The Queens Jubilee Weekend
Jubilee Sunday... a Bank Holiday Weekend which means raining most of the days and true to form it has been since 11pm last night. That being said it did stay dry long enough for the kids to have their first night in a tent - shame they were both too tired to stay up for the marshmallow toasting on the fire basket :-
Having only camped an hour from home, we came home early and I can hear the dripping tent hung to dry as I type. It also means Roast for tea not noodles !
Progress today is focused on getting
https://web.tweetdeck.com to work - it seams my older desktop version is now out of date and as such does not allow scheduled updates -meaning I have to be around at key times to tweet & re-tweet to promote the business. -times which usually coincide with the kids dinner time leaving me frustrated. Isn't this what IT & improved Communications were supposed to help resolve ?
Having now got the 'on-line' version running with all the twitter accounts listed and a test tweet sent with the scheduler, the plan is to come up with a tweet worthy of being picked out by
@TheoPaphitis
if I get lucky, OK very lucky, this could provide a huge exposure for the Fan-Ce at a stroke.
How does it work ? as best I can work out, the Dragons Den Star and Entrepreneur runs a scheme where every Sunday between 5.30pm and 7.00pm if you tweet him about your business with the #SBS (Small Business Sunday) tagged, he selects his favorites and re-tweets them to his 250K followers. Now we have to assume that some of these followers (a high proportion for that matter) will never bother looking at the #SBS tweets but given my existing followers amount to less than 200 across two accounts - there is every chance it should be a little more successful.
On the plus side, if the #SBS is anything like the @lookeastmidland #EastMidlandsHour I may pick up a few followers who look at the new profile twitter page.
So now for the Tweet - strap line.....erm.... still working on that and I have 2 hrs until it starts. But then there is always next Sunday :-) ...
9.45pm - ok so maybe I should have read the website about it first ... only one tweet per business, 'referrals' don't help and lots of other useful to know bits of info'. Well like I say there is always next week.
Picked up a few follows and website hits went up - which is always useful.
I have some additional tooling due by post this week - another bottle neck removed from the assembly operation I hope.