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Roberta Byram

8 Years Ago

Twitter & Facebook

I have been spending about 3-4 hours a day on these social media sites supporting others.

1.) I always follow & retweet everyone on FAA & Pixels. For those of you who support me, I am so grateful! Thank you!
2.) I have noticed that maybe 5% follow or retweet me back; is this the norm? I am wasting my time? Any suggestions?
3.) For Facebook, I like FAA & Pixels artists pages. When they publish on my fan page, I try to like every image. I am finding many others do not return the likes for me.
4.) Am I missing something here?

Thank again,
Roberta

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Bill Swartwout

8 Years Ago

I am quite active on Facebook. My personal page has 1000+ "friends" (most of whom are business colleagues/acquaintances. I also have a few pages in some of the niches that I photograph. For example, my Ocean City, MD page (fb.com/VisitOceanCity) has 17,000+ "fans" and my Photography Page (fb.com/BillSwartwoutPhotography) has 1,700+ fans. I have been building these pages since before I joined FAA - to support my Internet Marketing business. These pages now also support my art photography.

I, too, always "Like" other FAA artists when I see their post on Facebook. The key phrase in that sentence is "when I see." Facebook numbers are so enormous that it is impossible for FB to show all posts to everyone's friends and/or fans. They have developed algorithms that predict what they think you want to see - and then show you a portion of that. Their algo also includes predictive marketing. Therefore you will not see all of the FAA posts and other FB members will not see all of your posts.

As far as Twitter goes...I do not follow twitter. There are only so many hours in a day - LOL. But every post I make on my personal FB page gets tweeted to my personal (Beachy) twitter account. Likewise, every post I make on that Ocean City page get tweeted to that account (Twitter.com/OceanCity) account with 4,000+ followers. It is a marketing avenue that does produce some results.

If we continue to "Like" one another (as we see FAA artists) it may provide a "lift" to those people and may create more post showings in the news feeds of others. So I plan to keep on keepin-on.


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~ Bill
~ US Pictures .com

 

Terry DeLuco

8 Years Ago

Hi Roberta!!

Thank you for supporting my page! I really appreciate it! :)

I have tried to like your facebook page and comment but there are no like or comment buttons available from my fan page.
I was going to send you a message about that so I'm glad you posted here!

 

SharaLee Art

8 Years Ago

I only spend about 15 min on twitter twice a day. Any more than that IMO is too much, of course I'm following less than 400 people so it doesn't keep me that busy. I only retweet about 10 and try to favorite as many as I can. If someone only tweets a link and no photo, I don't retweet. I want to see what I'm tweeting because if I don't like it I pass it by. That might come off as rude but I feel it has a reflection on my art.

I've noticed over the last week or so that people retweeting my work has gone down drastically. Maybe they're trying to tell me something lol.

 

Dorothy Berry-Lound

8 Years Ago

Roberta I sent you much the same message as Terry above re fan page likes, I had noticed and appreciated your support on Facebook.

In general terms, if I see something among the many Facebook posts that I like I 'like' it (unless I don't like it LOL) but as Bill says you don't get to see them all and when you like a lot of artists (as we have done with the ongoing Facebook thread) it gets a bit overwhelming and unmanageable. I think supporting each other is important and as you will have seen on my Facebook fan page most days I feature other another artists' work (not always FAA) but I don't spend a great deal of time on that as the main aim is to promote my own work primarily. 3-4 hours a day supporting others sounds an awful lot to me. How much of your own work gets promoted in that time by you? I don't see much from you regarding your own work on Facebook so I can't reciprocate for all the likes you have kindly given me. I think the scales ought to be tipped more towards you promoting what you do.

If you have followed me on twitter I will have followed you back but I don't monitor tweets very much as I have over 5,000 followers and can't keep up with it all and I rarely retweet other people's work on there. Facebook is much more fun because you can actually interact with people.

@Sharon re retweets remember it is holiday time :-)

 

Tatiana Iliina

8 Years Ago

Hi Roberta, I love your work. I have found a lot more than 5% follow back from FAA even if less than one would hope. FAA attracts a lot of different types of artists so it just stands to reason that a certain % are only semi-active members, semi-active artists, or semi-actively marketing on social media.
I agree you can come across the odd ones who are obviously on social media +/- daily and still don't follow you back or acknowledge when it is fairly clear that they must have seen you supporting them. I rarely give it a second thought and don't even usually bother to unfollow. Why do they behave this way? Probably mostly random. For sure, some artists think if they RT other artwork it garbles or dilutes their message. IMO this is a really shortsighted (but in a way understandable) strategic approach and tends to make a person come off as a grocery manager rather than an artist. Others may feel threatened by you or think they could be at risk of losing sales to you. Given your rather impressive FAA portfolio, this may be the case in your situation. I would hope not, but who knows. Whatcha gonna do? :) It's kind of like office politics 101 or maybe high school. Either way, I doubt if more than 1 in 100 FAAers would fall into this category.

On a separate note, I will say that one of the problems with RTing FAA members is when the "Fine Art America" link, handle or branding is too blatant in the tweet - it is a lot easier to support an individual artist than it is to flog a commercial brand.

 

Judy Kay

8 Years Ago

Roberta Hello, I too really appreciate your support and I also tried to like your page but you only apparently have the personal profile..I never send "friend Requests" as I feel that that is a function that should be limited to exactly that,,,.not for business purposes, Do you have a business page on Facebook ?

 

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