{"id":5743,"date":"2012-01-16T06:43:34","date_gmt":"2012-01-16T14:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/?p=5743"},"modified":"2012-01-16T06:43:34","modified_gmt":"2012-01-16T14:43:34","slug":"what-are-your-fans-saying-about-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/what-are-your-fans-saying-about-you\/","title":{"rendered":"What Are Your Fans Saying About You?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5744\" title=\"Screaming Fans\" src=\"http:\/\/www.michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/medium_3275124233-216x300.jpg\" alt=\"Screaming Fans\" width=\"216\" height=\"300\" \/>I have been talking about the importance of engaging with your fans on the various social networks. I recently wrote about how you need to <a title=\"Don\u2019t Wait For New Fans To Find You, Seek Them Out\" href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/dont-wait-for-new-fans-to-find-you-seek-them-out\/\">seek out your fans<\/a>. I am sure you have read more than a few times how your fans are your best sales team. You might have even heard that fans want to be recognized by you more than anything else. It&#8217;s all true. It&#8217;s something I will repeat over and over\u2026 talk to your fans. <em><strong>Once you start talking to them then you can think about selling to them.<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0 The simple action of finding a fan and following them can result in great responses.<\/p>\n<p>Your fans are out there and are waiting to scream their support.\u00a0Are your fans posting comments like these? If not maybe you need to step up your engagement with your fans.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>@andygibson I posted your version of &#8220;The Christmas Song&#8221; on my facebook so I could share what an amazing singer you are with my friends \ud83d\ude42<\/li>\n<li>@andygibson rocks! Thanks for caring about Your fans. \ud83d\ude42<\/li>\n<li>@andygibson it is great you do the #ff for fans<\/li>\n<li>@andygibson Thanks for the #ff! Made my day that much better!<\/li>\n<li>youu tweet back! omggg!! &#8220;@andygibson: @hiii_coraaa thank you so much:)&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Holy crap, @<a title=\"gregkihn\" href=\"http:\/\/hootsuite.com\/dashboard#\" target=\"_blank\">gregkihn<\/a> followed me.<\/li>\n<li>@<a title=\"gregkihn\" href=\"http:\/\/hootsuite.com\/dashboard#\" target=\"_blank\">gregkihn<\/a> NO WAY!! Made my day! <a title=\"jeopardybaby\" href=\"http:\/\/hootsuite.com\/dashboard#\" target=\"_blank\">#jeopardybaby<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Thanks for the follow @<a title=\"gregkihn\" href=\"http:\/\/hootsuite.com\/dashboard#\" target=\"_blank\">gregkihn<\/a> Your music always got us up and dancing.<\/li>\n<li>@<a title=\"gregkihn\" href=\"http:\/\/hootsuite.com\/dashboard#\" target=\"_blank\">gregkihn<\/a> As a thirty-year fan of The Breakup Song, I am honored by your follow.<\/li>\n<li>@<a title=\"gregkihn\" href=\"http:\/\/hootsuite.com\/dashboard#\">gregkihn<\/a> Thanks for following! I had fun checking out your website &amp; your latest tweets&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This is the success I love to see for a artist.<\/p>\n<h6>photo credit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/nickelmedia\/3275124233\/\">nickel.media<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/photopin.com\">photopin<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-sa\/2.0\/\">cc<\/a><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been talking about the importance of engaging with your fans on the various social networks. I recently wrote about how you need to seek out your fans. I am sure you have read more than a few times how your fans are your best sales team. You might have even heard that fans [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28,12],"tags":[1286,608,736,141],"class_list":["post-5743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marketing","category-music-marketing-2","tag-andy-gibson","tag-fan-engagement","tag-greg-kihn","tag-twitter"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5743\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}