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Tom’s longtime love of bartending has come full circle since his days as a linebacker on the inaugural Jacksonville Jaguars football team—slinging drinks and talking shop with everyone from high-profile sports figures and entertainers to business leaders, journalists, and community leaders. Tom and guests trade insight and anecdotes, explore day-to-day topics and tackle the hard subjects, all with equal measures of energy, honesty, and laughter. Get the skinny on the real people behind the headlines, straight from the horse’s mouth.
This week, Tom spoke with Pat Sitkins from Adaptive Jax, Mike White and Joe Stelma from BluHorn, Lonnie Marts III from LonniellV, and Andy Nauman from Ameri-Force.
How important is social media for your company?
Pat Sitkins
Our company certainly focuses a lot on social media. A lot of our client base is made up of professional financial services. Mainly insurance, real estate, financial planners, things like that. It’s a fine line with them because the audience has to be right. We don’t want to just do things just to do it. You need to make sure you are reaching the right audience with whatever platform you use. We focus more on traditional social media, such as LinkedIn, Facebook, and Instagram.
Lonnie Marts III
TikTok is actually a huge part of my company. I was doing stuff on YouTube for a while, but the market was really, really saturated and there wasn’t a whole lot of traction on that. I heard about TikTok and decided to see what it was all about. I went ahead and started making a few little simple videos, just putting some stuff and some ideas out there. The next thing I know, in less than six months, I obtained a following of 700,000 with a couple of million views from my videos that I did. It’s a lot easier to get your stuff and get out there and build an audience on this new platform. You have to keep in mind though that it depends on who you want your audience to be. A lot of my followers are a younger demographic.
Andy Nauman
TikTok is a platform that really targets Generation Z. We could use that platform to get that generation interested in and into the trades and become a welder or electrician. It could have an impact there, but at the same time, they’re there for fun, and they want to hear a pitch.
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