Dragon Theo Paphitis Tweet Up

 

Sbw winner

 

Theo Paphitis, a regular tweeter, set up the Small Business Sunday #SBS competition on Twitter a year or so back. The idea is that you tweet a sales message on a Sunday Evening between the hours of 5 and 7:30pm and then he chooses 6 messages that he then retweets the message to all of his followers, currently standing at over 233,333 people! In terms of Marketing Effort Twitter has got to be one of the most simplest things to do. It is quite amazing to hear that some business people still ignore this form of Social Media. Theo has now taken this competition one step further and has organized a Tweetup, and created the opportunity for all the Random winners to meet up on Friday the 30th March at Edgbaston in Birmingham. Thats an opportunity to meet up to 400 potential contacts. Its the first event of its kind.

I was one of the early winners last year and am looking forward to meeting potential contacts. I am going down with a totally open mind. I love the randomness of twitter, the fact that you never know what people are going to tweet next. In my time on twitter I have met some great contacts, I have had free samples of Greek Yoghurt sent to me, I have won competitions, I pick up football scores, keep in touch with news, found new suppliers and most recently I have had a logo designed for our new website venture THE SAFETY RAZOR COMPANY.

Whilst at the event I hope that I can find some new suppliers and contacts for the new venture. If anyone going to the event feels that that they may have something of interest then I would be happy to meet up.

I am also going to use the event to mark the launch of our new website and new logo, I just hope it will be ready in time.

The Benefits of Twitter – Must Twitter Fish Fight!

Mount Everest Image 1
Twittering is one of the easiest, and in my opinion one of the fun ways of keeping abreast of news, promoting your business, keeping a record of daft thoughts and picking up the thoughts and ideas of some fantastically clever people. You can follow people you find interesting and then unfollow them if they start to become a bit to mundane with their posts. The great thing that is their choice to write what they want and it is your choice to read them if you want to.

In my case I tend to follow comedians, entrepreneuers and people who might have something to say that interests me. I have used it to meet new contacts that may be useful to growing my business. I will often retweet bits of information that I have found useful and have entered numberous quizzes and competitions.
I have been fortunate to have won a book on Geordie Humour – the famous Fairly Truthful Guide to Geordie. I enjoyed his work so much that I decided to meet him personally, bought more books to give away as presents and we may end up doing some further work together. I also won a 14″ canvas print from a company called Crafty Canvas. I decided to get print done from one the images taken on my Trip to Everest Base Camp last May. It should arrive any day now and will undoubtledly lead to me purchasing a few more in the next couple of weeks. I am a great believer of throwing out sprats to catch a mackeral. That reminds me, if you have not already done so then please check this site out FISHFIGHT, more than 550,000 people have signed up to highlight their disgust at the waste that goes on in the Fishing Industry due to the rules that our elected parliaments made and now allow to happen.
Twittering can prove to be interesting, I set myself daft targets to get retweets or messages from some famous twitterers. I managed to get Lord Sugar to respond to a question. On the Apprentice he said the “Early bird catches the worm” So I responded that “The second mouse gets the cheese”. His direct response was “Never pat a burning dog”. Not quite as famous as KING ERICS ” When the seagulls follow the trawler, it’s because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea. Thank you very much”, but it was just as strange.

I have always said that the simple things keep me happy, and twitter is so simple. I hope to pick up the other Dragons comments in due course as a bit of fun.

I have to say that today I got a follow out of the blue from Duncan Drasdo – the CEO behind the MUST campaign to free Man Utd from the Glazers. I have folllowed UTD for more than 40 years and I really believe that most fans whatever their allegiance would like to have more FAN POWER within their clubs. Football is being ruined by mismanagement all over the country. I find it hard to call football a business, its not like any business I would run. I was reminded of my own crowning achievement of last year, so I decided to post the image above. It is of me sitting at the Top of Mt Kala Patthar at a height of 18200ft, proudly holding the green and gold scarf aloft. I left the scarf with one of the Sherpas, so it this being now being worn up somewhere up in the HIMALAYAS as we speak.

Twitter is like that, it can take you in a million directions without moving from your desk.

If you disagreely strongly with any of my comments then dont worry just switch off, but if you found any inspiration then great.

Spur of the Moment Charity Giveaway

Here is my promise – I will donate the value of all orders placed on our website between now (5pm 30th Dec) and the end of the 3rd of January to St Clares Hospice. This is an unplanned spur of the moment donation and is in part an experiment to see whether the power of Twitter is all it is cracked up to be. Everyone uses the products we supply, they are generally better priced than on the high street, so you will save money anyway and if you order now you will also save the additional 2.5% of VAT.

Twitter Batteries

I have started a twitter, although not very often. By mistake I typed in http://www.twitter.co.uk/ and found that it belongs to an independent chap not related to the dot com people. He had a really interesting story to tell and decided that fate must have taken me to that site so I paid a small contribution to a cancer charity and put a banner add on the site just for the hell of it.

If you get chance take a quick look at his site.

Will let you all know later whether we get any click throughs as a result.

Batteries on Facebook

We have recently taken on a Graduate as part of the Shell Step Scheme, amongst the many innovations he is bringing to our Marketing Efforts he has established the Cell Pack Solutions company Facebook site as a means to further our exposure on the internet. We have already picked up a small but growing fan club. Watch out for further news and other exciting developments.