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Posted on 1/23/18 at 4:43 pm to rooster108bm
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How many you wanna meet? I know people who can barely read that can rebuild a skidder,knuckleboom or even a sawmill.
You ever sit in a $600K harvester and try to understand the controls? These aren't backyard skid steers.
Posted on 1/23/18 at 4:44 pm to RogerTheShrubber
That guy shure has put on weight........
Posted on 1/23/18 at 4:46 pm to Sentrius
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That sub is nothing but angry and fat obese lesbians that just reeeeee about men all day long.
Sounds wonderful...
Posted on 1/23/18 at 4:47 pm to Ag Zwin
That picture you posted is a toy. I know men in their 50s that have been logging since they were 12 years old. It's not like the technology just appeared overnight. It came gradually and they adapted with it.
Posted on 1/23/18 at 4:51 pm to Ag Zwin
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Working people just don't have time.
Says the guy approaching 5k posts in less than 2 years
Posted on 1/23/18 at 4:54 pm to rooster108bm
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That picture you posted is a toy. I know men in their 50s that have been logging since they were 12 years old. It's not like the technology just appeared overnight. It came gradually and they adapted with it.
Not sure what you mean by "a toy", and what is your point with the rest? I'm saying these are complex machines, especially on the processing heads, and that a "bumpkin" working on one of these needs to know a heck of a lot more than some hammer mechanic.
I hear "bumpkin", I hear the same crap I heard in the election about "uneducated white guys". My point is that you can know a hell of a lot about complex stuff without being "educated" (as it has come to be defined).
The Democrats lost Wisconsin and Michigan when the blue collar working man became the uneducated white guy.
Posted on 1/23/18 at 4:57 pm to Ag Zwin
quote:I'd say "Sorry. I don't shill for my employer on social media."
My challenge is to get the troops on board and helping to spread the virus of our messages. Heavy equipment guys can be pretty old school, so just getting them to sign up for accounts is already an uphill thing.
Posted on 1/23/18 at 4:59 pm to MorgusTheMagnificent
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Says the guy approaching 5k posts in less than 2 years
Yeah, I was wondering when someone would call me out on that.
I bought it last year. I had a lot of down time while I wrote up the business plan and was waiting on all the financing to get lined up. A whole lot of "hurry up and wait". Banks don't move quickly.
Posted on 1/23/18 at 5:00 pm to HubbaBubba
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I'd say "Sorry. I don't shill for my employer on social media."
And if you were my sales leadership, I would say "What employer?"
Posted on 1/23/18 at 5:03 pm to Ag Zwin
Reddit isn't a social media platform like Facebook or Twitter. Why are you grouping them together?
Posted on 1/23/18 at 5:12 pm to Ag Zwin
quote:You have no right to interfere in a person's personal, social life outside of work. At work, as part of work, fine, if you're paying them to work there, but outside of their work role because you suddenly discovered social media? Nope.
And if you were my sales leadership, I would say "What employer?"
Posted on 1/23/18 at 5:15 pm to Ag Zwin
Seems like word of mouth would still be your best advertising. That and going out to see people face to face.
Posted on 1/23/18 at 5:22 pm to Ag Zwin
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"bumpkin" working on one of these needs to know a heck of a lot more than some hammer mechanic
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My point is that you can know a hell of a lot about complex stuff without being "educated" (as it has come to be defined).
You are contradicting yourself. Which is it, bumpkins can't work on these? Or they can? God help you if you're sales territory is in the southeast.
Posted on 1/23/18 at 5:27 pm to Sid in Lakeshore
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Sounds wonderful...
It used to be a really good sub where normal, healthy and well adjusted women would come together and discuss life and laugh and make jokes about whatever predicament they're in. Now the legbeards just invaded and ran those women off and it's a bitter cesspool now.
It was also a good peek into the mindset of women in dating and sex situations and what I found was pretty startling as women can be as big a horndog as men are.
Here are some funny threads from there in its glory days.
Links are blind on purpose. Let them surprise you.
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Posted on 1/23/18 at 5:34 pm to rooster108bm
Good lord, people. Calm down. I have never said we were going to "Amazonify" the business. Do you really think my guys are not out beating the bushes on a daily basis? Do you think these are mutually exclusive, or complementary?
As for the semantics of "bumpkin", it just seems like you are looking for an argument. I said that it does not require a degree to be "educated", but it does require training to be able to work on complex machines. I basically subscribe to the Mike Rowe view of this. Why is that so contentious?
And I never said my people had to use their personal accounts. If that was the indication received, my apologies. My point is that they can learn a hell of a lot about their customers and competing products by being in these groups.
As for the semantics of "bumpkin", it just seems like you are looking for an argument. I said that it does not require a degree to be "educated", but it does require training to be able to work on complex machines. I basically subscribe to the Mike Rowe view of this. Why is that so contentious?
And I never said my people had to use their personal accounts. If that was the indication received, my apologies. My point is that they can learn a hell of a lot about their customers and competing products by being in these groups.
Posted on 1/23/18 at 5:39 pm to Ag Zwin
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I own a heavy equipment dealership. I am dragging my company into the world of social media as a marketing tool.
Important tip if you really want to head to Reddit to try and outreach for your business id say is if you have an account for work, use it "STRICTLY" for work. Don't get involved in political BS with that account because there are way too many people on there who would use your agreement with something political they disagree with to try to mess with you personally(i.e. your business)
On the other hand, dude there are SO many shills and trolls on reddit now its really hard to believe it when you see it. So just be weary, avoid falling for the easily disguised troll, circular argument traps, and use your public account just for business.
Just my 2 cents from using it for a while.
Posted on 1/23/18 at 5:40 pm to Ag Zwin
Tell us again how this is a Political topic?
Posted on 1/23/18 at 5:43 pm to Ag Zwin
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My point is that they can learn a hell of a lot about their customers and competing products by being in these groups.
If you are selling logging equipment I wouldn't worry with Reddit. Your focus should be on hunting and fishing forums or sites such as tigerdroppings. Most of the the logging company owners in Alabama are just regular old boys. I would expect most of the southeast is the same. That's where your market will be.
Posted on 1/23/18 at 5:53 pm to Champagne
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Tell us again how this is a Political topic?
1. I posted that that I had a new Reddit account, for reasons COMPLETELY unrelated to my business.
2. I was surprised how looney it was there.
3. It occurred to me that most platforms (twitter, FB, Reddit, etc) gravitate toward leftist demos.
4. Projected that onto my own issues getting my sales leadership to embrace the usefulness of FB (NOT REDDIT) as a marketing tool, but I need to get them conversant in using it.
5. I observed that the general trend is that people on these platforms are not the people who are making the donuts every day. There is a fallacy in assuming that the most vocal elements today (on these platforms) are representative, but clearly they are not.
6. At some point (with my own fault in there) it became a debate of whether my guys should be called "bumpkins" if they are learned in hydraulics and controls, but are not degreed. I took too much offense because I felt my guys were being insulted.
In short, a bunch of us rednecks (clearly different than bumpkins) took half of what was said and ran with whatever tangent we wanted to find.
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