I hope this is ok to post.
I work at a cable wakeboard park in Cornwall on Siblyback lake. I've recently been given the park's Facebook page to manage and I want to make a good impression by getting our page likes up!
If you have Facebook and feel like helping a fellow DIY Audio member out please go and like this page. As a reward any DIY Audio members that want to come and do some kneeboarding, wakeboarding or water skiing at the lake can come and get 2 hours for the price of one. Just PM on this forum and I'll book you in.
https://www.facebook.com/pages/SW-Wakeboarding/373111279414598
Thank you all in advance!
I work at a cable wakeboard park in Cornwall on Siblyback lake. I've recently been given the park's Facebook page to manage and I want to make a good impression by getting our page likes up!
If you have Facebook and feel like helping a fellow DIY Audio member out please go and like this page. As a reward any DIY Audio members that want to come and do some kneeboarding, wakeboarding or water skiing at the lake can come and get 2 hours for the price of one. Just PM on this forum and I'll book you in.
https://www.facebook.com/pages/SW-Wakeboarding/373111279414598
Thank you all in advance!
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Interesting how words change their meaning. 'Like' used to mean 'have a preference for'. Now it seems to mean 'express a preference for, even if untrue'.
As I haven't a clue what xxxxboarding are and I don't use Facebook I will have to decline your kind offer.
As I haven't a clue what xxxxboarding are and I don't use Facebook I will have to decline your kind offer.
I have no intention of breaking any knees or "wakes", whatever they are but thank you for your advert and kind offer for a half price session all the same.
You've just seen two old guys sitting on their porches, shaking their fists and yelling, "You kids get off the lawn!"
heh, not entirely my target audience here - but you'd be surprised how many 'old guys' we get on the lake riding. As the bumper sticker says 'old guys rule'
When I was young it was true that 'old guys ruled'. Now I am older it seems that young guys rule. There must have been a brief moment in my mid-forties(?) when my age group ruled.
There is quite a wide range of ages on here, so you might get some customers.
Note to Stuart: in the UK we mainly don't have porches - at least not the huge verandahs like you have in the States. Our porches, when present, are tiny things you can barely stand up in - they are intended to keep the rain off while we fumble in our pockets for the door key.
There is quite a wide range of ages on here, so you might get some customers.
Note to Stuart: in the UK we mainly don't have porches - at least not the huge verandahs like you have in the States. Our porches, when present, are tiny things you can barely stand up in - they are intended to keep the rain off while we fumble in our pockets for the door key.
strange concept these likes for hire. social media advertising is such a blackhole. so many companies seem lost in it, tripping over themselves to get up to speed in this 'new' venue for the sake of keeping up with the Jones's and it rarely pays off with anything like the promise the numbers of views/likes would have you believe. i'm afraid Katch, we have a pretty good example of why right here in your thread, both you and mattmcl seem to be talking about fudging the numbers for appearances?… You for the sake of your new job and mattmcl seems to run a company to cater for that niche.
good ol' crowd sourcing.
of course social media is important, but I dont think the number of likes can really tell you much at all.
good ol' crowd sourcing.
of course social media is important, but I dont think the number of likes can really tell you much at all.
I'll agree, the payoff isn't as large as Facebook would have you believe. However, I do get a LOT of business from Facebook, and aside from time it is free advertising. If you want to pay to advertise on Facebook, you can do so with laser precision to exactly your target audience. I run monthly analyses to track all of this and it is worth the effort if done correctly.
The strategy is to create posts that your followers "like," which then show up on their friends' feeds. They can also "share" your post, which REALLY gets your message out. Hopefully a number of your followers' friends will "like" your page, and thus see all of your posts. The trick is to keep the posts fun and relevant to your audience. I grew my FB page from 300 to 30,000 without paying a cent in advertising. My objective is not to necessarily create direct sales from my posts, but to keep my company at the top of my customer's minds, so they keep thinking about it and eventually make purchases.
The most successful marketing speaks to a customer's emotions, and reinforces their view of themselves, either as they are or as they would like to be. I work in the organic herb/tea industry, so a lot of my posts are on better health, yoga, herbal remedies, the GMO debate, etc. Once you connect emotionally like that, you have a customer for life. I like to think I'm helping people lead healthier lives too.
Now, if you listen to an advertising agency's pitch, they'll tell you they can get you a billion likes in 2 months. Maybe, but the tactics they use are not going to attract quality followers and many will unlike the page after a while. Contests and things like that fall under this category, and that's where you get the "likes for hire" mentality.
