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Have you ever wondered how you “Share” information from a fan page or your personal Timeline, a friends Timeline, to other fan pages, groups and in a private message? Here’s a video showing how to do that. Check out my other how-to videos on Facebook and YouTube. Image: Share this Link pop-up box on Facebook Did this video help you learn something new? If you have questions or would like other how-to videos please comment below.
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)
Facebook profiles are meant for individual people, they aren’t suited to meet your business needs. Pages offer more robust features for organizations, businesses, brands, and public figures, which you can learn more about here. Further, maintaining a profile for anything other than an individual person is a violation of Facebook’s Terms of Use. If you don’t convert your profile to a Page, you risk permanently losing access to the profile and all of your content. It’s not worth dealing with that so make sure you setup pages the correct way. My book Promote Your Business Or Cause Using Social Media ““ A Beginner’s Handbook covers setting up fan pages. Here are a few of the benefits on why you need a fan page and not a profile page for your business. Facebook Insights My favorite thing about pages is Facebook Insights which allows you to view your page stats. Page admins can view information on likes, comments, like source, user demographics and more. Find out what countries and cites your users are coming from along with their age and sex. You can find out more about Facebook Insights here on Facebook or search on Google for Facebook Insights. Download the Facebook Insights Guide in PDF for more specifics. Custom Landing Page This is the biggest reason why you should be using a fan page instead of profile pages. With custom landing pages you have control over content design on your fan pages. You can create custom “Welcome” pages and tabs depending on your needs. You can also reveal exclusive content only to those who “Like” your page. With iFrames you can create pages that behave just like a web page. That means you can create content using Flash, html and other web technologies. See how others are using custom fan pages to create exciting content. Get Instant Like With a profile page potential fans have to wait for you to approve them as a friend. There is no wait with a business fan page because all they have to do is "Like" the page. Ready? Click here to learn how to convert your profile to a Page. Posted by Dennis J. Smith Promote Your Business or Cause Using Social Media ““ A Beginner’s Handbook
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
This is a blog post from CreateSpace which is the publishing company for my book. It has some great information and best practice on how social media can help you promote any product or service you might have. This covers Facebook which the writer considers the granddaddy of social media. I would agree that any social media promotion should start with Facebook. Please feel free to comment with your thoughts after reading the article posted below. -Dennis Social Networking Tour ““ Facebook You’ve often heard me talk about social networking on this blog. It’s an important cog in the web 2.0 machinery, and as a result, it should be an important cog in your marketing strategy. Social networking sites offer you a way to have a conversation with readers and potential readers. In short, it’s an ideal tool to help you keep your word-of-mouth campaign in constant motion. Your friends, virtual or otherwise, are anxious to help you succeed. There are many social media sites out there, so I’ve decided to break this topic up into a five-part series. We’ll look at a different social networking site each week to learn a little bit more about them. I’ll be providing some of my experiences as an author and offer up some basic ideas for how to use them to promote yourself and your book. First up is what I’d call the granddaddy of all the sites: Facebook. It’s so socially relevant, they made a big-budget movie about it. It started out as a networking site for colleges and blew up into a worldwide phenomenon that shows no signs of slowing down. Here are some interesting facts as of the time of this writing: Facebook currently has an estimated 550,000,000 unique monthly visitors. The most current numbers reveal that the age group with the biggest presence is 35-54. Women make up 54.3 percent of the members. The fastest-growing segment is the 55-and-older age group. The average user spends more than 55 minutes per day on Facebook. The average user is a member of 12 groups. In my opinion, the best way to approach Facebook as a personal branding tool is to keep in mind that it is a social network, meaning you should treat it like any other social gathering. This isn’t the best arena for the hard sell or constant pitch. I’ve seen authors do this, and invariably someone complains, or they lose valuable Facebook connections. The most successful authors use Facebook as a platform to draw readers into their world through common interests. Posting news links, funny or inspirational quotes, pictures from signings, and updates about your experiences as an author are all good options for Facebook content. If you have a personal appearance coming up, notify your friends. They may even share your post with their friends, especially if the event is in their area. Also, start joining groups and interacting with those who participate in them. I’ve joined a number of groups that have nothing to do with my book, but from them, I’ve added people to my pool of friends. More friends means more people reading my updates and discovering that I am an author. How? I’ve identified myself as such in my profile, and a lot of my updates pertain to whatever book I am writing at the time. I’m always sure to keep the updates purely informational, so they don’t come off as sales pitches for the book. Since it has more than 500,000,000 users, there’s a very good chance that you’re already a member of the site. However, I’ve found that many authors who have accounts are hesitant to actually use them. I wholeheartedly recommend that you start using the valuable free tools and networking opportunities that Facebook presents. People want to connect with you. That’s what friends do”¦even Facebook friends! -Richard Richard Ridley is an award-winning author and paid CreateSpace contributor. Original Post is located on the CreateSpace Facebook Fan Page
