I spent my week applying the new skills I obtained from attending conferences, reading and engaging in Twitter activities. I literally have been switching from my Blackberry, to my iPhone, to my PC, back to the iPhone and on and on it goes. From TweetDeck to Yammer, WordPress to Twitter, Google Adwords to Yahoo Search, Facebook to LinkedIn, throw in a little AllTop, MyYahoo, Outlook, Powerpoint, Quicken (had to pay some bills)…my head is spinning. It’s been an interesting week to say the least. I finally broke down and bought a Twitter marketing application that automatically adds followers for you. The limitations of Twitter make this process painful, but I’ve had some success. I think what I have to share on the Twitterverse is interesting enough, but I still need to establish the key relationships with top Bloggers, Twitterers, and other social media pros. Also, as you know, I launched my blog along with the rest of my team. You can read their blogs on my links. We are also getting ready to re-launch blog.makeitwork.com which will provide a landing page for all things tech, both from our hundreds of daily appointments solving consumer electronic problems and our content from Tech News. This is an important piece for Make It Work as it allows us to post all the emails, tweets, and FB posts we share with our followers and customers daily. Things like virus alerts, system updates, new programs and gadgets, other threats, discounts, etc., are all soon to be found on our blog in one centralized place. I think our customers will appreciate it.
Yesterday was Halloween. My son was grounded and didn’t get to go to the big 7th grade party. If you know me, you know why. As usual, we setup our light show, smoke machine and scary music from our poolside Sonos system (get one, now you can tweet the song you are listening to). The problem however is this year the kids avoided the long driveway as our neighbors, both at the top of the drive, turned off their lights and avoided the annual holiday cheer. This in turn limited our trick-o-treaters to three groups of kids. After an hour, I shut off the lights, the smoke, music and pulled the candy inside and called it a night. Bummer. My wife however is elated…three months pregnant and three full bags of candy complete with Reeses (every type), Snickers, M&Ms, Jolly Ranchers, Take5s, and many many more!
Well, it’s Sunday and I’m going to watch football with the wife. She is a Fantasy nut and it’s really hard to concentrate with her shouting out stats and player names. (While I was typing this, Manning handed the ball to Joseph Addai, who THREW a touchdown to Reggie Wayne…she’s pretty excited as Wayne is on her FF team…Manning is on mine, but gets nothing for that play!)
I leave you with a few questions, feel free to respond in my comments and I’ll talk to you on Monday:
1. What success have you had with Twitter? Facebook?
2. What kind of mobile device do you use and why?
3. How often do you drop the F-bomb each day?
Here’s a couple of tips for you from the CEO of a tech services company (that’s me):
1. Sonos just released an update (iPhone app due out shortly) that allows you to Tweet the song you are listening to. Kinda cool, I guess. I’m posting this again, as I really love my Sonos and I PROMISE you will to. My favorite gadget ever!
2. When trying to reach someone where email, Twitter and Facebook have all failed, try calling them or send a fax (it will be the first one they received in a while)!
3. In Facebook, switch to Live Feed and go down to the bottom and click “edit options” and enter 5,000 for Number of Friends. Now you will see what you’ve been missing.
TOMORROW’S ENTRY: In tomorrow’s blog post, I will discuss how I got Countrywide/BofA to reduce my mortgage payment by $10k/month. I’m not in the mortgage modification business, so don’t worry. I’m just going to share my experience so you can learn how to do the same.
To the moon!
-Eric Greenspan
