Social Media Seminar for Business

Tomorrow I will be attending a Social Media Seminar for Business sponsored by Katy Check-A-Pro with as a guest of one of my clients. They will cover social media, getting lost in the buzz, where to start, etc. I am very excited about this as I am participating in this search right now with my own business, and doing it for myself so I can do it for my clients later on.

I started this blog last year under a different name, and finally I have began to integrate social media for business into my web design business. My Facebook page receives from 0 to 10 hits a week. It seems like I put more effort into it than desired, but I love doing it. With 150+ friends, I would hope to catch a primary or secondary reference or visit. I haven"t seen many hits from Facebook yet. Yesterday I added one of my friends company page as a friend. I was very surprised to see his page and will check it out tonight or this week.

A few weeks ago, I received an email that looked like a job op, but instead was possibly a spam. The idea seemed very interesting though and this morning, broken links left me with a broken spirit for this email. Here is the link that works: http://atticusgraphics.info/. The product being pushed was called FanPagePop. Maybe it had overwhelming traffic and is having issues, or maybe it was all a hoax. A very well thought out idea but a hoax. It advertised a customized Facebook page in the same manner everyone pushed out customized MySpace pages and layouts years ago.

Is that right? Years ago? MySpace? Will Facebook be the same. It will if they charge for it and very quickly. If Myspace guy, Tom, wants his people back, he should be ready to welcome back his people - if they will come back. How many people go back and get the old dog from the pound when the puppy got hit by a truck? That old mut is still as cute as ever. My sisters dog is about 8 years old. Last year, my sister got a kitten, and that dog has more life now than we have ever seen. Could these social media networks work together to improve each other. It seems like they started. Myspace changed it's layouts. Facebook integrated music apps. But it seems both just went stagnet after that. Twitter came up and stole their thunder and like an old juggling act, they seemed to have went to the dressing room and cried.

Last week, out of curiousity, I finally looked at a Twitter page. I let myself get overwhelmed ad shelved it for the time being - knowing it may benefit me rather than hurt me.

So much more to discuss, but I gotta go to work.

I will report on my experience as soon as I can. I am in the process of getting ready to move again. I have much excitement about my new office space and will be going with my woman to pick out a desk in these next two weeks.

BH Creative Design plugged into the networking

After finishing a recent website, (although I have a little work to do today on it also), I went crazy last night and today with the social networking.

For my website, bhcreativedesign.com, I created a Facebook page, a LinkedIn profile, linked to this page as my blog, but didn't link to my MySpace page yet. Now I think in my spare time, I'll ahve to re-create the MySpace page and separate it from my personal page. Right now the two are intertwined.

I have three fans of the Facebook page as of day 1. Myself, my lovely girlfriend, and my friend Art. Thanks to my Art and my girlfriend for the immediate support. Especially her. she was a fan just minutes after we hung up even though she was tired and this is not about my girlfriend! Anyway.

I have that curious, unaccountable resistance to Twitter right now. I already noticed an increase in web visits from the last two days and happy about it. Now I await for one more client website to go live to add their site to my portfolio.

I think the social networking realm is good for small business to grow and look forward to see where it takes BH Creative Design.

What I came to moments ago about my "company" name is that I eventually just need to find a better way to market and display this name because I have been extending the name out there beyond the website and a new identity would cause a bit of re-painting the name and image. So for now, we stick with BH Creative Design and move along. Be sure to visit us on Facebook and LinkedIn and also on our website.