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How To Use Facebook’s Timeline For Marketing. You can advance your business by enabling Facebook’s timeline on your profile and posting content that promotes your brand.

How To Use Facebook’s Timeline For Marketing

Only those who have installed Facebook’s Developer application on their profiles can see timelines as of this writing, but sometime soon they will become visible to all users of the site. The cover is a big banner image that appears at the top of the Timeline profile. It’s the first thing people will see when they visit your profile so it can be used to promote your brand or distribute a message. This space is roughly 840 pixels wide by 310 pixels tall. Images smaller than this will get expanded, and that can degrade the image’s quality. Use Photoshop, Skitch, GIMP, Paint or another image editor to create an image that’s the same size as the available space. 5 Ways Facebook's New Features Will Fuel Social Shopping. Christian Taylor is founder and CEO of Payvment and developer of the number-one Facebook ecommerce platform for brands, agencies and merchants, and the world’s only Facebook Shopping Mall.

5 Ways Facebook's New Features Will Fuel Social Shopping

Many of the new features introduced at Facebook’s f8 Developer Conference last Thursday, such as a customizable Open Graph and real-time news Ticker, will have a tremendous impact on social commerce and social shopping in the very near future. SEE ALSO: How Facebook Timeline Might Radically Change the Look of Brand Pages [PICS] The Real Reason Your Customers Don't Like You on Facebook. A tale of two agency social media models. Some things actually are black and white.

A tale of two agency social media models

A conversation with a good friend in the agency world the other day (and particularly her horrified reaction to what I shared with her) prompted me to finally write this post. If your company is working with an agency on building or managing a social media program, you probably need to read this. And if you work for an agency that works with social media, you definitely need to read this. Here’s the skinny: I work with agencies around the world, and more importantly, I have friends in a lot of places, both on the brand side and the agency side. Every chance we get, we talk shop. Here is what these two models look like: Model #1: The proper, working model. In this model, the agency identifies the client’s business objectives and uses its capabilities to support them. Whatever the client’s ultimate goal (or series of goals) is, that becomes the basis for the program or campaign.

Why? Model #2 : The improper, unethical model. 1. 9 Facebook Marketing Strategies to Build Super Fans. Are you looking to attract high-quality and loyal fans to your Facebook page?

9 Facebook Marketing Strategies to Build Super Fans

Without quality fans, your Facebook marketing efforts can fizzle out quickly. Keep reading to discover nine ways you can build loyal fans who’ll love your business. In a recently published infographic, Moontoast illustrates a Facebook fan’s journey from a “Potential Fan” all the way to a “Super Fan.” The image below shows a fan’s progression. What Should Facebook Page Admistrators Do After F8?

Facebook Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg made no mention of pages during his keynote today at the company’s annual conference.

What Should Facebook Page Admistrators Do After F8?

He simply told businesses to “rethink your industries” because of Facebook’s new GraphRank, ticker and timeline products. Pages will face new challenges in both design and distribution, following the innovation trail led by profiles, just as has happened in the past. That means everything announced for profiles today will become available for pages in the future. Social Media's Impending Flood of Customer Unlikes - Brian Solis. There’s an old saying that carries renewed meaning these days: Give the people what they want.

Social Media's Impending Flood of Customer Unlikes - Brian Solis

Brands are furiously creating profiles in social networks such as Facebook and Twitter in the hopes of building engaging communities with customers and giving people what the brands think they want. The main activity in this effort is to spur consumers to “like” and “follow” a brand’s Facebook and Twitter streams. But are these companies developing effective campaigns to build engagement and give the people what they want? From where I sit, I’d say many are not. If businesses are unable to change course, a very real — and likely very painful — lesson lies ahead. Not long ago, I attended a daylong social marketing summit at the campus of a leading national brand that also housed a number of popular sub brands. It’s not that this advice isn’t helpful. When asked why consumers were breaking-up with brands in Facebook and Twitter, the top reasons cited were: Facebook Marketing For Dummies Cheat Sheet. Cheat Sheet Facebook is a social networking website that offers a free, online location to market your business, organization, or individual to the Facebook community.