The strategy is to create posts that your followers "like," which then show up on their friends' feeds. They can also "share" your post, which REALLY gets your message out. Hopefully a number of your followers' friends will "like" your page, and thus see all of your posts. The trick is to keep the posts fun and relevant to your audience. I grew my FB page from 300 to 30,000 without paying a cent in advertising. My objective is not to necessarily create direct sales from my posts, but to keep my company at the top of my customer's minds, so they keep thinking about it and eventually make purchases.
The most successful marketing speaks to a customer's emotions, and reinforces their view of themselves, either as they are or as they would like to be. I work in the organic herb/tea industry, so a lot of my posts are on better health, yoga, herbal remedies, the GMO debate, etc. Once you connect emotionally like that, you have a customer for life. I like to think I'm helping people lead healthier lives too.
Now, if you listen to an advertising agency's pitch, they'll tell you they can get you a billion likes in 2 months. Maybe, but the tactics they use are not going to attract quality followers and many will unlike the page after a while. Contests and things like that fall under this category, and that's where you get the "likes for hire" mentality.
Not if your target audience includes me! You would need to be a lot smarter than that to get me to read your advert.mattmcl said:
Yes. I guess those of us who have yet to discover the delights of Facebook are deemed to be so old and irrelevant that all we can do is dribble. We never spend any money. We don't contribute to society. Yet we still seem to pay lots of taxes and still vote in elections.
Are you on Facebook? You're probably seeing ads right in your feed and don't know it. They are labelled "suggested posts" and don't look any different from your friends' posts.
There are other advertising technologies outside of Facebook, like retargeting. The amount and accuracy of the data you can mine from an individual is astounding. Say you go to a shopping site and put something in your cart but don't purchase. The merchant can pay Google or a number of other companies to place ads on OTHER websites you visit to get you to go back and finish your purchase. The ads will literally follow you around the internet.
You can avoid it with browser plug-ins and whatnot, but most people don't.
There are other advertising technologies outside of Facebook, like retargeting. The amount and accuracy of the data you can mine from an individual is astounding. Say you go to a shopping site and put something in your cart but don't purchase. The merchant can pay Google or a number of other companies to place ads on OTHER websites you visit to get you to go back and finish your purchase. The ads will literally follow you around the internet.
You can avoid it with browser plug-ins and whatnot, but most people don't.
No, certainly not! Facebook is for children and immature teenagers.mattmcl said:
That would be a good way to ensure that I never even attempt to shop there again.
I don't think advertisers and marketeers realise just how annoying they are, and how many sales they lose by putting people off through over-attention. Display what you have, on your own site, and wait for me to come to you. If I don't come then it means you have nothing of interest to me.
😀..I fall into the I don't want to work, however its a means to an end. And you have to keep working so I can be bleed dry by the powers that be..😉
However it's all in the best possible taste
and why don't old gits understand marketing.Life is hard ..and then you die!
Regards
M. Gregg
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Proud old guy with no Facebook account. No interest in wakeboards as I learned to ski on...ta-da... skis behind a boat.
Plan B
Well, I can't make it to the US for any wakeboarding, but if your getting "likes" on Facebook are that important to you, please send me a cashier's check for $12.43 (US) and I'll hit ya up, on Facebook.
Nothing like turning a social media site into a money-making enterprise.
Oh. I'm 66, but I wakeboard 2-3 times a month here in Florida. and YOLO board as well. And my house dosen't have a porch, either.......... 😀
Well, I can't make it to the US for any wakeboarding, but if your getting "likes" on Facebook are that important to you, please send me a cashier's check for $12.43 (US) and I'll hit ya up, on Facebook.
Nothing like turning a social media site into a money-making enterprise.
Oh. I'm 66, but I wakeboard 2-3 times a month here in Florida. and YOLO board as well. And my house dosen't have a porch, either.......... 😀
FB along with social media are interesting phenomena in a way.
Seems to me that FB was first invented to create an excuse to have a smart phone. "Ooh aah I've got this you beaut gadget, now what do I do with it" sort of response.
However as a means to stay connected with close friends and family its sort of easier than email and a lot more including than snail mail or telephone. We use it thus.
Then "marketing" got all moist and excited about the "possibilities" leading to the decline of free-to-air and print. Now the whole internet experience has become nasty as social media and tracking cookies (and security agencies) lurk in the darkness as they scramble for your history.
Needless to say I run Firefox.
Seems to me that FB was first invented to create an excuse to have a smart phone. "Ooh aah I've got this you beaut gadget, now what do I do with it" sort of response.
However as a means to stay connected with close friends and family its sort of easier than email and a lot more including than snail mail or telephone. We use it thus.
Then "marketing" got all moist and excited about the "possibilities" leading to the decline of free-to-air and print. Now the whole internet experience has become nasty as social media and tracking cookies (and security agencies) lurk in the darkness as they scramble for your history.
Needless to say I run Firefox.
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