Community FirstBank Launches Facebook and Twitter Social Media Initiatives
October 23, 2009
Lowcountry Banking Leader Begins Social Media Initiative To Coincide with New ‘Have You Found Your Smile Today?’ Promotion
CHARLESTON, SC – October 23, 2009 – Representatives of Community FirstBank announced the launch of the bank’s Facebook and Twitter pages. The bank’s Facebook page can be found at www.facebook.com/CommFirstBank, and Twitter page at www.twitter.com/CommFirstBank.
These new social media applications were launched in conjunction with the bank’s new Have You Found Your Smile Today? promotion. This promotion consists of Community FirstBank giving away $100 every weekday through October 30 to lucky winners throughout the greater Charleston area. For winners to claim the prize, they must correctly decode the daily clues to find the secret location of where the day’s smile bank, which contains $100, is located in the greater Charleston area. Community FirstBank is partnering with local radio stations, as well as utilizing social media, to give clues of where potential winners can find the smile banks.
Fans who visit the bank’s Facebook page will also discover a variety of features including: discussion boards; links to banking news articles; blogs; photos; video; and events. Twitter will serve as a way to for banking leaders to stay connected and communicate with bank customers through the exchange of quick, frequent posts, or Tweets.
We are proud to unveil our new ‘Have You Found Your Smile Today?’ promotion in conjunction with our social media pages, said David L. Morrow, executive vice president of Carolina Financial Corporation, the parent company of Community FirstBank. With our commitment to helping customers, ‘Have a nice bank,’ these social media pages allow for us to have another channel of communication between banker and customer.
About Community FirstBank
In 1997, Community FirstBank opened its doors to the Charleston market and since then, the bank has been operating under the singular goal of meeting the individual banking needs of customers located throughout the Charleston area. Locally owned and operated since its inception, Community FirstBank currently offers six convenient locations throughout Charleston and the Lowcountry to provide customers with a full range of financial products and services.
With assets totaling more than $500 million, Community FirstBank is headquartered in downtown Charleston at 288 Meeting Street, with another office located in Charleston/West Ashley at 884 Orleans Road. The bank’s Mount Pleasant branch is located at 1492 Stuart Engals Boulevard; its Summerville office is located at 200 North Cedar Street; its James Island office is located at 430 Folly Road; and its North Charleston office is located at 8485 Dorchester Road.
Community FirstBank offers customers the most complete line of banking products and services available, including commercial loans, consumer loans, mortgage loans, checking accounts, savings accounts, money markets, certificates of deposit, ATMs and online banking with bill pay. For additional information about Community FirstBank, call (843) 723-7700 or visit www.commfirstbank.com.
