Social Media Master — Network Specialists
Filed Under (Marketing, Social Media) by admin on 23-02-2009
Learning to navigate the social medias? When the boom started on the Internet, more than eighteen years ago, having a website meant you were cool. Then along came blogging, it required some input from you on a regular basis, but most everyone who was really cool did that too.
Now Twitter and Facebook, at the very least, are required to be a cool presenter online.
When my kids started talking about facebook, I didn’t hop right on. But I did stay tuned in to what they were saying about it. When they started complaining because adults were intruding on their territory, I checked in too. Yup, adults were definitely intruders at that point. Kids had been using the site primarily to connect with school chums. I realized I could connect with school chums too. I infiltrated the site as well.
Now, I have more contacts than my kids have on facebook, and many of them are marketing/business related. I have several basis for contact, writers, business associates, probable clients, and friends/buddies and old class mates (some of them look a lot older than others). The best part is, when I send out a message, everyone gets it. I become a real person, with a real identity and my customers appreciate that.
Friends and family have some basic concept of what I do, and I get referrals there too.
Learning to tweet 140 characters and bring in a phone call from a new client makes the world a happy place, I can’t think of a better way to promote yourself.
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Twitter me at http://twitter.com/janverhoeff
