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6 Creative Ways to Use Embedded Facebook Posts

6 Creative Ways to Use Embedded Facebook Posts
Would you like more people to see your Facebook posts? Have you used Facebook’s new feature to embed posts on your website or blog? Embedding Facebook updates on your website can help you increase visibility and engagement. How can you creatively use embedded posts as a part of your Facebook marketing strategy? Let’s find out! Here’s How It Works Twitter isn’t the only embeddable social media. You can embed most public posts from a personal profile or a page. Locating the Facebook embed post option. When you click on this, you’ll get a popup showing how the post will look and the code to use. Example of embed code. The result? As of now, you can only embed public posts from profiles and pages. Unfortunately, you can’t embed public posts from within groups or comments on a Facebook post. And your ability to embed posts depends on the privacy settings used by the person who created the post. Here are six easy ways marketers can use Facebook’s embedded posts. #1: Demonstrate Social Proof . . . .

Ocho herramientas para crear memes fácilmente Ocho herramientas para crear memes fácilmente Los memes son recursos visuales interesantes que siempre obtienen respuesta por parte de los usuarios en las redes sociales. Son elementos que pueden ayudar a promover contenidos en las redes sociales de un medio de comunicación, por los atractivos mensajes que pueden contener. Te presentamos algunas herramientas que pueden ayudarte a crear tus próximos memes, y no dudes en que se harán populares y virales: 1 . Tiene un generador de memes interno con un menú desplegable en donde se puede elegir algunos de los memes populares para editar. 2 . Es un directorio con los personajes recurrentes de los virales que actualmente circulan en la red. 3 . Tiene un sistema que permite generar o personalizar una de estas piezas. 4 . Está libre de anuncios, pero a cambio cada elemento que se cree deberá portar una marca de agua. 5 . Además de memes, aquí se puede crear GIF. 6 . En la aplicación del programa es fácil y rápido crear una de estas piezas. 7. 8.

8 Ways to Improve Your Facebook Engagement Are you looking for fun ways to get your Facebook fans engaged? Wondering how other pages are developing their posts to increase likes, shares and comments? In this article I’ll show you eight examples of how to create Facebook posts that drive more engagement on your Facebook page. #1: Solve Problems With Photos Posts with a simple image and a caption that shows fans the solution to a problem or a way to improve their daily lives receive marked engagement. Whole Foods uses this post tactic to encourage fan discussions about product-related solutions to common problems. Whole Foods boosts engagement by sharing lifestyle tips. Tips for posting images to Facebook: Larger images tend to get more likes, shares and comments. Find a great selection of socially recommended how-to’s on Snapguide or Reddit’s Life Pro Tips. #2: Give a Shout-out to Your Customers People love to see their content and their friends’ content shared by brands. Starbucks uses customers' art in their cover photo. #6: Share Quotes

Game On: Facebook Releases Unity SDK Does anyone remember the days when Facebook’s gaming ecosystem was dominated by Zynga? The social network continued to extend its reach in the gaming sector with Wednesday’s announcement of the release of a software-development kit for the Unity game engine. The new SDK was announced at Unity’s Unite developers’ conference in Vancouver, British Columbia, and Facebook said in a post on its developer blog that its goal is to ease the process for Unity developers seeking to integrate with the social network. Facebook said Unity developers can continue to write in C# and add social gaming experiences on all platforms, adding that three developers have already integrated the new SDK: Cmune with UberStrike, Madfinger with Shadowgun: Deadzone, and Nival with King’s Bounty: Legions. The social network said in its developer blog post:

10 cosas que podrías estar haciendo mal en las redes sociales Tanto has oído hablar de las ventajas de las redes sociales, que no has podido resistirte a ellas, y finalmente te has subido al tren que te lleva al mundo 2.0. Sin embargo, una vez aquí, no terminan de convencerte los resultados. La famosa tierra prometida no es tan bonita como la pintan. Conseguir notoriedad en las redes sociales no es fácil, ni seguro. No tienes una estrategia definida. Eres impaciente. No eres constante. No utilizas los canales adecuados. Infravaloras el poder de las redes sociales. No destinas los recursos suficientes. Piensas que cualquiera puede hacerlo. Te consideras el centro del universo. No respondes a tus clientes. No eres capaz de aportar valor. No eres humano, o al menos, no actúas como tal. ¿Te suenan estos errores?

