It depends! Where are your customers and prospects participating online? If you don’t know that, you can run around in circles until you’re dizzy and puking up your guts and you still won’t have the answer. Figure out where the people you want to reach are hanging out online and go there. And if they move, move with them. This is not the Field of Dreams. If you build it, they will not come.

Again, it depends! There is not a one size fits all. The only way to find out is to use the tools. You’ll find what works best for you individually and best for your organization.

You already know this one makes me nuts. We have to stop thinking about social media as a tactic on its own. You’re going to measure the return of your marketing investment, of which social media is a part of. If you use social media to motivate people to visit your site  and then the content on your site encourages them to stay there and then your product or service is so overwhelming they buy, your return-on-investment is pretty darn clear. But if you’re looking at social as more Facebook fans and Twitter followers, you’ll lose.

There are a few ways: Stop talking about only work, don’t be self-promotional, have conversations with people, allow your personalities and your culture to shine through, remember human beings are multi-dimensional, and give up the idea that you can control this. Mistakes will happen. People will say things you don’t like. There will be complaints. It’s in how you handle those things that becomes a win.

You don’t. Again, you create a marketing strategy, of which social media is a part. There is no such thing as a social media strategy. That’s akin to saying you have a telephone strategy or a typewriter strategy.