Facebook and the quest for more “Likes” for Peony Farm

I’ve setup a Facebook page for my business, Peony Farm.  Since its creation, I’ve been working on it, spending many late hours surfing on the net — in order to improve Peony Farm’s facebook page.   I’ve also checked out some facebook sites to find out  what the big guys do – all these to generate more “Likes”.

Followed many link on the internet about various things such as fbml, making your profile picture bigger, creating more tags to create a connection between my website and facebook, getting a url for my page, etc.

I found that there’s a lot of how to’s on the net so I won’t even try to tell anybody how to do anything.  Enough to say that some of those blogs are infuriating in that they really aren’t teaching you how to do “it”.

Having said that, I want to thank all of those who posted genuine “how tos” such that I was able to learn and accomplish what I set out to do. 

Here is a sample of my efforts:    the Peony Farm Landing Page

Peonies and Lasting Memories Contest

 

Even created a contest for two reasons – I love hearing more from peony lovers about how peonies crossed and affected their lives;  and also to generate more “likes”. 

 

This of course meant more research and learning.  Keeping my fingers crossed on having enough participants to the contest!    By the way, if you are a peony lover, you might want to follow this link: Peonies and Lasting Memories to find out how to enter into the contest. 

Peony Farm Events

The peony season is upon me,  the Soroptimist Gala Garden Show is next weekend – I’d say I am taking time off on anymore “reconstruction of my facebook page” projects.    Who knows, by then there probably would be changes to the changes,  to the changes and I’d only have to pick it up from the latest change!

If you are interested in finding out more about what’s happening at the farm,  or what peonies are currently in bloom go to Events at the Farm.

For now, I am a happy facebook camper!

By the way:  Here’s some links to follow:

Peony Farm’s webpage “www.ilovepeonies.com”
A great resource for healthy bare root peonies.  We have both insite store and the online store.

Peony Farm’s facebook page
An exchange of ideas with friends.  Do come and “like us”

Soroptimist Gala Garden Show in Sequim, WA

It’s just around the corner!  The Soroptimist Gala Garden Show is on March 19 & 20 this year.  Here’s the link:     Peony Farm at the Soroptimist Garden Show

I am getting my Peony Lady ready.  She’s getting a fresh coat of paint.  A makeover, if you must

Last year we participated in the garden show and it was filled with all kinds of activities. From plants, to garden art,  to seminars. We enjoyed visiting with people who stopped by to say Hi, asked a question or two and some even purchased some potted plants.  It was also our “coming out” into the community.  We established Peony Farm on Nov, 2009; at that time, we were virtually non-existent in so far as the community was concerned.
We received a warm welcome and comments such as “It’s about time we had our own peony farm in Sequim.  As a matter of fact, shortly after that, we were featured by Peninsula Daily News  and got a full page writeup.  

Here’s a snippet of the story:

For a moment there, I enjoyed my “celebrity” status being the 1st and Only Peony Farm in the Olympic Peninsula.


That’s all for now.  Come by and visit us at the garden show! 

Photo Gallery – Amy’s Country Garden at Peony Farm, Washington

          Throughout the months of May and June, while the Peony Farm was open to the public, we’ve received requests from visitors to walk through Amy’s Country Garden.  So, we thought we’d prepare a slideshow so that our online visitors can also visit the garden.  If it strikes your fancy, go ahead and click on the slideshow.  We hope you enjoy it.