New Facebook Marketing Research Shows What Works Are you wondering what works with Facebook and what’s a waste of time? Do hashtags make a difference? What about sponsored stories? There’s recently been ton of research to understand how Facebook marketing is helping (or hurting) businesses. Here are five noteworthy Facebook findings we uncovered from the latest published research. #1: 78% of U.S. Facebook is at the center of a sizable shift to mobile. Research from eMarketer predicts that this number will continue to grow and by 2017, 154.7 million Americans will be using Facebook on their mobile devices. The future of Facebook is in mobile. Key Takeaways: Mobile and social go hand in hand. #2: Paid Ads Improve Reach and Post Performance According to the 2013 Social Rich Media Benchmark Report (ShopIgniter), promoting your Facebook posts with a paid ad increases organic and viral reach significantly but reduces click-throughs. This is true for all post types (video, offers, photos, links and questions) except status updates. Your Turn

Facebook Announces New Version of Unpublished Link Posts Facebook Announces New Version of Unpublished Link Posts Unpublished link posts are about to get a whole lot better! Facebook recently announced an upcoming change to unpublished link posts that is set to take effect early in September. Page Post Photo Ad – Desktop Newsfeed There has been one drawback to this form of advertising: the image is not clickable. Current Published Link Photo Size The obvious way to avoid this is to create an unpublished link. New Page Post Link Ad Example To better accommodate advertisers, Facebook recently announced that a new version of unpublished link posts will be rolling out early in September, and will include a large image (3.5x larger than the current link post image) that will be clickable. So what does this mean? About Molly McCarty Molly joined 3Q Digital in April of 2013 after working as a marketing and social strategist for a web development firm in Washington DC.

How to Build a LinkedIn Marketing Plan that Delivers Ongoing Results Are you happy with how you are using LinkedIn? LinkedIn offers companies multiple marketing opportunities, but which ones are right for your business? In this article I’ll show you five different ways to use LinkedIn to market your business. How do you do start? You’ll want to develop a comprehensive and consistent LinkedIn marketing plan for your business to achieve long-term, sustainable success. It doesn’t matter if you’re a large corporate brand or a small business, you can build a comprehensive LinkedIn marketing strategy on a scale that suits your needs and objectives. Social Media Examiner strategy on LinkedIn includes updating the business page regularly. In order to have success with LinkedIn, you’ll need to make a long-term commitment to your plan. Remember to assess your resources first and determine what you’re willing to commit with regard to people, time and dollars. Here are 5 LinkedIn marketing ideas your business can integrate into your comprehensive marketing program.

4 Fun Ways to Improve Your Facebook Engagement Do you need to increase the visibility of your Facebook page posts? Are you looking for fresh ideas to quickly create engagement on your Facebook page? In this article, you’ll discover four ways you can create better engagement on your Facebook page using social game. Why Games? If you’re tearing your hair out worrying about the number of fans interacting with your Facebook business page, moderating your page may not be much fun. The good news is that initiating simple social games on your page’s timeline gives your page interaction a boost. Social games on your timeline encourage comments, shares and likes, and build a sense of community around your brand. Why Engagement Matters on Facebook There are more than 15 million business pages on Facebook. But every time a fan likes or interacts with a particular type of post on your page, Facebook uses that information to determine what content your fan likes most, and makes that content more prominent in their news feed. #1: Take Your Best Guess

Facebook Unveils Shared Photo Albums A picture's worth a thousand words, and now Facebook is letting others add to your conversation. The world's largest social network announced shared photo albums on Monday, a new feature that allows multiple users to upload images to the same album. The album creator can share access to as many as 50 "contributors," who can each in turn share up to 200 photos. Album creators can choose a setting that allows contributors to invite others to the album, or retain total control over album invitations. Previously, users could only upload photos to albums they created, and each album was limited to 1,000 total photos. The new shared albums have three available privacy settings: public, friends of contributors and contributors only. "Right now, if you were at a party and there were three different albums created, you might not be able to see all the photos [based on privacy settings], which is kind of confusing and frustrating," Baldwin said. "I think

