My Facebook Page

I have wanted to have a per­sonal Face­book Fan Page for a long time. Finally got it done with the help of Brian Car­son at CustomTwit.com. He’s a pro on every level, and a good per­son to boot. I have searched and searched for about two years for some­one who was rep­utable, and will­ing to teach oth­ers to fish. Brian fit the bill per­fectly, and I will rec­om­mend him EVERY time, and work with him on any future project. He’s that good.

So to kick off  my social media exper­i­ment, I cre­ated a graphic and have attached it here. It is also on my fb page, but I believe that I will be tran­si­tion­ing to my FB Fan page full time. I have a few (400) fol­low­ers and there’s no time like to now to cut over.

I am ask­ing any­one who vis­its this site, fol­lows  me on Twit­ter, is my friend on Face­book, or is some­one I have con­nected with on LinkedIn to please go to my new fan page that is here: MY NEW FB FAN PAGE. I have a self­ish rea­son for ask­ing this of you, and it is a bit vain.

Here is the what the cur­rent URL looks like for my fan page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Shawn-Hank/164840633570056.

<Moans> <Groans> I know! It’s ugly, it’s way too long, and it lacks a cer­tain…je ne sais quoi (read more about what that means at Dictionary.com)

I’d like my fan page to have the min­i­mum required fans to cus­tomize the URL. Cur­rently that min­i­mum num­ber of fans is 25. So between my 400 FB friends, my 160 Twit­ter fol­low­ers, and my 500 or so  LinkedIn con­tacts, I have a fairly good chance to get 25 peo­ple to at least like the page. (I Hope <fin­gers crossed>) so that I can cus­tomize the URL. Yes folks, there is a rea­son it’s called a VANITY TAG!

So here’s the deal. I am not giv­ing away a prize. I am not offer­ing a free­bie. I am not doing any kind of incen­tiviz­ing at all. I am sim­ply ask­ing you, from my  cen­ter, to please like my fan page. And there in lies the social media exper­i­ment. I have just over 1000 com­bined fol­low­ers on the major social net­works. Many of whom I don’t even know or com­mu­ni­cate with reg­u­larly. So out of the 1000, I may have 150 or so who I actu­ally engage with and talk to via Social Media. My odds are still pretty good, I think, as I would rather have qual­ity rela­tion­ships over quan­tity any day.

And it helps that Brian and me already liked my own page, so I only need 23 more likes to get a cus­tom URL! LOL!!!!!

In all seri­ous­ness though, I am curi­ous to know how many peo­ple will:

1) Go to this link: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Shawn-Hank/164840633570056,

2) Watch the 2 minute video that is there,

3) Click the like but­ton, or

4) Sub­scribe to get updates via email.

I am giv­ing it a week, and I will have a fol­low on post with some met­rics to see how it all shakes out.

Have a great day!

Shawn