#Yorkshirehour

#Yorkshirehour is open for business - Wednesdays 8-9pm

A virtual place – but a real time – to promote your Yorkshire business

My Twitter friend, Helen Massey and I were both active on Twitter during ‘#scotlandhour‘ and she tweeted, “If there’s a #scotlandhour can we have a #yorkshirehour too?”  From my Aspinall_Ink account, I said, “Of course.”

And so, Helen and I chatted about it – and then named a day and an hour - and so #yorkshirehour was born.

How does it work?

When it gets to 8pm on Wednesday, start tweeting about your Yorkshire business and add our hashtag, #Yorkshirehour.

For example:

• “We’re freelance photographers and journalists based in West Yorkshire #Yorkshirehour”
• “#photography #travelwriting #foodreviews #Huddersfield #Yorkshirehour”
• “I tweet about #chickens #allotments #wildfood #cooking and #WI”

Then, hop onto the search box on Twitter and search #Yorkshirehour to see what other Yorkshire folk are promoting.

Then, ‘follow’ and say ‘hi’ to any you think might be relevant to your business (or look like interesting tweeters).

Don’t forget to then check your account for new followers and say thanks – and see if you want to follow them back.  This isn’t about everyone following everyone else so, no ”Follow me - I follow back” tweets please.  We’re talking ‘quality’ not ‘quantity’: will the new followers help your business in someway?

Top tips

1. As Twitter is live; remember to keep retweeting your original welcome tweet so people can see who you are and what you do/make/sell – no matter what time they join us.
2. Please avoid using the word ‘follow’ in your tweets during Yorkshire hour, if you can.  That way we might be able to avoid the spammers and pornbots - if only for a couple of weeks.
3. #Yorkshirehour is a weekly event on a Wednesday.  Please don’t add the hashtag #Yorkshirefollowladder to #Yorkshirehour tweets.  (I was the first to use #Yorkshire #followladder but that was the hashtag for a one-off Sunday night event.) Another reason not to add #Yorkshirefollowladder is that it uses up a lot of your 140 characters!

You’ll be  amazed how many new followers you’ll get and business contacts you can make in an hour – and all from the comfort of your own home.  So, please start retweeting links to this blog post like crazy and join us on Wednesdays if you can.

We hope you’ll join us and make it a successful event.

Angie and Helen

Well, that was 2011

What a year! Despite serious health issues, redundancy and new jobs we still managed to keep this blog going.  Thank you for visiting!

This blog was viewed about 2,500 times in 2011.  Most visitors were from the UK, but there were also visitors from USA, Australia, Asia and South America!

The busiest day of the year was 2nd October. The most popular post that day was Helping to save the Loggerhead turtle.

In 2011, there were 36 new posts, with 338 pictures uploaded – that’s about 7 pictures per week.

Please ‘sign up’ for all our posts in 2012 when we hope to feature more fabulous days out and holidays in the UK and abroad.

In 2011, we loved working with/for the following clients:

Anthony Hartley (Furniture designer)

UltraMarine Magazine

Marine Habitat

On: Yorkshire Magazine

Earth, Sea and Sky (Turtle conservation charity)

Biteback (Shark Conservation Charity)

The Deep (Hull)

Swaledale House, Swaledale, Yorkshire

Agra Cottage,  Nidderdale, Yorkshire

Tea & Cake Cafe (Almondbury)

National Federation of Women’s Institutes

Tea & Tarts WI (Huddersfield)

Cafe Nouveau

Birkby Lodge Dining Club

Yo Yo’s Restaurant (Shipley)

Bettakultcha (Leeds)

Culture Vulture

What’s on up North

Smallholder Magazine

Yorkshire Evening Post

If you have accommodation you’d like to see reviewed here, please contact us.

Likewise, if you have places, products or food to be photographed, please drop us a line.

If you’d like to buy canvas or framed prints, please visit our galleries: www.aspinallink.co.uk