-------------------- Catharine C. Kennedy CCK Graphics 1511 Route 28 Chatham Center, NY 12184 cck1620@taconic.net "Look at me, Look at me, Look at me now! I't's fun to have fun, But you have to know how!" Posts: 2173 | From: downtown Chatham Center, NY | Registered: Feb 2004
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Catherine, I have created a business page. How do other people find this page? Do you have to ask people to "like" you in order to get traffic to this page? I'm a bit confused about the way Facebook works.
-------------------- Jean Shimp Shimp Sign & Design Co. Jacksonville Beach, Fl Posts: 1266 | From: Jacksonville Beach, Fl. USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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Initially YOU have to promote the page... put a link here so we can see it, put it on your business card, on your website, send out email notices to your clients and friends.
Once the word gets out and the content is worth sharing the audience will grow.
build it and they will come.
-grampa dan
-------------------- Dan Sawatzky Imagination Corporation Yarrow, British Columbia dan@imaginationcorporation.com http://www.imaginationcorporation.com
Being a grampa is one of the the most wonderful things in the world!!! Posts: 8738 | From: Yarrow, B.C. Canada | Registered: Nov 1998
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Going to do it.A bad year business wise made me want to work with someone else.After a month I realized not everyone is honest and I am basically unemployable as I have been self employed for too long.Going to suck it up and re invent myself.Thanks Cat!
-------------------- Darcy Baker Darcy's Signs Eureka Springs. AR. Posts: 1169 | From: Eureka Springs, AR | Registered: Nov 2007
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I've had mine for close to a year now, still not a lot of traffic but I haven't done a lot of promoting either. lately the likes have crept up as I post more things
-------------------- Jon Peterman 200 Summit Loop Grants Pass, OR -------------------- a.k.a. dc-62 success is in Jesus Christ Posts: 434 | From: grants pass or. usa | Registered: Nov 1998
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(edited to add that it's also connected me with a fair few like-minded people who're not on Letterville... but probably ought to be )
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"...there are no limits when you aim for perfection..." Jonathan Livingston Seagull Posts: 7014 | From: Highgrove via Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia | Registered: Dec 2002
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Let me know if anyone has any questions, this is pretty much what I do at my job these days - help my clients with their social media.
-------------------- Kimberly Zanetti Purcell www.amethystProductivity.com Folsom, CA email: Kimberly@AmethystProductivity.com
“Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.” AA Milne Posts: 3722 | From: Folsom, CA | Registered: Dec 2001
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It's all about top-of-mind advertising. Our posts here also feed our Twitter page. Keep your posts short, on topic, and professional. I try not to post more 2 or 3x a week. We're almost at 600 fans.
We also have our blog posts feeding to our Note's tab.
You can also design a custom intro page, like we have.
"Some are born to move the world, to live their fantasies. But most of us just dream about the things we'd like to be." - Rush Posts: 1192 | From: Washington, NJ | Registered: Feb 1999
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-------------------- Nikki Goral Image Advantage Signs 4050 Champeau Road New Franken, WI 54229 920-465-4500 "Finish every day and be done with it. Tomorrow is a new day."-Ralph Waldo Emerson Posts: 928 | From: New Franken, WI (East Green Bay) | Registered: Jun 2007
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My daughter is hooked on facebook. She is a hairdresser, and just started a "Customer of the Month" incentive for her customers that use facebook, for 50% off hair coloring.
Not sure why she's offering a discount because it seems to me, most women don't mind spending money on their hair.
-------------------- Ace Graphics & Printing Camdenton, MO. USA
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Glenn, He gave us his actual FB web address whereas the others used the link to the actual FB page. Does that make any sense?
-------------------- Kimberly Zanetti Purcell www.amethystProductivity.com Folsom, CA email: Kimberly@AmethystProductivity.com
“Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.” AA Milne Posts: 3722 | From: Folsom, CA | Registered: Dec 2001
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Ummmmm....not really. Then again, I'm functioning on about 2 hours of sleep at the moment.
I hired an assistant to help with the web stuff a few months ago. I'm going to make her do it for our shop. If you don't mind, I may have her contact you.
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One is the address that FB gives you. in other words, facebook.com/kzpurcell is mine. The other is the url that appears in your browser window that you can copy and paste.
-------------------- Kimberly Zanetti Purcell www.amethystProductivity.com Folsom, CA email: Kimberly@AmethystProductivity.com
“Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.” AA Milne Posts: 3722 | From: Folsom, CA | Registered: Dec 2001
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A FB tutorial sounds like a good idea for a SignCraft article....any bites....anyone with a last name that starts with an "A" and ends with an "ntonelli"?
-------------------- Nikki Goral Image Advantage Signs 4050 Champeau Road New Franken, WI 54229 920-465-4500 "Finish every day and be done with it. Tomorrow is a new day."-Ralph Waldo Emerson Posts: 928 | From: New Franken, WI (East Green Bay) | Registered: Jun 2007
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"Some are born to move the world, to live their fantasies. But most of us just dream about the things we'd like to be." - Rush Posts: 1192 | From: Washington, NJ | Registered: Feb 1999
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-------------------- Nikki Goral Image Advantage Signs 4050 Champeau Road New Franken, WI 54229 920-465-4500 "Finish every day and be done with it. Tomorrow is a new day."-Ralph Waldo Emerson Posts: 928 | From: New Franken, WI (East Green Bay) | Registered: Jun 2007
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It took some searching, some real head scratching, and a bunch of tries before I succeeded but I managed to muddle my way through to a custom facebook URL. My personal page can now be found at www.facebook.com/imaginationcorporation.
The next step is a cool custom facebook home page like Dan Antonelli. It will be interesting to see how this all pans out... we've now passed 15,000 hits in about 10 days and are up to 4,000 per day. The traffic to our website is reflecting traffic from the facebook links on my posts. Now it just has to translate to more business...
