I’ve been contacted in similar ways, on so many occasions, where there is clearly little or no thought put into building a relationship of value. Unfortunately I think some suppliers have already written us off before hitting send because we are not considered to make them the return that they are really looking for in a partnership.

You make a valid point though, your website makes it very clear what you do and how you go about it.

Perhaps if he’d spent a little more time looking at your site, rather than impressing you with his ‘penthouse office’ you’d have gone and seen him for all of 20mins!

Jamie.

But last night he spoke fluidly, intelligently, and with an obvious amount of knowledge on the subject. He definitely educated, informed and entertained (which are his core aims apparently). He should speak at more events like this.

Thanks for blogging about TwitterTitters – you offer some excellent advice and if it’s okay with you I would like to let you know that the steps you outline were/(and still are!) in place.

Media coverage included (achieved over a two-week period-ish!) a page lead in the Metro, a blink and you’ll miss it mention in the Guardian, newspaper reports across Staffordshire, the North West and the Midlands, plus regional BBC etc – pretty good going all things considered but there was a deliberate focus on Twitter as we wanted to see what would happen, there was massive support from bloggers and a facebook group.

As for being prepared for people to have a pop at us – we were and they did It wasn’t a journalist who had a go, rather a student tweeter, as well as another blogger – I ignored the former and responded to the latter, the comments were quite constructive.

In terms of “seeding” the message with other communities, we did, particularly with creative writers – a specific and planned target group.

The time element was the most tricky thing I think, but then the book is still for sale and I hope people continue to buy it. But yes you are right more time would have been the more sensible way to go . As you say, there were lots more hiccups behind the scenes so at the end of it, I was delighted to even see the product.

I wasn’t at the Social Media Cafe, that was my colleague Christina, and the “publisher” we brought on board was Lulu – the self publishing website.

Overall we achieved a lot – and as I say I hope we can continue to sell copies – I’ve had two books published previously and both have been steady sellers.

One thing I think I’d like to say is thank you to everyone who wrote, blogged or tweeted about TwitterTitters and if you would like to consider buying it, that would be proper bostin’

Here’s the link again:

http://www.lulu.com/content/6281246

All the best to you and thanks again.