He told me Social Media was for Kids….I do like Camping
He told me social media was for kids. I said wasn’t that a commercial? 
Ah no, that was Trix. Hmm, funny how a commercial sticks but I never did eat Trix. You can stick your head in the sand and believe we are riding horses and not driving cars. However, if you do you’ll either get run over or left behind or worse both. If you don’t have a face book fan page, a twitter account and a you tube channel you are missing conversations that are giving your competitors and collaborators the edge. It has become a necessary tool to use to develop and manage your brand.
The traditional advertising world is dying. What has replaced those forms of advertising is using new technology to magnify old methods of building your business. We all know word of mouth advertising is the greatest form of advertising. If you take the view that the new technology is nothing more than taking your existing customer base and interacting with them digitally you’ll “get it.”
Just keep it simple. This brave new world of Tweets, and texts, and blogs is nothing more than a new way to communicate your unique value proposition to more people. After all, your customers already know you’re the greatest dentist, vet, plumber or candle stick maker in town. It’s just the rest of the folks that don’t know. Social media, blogging, email lists, e-books, videos all just give you the opportunity to create a larger tent.
In this larger tent there’s more conversations, more people listening to you when they want to on their schedule. You’ve all gotten the phone call about the broken fridge or chipped tooth or “funny” noise in the engine and because you knew what you were talking about the next thing you knew you had a life long customer. On the other hand you’ve written checks for thousands to some yellow page salesman and wondered “why?,why?”, especially in the last few years.
In other words, we’ve come back full circle to word of mouth advertising via technology. Now we can use the new technologies to do 24/7 in thousands of spots what we used to do when they called or walked in our doors. Are you jumping up and down for joy. Go ahead I promise it won’t be on you tube tonight. One final thought, what does this all really mean for you as a Tucson local business? It means that the “whales” have become vulnerable as we enter a time when local is in and big box is out. The minnows have the power. Seize the day and the new technology available to you. It all depends on you and your commitment to return to the days of old and move into the new age of marketing at the same time.
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