We have had a website for many years now. At first a lot of our potential clients weren't even using email. Now, it's hard to imaging running a business without an online presence. The fax machine, once the darling of innovation is all but unused, forced retirement, as it were. The latest boon to business has been social media. Although I have no interest in Twitter, we do use Facebook for communicating with customers and potential customers. Lately I've been using is more as a blog than anything. I plan to increase our Facebook presence and I'm interested in hearing how others out there use this relatively new medium. You're welcome to view our site and comment on anything you see there. Feel free to Like us while your there. Comsign's Facebook page
[ May 01, 2013, 02:07 PM: Message edited by: Duncan Wilkie ]
Posted by Tom Rose (Member # 606) on :
Duncan, when I started in 1982 , I thought I was high-tech with my used thermal copier! Just paint and brushes, but I had an Electro Pounce ( still have it ).... In many ways I am a Dinosaur, but do have a website. www.SeeMySignwork.com But I am also considering getting into Facebook. If I were young I would probably get into wraps, but working by myself it would still be a hassle.
Good luck with your increased use of Facebook.
Posted by Duncan Wilkie (Member # 132) on :
I can relate Tom. When I got into the Sign Business, the game pong was just a pipe dream and we were still half a dozen years away from the desktop PC. LOL The fax machine was a bigger revolution than those early, slow, expensive PCs. I remember when I was in college in '72 the computer students were using Fortran and punch cards. At least we didn't have to blend our own paints with lampblack, white lead and pigments like Si did. :>
Posted by Dan Sawatzky (Member # 88) on :
We use facebook to send visitors to our web page - especially our blogs. It sends about 350 people (unique visits) per week. Our blog receives well over 22,000 hits per month. All the blogs I write combined get well over 50,000 hits per month.
Through careful planning and a little work we can use this medium to bring us business. It works for us!
-grampa dan
Posted by Glenn Taylor (Member # 162) on :
We've been tracking how new clients find us. Picked up 3 new clients via Facebook last week. Picked up 7 new clients last month via our website (unfinished as it is). Picked up 2 new clients last month via the YellowPage ad (which we had reduced from a 1/4 column ad to just a 1" in-column listing.
I'm working on adding an online store and the ability for clients to design and order shirts online. I hope to have them both active by June.
[ May 02, 2013, 02:10 AM: Message edited by: Glenn Taylor ]
Posted by Tom Rose (Member # 606) on :
I want to thank Duncan, Dan, and Glenn for input on Facebook !
I might just have to leave the stone age to try it. I have a rather simple website that shows the kind of stuff I do, but it would help to get people to check it out.
I'll get crack'n on this and let you know what happens.
Thanks again
Posted by Bob Sauls (Member # 11321) on :
Not on Facebook to my daughter's ridicule. However Rick Jantzen helped me set up my blog at Googles blogspot.
It is not linked to my website but soon will be. I write sign stories about my customers and they are sharing it on their social media. When I am being considered for significant projects I notice the hits to it go up.
I have to believe that it helps prospect know that we care about what we do in an individualized way.
