The other day I had some errands to run so I finished them and then finding myself near a park, I decided to get a roll and some coffee, take 10 minutes and sit in a park, maybe even feed the pigeons.
And it was there that I learned something about social media marketing. In fact, I think the Pigeons invented social media.
As I started on my roll, I realized that it wasn't all that hungry and decided to eat just one half, the top half with the seeds in it, of course).
It was after the coffee and the roll were deliciously consumed that I noticed that there were no birds in the park and no pigeons. About then I broke off a piece of the bottom half of the roll and tossed it into the walking path. No more than 5 seconds passed when a small bird flew down and landed next to the piece of roll. As it began pecking at it, another few birds landed, then a pigeon or two also landed. By the time I tore the roll up and distributed these pieces across the walking path, no less than 50 to 75 birds and pigeons had found it. The whole process took less than five (5) minutes.
So here is what I learned. I put some information out on the “bird network” (ONE piece of bread) and this “post” was picked up by the leader who swooped in and checked it out. The leader in turn "retweeted" this information to his buddies and they in turn sent information out to their individual “Bird networks.”
And just like that, the transaction that I started (sending valuable information to my target audience) was picked up by other birds in the network and retransmitted to more and more birds. And so my inventory was sold.
Before the computer, before the internet, before Facebook, birds and pigeons communicated in this way, so did people. In the birds’ case, it was word of beak. In our case it was word of mouth.
So how will you be communicating your inventory availability (tweet, tweet)!
