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HOW TO: Set Up a Winning Facebook Fan Page. Susan Payton is the Managing Partner of Egg Marketing & Public Relations, an Internet marketing firm specializing in blogger outreach, social media, and PR. She is also the blogger behind The Marketing Eggspert Blog. With more than 300 million active users, Facebook is nearly the size of the United States in terms of population. In fact, odds are that you're a Facebook user, perhaps using it to keep in touch with family and friends, with a dash of business thrown in for good measure. Maybe you look at some of the 2 billion photos uploaded each month, or contribute a few of the 40 million daily status updates. In short: Facebook is where it's at, and you're already there. But what about your business? Does it use Facebook? Facebook Pages 101 Facebook Pages are different than profiles. . - Overview of company- Website and contact info- Press releases- Videos- Blog RSS- Twitter updates- Company news and status- Customer interaction Setting Up Your Page Enhance Your Page with Apps Promoting a Page.

Small-Business Guide - Marketing Your Business With Facebook - N. Complete Brand Marketing on Facebook | Involver. Oracle Oracle Solutions Social Relationship Management Involver Involver is Now Part of Oracle Social Relationship Management Involver and Oracle – Powering the Socially Enabled Enterprise Launch Infographic Involver, now part of Oracle, has been integrated into the Oracle Social Relationship Management (SRM) Suite. Insight Into Social Best Practices and Trends Industry’s First One-stop Social Platform Oracle Social Relationship Management delivers the first unified solution for social monitoring, marketing, applications, engagement and analysis, and it fully integrates products from Involver. Need Help for Involver Products? The point of contact for Involver support is now through Oracle Customer Support and My Oracle Support and no longer through the Involver Support portal.

Try it Request a Live Demo Watch What's New. 18 Essential Tools for Every Word-of-Mouth Marketer. Clay McDaniel is the principal and co-founder of social media marketing agency, Spring Creek Group. Find him via @springcreekgrp on Twitter. By now, most consumer marketers know they could be using Facebook, Twitter, blogs, and other social media platforms to boost brand recognition, engage customers, and drive sales. But getting a social media marketing program started – and keeping up with the rapid pace of change in the industry – can be daunting. The good news is that with the right technology tools, social media marketing programs can be managed at scale and can help the entire organization (not just the marketers!) When thinking about the technology tools you need to launch, measure, and optimize your social media marketing and online customer engagement programs, it helps to organize your efforts into categories: listening and monitoring tools; editorial, publishing, and content syndication tools; and conversation measurement tools.

Social Media Listening and Monitoring Tools 1. Inside Facebook - Tracking Facebook and the Facebook Platform fo. 30+ Apps for Doing Business on Facebook. Josh Peters is a freelance social media consultant from Salt Lake City, Utah. He authors a blog at Shuaism.com. Think LinkedIn is the only place for business? Facebook is growing rapidly and it's becoming a destination for businesses and business professionals alike to establish a presence. Here are over 30 Facebook applications to help promote, network, communicate, collaborate and accomplish more with your business.

Which apps do you use? Blog Promotion Networked Blogs app – This app shows up on your profile or in your boxes tab and displays your blog and any of the blogs you like to read. Notes (Default App) - Default App found on the right side of your profile. Social RSS – This one can be in either a box on your profile or even better, its own tab on your profile. Simplaris BlogCast - Quick and simple way to put the title of your blog post and a link to it in your feed. Business / Self Promotion Define Me – Displays a cloud of words others use to describe your business. Communication. Facebook Sharecount Button. 20 + mind-blowing social media statistics | Blog. Social media remains the hot topic of the digital world and I often get asked about the various statistics involved. This in itself is fairly difficult, as this particular online sphere is constantly shifting, evolving and growing at an astronomical rate.

But I’ve pulled together some interesting (and hopefully useful) data for a couple of the bigger players in the market... Bear in mind that these are relatively recent figures – in a few months time (or even less) a lot of it is likely to be obsolete - but for now, I think they’re a great way of demonstrating the impact that social media is having in the digital landscape. YouTube If YouTube were a country, it would be the third most-populated place in the world.20 hours-worth of video is uploaded to the site every single minute.comScore recently announced that the site had surpassed 100m viewers in the USA alone.

Facebook According to Facebook’s internal statistics: MySpace. Folowen | socialize at once. Facebook Analytics and Developer Services | Adonomics. Mputer games move into guerrilla marketing - Times Online. TC Interns’ 10 Favorite Facebook Applications. As a few titans of tech blogging recently began to go back and forth over whether platform-enhanced Facebook is really worth the hassle, we lowly interns over here at TechCrunch decided to list our favorite Facebook applications to see whether third-party additions have really improved our social networking lives. As early twenty-somethings who experienced Facebook when it was exclusively for college students and it differentiated itself from MySpace, with its simplicity and compelling lack of extraneous features, we figure we are better (at least in some respects) than these latecomers at judging the current viability of Facebook as a place where we will increasingly want to spend our time.

The following list of applications is meant, of course, to share with you some of the Facebook platform’s standouts. However, at the same time it reflects how much value the open platform has so far given to Facebook. . #1: iLike #2: Graffiti “Graffiti lets you draw on your friends’ profiles.”