As all my friends will know I’m not exactly at the forefront
of technology or social media. At University I was the only one visiting the
24hr library every night because I didn’t own a computer and I was still using
disposable cameras until only a couple of years ago.
Despite joining Facebook in 2005 when it was ‘all the craze’
at uni, I have only really used it for stalking people I haven’t spoken to in
years or checking out friend's boyfriends. So now I want to get the word out
about Andrea’s Arcade and everyone tells me the way to do it is via social
media. So where do I start?:
Facebook, great I
have one of those accounts but do I really want prospective craft fair
organisers to see photos of me posing with the naked cow boy in Times Square? –
So I created a Facebook page to add all my new items I have been sewing and
craft fairs I am going to: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Andreas-Arcade/373278779411448
Looks good and easy to put things online, but who am I
targeting here? Now all my friends who knew me as a party animal know my deadly
secret that I love nothing more than a cross stitch and sewing a tote bag, and
despite all the lovely and complementary comments (90% of which are from people
I am related to) is this really getting out there what I am doing?
So next I tried Twitter
(@angekellegher), my boyfriend twits and gave me a crash course in how it
works (to be honest I still don’t have a clue), I have a very small number of
followers (again mostly friends and family) and not sure how I'm meant to increase them.
I have also managed to link it to my personal facebook account so those who I
am trying to impress with my crafty skirt making skills now know that last
weekend I went to a Bowling for Soup gig and made a Christmas cake! Hmmm not
what I planned to be twitting about.
So looking for another avenue I’m trying Instagram. I have so far recruited 11
followers (all of which I went to school / uni with) and have taken 3 photos,
deleted them and uploaded 0. I think I need to have a practice of this one a
little more.
So I have now achieved the following through social
media......my friends know I sew and are bombarded daily with pictures of door
stops and owl pillows.
Positively I have boosted my etsy shop viewings(http://www.etsy.com/shop/AndreasArcade)
and I do have a good record of how my work is starting develop.
Who knows one day I may have a website for just my friends
to look at too!
Please any help on widening my social media skills would be
very gratefully received.
Thanks for reading my blog (particularly if you are a friend
or family member who has unwillingly been harassed by my social media efforts
and have supported Andrea’s Arcade).
Andrea
