Getting Some Local Press Love – Twitter for Businesses

by Jeremy Schoemaker on December 1, 2009 · 29 comments

Looking at our advertising page you can see all the national press we have been mentioned/interviewed in. But we have never gotten any local love ;) .

That is until yesterday:

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{ 29 comments… read them below or add one }

1 Cal Tweet December 1, 2009 at 8:46 pm

Good to see they finally wrote about u …which is odd..seeing your popularity on a worldwide basis..most want to celebrate the hometown hero.

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2 Casey Watkins December 1, 2009 at 8:59 pm

You got to love it when you get to be on tv.

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3 Anticrank December 1, 2009 at 9:07 pm

About time!
Unbelievable with all the popularity you got. I don’t think there’s an Indian which uses Net and doesn’t know you :P .

Maybe now local love will flow to you just like cash :D .

Cheers

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4 Justin M. December 1, 2009 at 9:08 pm

Did anybody else chuckle at the words “Nebraska Tourism”?

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5 Dean Saliba December 1, 2009 at 9:09 pm

The Shoeman on local news! :P

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6 Optic December 1, 2009 at 9:19 pm

Nice job.

I still can’t believe that twitter isn’t monetized though. . There’s just something wrong with all that traffic and the only one’s cashing in are users.

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7 Jose December 1, 2009 at 9:21 pm

Very nice Jeremy! Congrats on the exposure :D

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8 U.S. Common Sense December 1, 2009 at 9:49 pm

Question, Jeremy.

Did the news channel search you out, or did you contact them? I’ve always wondered how local experts ended up on television interviews.

Thanks!

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9 Bryn Youngblut December 1, 2009 at 9:49 pm

haha nice. They spelt your name wrong and showed the fail whale page twice.

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10 U.S. Common Sense December 1, 2009 at 11:23 pm

Good catch. I didn’t notice the misspelling at first.

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11 browie December 1, 2009 at 10:05 pm

I was watching it live and was so proud of our Nebraska boy even though you’re an illegal alien Nebrakan.

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12 John Chow December 1, 2009 at 10:28 pm

Nebraska has tourism???

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13 U.S. Common Sense December 1, 2009 at 11:21 pm

Just the parents who drop off their kids at college. :)

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14 Steve December 1, 2009 at 10:34 pm

Leading the news is quite a feat. That’s like getting the #1 spot on Digg.

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15 Brian December 1, 2009 at 11:25 pm

I’m betting they found him through Twitter! Nice to know that your local community had an off day in “bad news” since they led with your story.

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16 hoodmonkey December 2, 2009 at 12:52 am

I like how you flipped off the camera about half way through.

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17 Juuso December 2, 2009 at 1:02 am

Nice. :)

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18 MacNessa December 2, 2009 at 1:21 am

That’s great! While those of us with an understanding of the industry know how much you’ve achieved, there’s nothing like a little mainstream, local press to give you great exposure, and it kind of legitimises (sp?) the industry as a whole, to have your opinion sought after on the news. It’s great for the whole industry, to have it ‘propped’ like that.
Nice work J!

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19 purposeinc December 2, 2009 at 2:15 am

Love to see you finally get the recognition you deserve on the Lincoln news!

Very polished in front of the camera.

dk

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20 Milton Wongso December 2, 2009 at 4:49 am

Hmm isn’t this like obsolete news now? Shouldn’t they have covered this like more than a year ago?

A more proper coverage should be how can business use twitter more effectively rather than ‘what is twitter’ type, I think

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21 David Walker December 2, 2009 at 5:19 am

Funny they took so long, but the local news always gets to you last, don’t they? Like they can’t believe you’re that good…
Well, they do now. Great exposure cometh.
Congratulations on finally making it local Jeremy.
You’ve not really made it until your folks acknowledge you……but this is stretching that a bit ;)

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22 Micah | SEO Specialist December 2, 2009 at 5:56 am

This is a very nice post. I can see you have put hard work on your blog. I’m sure I’d be back here more often. You can come by and visit my site if you have time. See yah!

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23 Denny Sugar December 2, 2009 at 11:07 am

The report chick was kinda hot , no?

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24 Denny Sugar December 2, 2009 at 11:07 am

The reporter chick was kinda hot , no?

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25 Brian Hawkins December 3, 2009 at 11:49 am

Shoe,

Well you could of hired that PR firm that wanted 5k a month to make the little effort of calling your 4 local newspapers.

- Brian
AM @ Pingo.com

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26 Brad Podraza December 3, 2009 at 3:36 pm

Yes!!! Finally Some Nebraska Love!

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27 Scott Skinger December 7, 2009 at 8:22 am

Good stuff Jeremy. Congrats!

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28 Ruben Abramov December 17, 2009 at 3:50 pm

Video is no longer available =/

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