Looking for 1,000 likes on my Facebook page.

I launched a facebook page and have since been attempting to get as many people to hit the like button as possible.

http://www.facebook.com/AllAboutDetail.ClassicCarBrokers 

If you enjoy this blog you will surely enjoy the page. Please hit the like button.

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“Socializing with a Purpose” Classic Cars Business on Facebook"

2004 Lamborghini Gallardo

I have recently been introduced to Facebook . Better yet I have introduced myself to this Social Network Group.  

My purpose for taking this plunge was based on overflowing evidence that in order to make a splash with a newly formed website, this Social Networking Group and others like it, were key to popularity and in the cyber world popularity equals hits. By the way hits equal money.

So, I set out to learn about a cyber world and its language. I want to share with my readers what I have learned thus far and how this pertains to the Classic Car Business. 

Facebook is truly designed for socializing. So learning to use it as vehicle for selling is a bit tricky. I found four different ways in which people are using this cyber tool:

1. People who are lonely and are looking to make friends. I am sure that it can help such people. I am also sure that this can be a very dangerous use of this tool. My advice is to stay away from using it for that purpose.
2. People who like to communicate with their friends. The ability to chat with several friends at once, share ideas, compare schedules, and share movies, books, ideas and even photos. This is great for a person without other things to occupy their time.
3. People who are looking for long lost friends. Personally I think that for the most part, people who use this tool for that purpose will be mostly disappointed. I recall years ago, before Facebook, I found an old Navy buddy by letting my fingers do the walking. Once we connected, I found that I had real fond memories of him but he hardly knew me and my memories of him were better than the reality of him. Go figure.
4. Then there are People, like me who want to network with others so we can further our business interests. You advertise for me I’ll advertise for you. You do this and I’ll do that. This is what I call “socializing with a purpose”. You still have to schmooze but both parties are aware of the motivation and it is okay.

The problem you have if you are a number four like me, is finding the other number fours and then ridding yourself of the 1’s, 2’s and 3’s without insulting anyone. Remember the key is to be popular.

This is how I have proceeded so far. When I first signed up for Facebook like everyone I put out my invitations for friends to all of my e-mail contacts. I happened to have quite a few of these, having the e-mail addresses of the owners of Classic Cars who had used my  Free Classic Car Listings. This helped me accumulate over 80 connections quickly. The problem was that now I had at least 70 individuals who were connected to me and were not connected for the same purpose I had in mind.

That makes a mess for anyone trying to conduct business. You are now getting notification about birthdays, people who want to play cyber games, people wanting you to answer questions, you are told about their favorite bands, bars, about last nights party, their latest tattoos, who is getting married, who is pregnant, and on and on. In the mean time there are 10 of the eighty who want to “socialize with a purpose”. They want to schmooze a bit, find good business associates, and promote their businesses.

So I started up a “Group”. I called the group Classic Car Lug Nuts hoping to attack individuals that were either in the Classic Car business or in businesses that fed from the Classic Car business. Here again though, without being very selective which means turning individuals down running this risk of unpopularity, I found I had too many of the unproductive kind of connections.

I then formed another group and called it All About Details Friends. I hand picked from the Classic Car Lug Nuts Group individuals who had indicated that they were interested, like me, in schmoozing a bit but they consider this “socializing with a purpose”. Finally I have Facebook friends. (See some of  my friends: Classic Cars Only )

I am now told that want I really want to do is use Facebook as a website and gather a following. If any of my readers out would like to take me through the step by step process of setting up Facebook as a webpage I would appreciate it. In fact I would like to “socialize with a purpose” with them.

Come visit All About Detail it is a cyber Museum of Classic Cars for Sale.

Did you get a chance to read out last post “Happy Hagerty Insurance”?

Is the Gas Going Out of Classic Cars?

With the increase in prices and the introduction of ethanol into the fuel, the combustion engine is under assault and is about to run out of gas. 

As a lover of the Classic Car I have a deep interest in what is happening with the price of fuel. Why? 

To understand just how much of attack our classics are under just pick up one of the highly published car magazines, such as Motor Trend or Automotive Magazine and notice the acclimates You have to know when they start touting the 0-60's or the 1/4miles, or the bizarre combined HP and ft. lbs. of these whining electric magnets it may be time to get concerned about the future of Classic Cars as we have known them. 

In the very near future the gas combustion engine, the engines that have been the work horses, the engines that carried lovers to lover’s lane and to A & W’s for most of a century now will give way to the electric transporter. As for me I find a Segway, the two wheel green mailman transporters to be more interesting. 

How is demise of the combustion engine coming about? Why is government not stepping in with the price gouging? Why is Exxon not worried? The answers to those questions are complicated and multilayered yet simple, money.

We will never know exactly why just like we will never know why the stock market climbs and at the same time the price of gas climbs and unemployment climbs. We can be sure though that of the banks, the investment companies, the government and the gas companies are not done stripping the rest of our hard earn savings from us.

My best advice is while you can afford to and while you can still purchase fuel that a Classic Car can run on, get that car that you have always wanted, take her to lover’s lane, enjoy a stop at an A & W and run the wheels off of it.

The time for combustion engine is running out of gas and you and I have an obligation to enjoy ever last minute of it.

Looking for a great Classic Car? Go to our Online Classic Cars For Sale Museum All About Detail.

Make to read our last article: Who Invented the Automobile .

Where can you get that piece of sheet metal that you are missing for your rare vintage car? Who you going to call?

For many reasons I have not been a Facebook fan. I’m happy with my social life and do not need to meet people on the internet. At least that is what I thought.

I kept reading how you can promote your business by networking on facebook. So I tried it and it is true. Almost immediately I formed a group of Classic Car Lovers. And what a group they are. I will introduce them and new ones as they join.  

Victor Yody owns The Metal Works. If you review his site and you will shortly recognize that Victor is more than an owner of a business. He is a metalman, a real craftsman and artist. He doesn’t pound out metal for the run of the mill cars. He works on the very best. Take a look at some of his work:



1953 Maserati A6GCS Barchettad



In 1953, when Maserati upgraded the earlier A6GCS with a new aerodynamic body designed by Medardo Fantuzzi, they produced one of the most beautiful classic sports cars of the era.

As Adrian Monk says; "Here’s the thing", if you want to promote your business facebook will help you network.

If you need a piece of sheet metal to to fit that rare vintage car you now know who to call.


Please join us on facebook and network your business with us.