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3 Little-Known Metrics That Can Help Optimize Your Facebook Page. Ever wonder why a particular Facebook post seems to get a lot of "likes" and "shares" one day, but with the next post, there's little to no fan interest? A lot of business owners get frustrated because they don't have the answer to why something works. Facebook has the answer -- and so should you. Facebook happens to be a powerful repository of data, yet few business owners bother to use this information, either because they don't know how to find it or they don't want to take time to analyze it. What they don't realize is that Facebook's Insights dashboard, which measures your page's user data, can be quite easy to manage once you become acquainted with a few key metrics.

Here's a look at three areas in Insights that most people don't know exist and how to use them effectively: 1. Track "engaged users" to optimize post types. Don't guess which posts your fans will respond to. Once you check out the metrics, look for similarities among your top posts and less popular posts. 2. 3. ToolsBeginnersGuide. How to Promote Your Business Events on Facebook. Creating events on Facebook can be an effective, low-cost way to market your business event. But business owners may not get the sales and new leads they're hoping for if they overlook the many small details involved in event creation and promotion. Here's how to set up an event and what works best to promote it far and wide.

How to set up your event: First, let's look at events as they appear to your Facebook fans. Click on the Events link in your homepage sidebar to see the calendar view of all upcoming events. These will include friends' birthdays, suggested events your Facebook friends have created and events you were invited to on Facebook. Related: 3 Strategies for Using Facebook's Promoted Posts To create your own event, first you need to add the Events App to your Facebook Page. 1.

The devil is in the details here -- specifically, the "more info" section of your event. More info: Follow a quick description of the event with a URL to register. 40 Useful and Creative Infographics. Six Revisions Menu Main Categories CSS HTML JavaScript Web Design WordPress Web Development Design Inspiration UX Design UI Design Freebies Tutorials Tools Links About Contact Advertise RSS Twitter Facebook 40 Useful and Creative Infographics By Jacob Gube Information graphics (or infographics) are graphical depictions of data and information.

In this collection, you’ll find forty beautiful and educational infographics, displaying the uncommon spectacle of "art meets science". 1. The proportion of ingredients for popular coffee drinks and their pronunciation keys. 2. This infographic showcases the history of the Swine Flu, starting from 1976. 3. 4. 5. The top breweries and beers in the U.S. 6. 7. 389 Years Ago A rundown of the historic events in African-American culture. 8. 9. 10. 11. An illustrated guide at how the Global Warming phenomenon works. 13.

A packed visual piece on tobacco chemicals and tobacco trade worldwide. 14. 15. 16. A graphical representation of consumer spending across the globe. 17. 12 Awesome LinkedIn Infographics in 2011. Traditional Media Not A Good Source of Leads, Say B2B Marketers [Corrected] Editor’s note: A previous version of this article, with the headline “Traditional Media Delivers Low Quantity – But Highest Quality – Leads, Say B2B Marketers” used data provided by Software Advice that inverted the quality ratings provided by respondents. The article has been amended to reflect the corrected data. Despite marketers and consumers generally believing that traditional media is best for advertising, print, radio, and TV advertising campaigns are rated poorly for their lead generation capabilities, according to results from a Software Advice survey conducted in partnership with Eloqua and CMO.com.

Looking first at opinions on lead quality, just 4% of respondents rated leads generated from print, radio, and TV ads as high quality, tied with display/CPM advertising at the bottom of the list of 14 identified channels. Looking at quality and quantity together, email marketing (house lists) appears to be a tremendous source of leads. Traditional Media Budgets Set to Decline. The Standard for Online and Internet Influence. The End of Demographics: How Marketers Are Going Deeper With Personal Data. Jamie Beckland is a Digital and Social Media Strategist at Janrain where he helps Fortune 1000 companies integrate social media technologies into their websites to improve user acquisition and engagement. He has built online communities since 2004. He tweets as @Beckland. Marketers have built a temple that needs to be torn down. Demographics have defined the target consumer for more than half a century — poorly.

Now, with emerging interest graphs from social networks, behavioral data from search outlets and lifecycle forecasting, we have much better ways of targeting potential customers. The rise of mass-produced consumer goods also brought the rise of mass-market advertising. Marketers created that buy-in by bucketing people into generations. But now, that entire system has broken down.

Fragmentation is now the norm because the pace of change is accelerating. Marketers have responded by adding more demographic information to the mix, but even that is a losing battle. Social Profile Data. How to Create a Facebook Page Vanity URL. If you haven't already, go create a Facebook Page for your business!

With now over 1 billion monthly active users, Facebook is a powerful network to tap into to expand the online footprint of your business. The next step in personalizing your business page is to get a username to create a vanity URL (customized web address). By default, your Facebook Page will get a randomly assigned number and URL, like facebook.com/pages/yourbusiness/123456789. But did you know that it's possible to customize your Facebook Page URL to something like facebook.com/yourbusiness? Choosing a username is totally optional, but it adds an extra level of professionalism and gives you a shorter, more memorable web address for your business page.

Here's How to Create a Facebook Page Vanity URL 1.) 2.) 3.) What Are the Requirements? As you're deciding on your username, consider the following requirements from Facebook: Have you created your Facebook Page vanity URL yet? Image Credit: Cea. How_to_create_epic_facebook_ads.pdf.