Today’s bucket of awesome is a lesson in how social media can take away your customers. I follow a blogger call @hushamanda who has a blog here. A couple of months ago, she started mentioning that she was working with the hosting company twenty70.com (here is Kelly from twenty70 twitter url). I wasn’t looking for a new hosting company, but I am always looking for interesting people to follow, so we started tweeting back and forth. Now, here’s part one of the lesson. Most companies when they get on social media only tweet about products or specials, or whatever. BORRRIINNGG. It’s rare to find a brand that is actually engaging it’s followers like Twenty70 hosting.

One thing my hosting company doesn’t do is allow for domain transfers. And I have domains ALL over the place. Twenty70 offered to consolidate them all, AND on top of all that gave me GREAT deal on hosting per month. So lesson two, be better than your competitors. You don’t have to be a LOT better, just a little, a little tweak to reel in your customers.

Well, I took the bait and I couldn’t be happier. I am now with Twenty70 hosting for ALL my blogs. The transfers went smooth-ish (I, uh, confused her when I was moving something over, so really it’s my fault. Go ahead show me your shocked face.)

For my next Bucket of Awesome I give you Twenty70 Hosting. (and psst….she has an awesome deal for bloggers, see it here)

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