This is it! WIN WIN WIN!! 

Our "Welcome to Summer Sweepstakes" has begun! Prizes from SportsCenter Connecticut, The Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk, Solun Restaurant, Bar & Tapas, By the Sea Day Spa, Splash Car Wash, and so many more to choose from! The full list will be posted up in the next few days, but be sure there is a wide variety of prizes available!

To enter is simple! Click the link to our FACEBOOK PAGE to enter!!

RESTRICTIONS: Since the businesses are located in Connecticut, only local CT residents are eligible. 21 years of age and older. You can SHARE and COMMENT once per day for multiple entries (total of 9 entries for best chance of winning!) 

Enjoy!

 

ENTER THE SWEEPSTAKES!

Where is everyone? Pew Research Center has released a comprehensive four-page report on adult use of social media sites: "Demographics of Key Social Networking Platforms". This is GOLD for those wanting to understand where their audience is. If you use social media for your marketing, you MUST (repeat...MUST) look through the reports. Any questions or thoughts, post below. Comment if you actually looked through it!!

LINK TO REPORT CLICK HERE 

WIN a Starbucks, or Dunkin' Donuts or iTunes card!

Please take a few moments to check out our updated website. Dig through and let us know anything you like/don't like, would change...and any spelling or grammar errors.

 

 All who look through and Comment will get a chance to win a $10 Starbucks or Dunkin Donuts or iTunes card, chosen at random!!

Thank you!

Link: http://www.talkingfinger.com

Touted as perhaps one of the worst blizzards for our area (Connecticut) in history, most people around here will be off today. Some bosses are jerks....so enjoy! 

Geek Central: My Apple Collection

Some of the various old Apple/Macs I have piled in my office to play with and work on/upgrade/be nostalgic about. Every one of them boots up smile emoticon I have 5 or 6 more at my house to bring down here. I''m thinking about decorating the new office with these spread out around, all on and operating to play with. What do you think?

Happy New Year to You and Yours!

Thank you to all of our friends, fans and family for another great year at Talking Finger!

May the next year be YOUR best yet!

Some pics of the new office in Woodbridge. All painting is done, furniture is in and computers are set up (albeit sloppy with wires now, but we need to get some projects done!).

Suggestions for decor? Any thoughts on a motif? Let's hear it!

270 Amity Road

Woodbridge CT 06525

Instagram News!

In the newest update, you can now edit posts on #instagram! I have some cleaning up to do on Talking Finger's posts!

This is a long time coming. I never really understood why you couldn't edit posts on some social networks. 

Link to our Instagram, Follow us!

Training and Consulting: 

William DeRosa, President and co-founder of Talking Finger, Social Media Marketing Agency is available for Training and Consulting at YOUR business! 

Whether to an individual or an entire company/organization, Bill can help assess your social and marketing campaigns, give insightful recommendations for improvements, help create integrated strategies, develop content, and so much more!

Stop wasting countless hours "figuring it out" or getting lackluster results. For inexpensive hourly rates, Bill can get your social and ad/marketing on the road to success!

Also available is online training! We offer training and consulting via Skype!

Call, email or Message us to find out more!

203-491-0306

Bill@talkingfinger.com

Facebook Like-Gating to Go Bye-Bye 

on November 5th, 2014

Dear Facebook, 

You continually make these changes that are simply ignorant and asinine. Another proverbial nail in the coffin for small businesses trying to gain traction on an increasingly difficult Facebook marketing platform. 

Their moves continually push away the 90% of businesses in the US that are not big brands or have huge budgets. Foolish, foolish follow up to already declining Reach. Businesses better start looking at other social networks to find their audience, as living strictly on Facebook will be detrimental. 

What the heck do you mean by " To ensure quality connections and help businesses reach the people who matter to them, we want people to like Pages because they want to connect and hear from the business, not because of artificial incentives. We believe this update will benefit people and advertisers alike." Ummm NO. 

Who are YOU to tell a business what a quality connection is? Studies CONTINUALLY and EMPHATICALLY show that fans Like a Page for these top four reasons: 

1. Support a Brand I Like. 

2. TO GET A COUPON OR DISCOUNT. 

3. To receive regular updates of new products/services. 

4. TO PARTICIPATE IN CONTESTS. 

You have already systematically started smashing #1 and 3 with your algorithms in a force to "pay to play" model, NOW you are going to KILL #2 and 3. 

What you obviously don't get, Facebook, is that these incentives often result in further chance of viral awareness via engagement to potentially reach that friend of a friend that doesn't know about a Page! Way to kill the usefulness of leveraging audiences. 

I love Facebook, and have been a HUGE supporter with my agency for over 5 years telling clients that should have a facebook presence (for the most part...some businesses don't ever get an ROI on facebook die to target audience), should budget for some ads/boosted posts, create great content, and engage. 

Facebook: you better change directions soon.The grass is getting much greener on other social networks, while your lawn is quickly seeing the winter of our discontent.

Facebook and Instagram have truly started to integrate the two networks. In the latest update to Instagram, you will see "Suggested for You" that will pull from your relationships on Facebook. 

Why is this important?

Facebook has lost some of it's luster with the youth, while 

Instagram is the #1 app for the under 30 crowd.

It will not be long before you see massive tie-ins for ads and other marketing initiatives.

In short, having a solid presence on Facebook and as well on Instagram will be a powerful marketing campaign to reach mass audience, but allow different messages to the two networks.

What are your thoughts?

What a nice picture sent to us by the Boys Girls Club of the Lower Naugatuck Valley! Very happy to have been able to support such a great charity and give these kids a great day at SportsCenter Connecticut! 

More info at link: Talking Finger Facebook Page