Facebook Marketing For Dummies Cheat Sheet

The Facebook Page for business is fun and easy to set up, and it provides a powerful set of online tools that lets you fully engage with your customers. But to efficiently market your business in Facebook, it helps to understand the underlying principles that make all these connections possible. Understanding the Basic Principles of Facebook Facebook is creating its own virtual world, a world built on openness and transparency, where friends connect with each other about things they care about.

Following are the principles that guide the world’s largest virtual community: Freedom to share and connect: You can share whatever information you want, in any medium or format. 6 Ways B2B Companies Are Using Facebook. Is Facebook applicable for B2B companies?

6 Ways B2B Companies Are Using Facebook

Absolutely! With more than 750 million users, Facebook is useful for far more than just teenagers playing online games. The social network has become a representative sample of the world's population. Wow! A recent study... (1) Facebook to Disable “Send an Update” that Let Pages Reach Fans Directly Through Messages. Facebook has begun notifying Page owners that on September 30th it will remove the “Send an Update” option that let Page admins send Messages to their fans.

Facebook to Disable “Send an Update” that Let Pages Reach Fans Directly Through Messages

These Updates often went unseen since they were delivered to the rarely opened “Other” Facebook Messages inbox. Rather than have Page admins waste time using tool that didn’t perform well, Facebook decided it would be best to remove it. The site can already be overwhelming to marketer, so by stripping out ineffective or broken features, Facebook can get Page admins to focus on tools that build value for their brands. This will keep them from getting frustrated and moving their marketing and advertising dollars elsewhere. Send an Update is accessible from the Resources tab of the Edit Page admin interface. 9 Facebook Marketing Success Stories You Should Model. Are you curious what other companies are doing to achieve success with Facebook marketing? You’ve come to the right place. Facebook Officially Launches Smart Lists, and Special Friend Lists That Influence the News Feed. Facebook today officially launches several improvements to its Friend Lists feature that can be used to define privacy settings and filter the news feed, including some changes that leaked last week.

As we covered in depth then, users now have automatically created, populated and updated Smart Lists of their family, co-workers, classmates, and local friends. Additionally, users can now add friends to an “Acquaintances” list whose members will appear less frequently in the news feed, and a “Close Friends” list of people who will appear more frequently in news feed and whose updates will trigger notifications. By building or starting these lists for users, Facebook may be able increase adoption of the Friend Lists feature, leading users to control their privacy more nimbly, increase the relevance of their news feeds, and share a wider range of content with more specific audiences. Bookmarks, Smart Lists, and Special Lists. Using Social Sharing Buttons Leads to 7x More Mentions [Data] Social media can be a great promotional vehicle for sharing your content and helping it reach an extended audience beyond your direct network of fans, followers, and subscribers.

But are you missing out on some low-hanging fruit to make sure you give your content what's necessary to help it spread? When it comes to spreading content in social media, some of the easiest-to-pick pieces of low-hanging fruit are social sharing buttons. How to Create Social Media Business Guidelines. Social media policies and guidelines provide your business a framework to carry out your social media strategy and implement your social media tactics.

How to Create Social Media Business Guidelines

They can also have a direct impact on the success of your social media endeavors. The Ultimate Guide to Facebook Marketing. 64% of Small Businesses Think Social Media Is Unnecessary [STUDY] Small businesses don't seem to be swept up in the social media revolution, according to a new study. Hiscox, a small business insurance provider, polled 304 decision makers for U.S. businesses with between one and 249 employees in June. Of those polled, just 12% considered using social media a "must" for their business. However, 50% of respondents said they couldn't do without word-of-mouth marketing. Just 4% said the same about social media marketing. 6186 Words On Becoming A Facebook Machine (It’s a mega post!) Warning: [If you’re a social media tool chaser (not to be confused with tail chaser), this post is NOT for you.

This post is for only for smart people looking for real strategy and tactics you won’t have to trade their first born to implement. It’s my best 6,186 words of awesome thoroughness written for you! No fluff. 13 Hot Facebook Marketing Tips From the Top Pros. The Ultimate Facebook Marketing Cheat Sheet. Facebook's social network domination may frequently get challenged by emerging social media platforms like Google+, but the facts remain. With more than 845 million members in its user base , it's still the most popular social network around.