Promote your Business or Cause using Social Media is a handbook for beginner’s interested in using social media to grow a small business or take any cause to the internet. Learn how to create a blog, start a blog radio show, upload videos to YouTube, Tweet on Twitter and build a fan page on Facebook with social apps and even eCommerce. Purchase your copy today for just $7.95 through CreateSpace or Amazon.com: CreateSpace ““ Order Now Online Amazon ““ Order Now Online -Available in Paperback and Kindle – Learn how to add a shopping cart to your Facebook fan page and sell product right from your fan page. – Learn how to get your own personal Facebook URL. – How to get started with WordPress and your own blog. – Twitter Tips! About the author: Dennis has been creating websites and browsing the web since the days of Netscape 1.0 while living in Seattle, Washington. His technology background goes back to the days of the Commodore Vic 20 and 64, Pong and Pac-Man. He later turned his passion for technology and web design into a love for Internet Marketing, blogging and now Social Media. He is the owner of IgniteHost and GreenHostUSA website hosting, search engine optimization and social media consulting located in Boise, Idaho and writes the tech blog GigaDroid.com for the popular Android phones. During his free time he enjoys road trips back to Seattle, exploring Idaho, microbrews, great coffee, sharing his knowledge with friends and Facebook acquaintances.
Here are 3 tools that are free and will help you grow your business through social media. There are many other applications out there and they appear and disappear as social media changes and evolves. I like these 3 listed below for their ease of use and little set-up time. Please feel free to leave a comments about the tools you use or if you use these. RSS Graffiti for Facebook Simplify your social media marketing with this free application available on Facebook. RSS Graffiti will automatically publish your RSS feeds to any of your Facebook Fan Pages. Setup is easy and and takes less than 10 minutes to establish. You can schedule how often RSS Graffiti updates your wall, set publishing limits and can even publish to Twitter. I use it to publish articles from my WordPress blog to my Facebook Fan Page. Then Facebook automatically send out a Tweet to my Twitter followers that alerts them of a new post on my blogs. Payvment E-Commerce Storefront If you are looking to sell product online with little upfront cost Payvment is the answer. Payvment is a free shopping cart application for Facebook Fan Pages and uses PayPal to process payments. Set-up is easy and most can have a storefront up and running in 1-hour or less. Visit the Facebook Fan Page of Pioneer Soap Works to see what an actual storefront is like. All In One SEO Pack WordPress Plugin This is a must have tool for any business with a hosted WordPress blog. All In One SEO is a free plugin that optimizes your blog for better search engine results. This application gives you better control over the optimization of your post, pages and site home page. Therefore your chances of moving up in search engine results increase. Easy enough for beginners yet fully customizable for those with a little more SEO background. Content by Dennis J. Smith ““ Social Media Author
Here’s a search tool that you can use to see what people are talking about on social media sites. WhosTalkin is a great way to find out what others are saying about your business or your field. Just type in your search term and WhosTalkin will search all the social media site for matching conversations and return results in a few minutes. Social Media Search Engine, WhosTalkin, Recently Integrated Facebook’s New API, Giving The Search Tool Unrepresented Reach. Pawleys Island, SC (Content by PRWEB) October 5, 2010 Social media search engine, WhosTalkin, recently integrated Facebook’s new API, giving the search tool unrepresented reach. WhosTalkin is a social media search engine that searches real time conversations from around 60 different social media gateways. Adding Facebook, marks a significant step for the almost 2 year old search company. Along with the Facebook addition, WhosTalkin, is also launching a new aggregation engine, a new real time metric, and the ability to export results directly from the search tool. Joe Hall, founder and CEO says, "We knew that in order to integrate Facebook, we would need to change the way we aggregate data to facilitate large scale searching." As a result, WhosTalkin has launched a new aggregation engine that now powers their service. Hall says, "We are very happy with initial test." The new engine will allow WhosTalkin’s developers to easily add new social media gate ways over time. "The social web is constantly changing, so we wanted our new system to be able to change and grow with it." says Hall. The new aggregation engine has opened doors for Hall to launch other features as well. "We are also launching a new metric that we think gives a very accurate picture of the level of conversations in social media." states Hall. TalkRank is a new unique metric that gauges the level of conversation in social media. TalkRank is different than other social media metrics because its based on live data. Users can continually check TalkRank to monitor trends. Along with the new aggregation engine, the search tool now also allows for instant exporting of results. The search results can be directly exported into Microsoft Excel. In the future the search company plans to provide other formats. ### For the original version on PRWeb visit: http://www.prweb.com/releases/prwebsearch/facebook/prweb4592424.htm