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Facebook Timeline: 9 Best Practices for Brands

The Modern Media Agency Series is presented by IDG. IDC Infographic: Big Data Market to Grow 40% Per Year. Technology vendors of all sizes across hardware, software, and services stand to gain in the explosion of big data spending over the next three years. IDC predicts Big Data will become a $17 billion market. See what’s hot… Facebook Timeline officially rolled out to Brand Pages on March 30, but we're guessing that many marketers still don't know how to milk the new design for all that it's worth. Some best practices apply to all social media platforms — be human, be genuine, reply to fans, foster conversation, don't be gimmicky, and don't syndicate the same content to every social channel, etc. If yours is a small business with little budget for social media or marketing, you need not worry — you can get a lot out of Facebook for free merely by doing it well. 1. Timeline is much more image-focused than earlier iterations of Brand Pages, so start snapping. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.

4 Brands That Know How to Tell a Story Ekaterina Walter is a social media strategist at Intel. She is a part of Intel’s Social Media Center of Excellence and is responsible for company-wide social media enablement and corporate social networking strategy. She was recently elected to serve on the board of directors of WOMMA. What makes a brand stand out from its competition? For some, it’s their cutting-edge design, for others it’s their customer service. Stories, unlike any other element, allow brands to connect with customers on an emotional level. 1. TOMS shoes, which are sold at more than 500 stores around the world, was founded on the ethos that for every pair purchased, one pair is donated to a child in need. The company has developed an extension of this story online, with their One for One campaign. 2. Mr. Sadly, there has never been a real Mr. 3. Chrysler took Detroit’s gritty and tough image and used it in their "Imported From Detroit" campaign. 4. Nike’s own story is one of success.

7 Tools For Updating Facebook Timeline Pages Timeline has a way of making pages with infrequent posts look more naked than they really are, making it more important than ever to post regularly. Here are seven ways to get this job done. We’re about to discuss six different third-party tools for publishing to pages, but before we get into any of that, let’s talk about doing it directly on Facebook, inputting text and links in the status field. The algorithm that determines post placement in Facebook’s news feed tends to lower the priority updates from third-party apps. If there are good reasons not to use third-party tools, then why would you want to use them at all? With that in mind, here are six of the top tools that social media experts, brands, and agencies are using to update their pages. Argyle Social allows you to schedule and publish updates across top social networks like Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn. You can also have your latest blog post automatically delivered to those social networks using your RSS feed.

This Tool Perfectly Crops Your Cover Photo for Facebook Timeline The panoramic photo that now graces the top of every Facebook profile is pretty, but it's a far cry from practical. Most cameras don't take photos that fit into it. Photo startup Aviary announced on Thursday that it would address this problem with a crop tool designed specifically for the Facebook Timeline cover photo. The tool is part of a new Facebook photo editing app the company launched in January. To use it, you'll need to approve the app. When you're finished, the photo should fit perfectly into your Timeline, like this: There are, of course, other ways to deal with the odd size of the Timeline cover photo. But if you have a photo that requires more precision cropping, Aviary's new tool is a handy alternative.

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4 Tools to Enhance Brand Engagement on Facebook Over the past few years, Facebook marketing has moved from the domain of early adopters to a mainstream focus for nearly all businesses. During that time, a large number of social media marketing tools have emerged to help companies reach and engage with fans, run promotions and contests, and even integrate Facebook Ad programs with the rest of their social marketing. But while most marketers are currently using the myriad applications that allow them to run their ongoing programs, they may not be as familiar with tools they can use to enhance their day-to-day activities and make their programs more effective. Here are four services that offer specific functionality to boost the impact of your Facebook marketing every day. 1. Several billion pieces of content and “Stories” are shared on Facebook every day, so it would be completely overwhelming if the news feed showed all of the possible stories from your friends and the brands you like. 2. 3. 4.

Le guide Facebook ultime pour les marques, les community managers et les entrepreneurs Depuis quelques années nous vivons une bataille pour l’attention des internautes, dans laquelle les réseaux sociaux, pour ne pas dire Facebook, ont pris une place importante, grandissante, massive. Article rédigé par Genaro Bardy aka Naro, spécialiste Digital Marketing & New Media, et blogueur sur Naro Minded. Facebook, l’ogre des médias sociaux Quelle est la part de Facebook dans cette consommation des réseaux sociaux ? Énorme. Google justement. Mais l’émergence rapide de Google+ et les nombreuses innovations proposées ont obligé Facebook à un été studieux pour riposter de manière tout aussi massive. Facebook innove sous la menace de Google+ Depuis le lancement le trafic de Google+ semble baisser selon les premiers analystes, bien que plus de 40 Millions d’utilisateurs aient été convertis en à peine quelques mois. Facebook a donc réagit. Les marques et Facebook : la grande tentation Et les marques dans tout ça ? Voici, vous l’attendez : Quel intérêt, quel objectif ? Configurer sa page Facebook

FACEBOOK FAN GATE 68 Flares Twitter 2 Facebook 14 Buffer 15 Google+ 7 LinkedIn 30 inShare30 68 Flares × Ever since Facebook had a redesign, many marketers have voiced their opinions about how ineffective ‘fan-gating’ or ‘like-gating’ will be as they aren’t able to set them as the default landing page anymore. That is true; however the thought of it not being effective is far from being true. What is a fan gate? A fan gate or a ‘like gate’ allows your page to display different contents to those who are not fans and to those who are fans. Imagine a house with a gate that stops someone from getting into your house. A fan gate offers exclusive content to those who have ‘liked’ your Facebook page, those who have not will see a tab asking users to like the page in order to see what’s behind it. How to use fan gate? Although Facebook stops you from setting it as a default landing page, page owners can still direct traffic from Facebook ads to their fan gates. 1. After the page is liked: DONE! 2. Before page is liked:

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