It is an investment in time to set everything up and put up a critical mass of valuable posts. Once our custom home page is set up I will be able to ease off some hopefully and settle down to a few posts each week.
-grampa dan
-------------------- Dan Sawatzky Imagination Corporation Yarrow, British Columbia dan@imaginationcorporation.com http://www.imaginationcorporation.com
Being a grampa is one of the the most wonderful things in the world!!! Posts: 8738 | From: Yarrow, B.C. Canada | Registered: Nov 1998
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How does a facebook page translate into more business unless what you sell can be sent via email? Seems like alot of effort for little return. My marketing ideas are 180 of what I read here...maybe because I'm the only one still generating leads in person.
-------------------- Mike Duncan Lettercraft Signs Posts: 1328 | From: Centreville, VA | Registered: Oct 2000
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I just don't get it. I understand it, but can't for the love of me understand the appeal. Likewise for Twitter - I just don't care enough about most people to want to know what they're doing every waking moment. I can't help but feel the whole "must-have-one" bit is a touch of the Emperor's Clothes.
-------------------- Graham Parsons Signs 'n Such Ltd Swift Current Saskatchewan Canada. www.signsnsuch.com
"Saskatchewan - hard to pronounce, easy to draw" Posts: 710 | From: Saskatchewan, Canada | Registered: Oct 1999
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People frequent facebook... 400,000 million of them I hear. That's too many to be ignored.
I see it as a way to generate more traffic to our website... build awareness of the the unique sign sand features we build, promote our workshops, eventually sell ebooks and perhaps more.
I'm not in it to communicate with my friends... I prefer to either phone them or if they are close visit them in person. I'm certainly not in it to see how many 'friends' I can accumulate or to build social status.
-grampa dan
-------------------- Dan Sawatzky Imagination Corporation Yarrow, British Columbia dan@imaginationcorporation.com http://www.imaginationcorporation.com
Being a grampa is one of the the most wonderful things in the world!!! Posts: 8738 | From: Yarrow, B.C. Canada | Registered: Nov 1998
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Mike, A few things, first of all, a huge amount of business mail is getting caught up in spam filters these days. Emails simply aren't reaching people.
Secondly, by sending something out on Facebook, you reach not only your target but you're also reaching THEIR friends. Their friends see your posts when they visit their pages.
Gary, you have a personal page for private interactions with friends and family and a business page for business stuff. You don't need one to have the other but it's not good to mix them.
The social media thing is like a tsunami right now. I'm blown away when I go to a website that doesn't have sm logos to link back to their pages. It's the future of marketing.
-------------------- Kimberly Zanetti Purcell www.amethystProductivity.com Folsom, CA email: Kimberly@AmethystProductivity.com
“Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.” AA Milne Posts: 3722 | From: Folsom, CA | Registered: Dec 2001
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I had my personal page first, then when I set up my business page, it linked to my personal. I don't like that. Ellen.
Two years later I have 240 Likes and it has helped increase my local business a lot. I hand out my business cards to every customer to share with their friends and look at my artwork online. Now they tell me they saw something there and come to order. It's a new generation. I'm 59 years old trying to keep a step ahead.
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Kimberly,, do you have experience in setting up a FB page that sells items?
Select from several items, pay with Paypal links etc?.
-------------------- Leaper of Tall buildings.. If you find my posts divisive or otherwise snarky please ignore them. If you do not know how then PM me about it and I will demonstrate. Posts: 5274 | From: Im a nowhere man | Registered: Jul 2001
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MY daughter sett a page up for me at Facebook.com/Terry-Colley-Signwriter-and-Gilder/364339163677420 Seems ok for posting current stuff had a couple of jobs from it, but its early days
-------------------- Terry Colley The VintageSign Co 42 barrack hill Romiley Stockport Cheshire, England sk6 3az tel 0161 494 5089 terry@bullandbrush.fsnet.co.uk Posts: 210 | From: England | Registered: Dec 1999
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This might be a little off topic but is similar in that it is related to directing traffic to a web site. I was wondering if it is worthwhile to own a large number of domains that would redirect to your website. So what I mean is if your company is 123 signs in New York, would it pay to own 123sign, 123signs, 123signnewyork, 123signsnewyork,123signny, 123signsny,signny,signsny,signnewyork,signsnewyork, and then signs... where the ...is every surrounding town, etc.? Is this something that would help your SEO or benefit you in any way?
-------------------- Gary Boros SIGNWORKS STUDIOS LLC Monroe, Connecticut, USA Posts: 264 | From: Monroe, Connecticut, USA | Registered: Dec 2007
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Yes, but more specifically what I'm wondering is if it actually has some affect on SEO or anything else, or is it just a futile expense since it really won't work for that. I've been told that it might work if you have unique content on each domain and someone would click through to your website instead of being redirected, but I'm not sure about that either. I know very little about SEO, Facebook or any of these things but I would like to develop a few websites, which I have none presently, and I'd like to start out with a correct plan from the beginning.
-------------------- Gary Boros SIGNWORKS STUDIOS LLC Monroe, Connecticut, USA Posts: 264 | From: Monroe, Connecticut, USA | Registered: Dec 2007
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-------------------- Jane Diaz Diaz Sign Art 628 W. Lincoln Ave. Pontiac, Il. 61764 815-844-7024 www.diazsignart.com Posts: 4102 | From: Pontiac, IL USA | Registered: Feb 1999
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-------------------- Jane Diaz Diaz Sign Art 628 W. Lincoln Ave. Pontiac, Il. 61764 815-844-7024 www.diazsignart.com Posts: 4102 | From: Pontiac, IL USA | Registered: Feb 1999
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