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Originally Posted by frockery
Bit far to travel from Camden town, I would've thought.  |
Oooh I dunno....
Dee Bahl (Biffy Clyro's Manager) used to regularly come in jet-lagged off the New York flight...
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Originally Posted by frockery
You can have a personal facebook page, as well as one for your business, to which you can attract 'fans'. You can also create a group for members with a common interest in a cause (or business). How useful it is depends, like everything else, on the sort of business you are in.
I have to confess to spending far too much time on facebook, although I can't be bothered with a lot of its features. Many of my younger customers use it daily and I imagine the same goes for a lot of your students, Matt.
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We actually teach the Music Management students how to use and exploit it effectively as a marketing tool.... A few of the film students use it of course.... But it's main use seems to be for promoting records.
I'll confess to having once set up both a facebook page and a myspace both of which lasted all of six months. It certainly didn't do anything for my business. And I found the daily stack of 'invitations' from nubile far-eastern women disturbing. Not that I'm averse to nubile far-eastern women of course; it's just that I prefer them to be here, already hold a UK passport and be
at least a tad older than my favourite watch....
And I'm not sure that I want to be doing business with the sort of middle-aged men who hang about on facebook responding to invitations from nubile far-eastern women either! I have one or two acquaintances who
are now in or approaching their 40's and had very minor successes with bands back in the 80's. I get a little freaked out by some of their efforts to make a 'cult' of themselves.
It DOES depend on the business you're in I guess. If yours is a business that follows or sets trends among a younger audience I can see the value of things like facebook. But for a business like mine which is all B2B and aimed at a fairly staid audience my worry is that it
could actually be slightly damaging.....
Personally, well run on-line forums like this, and structured interaction opportunities such as Gordon provides seem far more relevant (in a business sense) than platforms such as facebook....