Joe Iadanza as Social Networking Example for Restaurants

September 28th, 2009

My new friend Jeffrey Kingman has a blog at Chalkboarder.com; a digital community management service offering client organizations real-time content production and strategic brand management into online social media. Always watching trends in the industry, Jeff looks across multiple industries in hopes of helping organizations improve their social networking and public presence.

Jeff just sent me a tweet saying he’s used my social networking work as a musician as an example for restaurants looking to achieve better social positioning through online tools.

Here’s an excerpt…

Creative Social Media On The Cheap – Think Like A Musician

Musicians amaze me. A lot like a good chef, they are consumed with creating wonderful things. On the flip side, they need to expand and massage their fans, satisfy them and bring in revenue. The similarities are unique; a restaurant also needs to expand and massage its customers, satisfy them and bring in revenue.

With only 10% of affordable fine-dining restaurants using social media, I thought an introduction to how musicians have completely embraced this new communication world would be of benefit.

Let’s look at how a New England based musician is growing his fan base and supporting his family, predominantly by using social media…. More

You can get the full article by clicking here. http://chalkboarder.wordpress.com/2009/09/28/creative-social-media-on-the-cheap/

Thanks Jeff!

…and thank you for listening!