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Tools To Create Beautiful Facebook Fan Pages – Webinar Wednesday Dec. 19th Noon Mountain Time Get Rid Of Your Boring Fan Page Forever! Are you tired of having a boring fan page? Wondered how others have beautiful fan pages? Wanting to sell your products or services on Facebook? Wanting to create a form to capture information? Add video to teach, sell, inspire others. Show off your businesses Pinterest page right in Facebook. Display your latest Tweets without leaving Facebook. Register today for just $8.95! Special offer for attendees of this webinar. Don’t miss out! Note: If you have a discount code please enter that at registration. I’ll show you the tools you can use to create awesome looking fan pages and show you a special offer created just for attendees. Just some of what you’ll learn… Learn about tools to sell product and services on Facebook Learn how to add Google+, Twitter and Pinterest to your fan page Learn how to display PDF’s on your fan page Learn how to display your websites pages on your fan page Plus more! Register today for just $8.95! Special offer for attendees of this webinar. Don’t miss out! Note: If you have a discount code please enter that at registration.
Are you confused at what size image you should use for your profile photo on Pinterest? How about your cover photos for your fan page on Facebook? The image you choose to use for your fan page or personal profile is important. Especially when it comes to your brand and how you want your business portrayed on social media. Luna Metrics put together this great infographic cheat-sheet to show you what image size you need for each social media platform. The infographic can be printed for a very informative guide to image dimensions on Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and Pinterest (Source: Luna Metrics.) [divider] [hcshort id=”13″]
21+ Ways to Get More "Like" For Your Facebook Fan Page ““ Workshop Looking for ways to get more “Like” on your Facebook Fan Page? Join Social Media Author Dennis J. Smith, GreenHostUSA and Fan Page Bling for the “21+ Ways to Get More "Like" For Your Facebook Fan Page ““ Workshop” in Nampa, ID September 21st at 6:30 pm. You don’t need to have a Fan Page to attend so come learn how to connect with clients on the most popular social media platform in the world! Win a copy of “Promote Your Business or Cause Using Social Media” By local author Dennis J. Smith Here’s some what you’ll learn: What are the best times to post How to Share your fan pages Facebook Ads. Are they right for you? Get more functionality with custom tabs The benefits of the reveal tab How to add a "Like" box to my website How to connect your Facebook fan page to Twitter Several more ways to get others liking your fan page! Cost: Just $20! Tickets: Get Your Tickets Here Details: Stevens-Henager College 16819 N Marketplace Blvd Room N108 Nampa, ID 83687 Wednesday, September 21, 2011 from 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM (MT)
Android users now can now update to the latest version of the Google+ app from their Android phone or the Android Market. Google+ Android app (v.1.0.5) brings several improvements to the mobile version. Check out the video below from Google’s Mobile Project Manager +Punit Soni. v1.0.5 August 2, 2011 Improved notifications reliability "___ added you to Google+" notifications shown in bulk Share stream posts to individual people (search people & contacts) Clicking a +mention takes you to the person’s profile Stream no longer resets to top when screen is rotated Nearby accuracy & refresh improvements Start a one-on-one huddle from a person’s profile or a group huddle from a circle profile Hide one-on-one huddles Clickable links in huddles Confirmation text when leaving a huddle ("Are you sure you want to leave?") Improved autocomplete (people/contacts) when adding a person to a huddle Reshared posts show correct profile photo Punit Soni is the lead product manager for Google+ mobile has shared this video on YouTube talking about the changes. Download the updated version of Google+ for your Android from your phone or Android Market.
