I’m not typically the kind of person who would ask for fans…I wouldn’t take the risk of finding out that I have none. I was always on the shy side, never the first one to say, “Hey…do you want to be friends?” I don’t handle rejection well. I think that started way back when I was riding the school bus for over two hours a day and being teased about my lips, of all things. What’s wrong with my lips, anyway?
I think most of you know, back in February I started a blog for work, which has turned out to be pretty popular with the people who know about it. There are no other sites like it, so the hardware people of the world are drawn to it like ants to a spilled milkshake. Even regular people who don’t have a hardware obsession have been reading it, so I consider it my mission to educate the world about doors and hardware, one post at a time.
Yesterday someone from IR’s corporate office recommended that I create a fan page on Facebook for my blog (the hardware one, not this one), to establish a presence on Facebook without exposing photos of me from 6th grade and recent GNO’s. It seems that IR and other mainstream and sometimes conservative companies are realizing the value of social media and trying to use it to communicate with customers.
I created the fan page last night, and now I’m just waiting for some fans. I feel like I’ve thrown myself a party and now I’m waiting for the guests. What if nobody shows up?!
So if you want to come to my party, please go to Facebook and become a fan. And if you REALLY want to help, you could tell a couple of your Facebook friends who might like hardware (or even some who just USE hardware on occasion), and ask them to become Fans. I promise I won’t be constantly sending out emails about the latest and greatest piece of hardware or the ladies room door I saw yesterday.
Thanks People!