Yes in many ways it is doubling your workload. If it comes to one or the other, choose the blog as that is accessible to all...where facebook is not so much.As Mari Smith says, "You need to focus on building rapport, reaching out to connect with others, adding value, sharing information relative to your niche and marketplace."
But I don't understand how Facebook is different from, say, a blog, when it comes to sharing info and connecting with others and building rapport. Wouldn't that be doubling the work load?.
My BIL called a few months ago to say he'd like to bring his new GF to visit. I asked her name. Bingo! FB page with pix and info. No pix of my BIL, however, even tho they live together. Hmmmm...my kids are all on facebook (all adults by the way)
i am not
if you decide to test the waters, go with a basic profile not something really in depth and personal.
since my id on here is private, i will share with you that my daughter has a problem with a man who pursues her in all these open forums ... she refuses to be intimidated by him but he is borderline stalking her. they dated twice six years ago and he still emails and calls her. she ignores him because the slightest 'hello' and he's off and running. she has a very high profile job running fashion shows and is in the public eye anyway and says she is not going to modify her lifestyle because of him. but it is very easy for him to figure out where she might be by seeing who her friends on facebook are and what friends they have ... and if one mentions a function where it's possible she will be - he shows up. what's the point of my sharing that? just so you know you can be 'found' on facebook. that is the goal afterall.
my sons have reconnected with friends from highschool, things like that..
Sorry I am not on facebook and I NEVER WILL BE. I have no interest in it.Every single person I know young or old is on Facebook regularly. Although FB isn't the first place people turn to when they're searching for lodging, its vast user base is invaluble for word-of-mouth publicity. It's also useful for people when they're planning their vacations or just impulsively decide where to go.
It's not much work to get your inn on FB. Create a profile with as much info on the inn as you can. Then join pertinent groups and networks and post your inn there.
ETA: Make no mistake about it, facebook and blogs are NOT the same thing..
Sorry I am not on facebook and I NEVER WILL BE. I have no interest in it.Every single person I know young or old is on Facebook regularly. Although FB isn't the first place people turn to when they're searching for lodging, its vast user base is invaluble for word-of-mouth publicity. It's also useful for people when they're planning their vacations or just impulsively decide where to go.
It's not much work to get your inn on FB. Create a profile with as much info on the inn as you can. Then join pertinent groups and networks and post your inn there.
ETA: Make no mistake about it, facebook and blogs are NOT the same thing..
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Facebook is a social networking site (extra emphasis on social) for people to connect with others. If your only contacts are your immediate family or the people in your small town, I can see how little of value it could be to you.catlady said:Sorry I am not on facebook and I NEVER WILL BE. I have no interest in it.
I have a personal FB page that I have used to find friends I'd lost touch with and so on. I just don't get the idea of using it as a networking place for a business. I understand FB is for the older (read: not tweenies) crowd, but how can it be useful from a biz standpoint if I want to read about a place but I have to "friend" them first and vice versa? It seems like an awful lot of work and not a very good ROI of my time.
I am sitting here shrugging my shoulders and rolling my eyes right now at this idea.. I guess that's my answer!.
Maybe the focus should then be LinkedIn instead. That is more for professionals and might garner more of the business traveler or professional on vacation.penelope said:I have a personal FB page that I have used to find friends I'd lost touch with and so on. I just don't get the idea of using it as a networking place for a business. I understand FB is for the older (read: not tweenies) crowd, but how can it be useful from a biz standpoint if I want to read about a place but I have to "friend" them first and vice versa? It seems like an awful lot of work and not a very good ROI of my time.
I am sitting here shrugging my shoulders and rolling my eyes right now at this idea.. I guess that's my answer!
It is probably safer to not assume that just because a person has no interest in Facebook that they are not social or confined to a small town. The world was a social place long before Facebook came around.Sorry I am not on facebook and I NEVER WILL BE. I have no interest in it.Every single person I know young or old is on Facebook regularly. Although FB isn't the first place people turn to when they're searching for lodging, its vast user base is invaluble for word-of-mouth publicity. It's also useful for people when they're planning their vacations or just impulsively decide where to go.
It's not much work to get your inn on FB. Create a profile with as much info on the inn as you can. Then join pertinent groups and networks and post your inn there.
ETA: Make no mistake about it, facebook and blogs are NOT the same thing..
.Facebook is a social networking site (extra emphasis on social) for people to connect with others. If your only contacts are your immediate family or the people in your small town, I can see how little of value it could be to you.catlady said:Sorry I am not on facebook and I NEVER WILL BE. I have no interest in it.
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That's stretching it a little, don't you think? I have a lot of contacts with a lot of people both inside and outside my town but I don't use my facebook account for that. I communicate with my college nephew on facebook, many innkeeper and industry colleagues via email, family by phone and the people in my little town - I actually meet them on the street and in the restaurants and talk to them!! It's hardly like communication doesn't happen unless you're on facebook.Sorry I am not on facebook and I NEVER WILL BE. I have no interest in it.Every single person I know young or old is on Facebook regularly. Although FB isn't the first place people turn to when they're searching for lodging, its vast user base is invaluble for word-of-mouth publicity. It's also useful for people when they're planning their vacations or just impulsively decide where to go.
It's not much work to get your inn on FB. Create a profile with as much info on the inn as you can. Then join pertinent groups and networks and post your inn there.
ETA: Make no mistake about it, facebook and blogs are NOT the same thing..
.Facebook is a social networking site (extra emphasis on social) for people to connect with others. If your only contacts are your immediate family or the people in your small town, I can see how little of value it could be to you.catlady said:Sorry I am not on facebook and I NEVER WILL BE. I have no interest in it.
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