Free sailplane want ads page on Facebook

On 4/4/2013 7:33 PM, GC wrote:
On 5/04/2013 02:35, Tony wrote:

Oh I definitely enjoy meeting the farmers, if they are within walking
distance of wherever I land. That doesn't always happen. Fewer and fewer
people are farming more and more acres these days. Population Density in
Western Kansas is probably less than 1 person per square miles.

Same in Australia. SOP is to check the farmhouse you're planning to land
near for: 1. Power lines to the house (two reasons for this) 2. Laundry
hanging out. 3. Fresh tyre tracks into the garage/shed/barn. 4. The
garden/grass looks watered.

Only about 1 in 3 is inhabited these days.

GC

Heh. One of my hitchhiking retrieves was in the panhandle of Texas. Musta been
a wet year because the lawn looked well cared for. No laundry though, despite
fresh tire tracks and powerlines to the house. No occupants, either. After
walking 3 miles to a paved highway and thumbing a few more, a member of an
itinerant road-paving crew from Missouri picked me up as he was driving to
town to his motel for the night; I think he wanted someone to talk to. Saved
me about 8 more miles of walking to the airport (shot down by outflow from a
thunderstorm on the "R" part of an O&R). I was later told the former occupants
of that house now lived in town, though they kept & used farming implements in
the equipment buildings, hence the tire tracks, I guess. Since my retrieve
crew was 3 sheets to the wind by the time I finished trudging the length of
the airport access road (I've a photo to prove it!), my retrieve may have
benefited from me NOT having had a cell phone on that landout...

Bob W.

On Thursday, April 4, 2013 5:07:29 PM UTC-7, Dan Marotta wrote:
New Mexico is pretty sparsely populated and I DO carry my phone. Coverage is pretty spotty, however, unless you're near a major highway.....

snip but the main point is that having technology like cell phone AND spot provides you *additional* options that you don't otherwise have.

I'm a HUGE fan of SPOT. Cell phones are great, but I've landed several places with no signal. SPOT allows friends to track progress in very nearly real-time. Which save lots of wondering and worrying, and is (IMO) fun. Very cheap and very effective.

On Sunday, March 31, 2013 6:30:04 AM UTC-7, Sean F (F2) wrote:
https://www.facebook.com/SailplaneWantAds Announcing an all new and TRULY FREE Facebook soaring want ads site! Add your for sale equipment to the Facebook community today watch it go viral within the Facebook soaring community in hours! A large segment of the soaring community is on Facebook today and that number is growing daily. It makes perfect sense that a dedicated Facebook page for want ads is created to support the soaring community. This site is absolutely free and 100% unassociated with any commercial interests. There are no restrictions to having your ad on any other website, any other poster board inside a soaring club perhaps, any other newspaper or magazine...etc. You ad will never expire and is always searchable, sharable and accessible by the roughly 1 Billion Facebook users. You can repost your ad as much as you would like. Log in, like the Sailplane Want Ads page and receive updates automatically as new ads are posted. Enjoy!

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https://www.facebook.com/SailplaneForSaleWantAds?ref=hl

7200 views in under a week. Wow! Far more than I expected. Get your ads up folks. Lots of interest in and traffic on this new Free Sailplane Want Ads Facebook Page!!!

Twitter sister page up as well this morning. Automatic posting from Twitter to Facebook and vice versa!

Google Plus and many others coming soon! All will be automatically linked. Place ad on one and have it added to numerous social media tools automatically.

Enjoy!

On Saturday, April 6, 2013 9:03:22 AM UTC-7, Sean F (F2) wrote:
7200 views in under a week. Wow! Far more than I expected. Get your ads up folks. Lots of interest in and traffic on this new Free Sailplane Want Ads Facebook Page!!!



Twitter sister page up as well this morning. Automatic posting from Twitter to Facebook and vice versa!



Google Plus and many others coming soon! All will be automatically linked. Place ad on one and have it added to numerous social media tools automatically.



Enjoy!

Sean, wouldn’t you agree that this isn’t a proper test of how well Facebook, on it’s own merit, can be used to advertise gliders? The reason I ask this is because the actual advertising vehicle for your Facebook account are the threads on R.A.S. (Internet - not Facebook) that are continually being /bumped with “current” numbers. This keeps them at the top of the R.A.S. pile and peaks people’s interest on what’s going on. They then visit your Facebook account more out of curiosity than any interest in buying a glider.

In your opinion, how much actual interest is generated by R.A.S. versus people actually searching Facebook? Perhaps if you want to do the test properly, you could stop bumping it on R.A.S., give it 30 days, and then let us know what actual interest was generated by Facebook. I’d like to hear what those numbers are (before and after). Regards,

All I can say is marketing is marketing. Social Media marketing is not about limiting everything you do to being within social media itself. The goal is to use it as a It's becoming glue that holds what you build (marketing wise) together to a certain extent. Its not just about Facebook. It's about a blended approach and building a strong network which is highly accessible, active and intrigued.

How companies (and organizations) drive people to their Facebook networks is as broad as possible. On the door to their stores they simple add a sign which says follow is on Facebook. A Facebook symbol on a print ad. On every commercial or radio ad you see or hear find us on facebook. This marketing (find us on facebook) is universally recognizable. Everything they do is trying to drive traffic to Facebook. Facebook is often more important to a company that their website. It's certainly far more powerful in terms of customer buyer influence.

For smaller organizations connecting with people who may be interested in following (liking) their Facebook page is often person to person promotion. A large percentage of people in the world today check facebook for information on a company instead of their website. this number is increasing at a massive pace. in fact, many companies trat their website as supportive to their facebook pages. they are correct! Almost every company on the planet that understands free value has spent considerable effort developing a Facebook network to stay in touch with their customers and supporters, etc. the reason: Cost effectiveness and the value of

Social media is how almost everyone under 35 in the world communicates with their friends, often co-workers and even family. 55 to 35 is growing extremely rapidly as well.

Soaring is an odd demographic which in the US is disproportionally old (55) and therefore values social media less and with skepticism. Nevertheless, I think the idea of a social media means of sharing your for sale or wanted soaring equipment is a very useful and positive one. Especially one devoid of commercial influence and draconian exclusivity policies.

All I can say is marketing is marketing. Social media (SM) marketing is not about limiting yourself to being within said SM tool itself (and never should be). The goal is to use SM as a sort of glue which holds your customers together and amplifies the value of marketing efforts for everyone (company and customers).

I learn a lot about many different things in my private adult psychiatry practice office in downtown Seattle.

The IT industry life is stressful and more than one from that group has sought assistance from me.

More than one have shared their “marketing secret” to the effect that –

“When we offer you a service for “Free” - just remember that you will become our “product!”

caveat emptor (Let the buyer beware – for those educated after the “enlightenment” of the late 1970s.)

I posted one of the first (First?) ad on the FB site. I also have ads on the Cafe and GliderSource sites as well as www.z5mfg.com. No sales from the FB posting yet. Never tried to put one on W&W.

Steve



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