Having a business page on Facebook is not easy, having a
Facebook page and a partner/family is impossible! To make a business page work
hours and hours of dedicated networking and self promotion is needed.
Many an evening or afternoon if the children are
out/occupied is spent on Facebook networking and promoting my page which causes
the now well known phrase in our house "You aren't on Facebook AGAIN are you?" from my husband to
be said over and over or "you still doing your work mummy? I want to play
a game on your iPad!" from the children.
What looks to the uninitiated as just spending time
chatting and socialising on Facebook (which ok hands up, we do a lot of over at
the Village), is actually us working and actively promoting our work. Visiting
networking page after networking page to promote our makes, get more likes and
interact with other page owners and potential customers takes time. Always
having to be professional on these pages means replies have to be thought out
and sound/look correct, after all you are reaching a huge audience and every
single one of them is a potential customer. First impressions and all that...
Although I have met many good friends through networking my
business page on Facebook, believe me when I say that I would rather be sat at
my sewing machine creating or fulfilling orders rather than being on Facebook AGAIN, but without the networking and
self promotion where would the sales come from? Facebook is fast becoming the
place to sell your items, getting a much bigger footfall than craft fairs so
you need to be in there getting yourself known.
Until I earn enough from my business to employ a PA to do
all my Facebook networking I am sorry husband, but yes, "I am on Facebook
AGAIN!"
Mrs Fabric
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