Social Media Embraced by American Ag!
Posted By Grumpy Glenn and Judy on May 25, 2009
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We are proud members of the Illinois Farm Bureau. How exciting it was to see an article on page 15 of the May 18th FarmWeek edition entitled “Farmers, ranchers plugging in to social media”. As I have learned over the last few months, social media is huge for every segment of business. That includes all of us who are in the business of “Eating Local and Buying Local”.
200 million active subscribers use Facebook. I am not sure about the numbers for Twitter and others, but it is big! Our marketing opportunities are huge! I have recently started using these websites and the possibilities are mind boggling. Just this morning I did a search on how to use Twitter for business. With quotation marks around the search parameters there were 109,000 results. Without quotations, 714 million… I settled on the link to http://hubpages.com/hub/How-to-Use-Twitter-for-Business to get more information. My main problem with Twitter is getting people and businesses to follow in my niche market. This article explains more about it (I am going to leave you in suspense so that you learn for yourself!) and some of the mystery for me is now solved.
Using Facebook for business purposes is a bit more straightforward because searches for keywords, phrases and names are built in. I have been able to find many Eat Local and Farmers’ market “groups” to join and many business “pages” to become a fan of. I am following and have become “friends” with numerous Farmers’ Market advocates, experts and organizations. I have even started a Facebook Group for the Tri-State “Eat Local” population. It can be found at http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1298750123&ref=profile#/group.php?gid=55997399903&ref=mf Come join us, follow us, and visit our blog often, as I report how I am coming along with using social media.
And, most importantly, let’s become friends!
Judy, The Dip Lady on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1298750123&ref=profile#/home.php?ref=home
Grumpy Glenn on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/home.php
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