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How to Use Facebook Targeted Posts to Improve Your Facebook Engagement Are you looking for creative ways to improve your Facebook engagement? By narrowing the people who see your posts, you can actually get more engagement. It sounds counterintuitive, but it works when done right. What Are Facebook Targeted Posts? Forget About ROI, Start Thinking About 'ROE' Word-of-mouth is gold and social media is the vessel we use to promote it, but how exactly is it accomplished? As businesses we are always looking for ways to lower the cost of acquiring new customers. It’s simple economics, the lower the acquisition cost the more sales (and money) we make…simple right? Not exactly.
Does creativity come with a price I am interested in creativity and creative learning, and so it would be interesting to understand how these would be associated with creative people and how we could provide education to nurture one’s creativity. In this post on Creativity – Does Creativity come with a price, it was found that writers were more likely to suffer from mental disorders: Writers were a whopping 121% more likely to suffer from bipolar disorder than the general population. Moreover, Simon Kyaga, the study’s lead researcher, says that authors had a “statistically significant increase” in anxiety disorders–38% to be exact. Rates of alcoholism, drug addiction, and suicide also increased among writers. Researches relating creativity and mental illnesses found that “genius may occur in appreciably introverted persons – Newton, for instance – and Einstein, Bertrand Russell, and James Joyce are all said to have had near relatives with schizophrenia.
The Future of Facebook Project by Venessa Miemis With over 600 million users and a valuation of over $70 billion, Facebook is the world's dominant social networking platform. What are the challenges a social media company of this size will face? What are the strategic moves it should make? How can Facebook users take advantage of the platform and its increasingly rich social graph? These are the questions we are addressing with the Future of Facebook video series. Using the STEEP forecasting methodology, we’ll be viewing the challenges and opportunities for this company through the lenses of Society, Technology, Environment, Economics, and Politics.
Facebook’s Ad Guidelines Now Permit Offline Gambling, Lotteries, and Dietary Supplements Facebook today announced changes to its Ad Guidelines that permit advertising for several verticals that were previously prohibited. Offline gambling can be promoted, as can online gambling if ads are targeted outside of the US and have Facebook’s explicit consent. Lottery commissions and legal dietary supplements may also be promoted with some restrictions. Ads for online pharmacies are prohibited unless they are certified and approved by Facebook
Facebook's New Custom Audiences: What They Are and How You Can Use Them - Part 1 The author's posts are entirely his or her own (excluding the unlikely event of hypnosis) and may not always reflect the views of Moz. If you're currently advertising on Facebook, you've probably heard the announcement about their new Custom Audience feature. The announcement was a pretty big deal and had most marketers salivating over the new targeting possibilities. In case you missed it, here's a brief overview of the Custom Audiences feature and tips on how you can use it to your advantage.