Calling Dusty and Michael

I'm not proud, but I think I'm a fairly intelligent person. I don't have a huge ego, but I have a measure of self-confidence. David is a pretty smart guy. We both graduated from college. So it comes as a surprise that we are struggling so much with these high-tech endeavors.

Friday afternoon we took the next step of creating a Facebook page for our business dream. Our teenage daughters are on Facebook every day. It is now a common part of our culture. It couldn't be that difficult, could it? Signing up for Facebook was as easy as signing up for GoDaddy.com., but after several hours of struggling, we developed a new dance step called the Facebook fall back. Left foot forward, two steps back. Right foot forward, two steps back.

Yes, creating a Facebook page for an individual is easy. They are pretty much all the same. But to make it look like a polished business page is a different story. David recently read an article on successful Facebook pages such as Disney and Coca-Cola, and ideally we'd like our Facebook page to look like theirs. Coming up with that look apparently requires that you have the same code-writing skill that it takes to design a website.

Late Friday night we enlisted the help of our good friend Mike, who runs his own graphic design business. It gave us some solace that Mike, who is 1000 times more tech savvy than we are, spent an hour trying to work on our Facebook page before giving up. [Thank you, again, Mike.] Saturday morning we wasted spent another couple hours trying to work on it, all the while looking outside at the beautiful sunshine, and it drove me nuts. I told David he should be outside playing basketball with our son.

I suppose our first mistake was not giving the task to our daughters or some other teenager. They seem to know everything about the Internet. But then we noticed something on the Coca-Cola Facebook page. There's an intriguing paragraph halfway down that surprised us. It says that two fans of Coke named Dusty and Michael took it upon themselves to create Coca-Cola's Facebook page. The multi-billion dollar, most-famous-brand-in-the-world, business behemoth didn't create its own FB page. Two guys took the Coke bottle by the cap and developed the page for them ... for free!

We realize that you know very little about our business dream at this point, but Dusty, Michael, if you're out there, we sure could use your help.