3 consejos que te ayudarán a anunciarte mejor en social media Internacional.- Todos sabemos que el social media está cobrando cada vez más importancia. Esto, aunado al hecho de que la publicidad es vital para que las empresas despeguen, y no sólo para que se mantengan en el mercado, sino que alcancen una penetración mayor, pone el énfasis en utilizar ambas herramientas, tanto la publicidad como el social media, para nuestra ventaja. Por ello, compartimos contigo 3 consejos sencillos para anunciarte con éxito en el social media. Más notas relacionadas:Y tú, ¿puedes darte ciertos lujos? 1. El 99.9% de los expertos coinciden en la importancia de conocerlo bien. Debes saber, de preferencia, en dónde comen, qué visten, cómo se divierten y, sobre todo, cuál es el uso que le dan al social media. 2. Es probable que hayas visto cómo a una compañía le funcionó lanzar un spot de carácter deportivo para acompañar a su campaña sobre desodorantes; sin embargo, si tu compañía, o marca, ofrece algo muy diferente, de poco te va a servir copiar la fórmula. 3.

How To Add Twitter App On Your Facebook Fan Page | TWELVESKIP Sponsors Facebook and Twitter are currently the two social media juggernauts and together these two sites are accessed by more than a billion people worldwide. Simply having an account on these two platforms can give you a potential access to a goldmine of quick and easy advertising options in the virtual world. So make yourself, your product or service stand out in any market. Using both Twitter and Facebook, you can reach out as many people as possible that are interested in what you have to sell without having to even step out of your office. Here's an example of a Twitter Tab you can install on your page: Login to your account and search for 'Tweet Feed for Pages' (use your personal account to search for this app, not your Facebook page) or simply click here. You're all set! Adding the Twitter tab to your Facebook Fan page will ensure all your tweets stream in quick time on your Facebook page so that your followers and clients don’t miss out on any of your updates.

STUDY: Hashtags for brands on Facebook hasn’t led to much engagement In June, Facebook made hashtags live on the site, borrowing a page from Twitter’s playbook. However, analytics firm Simply Measured noted that adoption has been slow for brands, finding that 20 percent of posts from the Interbrand 100 (a list of the top 100 brands in the world) have incorporated hashtags on Facebook, but there has been no measurable effect. Simply Measured found that 98 percent of the top brands (such as Coca-Cola, McDonald’s and IBM) have a presence on Facebook. Apple and Morgan Stanley are the two companies on the Interbrand 100 list without a dedicated, company-managed Facebook page. Nate Smitha, a marketing analyst for Simply Measured, talked with Inside Facebook about why brands using hashtags hasn’t led to more engagement. At this point, hashtags are still new for Facebook users and I think that brands have not really implemented them in a way that ties them to other campaigns. Here’s a look at how these top brands have used hashtags over time:

¿Por qué comparten los usuarios en las redes sociales? ¿Por qué comparten los usuarios en las redes sociales? la pregunta del millón, que todo Social Media Planner desearía saber. Pues bien, según el último trabajo de Ipsos OTX, el 61% de los usuarios comparten principalmente aquel contenido que consideran interesante y que refleje su personalidad. Las redes sociales son el espejo de nuestra personalidad. Compartir información en las redes sociales es una tarea habitual entre los usuarios. La información útil e interesante es la que más se difunde a través de la red. El humor es otro de los componentes que consiguen que un contenido sea viral. ¿Por qué comparten los usuarios en las redes sociales? El 37% de los encuestados indica que actúa en las redes sociales para que los demás puedan hacerse una idea de cómo son en realidad. Los convencimientos y creencias personales también salen a relucir en los perfiles sociales. Los usuarios también utilizan las redes sociales para reflejar su actividad diaria.

Facebook Updates Look for Pages: This Week in Social Media Welcome to our weekly edition of what’s hot in social media news. To help you stay up to date with social media, here are some of the news items that caught our attention. What’s New This Week? Facebook Rolls Out Streamlined Look for Pages: The new look for pages on desktop “will make it easier for people to find the information they want and help page admins find the tools they use most.” “The right-side column of your timeline now displays all of your page’s posts. Facebook Updates News Feed: “The updated design has the best of both worlds: it keeps the layout and navigation people liked, but offers bigger images and photos, as well as a new font.” “An updated look for news feed so that desktop and mobile will look the same, making Facebook more consistent and easier to use across platforms.” Instagram Improves Look and Feel for Android: “These changes mean a faster, more responsive app.” The visuals are now more simplified throughout the app. You can create an audio post in seconds.

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