Social Media for Woodworkers

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Comment by Terry Babij on July 30, 2010 at 11:17am

We are using many of the social media tools and sites. Wins are 1 by 1. 2 excellent reads for insight into the breadth and potentials are: Linchpin by Seth Godin and 6 Pixels of Separation by Mitch Joel. I have added links to our Facebook page, LinkedIn etc to my outgoing e-mail signature. The only way to reap value from any venture social media requires active participation. Studies show that about 2% of members or views actually participate.

Comment by Advanced Cabinet Systems on July 7, 2010 at 7:53am

ACS was featured in this month's Retail Environments magazine by the A.R.E. It's an article about social media.

http://ning.it/aZ54W7

Comment by Lloyd Kerry on January 29, 2010 at 10:07pm

I just joined Linkedin...now I have to figure out how to make it work for me, selling my Kerry-All Pouches!

Comment by Jim Wulfekuhle on August 14, 2009 at 1:46pm

Web 2.0 is history the world is into 3.0 and the traits of 4.0 have already begun.
Twitter, Linkedin, Facebook, Xing, Plaxo, Facebook, You Tube, Friendster.
It's a customer driven world now and people Want it there way.

The big question is why would you not embrace it. Computers are everywhere, 40% of the US has some form of a smart phone. The future generations live by the phone. Google studies intentions, behaviors. Social media is all about intentions and behaviors.
Alot of business in this industry is about referrals, testimonials, word of mouth.
It's time to move that from the the street and the phone to the web. You need to have a integrated marketing approach to your offline and online campaign.
Whether Twitter will still be a player 3 years from now no one knows. But it's here now. I'm on linkedin and several others. If your looking for resources go check out my profile on linkedin and you can see everything I've been reading and it will get you on your way. If you want to connect on linkedin once you join ask me to linkin and you can see what's going on.
In reference to Ralph's comments to get the most out of it you need to interact with it.

Comment by J.P. Roberts on July 30, 2009 at 1:57pm

The web 2.0 thing is really changing the world for the small business person. Segmented email blasts, linking to galleries websites and them to yours, online communities, companies like custommade.com that do the search optimization for you. The potential for getting your product and message out there has never been better.

Comment by Kim McIlvain Hutchinson on July 28, 2009 at 1:24pm

Just joined the Social Media group--joined SawDustSoup a month ago. Started reviewing Tweets on Twitter (not sent any yet), use email blast to communicate with customers. Always looking for new ways to get, share information and promote our business.