Speaking Today To Farmington Business Leaders
Filed under: Facebook, Low Cost Marketing, Online Advertising, Small Business Advertising, Small Business Marketing, Small Business Web Development, Small Business Websites, geo domains, rural advertising
Today is going to be booked from start to finish with the morning kicking off with a seminar speaking to the business leaders of Farmington, MO. Farmington is one of, if not the (depending who you ask) fastest growing areas in Missouri. Our partner Big River Telephone worked tirelessly in promoting the seminar and once again went offline to promote to businesses that need to start thinking about how to promote online.
I must say that spending time with medium and small business leaders in a group setting like this is about as good as it gets, I enjoy every minute and some of the questions and discussions are very insightful as they can help me (and others) understand what the people not focused on the online world are really thinking about technology.
One of the things that really amazes me is the number of people using Facebook, Twitter, and Linkedin. I always ask for a raise of hands before I start speaking to find out how many people use each of the services. Facebook always leads, Twitter is always second, and Linkedin third. No real surprise but what I do find interesting is that the crowd is typically not real tech savvy but a rough estimate would be 70 percent of most rooms have Facebook accounts.
As I type that I also realize more and more I am seeing people not even put their website in their commercials on TV, they just go straight to their Facebook page. What a coup for Facebook....
Now, I do spend a portion of the presentation talking about proper domain name selection and after seeing the acceptance of social networking there are very few people who even understand what a domain name is. I am happy to help do that education.
Farmington is a very progressive area and I expect todays presentation to be a bit different than others and since I know some of the people in the room this time it should make for good back and forth.
That exactly is the strength of facebook. While the gadgets and jargon of facebook is what we can associate with our everyday life… The walls, the calendar etc etc… Even a non-computer savvy person can easily handle it. That is where twitter lacks. The retweeting and the jargon associated with twitter makes a common man hesistate to use it.. But as people get rid of their initial hesistation, I feel businesses use twitter more than facebook…