I thought before I delete my Facebook page for Reiki Surry Hills that I should make sure I’ve posted all the reviews. I mean, it’s not really necessary … but I like to do it.
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Ciao, Facebook!
If you read my blogs posts (though I know that not many people do), you’ll know that I just deleted my Instagram page for Reiki Surry Hills.
I’m going to delete my Facebook page for Reiki Surry Hills too and for the same reasons.
Facebook has been more active for me than Instagram. In fact, I have 28 reviews up (though over 10 years, that’s perhaps not that many).
In the early days of my practice, I learned that the way to get people to find your website was to have an active presence on the web. This meant multiple social media profiles, if you could. It meant regular blog posts, so your website would be active.
I actually quite enjoyed this idea, as a writer. Blog posts (like this one) seemed like a good way to talk about my practice and share information about reiki with my clients and with the world. I would write a blog post on my website and then repost it to my Facebook account.
It would seem though that this idea is an old one indeed. There are very few individuals and businesses that blog anymore. Blogs have, in most sectors (I think they may still be used for some academics and in some specialised sectors), been replaced by posts on Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn and even TikTok. As far as I can tell, clients find my website easily, because of the Google Business Listing that is integrated with Google Maps. It really seems that my Facebook profile does not bring me clients. It is a small way of letting my Facebook friends know about my reiki practice, but they too, if they want, can visit my website instead.
The other thing, which is no small issue, is that I really have come to dislike Facebook. I’ll continue with my personal account, as too much of my life has been spent there. But the past years! Where after hooking us into using Facebook, they have flooded Facebook with ads and commercials. They’ve basically created a model that aims to make money off us, while engaging us as much as they think they can: which is through controversy and clickbait. Facebook have not done what they are responsible for, in protecting children from harm, in addressing fake news and disinformation, and for stoking political unrest.
All in all, if I think about what I want my reiki practice to bring to the world – healing, quiet, presence – it’s counter to most of the energy of Facebook these days – distraction, destruction and money making.
Discover the gifts and benefits of a session of Japanese reiki therapy, healing energy from an experienced practitioner. Visit my website or Facebook page for more information and SMS, email, call me or book online if you’d like to make an appointment. Since 2011, I’ve given over 3,600 reiki treatments.
Clients come to relieve stress, anxiety and for many other issues, or to just give reiki a try to see what it does for them. Folks come from all over Sydney and elsewhere to see me. There’s easy (meter) parking in the area, and I’m easy to get to by public transport too.
See ya later, Instagram-gater.
It was not so long ago that I realised that I’ve been telling clients that I’ve been giving treatments for over 10 years, and that it would actually be more accurate to say that I’ve been giving treatments for 15 years!
A lot has changed in that time, for me, in the world and for my practice.
I’m starting to question some of my habits and practices to see how useful they are to me now.
Something that came to me was to consider my reiki Instagram account.
Anyways, back in the day, starting a small business or offering services, it really did seem like a good idea to join up to Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Well, not Twitter. Instagram allowed you to make a lovely picture of nine posts together, so with some difficulty, I created a grid showing the reiki room and the reiki table and created an account in August 2018.
But after all this time, what I’ve found is that my clients do not find me on Facebook and Instagram. They find me through Google listings, which takes them to the Fresha booking site. The few times that clients have found me through Instagram or Facebook, it’s been inefficient, as I’m not used to receiving communication that way, and I’ve responded slowly.
While I seem to have connected on Instagram to some other reiki practitioners and healers around the world (I have 909 followers), it’s mostly just a polite thing that we are following each other. And I’m just as likely to receive spam.
So, I’ll soon delete Instagram, perhaps in a week’s time. If someone wants to find me, it really is easy to do so through the website. It’s a good thing at this time of my life and work to make things more streamlined, less complex and less busy.