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So I am very much on the idea of building my own websites, instead of Facebook. My recent article Upping my Facebook game is the first in a likely series considering all the details of using Facebook activities to first build your own preserved collection of your writings, and then secondly share them with Facebook so others can interact with them.
Several goals to this page:
April 26, 2020 Update - This page is turning out pretty cool as I think of different kinds of sections to add to it.
Just got a call on a google voice number from 888-300-9827. I normally never take these kinds of calls especially if I dont recognize the number. But this time I did. Immediately nice music starts, “Welcome to AT&T” in a nice soothing female voice, and then it switches to chinese female saying something, and then hangs up. OOOOH KAAAAY!
and CMS of the new generation.
At the end of their article was this informative PDF; How to reach and engage your audience on facebook - copied PDF to Evernote
More to read:
Here I am experimenting with tracking the threads where I engage in conversations. I post the same summaries as above, but then copy my comments, and with “Posted At:” keep a direct link to the FB article. Makes it easy to go back to specific threads to see what comments have been made, and maybe move those comments out to this page.
He put it in print!! Wow! And there are a lot of thankful people responding positively on the thread, not even taking the bait to argue with him, instead thanking him for all the things he is getting right.
https://www.facebook.com/153080620724/posts/10164534362085725/
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Or if you prefer, you can book a meeting at a future date and time here: https://app.hubspot.com/meetings/salesinquiries?meeting_campaign=qualbot&meeting_funnel=content. 6:00 AM Isiah
Hi Garnet, this is Isiah from HubSpot sales. I am here to help you better use our free products or explore paid products we offer.
6:01 AM I am considering the CRM product.
I currently use a CRM software that is entirely local to my iPad called MyCRM. Unfortunately it is abandonware. But it has two really big features I can not live without:
6:02 AM 1) I get to create a wide variety of tags to add to my customers. My customers are hair salons, and their stylists. It allows me to enter hair salons, and then attach stylist records to the hair salons. Both records store the same info, just there are company and individual records associated with the company. Works well. As for tagging…..
6:04 AM I can add tags list “Propect” “Visited” “Visited-2020-04” “Customer” “Customer-2020-04” to any record, or remove them, as I want. I can then get subsets, like “not prospect and followup_05” for who is not marked as a sales prospect, but i have tagged as needs to be visited in May.
The querying via tags. Tag and tag and (tag or tag or tag). Is very powerful.
Then 2) I can put just that subset of records on a google map.
6:07 AM So I can start at some place in an area, and pull-up a st of tags Customers and Prospects and was a customer 3 months ago, and put just them on a map, and see if there is anyone nearby to visit that I haven’t seen yet
6:08 AM Isiah You can create up to 10 custom properties/tags for the contact and company records. You can also use those properties to generate certain lists. HubSpot does not integrate with google Maps
6:08 AM The system I am using, I add two tags every month. Visited-2020-04 and Customer-2020-04. I also have lots of tags like Cell. LandLine. Barber. Groomer. Has-Hanzo-Shears. Has-Cricket-Shears. Sharpen-George. Sharpener-Terry. I have probably 100 or 200 tags and any record might have a dozen or two dozen tags. At a minimum it might have. Prospect. Customer visited stylist visited-2018-04 visited-2018-08 visited-2019-04 customer-2019-04 not-interested-in-fb. Interested-in-aerial-photography. That might be a reasonable sample set of tags for a stylist.
6:12 AM oh yeah and that stylist would probably also have tags. Followup-03. Followup-06. Followup-09. Followup-12. Because ideally i want to visit that stylist in that area on those four months, so at the start of those months, I turn her and all the others with that tag, I add their prospect tag back to their record
6:13 AM Isiah Here are the default properties/tags that come in HubSpot, anything outside of this would need to be a custom property (which you get 10 of in the free crm) There are also tasks you can set up, so no need to create a tag for follow ups https://knowledge.hubspot.com/contacts/hubspots-default-contact-properties
6:14 AM Well, i may not get to the followup. I leave the prospect tag on until i visit, then i remove the prospect tag from each customer i visit. This lets me get tags of just stylists with prospect tag, so i see a gradually diminishing list of customers showing up on my map…. then whenever the followup month is for that area, i turn them all back on.
6:15 AM Isiah got it
6:16 AM Scanning that document. BTW my business is entirely about personally visiting the stylists to sharpen their scissors. I do absolutely no online interaction with them.
6:17 AM i contacted 200 of them about a 75% on my services during this California shutdown, and barely 3% answered the text messages and facebook messages. These are people who personally know me from my visits. I was shocked
6:19 AM 75% discount. If you could get your $40 oil change on your car for just $10, wouldnt that attract your attention? I was astounded when I only got 2 yeses out of 200, and none of them could recruit me any additional customers
6:20 AM Isiah That's great
6:21 AM Ok thanks. Not even sales force has a tagging feature like what I use in this software. They used to, but took it out of more recent versions. They have a 2000 character field that things can be typed in, but that is not the same, too easy to mistype the tag words. SW i use lets me select them from a list via check marks, and makes it easy to add new tags on the fly.
that and easy ability to create Boolean queries of the tags, works better than anything else i have seen.
thanks for your time
Can i have a transcript of this chat mailed to me?
6:26 AM Isiah Yes! What is your email address?
Challenge: I shared my url in a closed group. The post had to wait for moderation, so I didnt know what it’s URL would be. And once the post was approved, it then gets a url, but the closed group does not allow sharing, so no way to get the URL to the posting, at least not with the iOS Facebook app. I had thought that saving to collection gave an item whose link could be gotten, but it turns out the link saved is to the article mentioned in the posting in the group, not the post itself. So probably the right thing to do is to look at Facebook over the web, and grab the URL from there. Yes that works….
Posted at: https://www.facebook.com/groups/OpenAmerica/permalink/227709718669416/
Posted at: https://www.facebook.com/100000974491270/posts/3675895335786247/