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Re: Burglar Alarm Face book group



"ABLE1" <someone@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> On 9/26/2015 1:27 PM, Bob La Londe wrote:
>> Les,
>>
>> I've never used FB for my contracting company, but it definitely
>> generates
>> business for my mold making business.  LinkedIn too.  I periodically
>> write
>> an article or interesting social post, and then share it to other pages
>> as
>> well.
>>
>> Recently I had a mold customer visit me here in my shop to discuss some
>> designs we are working on.  That's pretty rare since I ship molds all
>> over
>> the country and even around the world.  I made a big deal out of it and
>> shared it on fishing groups, tackle making groups, and even on his
>> business
>> page as a purely fun and social post.  It resulted in about 700 visits to
>> my
>> FB page and two new custom jobs.  I imagine if I did similar things for
>> my
>> contracting business I could drives new jobs that way too.
>>
>> To go further an occassional fishing partner of mine uses socail medai
>> and
>> personal contacts to drive business his way.  He is a new car salesman
>> and
>> since he started doing that he has been the number one new vehicle
>> salesman
>> in his dealership every single month.  He doesn't even do the advertising
>> side of it.  Just has a huge friends list and does things like post
>> smiling
>> pictures of people with their shiny new pickup truck.
>>
>> I hated Facebook and Linked-In just like you guys, but I have learned a
>> little bit about how to use them to drive business also.
>>
>> Add on that all my Aunts and Uncles and Cousins stay in touch through
>> Facebook...
>>
>> Bob
>>
>
>
> I hear you Bob, but........................
>
> I guess that I am too much like my Dad.  He was the top Ford mechanic at a
> local large dealership.  He was the guy that could listen to an engine
> with a long screwdriver up against his ear and the engine block and tell
> you that a certain valve had a bad gap at the rocker and was tapping or
> the timing was off by a frog hair.

Yeah, but that back when engine ping was almost always bad timing and MTBE
and Alcohol hadn't started ruining fuel systems.

My dad actually taught me how to listen to an engine like that.

> BTW nice slip in of the https://www.facebook.com/CNCMOLDSNSTUFF

Thank you.  LOL.







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