Posted by Thomas Zucchetti on 6/11/09 8:19am
Msg #291930
Twitter
I have starting using twitter as a notary tool. I enter my current location and vendors can see if I am in a particular area to do a closing, since I am totally mobile.
twitter.com/njnotary
Thomas M Zucchetti
609-575-55555
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Reply by Dennis D Broadbooks on 6/11/09 8:29am
Msg #291932
How Have You Managed...
...to get all of your "vendors" to sign up & "follow" you on Twitter?
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Reply by Michelle/AL on 6/11/09 8:36am
Msg #291936
Dennis, I'm thinking start with just one or two and
let them know you plan on updating your schedule via twitter throughout the day, i.e. "available for closings today from 7P - 10P". To be honest, I'm still trying to figure it out. Any ideas?
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Reply by Dennis D Broadbooks on 6/11/09 8:45am
Msg #291941
I Don't See How It's Feasible...
...as 1st of all you have to get the schedulers to agree to "follow" you. Then they'll have to link over to their Twitter home page to sift through all the "tweets" to find you at the location you're currently at which could be entirely different at the time they actually look to find you. The alternative is for the scheduler to have a text message sent to them when the "twitterer" "tweets" & if you multiply this times any # of "twitterers" who'd like to be in on this little endeavor, the schedulers will eventually be throwing up their hands saying "uncle!".
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Reply by Thomas Zucchetti on 6/11/09 9:52am
Msg #291947
Re: How Have You Managed...
I am in the very beginning stages of just tweeting my info. I am not making this a marketing campaign. When I send emails or invoices I mention my twitter address. This is more of an attention getter than a marketing plan.
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Reply by Dennis D Broadbooks on 6/11/09 10:07am
Msg #291951
The "Attention Getter"...
...can very quickly turn into an annoyance for the scheduler. That's where you may end up hurting yourself & not helping.
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Reply by Michelle/AL on 6/11/09 8:31am
Msg #291933
Thomas, I also signed up for this. Haven't figured out how I want to use it for my business yet. There are other notaries using it for one thing or another. I want to try to find out how many people in my city/county are twittering. If it's a lot then it could work for my general notary work. You may be on to something about Twittering (or tweating) for schedulers that you do a lot of work for.
I might try "following you".
twitter.com/iNotarize
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Reply by Marian_in_CA on 6/11/09 11:45am
Msg #291959
I love twitter... BUT....
I'm a big time Twitter fan. The biggest problem I have with it, though, are those who use it just to market themselves. I just had an article published on another website (not a blog!) about this very thing, and I'm not really trying to push it... but instead of repeating it all, I'll just link you over there:
http://bit.ly/SO3cr
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Reply by Jessc098 on 6/11/09 12:04pm
Msg #291967
Re: I love twitter... BUT....
Great idea!!
I use twitter for my freelance writing practice, but never for My Notary Co. Great idea!!!
I've been trying to figure out how to use my blackberry to offer my status.
You can also do status on Facebook and LinkedIn.
Jessica
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Reply by Marian_in_CA on 6/11/09 12:19pm
Msg #291978
For the Blackberry...
I recommend UberTwitter. It's a free app and I think it's the best of the BB twitter apps right now:
http://www.ubertwitter.com/
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Reply by Jessc098 on 6/11/09 12:20pm
Msg #291979
Re: For the Blackberry...
Hey thanks! I've got the BB Storm and it being a touchscreen is short on buttons. Many of the apps don't work on it. (grrr...).
I should have just gone Iphone, they have an app for everything.
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Reply by Dennis D Broadbooks on 6/11/09 1:18pm
Msg #291991
TwitterBerry is Another Good One. n/m
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Reply by CaliNotary on 6/11/09 4:57pm
Msg #292044
I'm old school
I just let them use the phone and call me. The vast majority of our work is scheduled in advance anyway, updating statuses on various websites throughout the day would just be a huge timewaster. It doesn't matter where you are now, it matters where you can be in X hours, or X days.
And you guys really aren't doing the industry any favors if you start putting notions in the heads of the schedulers that you're poised and ready to do a signing the instant they call you. Their expectations of us are already pretty ridiculous and now you want to make it even worse?
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Reply by Lee/AR on 6/11/09 5:38pm
Msg #292070
With ya' 200% on that, Cali n/m
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