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Originally Posted by Rochard
Yesterday I went to a local restaurant for a business meeting - I'm launching a company to do social media marketing for local businesses. I am standing in line and this woman looks at me and smiles, and says "I don't believe I finally get to meet you". She them proceeds to tell me that she discovered that restaurant only because I had raved about it on Facebook - A complete stranger said this in front of my potential clients. (She just HAD to take a selfie with me.) This happens to me every day - strangers here in town walk up to me and say "Are you Richard?". This happens two or three times a day now.
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I deal with the same stuff; we will be out walking the dogs and hear someone yell out their car window; "Craft Beer Guy!" or things like today (I just got back from Brewtopia) where people are "so happy to finally meet you" or ask if they can do selfies with me to post on Instagram and Facebook. I find it really weird. One of the popular beer writers was telling me he has had 2 autograph requests, so I am lacking there.
As far as having a stranger come up when [first] meeting with a client or potential client, you can't buy that kind of advertising. I have people come up all the time and tell me how much they enjoyed a particular location or beer because they read about it on my site; I always tell them to make sure to tell the owner/manager too.
