Social media

Currently we are soliciting ideas for what message to print on T-shirts featuring our logo. In March we hope to start selling the T-shirts to raise money to establish our business. Our logo designer at Stormer-Brooks Illustration suggested "Fun + Adventure =" and "We'll show you the ropes." Please share your suggestions for what to print on our T-shirts.

Meantime, we have resisted the temptation to join the rest of the civilized world and get a personal Facebook page. We can't understand how people find the time to spend hours and hours every day on the social network.

But as wannabe entrepreneurs, we had to wade into the social media waters to promote our business dream. You can read other posts in this blog to learn about our experiences with creating a website and a Facebook page. Suffice it to say, it has not been easy for us. Our 8 year old knows more about this stuff than we do.

We wasted quite a few hours and brain cells trying to figure out how to update our Facebook page. For instance, we wanted an address like most other businesses. The Facebook address for McDonald's is facebook.com/McDonalds. We thought that was what we signed up for, but ours was facebook.com/pages/Arkansas-Diamond-Mine-Adventure/276343369092980.

We talked to friends and searched the Internet and recently found that to make such revisions to your FB page and address (or URL), you have to have at least 25 people "like" your page. So we asked our children and our friends to like our page. That left us about 19 people short. Fortunately others eventually liked our page and recently, we're excited to report, we were able to get the Facebook address that we wanted. Check it out sometime: facebook.com/ArkansasDiamondMindAdventure.