flickr

I saw something interesting today. There’s a website that offers “social media certification”. Its blurb mentions that for only $1495, you will receive the following benefits:

Intensive CSMMC (Certified Social Media Marketing Coach/Consultant) 12-week certification program
12 one-hour high-impact interactive classes and 1 bonus session
An intensive content-rich training manual
Links and resources “worth thousands”
A web-based interactive forum

Sounds great – a certification that will allow you to become a social media consultant/expert for less than $1500 and within 12 weeks of knowing nothing about social media. What are you waiting for?

Forgive me if I sound blase, but this just doesn’t seem right.

Twelve hours to learn all you need to know that will have you consulting businesses counting on your social media knowledge? Twelve hours to get deep into what it is that makes social media work and what doesn’t? Twelve hours to learn what the highly-respected social media guys have taken years to learn, and continue to learn?

I don’t know. Maybe the guy that runs this course can teach you how to be a social media consultant and the $1500 is worth every one of your pennies. After all, his profile certainly reads well.

But you know what – you can pretty much already get this information and best of all it’s free.

Listen to guys like Chris Brogan, Christopher S. Penn, David Alston, Peter Kim, Amber Naslund and Justin Levy. These guys are telling you all these things and more every day. On Twitter. On their blogs. On video blogs.

If you really want a certificate to say you’ve completed a tele-seminar, by all means go with the CSMMC course. After all, free advice can’t be as good as paid advice, right?

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