I don't know if Facebook generates sales, but it is a good tool for promoting your services and brand. I maintain a page for myself and one for my company, Stenquist Communications, LLC. Neither requires any work, unless I choose to provide an update. But I've found that my personal page has reconnected me with a lot of old friends. And by reading the posts now and then, I can see what they're up to. Also, some PDML members who rarely post photos here, show their work on Facebook. I enjoy that. My business page has brought me several new clients and quite a bit of work. But it's not necessarily about sales, it's about broad-based marketing and brand awareness.
Paul On Jan 13, 2011, at 9:29 AM, eckinator wrote: > I was on facebook once before and decided it is not for me. No > am starting my own business I opened another account there and will > keep it for a while. I don't have time to maintain it and clicking "I > like" isn't my idea of social interaction either so that if it has > generated any sales one year from now it will stay, if it hasn't it > will go. I don't like their idea of privacy so my settings are as > restrictive as possible which kinda leads using it ad absurdum but I'm > open to see what comes of it. > Ecke > > 2011/1/13 John Sessoms <jsessoms...@nc.rr.com>: >> I say only semi-OT because I am a *Pentax* photographer. >> >> I attended the Central Region winter seminar for the PPofNC Sunday and >> Monday. Hoped there would be at least one speaker with ideas on how to >> improve myself as a photographer, but it was all about at marketing >> yourself. >> >> Even the one session that was supposed to be about how to streamline >> PhotoShop and Lightroom was about how to get the images up on Facebook >> faster. >> >> It's pretty much 24/7 social media now. Actually left me with a question and >> some doubts. >> >> Q: In this 24/7 assault on Facebook et al, when do you actually make time to >> take photographs? >> >> And none of it addressed my current aims in life. >> >> I don't want spend 24/7 on a computer marketing myself. I spend far too much >> of my time on the computer now just from trying to keep up with this one >> mailing list I belong to. >> >> As a photographer, I don't want to *WORK* full time. My aim is a part time >> business to supplement my income just enough to pay for the equipment and >> perhaps a little location travel. >> >> I undertake the *work* of photography for a specific purpose; to allow me to >> afford what I need in order to enjoy the *pleasure* of photography. In other >> words, I'll take the photos someone wants to buy, so that I can have the >> financial resources to take the photos *I* want to take. >> >> But, it's not worth it if I have to work so hard I never have time for >> myself. >> >> And then there's Facebook. That's a problem in itself. >> >> I'd rather be trapped in a Bronx phone booth at 3:30am on Sunday morning, >> masturbating a rabid mountain lion with a handful of rusty barbed wire than >> to spend one minute on Facebook. >> >> Yes, I *am* a Luddite! >> >> I'd start a fan page for Luddites Anonymous, but I don't have a Facebook >> Account. >> >> Later ... gotta get ready for school. Looks like the ice has melted enough >> that it's finally going to open today. >> >> >> ----- >> No virus found in this message. >> Checked by AVG - www.avg.com >> Version: 10.0.1191 / Virus Database: 1435/3376 - Release Date: 01/12/11 >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> PDML@pdml.net >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. >> > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
