Over the last several months I have been using twitter. During that time I have had so many fun experiences that I wanted to jot some down, so here we go.
· Met and became friends with speaker Chris Widener. Chris introduced me to Dino Rossi; Dino was the Republican candidate for the governor of our state and came very close to winning. Now he invests with a commercial real estate group that we are going to be investing with. Chris, along with my company, started up a Conservative themed coffee brand called Positively Republican. (He has a Facebook group has more than 100,000 members. Also Chris has introduced us to the Editors of Success Magazine. He is on their advisory board and has a regular column for possible inclusion of our company in a future issue of the magazine.)
· I was featured and quoted twice in a national cover story in USA Today along with other CEO’s including Jack Welch and Steve Case.
· I learned about and adopted some policies from Zappos since following Tony Heisch the CEO of Zappos and got a super extended tour of the HQ including extra 3 hours of Q&A with different dept on their outstanding policies and procedures.
· The Ford Motor Company gave me a sweet Lincoln MKZ to test drive for an extended weekend just so I could tweet about it and give honest feedback on the vehicle.
· We have sold hundreds of lbs. retail coffee on the Internet with very little promotion on twitter.
· It’s been a really productive way to get answers and opinions to business and personal questions.
· When we go to a trade show such as Coffee fest Las Vegas the rest of the staff is kept abreast of what is going on when they follow us on twitter.
· I have gotten to know what our people do for fun, allowing us to better understand our amazing staff.
· I’ve become top 30 Conservative on Twitter.
· I’ve become the #1 libertarian on Twitter.
· I’ve been ranked #1 for the categories of Coffee, Espresso and CEO on wefollow.com
· I’ve been introduced, had a cool tweet up @ my roasting facility with Nansen Malin (@nansen) the #1 top female Conservative on twitter.
· I’ve been inspired by tweets from @tonyrobbins, @johncmaxwell and many others which I follow from my other twitter account (@davidjmorris).
· Facebook and Twitter are the #1 and #2 reasons people go to our Dillanos.com website according to Google analytics.
Of course along with all of the specifics results. I have had a ton of fun!
