What impact does Twitter and Facebook have on your business?

tancehughes · November 28th, 2011, 11:17 PM

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Originally Posted by Marc

I just got a Twitter account yesterday and a Facebook account today for DigitSmith. What kind of impact does social networking sites have on your business?

Facebook seems to work a little bit better due to being able to put more information on it, but Twitter has been okay for us too.

GraphicDisorder · November 30th, 2011, 12:16 PM

I have 5,000 friends on my facebook, and 2,700 on my still young company facebook. I get probably 20-30 messages a day plus comments/etc. We use facebook VERY heavy and it works great.

DPRO · November 30th, 2011, 01:13 PM

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Originally Posted by GraphicDisorder

I have 5,000 friends on my facebook, and 2,700 on my still young company facebook. I get probably 20-30 messages a day plus comments/etc. We use facebook VERY heavy and it works great.

Is your company huge? I find that it's easy for big companies to gather friends and followers. Because that's pretty incredible if not. I'm a digitizer for an embroidery company in Toronto. The boss paid good money to promote the business on social networking sites (I think 5K/month) and after 4 months the total was 650 friends on fb and 400 followers on twtter. You can make good money if you can replicate your success for other companies.

GraphicDisorder · November 30th, 2011, 02:26 PM

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Originally Posted by DPRO

Is your company huge? I find that it's easy for big companies to gather friends and followers. Because that's pretty incredible if not. I'm a digitizer for an embroidery company in Toronto. The boss paid good money to promote the business on social networking sites (I think 5K/month) and after 4 months the total was 650 friends on fb and 400 followers on twtter. You can make good money if you can replicate your success for other companies.

2 person company, so we are no where near huge. Here are my pages:

Personal:
http://www.facebook.com/graphicdisorder

Shop (only a few months old):
www.facebook.graphicdisorder.com

Never considered doing it for others, too busy with my own lol.

webgURL · November 30th, 2011, 05:38 PM

I like Twitter because a lot of Screen Printers post new designs pretty regularly. I enjoy seeing fresh art on a regular basis. Twitter kind of reminds me of global text messaging.
http://twitter.com/screenprintgear
http://twitter.com/get63me

On facebook I tend to pay more attention to my personal profile than the business pages. You can see how neglected my fb pages are:
http://Facebook.com/screenprintgear
http://Facebook.com/get63me

I've definitely had more prospective customers contact me because of Twitter, but it directly correlates with time spent on each...

GraphicDisorder · November 30th, 2011, 06:48 PM

Wow I have over 300 followers on Twitter, I don't even push my twitter account. LOL

DPRO · December 1st, 2011, 11:42 AM

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Originally Posted by GraphicDisorder

2 person company, so we are no where near huge. Here are my pages:

Personal:
http://www.facebook.com/graphicdisorder

Shop (only a few months old):
www.facebook.graphicdisorder.com

Never considered doing it for others, too busy with my own lol.

I just check out your web site facebook page..... just 2 people!? That's seriously crazy. You guys must not like sleeping

GraphicDisorder · December 1st, 2011, 01:05 PM

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Originally Posted by DPRO

I just check out your web site facebook page..... just 2 people!? That's seriously crazy. You guys must not like sleeping

Ya we don't do a lot of sleeping. We were north of 70hrs this week as of yesterday. BTW we dont take weekends off either.

Earl Smith · December 6th, 2011, 06:44 AM

Just a small up date to my previous post. Ive been on Facebook now for two weeks. In that time Ive befriended 7 of my customers, so my info and posts will come on their Facebook page as well. Some of them have put my link on their own websites, all through me having a Facebook account.
Graphic Disorder I have befriended as well. How only two people can do all that amazing work. Its unbelievable.
Earl

GraphicDisorder · December 6th, 2011, 08:23 AM

Very nice compliment Earl. Keep it up, if you use facebook right, you will see a massive revenue stream from it. It wont happen over night and it wont happen with only using it 5 minutes a day, but if you keep at it you will find your customers and their friends will end up seeing more of your work and feel more connected to you!

Huge potential with facebook. I feel like ive barely tapped it myself.