Conversation with these ladies this weekend was easy and went far beyond small talk. We covered everything from business ideas to boyfriends and husbands to generational issues in marriage to religion and politics to stories about college and everything in between. One of the reasons conversation came so easily is because we "see" each other on Twitter every week. From keeping up online, we already knew the surfacey stuff and could get down to the deeper stuff far more quickly.
Social media is first and foremost about people, not about hawking your product or solely talking about your business. It also does not and cannot replace meeting face to face. It can, however, make that face time much more valuable.
If you use social media to engage in the community, the results will be far more beneficial for you.
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3 comments:
Liene, this is a GREAT post! I truly admire all of the industry "friends" I have meet at conferences in different states. We were all just talking about this! It's nice to tweet to one another and just picking up the phone because our industry friend can give us the guidance we need, of course our friends or spouses can do the same thing, but it isn't the same. Our vendor friends "have been there, done that, and lived to fix it and make it better" Another thing with vendor friends, it makes it so much exciting to go to conferences to see them and knowing we are all there wanting to make our businesses better.
That is so true Liene. You also approached me at the networking meeting by saying "Hey, you tweeted me".
When you don't know someone yet in real life, twitter is an ice-breaker.
It was great meeting you!
So very true, Liene. It is definitely about those relationships and networking.
Great post!
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