How do you track visits to your website or blog? If you are are using Google Analytics you might be familiar with the term Bounce Rate. But what is Bounce Rate? The Bounce Rate is the percentage of visitors that hit a single-page and then bounce from your site. If you have 1000 visitors on your site and 200 visit other pages on your site besides the home page, your Bounce Rate would be 80 percent. That’s because 800 of those visitors hit just your home page and then bounced. The lower the bounce rate the better you are doing at keeping visitors on your website. Which should help improve other site stats and keep readers coming back. So how does one lower a sites bounce rate? That’s something I’ve been trying to master myself with some success. Below are some tips and tricks that I’ve learned over the years. Eye-Catching Headlines Write catchy headlines that will draw in your readers and get them to click and then read your post. You want to get them off your home page and reading the meat of your site. Don’t Give Away The Farm The home page shouldn’t have full articles or you risk the reader bouncing. Just give enough information to entice them to clicking on a post so they go further into your site. There are tons of WordPress themes set-up to display part of the article and then display a link to read more. Find Reliable Hosting Don’t give your visitors an excuse to leave by having a slow site. Look for reliable hosting and keep your site running at top speeds. Related Post Plug-ins are a great tool to help keep your site bounce rate down. Related Posts will find and display a list of similar post. Think of it as walking your readers through your website. Great SEO Bring the right kind of people to your website with optimized pages. If you page is optimized for your subject matter the less chances a new visitor will bounce. Check out the All-In-One SEO Pack plugin and optimize your site. Remember to fine tune as you go since search engine rankings are always changing. Please feel free to comment below or leave any suggestions you have.
With all the social media sites out there it’s a wonder that we have time to do much. Most of us running a business don’t have time to monitor our Facebook Fan Pages. Wouldn’t it be nice to know when someone has left a comment for one of your post? I have found the perfect free tool to help you manage your social media and stay on top of the game. YouTube Video ““ Hyper Alerts Here’s how it work: Get Your Free Account at the Hyper Alerts website: http://alerts.hyperinteraktiv.no/ Set-up Your Hyper Alerts: Click on the + Add new alert button to start the process. Tell Hyper Alerts which fan page or pages you’d like to monitor. There is no access via Facebook Connect so your personal information is not accessed. Pick your setting on what time you would like HyperAlerts to send your notification. Hourly, Daily, Weekly or Monthly. I would recommend that you check at least daily to keep in touch with your fans. Wait for the nifty e-mail to arrive with your notifications in a nice clean format. Right from the e-mail you can click to view the post or you can stop getting alerts of you choose to do so. Let me know what you think and feel free to comment below or share this with your friends. Know of a better social media tool? Posted By Dennis J. Smith Promote Your Business Or Cause Using Social Media ““ A Beginner’s Handbook
Here’s a short Facebook video tutorial on how you can remove a tab from your Facebook Fan Page. If you remove it on accident it is easy to add the application back to your page. Anyone who is an admin of a fan page can edit the page going to “Edit Page” in the menu. The fan page menu has been moved to the left side of the page. Pick and click “Apps” from the menu and look for Notes under the list of Added Apps. Click the “X” to the right of the application you want to remove and verify you want it removed. Refresh your fan page and the tab of the app you removed should be gone. Check out the video for more information and how you can re-add an app if you removed it on accident. Posted by Dennis J. Smith ““ Social Media Author Promote Your Business Or Cause Using Social Media
I love it when I find a cool new social media tool that I can share with friends and others. Facebook Desktop is one of those social media tools that notifies you in real-time when friends post something new to Facebook, updates their status, comments on your photos and more. All this without the need for a browser and its not intrusive when it notifies you. Notifications show on the right side of your screen briefly and then fade out of sight. If you miss a notification you can have it replay the last five updates. Users can also pause updates or adjust settings accordingly to lessen the amount of updates. You can download Facebook Desktop to your desktop free of charge. It installs within a few minutes.
Feel like you are struggling to keep up with your social media? Don’t get buried in status updates, pokes, mail and Tweets. There’s a whole lot of services out there that make it easy to manage social media. The one I like the most is Nutshell Mail from the makers of Constant Contact. Setting up an account is easy and you can use Facebook Connect, MySpace or Twitter to start your account. It’s perfect for a small business or even for personal use and its free! Nutshell sends all your social media updates, likes, tweets and more to you in a convenient e-mail. You get to set the frequency of when you receive that e-mail. It’s also very customizable so you pick what information you want to see. Below is an example of the e-mail you receive to keep you on top of your social media. Think of it as a snapshot of all your social media sites. No logging into several sites because Nutshell Mail takes care of all that for you. If someone has commented on any of your sites you can respond right from the email. It support Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Yelp, MySpace, YouTube, Foursquare, and CitySearch. See it in action today by creating your own free account here. Know of another other great social media tracking tools? Feel free to comment and let other know below. Content by Dennis J. Smith Promote Your Business Or Cause Using Social Media Available on Amazon.com in Paperback and on Kindle