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  • Posted: 28th Oct 2010 - 15:00
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The other week Peter Kay had an idea.
Then I stuck my nose in and had another idea.
We put these together and set up the @CanYouRecommend twitter ID.

In a short time we now have over 100 followers which I think is great as all of this is through word of mouth and recognition that it's a great resource.

Earlier this week I heard of 5 companies getting trade from the feed in all parts of the world, including myself, so if you're not following ... why not?


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  • Posted: 28th Oct 2010 - 15:19
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Great idea, now following.

Cheers Lee and Peter


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  • Posted: 28th Oct 2010 - 15:30
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I'm in

 
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  • Posted: 28th Oct 2010 - 15:37
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Im in, great idea guys, so simple too.

 
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  • Posted: 28th Oct 2010 - 15:44
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Nice work boys! Love it!


 
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  • Posted: 28th Oct 2010 - 16:10
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And in case anyone is wondering how it works -

< geeklish >
We have a little RT script that searches for specific phrases, grabs the results, cleans them up then retweets them out.
A cron job then runs that script at a set time interval.
</ geeklish >

Damn simple but effective.


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  • Posted: 28th Oct 2010 - 17:25
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I'm there, fab idea :)

Denise

 
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  • Posted: 28th Oct 2010 - 17:47
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It's a brilliant idea.

Busy dreaming up ways that a similar system could be used for customer service feedback

 
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  • Posted: 28th Oct 2010 - 17:52
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How you gonna recommend something unbiased when there are 10 people who do it?
Who decides who to recommend what?

Not sure I follow. How you paying for your time to do all this?... not clear on it myself.

Lee, you said you'd never recommend anyone unless that is you'd used them. I can't see it - sounds like a "boys club" thing.

I probably got it all wrong as usual.

 
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  • Posted: 28th Oct 2010 - 18:28
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I'm not recommending anyone unless I've used them.

Let's assume that you're looking for a painter, for example.
You could tweet out "Can you recommend a painter in doncaster" - if you're lucky your tweet is picked up and RTd to all the @CanYouRecommend followers.

So, for you as someone looking for a painter your tweet is spread to an audience that might not have normally found your tweets.
As a business person you follow in case a request for your service comes along.

Obviously the more people that follow/ use the phrase, the better.

As for money - it took me any hour or so to get everything in place while I was uploading a load of files one evening and now it's set up everything is automatic and costs me nothing.
If you really want to put a cost on it, then it costs me time to monitor the feed but as I'm following it anyway (for work), again, doesn't really cost me anything - time or money.
If I'm looking for a ROI on the whole project, then:
I can reuse the files for other projects.
I have already gained work directly from the service.

I think Peter spent more time and effort choosing the logo for the twitter profile.


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  • Posted: 28th Oct 2010 - 20:16
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That sounds quite cool then.

 
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  • Posted: 28th Oct 2010 - 20:41
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Sounds good .. I've followed :)


 
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  • Posted: 28th Oct 2010 - 21:05
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I'm a twittering virgin but this has to be a really fantastic idea. Well done, boys and Peter - I'm really looking forward to meeting you. xx


 

 
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  • Posted: 28th Oct 2010 - 22:42
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Love the idea, I started following awhile ago, well done

 
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  • Posted: 29th Oct 2010 - 19:58
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Great idea I'm following MIGHTY COLIN

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