Facebook Timeline for Business

Well it was rumoured to be coming.  Now it looks as though it is due towards the end of February. According to an article on Co Create (http://www.fastcocreate.com/1679443/facebook-update-yes-brands-are-coming-to-facebook-timeline-open-graph), Carol Everson, VP of global marketing solutions at Facebook was quoted as saying: “”There’s a lot of speculation [about Timeline]. The goal has always been to have your personal experience on Facebook not be so different than the brand or page experience. And right now, it is [...]

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Demonstration of Blog Like Reveal Version 2.0

Blog Like Reveal Version 2.0 is my new plugin that allows you to add Social Sharing Plugins. It works with Facebook Like, Linked in Share, Google Plus and Twitter. It will integrate your Blog with Facebook’s Open Graph API and give you Facebooks insights on who likes your page etc. With Blog Like and Reveal you have the option to set a default gift or to have an individual gift for different posts and [...]

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Facebook Custom Page Tab Change

Facebook have just made a change where you need to create your custom page tabs and attach them to your Facebook pages in a slightly different way. It is actually very straight forward and we are in the process of integrating this directly into my plugin, however until this is done you will need to do the following: For every new page tab you will need to visit this URL: http://www.facebook.com/dialog/pagetab?app_id=YOUR_APP_ID&next=YOUR_URL where YOUR_APP_ID is the [...]

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Optimizing Facebook “Findability”

They key aspect of any successful website will be the “findability” of that site; if people can’t find you, how are they supposed to take advantage of the products or services you offer? Facebook pages are no different! There are many ways you can prepare your Facebook page so that you can be sure it will be seen by as many people as possible. While the amount of Likes your page has will factor [...]

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The 5 Steps to Successful Facebook Advertising

Facebook now outranks Google as the site with the most overall users and hits per day. The advertising potential of this platform can’t be ignored, and there are some things you should keep in mind so that you can gain as much as possible from the potential offered. 1)      Isolate Specific Advertising Goals Like any plan in life, it is necessary to know where you want to go before you can determine the best [...]

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WP Social Send

Shola Abidoye has put together a really neat plugin that allows you to hide content behind the Facebook Send Button. A very brief demonstration is below. If you click Send below the plugin will unlock some additional content, be it a free report or something else. For this particular article I am just putting a link to her offer that you can only see if you share this content using Social Send. Below is [...]

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Key to Blogging Success

I just finished an hour long talk on Talk Marketing Now, where I have been talking every week for most of this year about blogging. I was happily waffling away about my thoughts on blogging and what I should be doing with this rather neglected blog, when one of the guests listening effectively cut through most of my crap with a short sentence that pretty much summed up what I was trying to say! [...]

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Twitter – Odd Algorithm or just Me?

I love Twitter now… I think the first post I wrote on my blog when I moved to Peru was about Twitter and what it was, or more accurately what the hell it was.  I have for almost a year now been advising people on how to use Twitter and why they should be using it and how they should be using it to communicate with customers.  And it is first and foremost a [...]

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Personalising Social Media Pages

There are so many Social Media Sites out there… I was looking at a book yesterday which called itself a Yellow Pages of Social Media Sites and anyway I lost count. Still the reason for this post is just to remind myself of how to do give my Social Pages a personalised name and perhaps you might find it useful too! The two main sites I will cover here are Facebook pages and Linked [...]

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Mashable, New Facebook Pages and Linked In

This isnt going to be an overly long post and Is in fact pretty pointless but at the time I wrote it it interested me… Probably because it is 3.40 am and I am half asleep! I recently mentioned this post on Mashable in one of my Linked in Groups: http://mashable.com/2011/02/14/small-business-social-media-infographic/ which I think like most of Mashable’s posts is pretty interesting and reminds us that whilst there are thousands of social media sites out there it [...]

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