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Chez
Joined: 13 Aug 2006 Posts: 35904 Location: The Hive of the Uberbee, Quantock Hills, Somerset
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Posted: Wed Mar 19, 14 6:22 pm Post subject: |
 
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Rob R wrote: |
It's a great way to network, especially for my industry where we hardly ever see anyone. |
Quite. I imagine the cows find a lack of opposable thumbs quite a barrier to using twitter etc.. |
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Green Rosie
Joined: 13 May 2007 Posts: 10498 Location: Calvados, France
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Posted: Wed Mar 19, 14 6:39 pm Post subject: |
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sean wrote: |
Edit: *Anyone* who tells you how to use 'social media' as an effective marketing tool is almost certainly talking out of an inappropriate orifice. |
Possibly but as somne-one who used to hate the idea of social midia I have just taken my first booking for the gite via Facebook and with 3 Twitter bookings under my belt and 2 recent enquiries it's not a complete waste of time for me. It's free, I like "chatting" and it's a usually better that what's on the TV! |
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sean Downsizer Moderator
Joined: 28 Oct 2004 Posts: 41939 Location: North Devon
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Posted: Wed Mar 19, 14 6:42 pm Post subject: |
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It's the telling you how bit. Not the using it. |
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Chez
Joined: 13 Aug 2006 Posts: 35904 Location: The Hive of the Uberbee, Quantock Hills, Somerset
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Posted: Wed Mar 19, 14 7:11 pm Post subject: |
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The Rural Business people did a few free two-hour seminars on fb locally last year and some of my market colleagues were really impressed - they went from zero* to reasonably impressed in that time. But after two hours of 'your name goes here, don't click on people selling au-pair services' there's not much else to be said.
*'Facebook? Don't talk to me about facebook! Why do I need effing facebook, Chez?' |
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Mistress Rose
Joined: 21 Jul 2011 Posts: 10314
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Posted: Thu Mar 20, 14 7:17 am Post subject: |
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May I make a plea for those of us who don't do these Facebook and Twitter things? Make sure you have a web page and that ideally it is linked or set up in such a way that people with these smart phones can get to it too.
We get a lot of our business through our web page although we also have a face book page. Have no idea what that is like though because son deals with that, but I am sure he has linked it to the web page.
Some people we deal with don't even have internet, so even the odd sign in a shop or if worth while, an advert in a local paper/free paper still works. |
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