OK, I have to admit, all these Internet social networking sites (facebook, myspace, twitter, etc) had always kinda spooked me. I believe in meeting folks with an actual handshake and seeing them smile. However, as I'm trying to build a career as an artist, I read more and more about how online artist get a lot of traffic to their sites with these networking sites. So, I decided to study the areas, try to be careful and savvy, and see what's going to work for me.
So I tried myspace, like over a year ago, got a bunch of spam and porn boogeymen and deleted my account fast! Then a few months ago, I updated my Facebook page which I had forgot I had because I had a friend who used it to send all her emails out on so I had to make one, like almost a year ago. Still didn't get "it", but I was learning. I kept seeing more and more written about Twitter. When I went to the site a couple of months ago, I just didn't understand the concept. But for some reason, this Twitter was so popular, and I kept reading on the Etsy forums about how artist were getting traffic and sales from "twitters". Ok, so I gave it one more try, signed up and then started posting and pretty much "going with traffic flow".
And then it happened, I became hooked on exploring and writing on Twitter. Oh my God, how did this happen? It's a frenzy of info and for some reason I'm getting the hang of it. I've only been on the site for a couple of days and already have over 20 followers and have no idea how these people found me. This is a whole nother world, sheesh, who would have thought! I guess it went easy for me because I just jumped in and really didn't try to figure it out, LOL! I'm already learning to see the "spammers" who follow me and the people who just do nothing but constantly write updates that are only to promote their Etsy shop items. Like any internet social networks, there are the bad apples out there to prey, so I just use my gut feelings and if it "smells fishy" I just ignore the follow request.
Already my shop views from Twitter are up! This networking avenue just might be worth it! Check out the Twitter widget on the blog now.
