7 Personal Branding Secrets of Facebook Pages | Smedio | The New Media and...
Did you know that personal branding is the secret to growing your business, especially with Facebook pages? If you think about Vin Diesel, Will Smith, Tony Robbins or Mary Smith. They’ve built their success around their personal brands. You might think that this works only for celebrities. Well, here’s the good news. It works for your business as well. Personal branding depends on using the right channels to connect with customers. Your personal name is the basic core indicator of your brand. Creating Facebook pages for your business should begin with naming it after yourself. I recently discovered another great Facebook application to claim your personal web address. Use your wall picture (250 x 500) for your personal branding. 3. Your personal brand sets a positive expectation and a promise to your market. 4. Why should people visit your Facebook page if you’re doing business on Facebook or doing business with Facebook? 5. Give people a chance to personally meet and listen to you.
Top 75 Apps for Enhancing Your Facebook Page
Have you customized your Facebook page? There are thousands of apps that can help you engage with your fans. In this article I’ll focus on the top 75 Facebook apps. These apps allow you to customize your landing tabs, add your blog, add videos and photos, add chat, add polls, contests, geolocation, scheduling, email, ecommerce and much more. Why Facebook Apps? Why add apps to your Facebook Business (Fan) page? In other words, every time a fan interacts with your Fan page, it’s free advertising for you because each fan’s activity goes out into their stream (their wall and their friends’ News Feeds). Facebook App Directory However, there are literally tens of thousands from which to choose. There’s also Appbistro where you can browse their comprehensive directory of apps for businesses. You can track your metrics via Facebook Insights and see which of your tabs gets the most clicks as shown in the screenshot below: Facebook Insights - Tab Views Custom Landing Tabs TabSite - Facebook App See also:
Facebook's new features secretly add apps to your profile | Soci
When a piece of software is automatically installed on your computer without your knowledge, it's called malware. But what do you call it when Facebook apps are added to your profile without your knowledge? We discovered Wednesday that this is actually happening, and stopping it isn't as easy as checking a box in your privacy settings. If you visit certain sites while logged in to Facebook, an app for those sites will be quietly added to your Facebook profile. You don't have to have a Facebook window open, you don't need to be signed in to these sites for the apps to appear, there's no notification, and there doesn't appear to be an option to opt-out anywhere in Facebook's byzantine privacy settings. The apps appear to be related to Facebook's latest sharing features and tools. It isn't entirely clear what information these apps are pulling from user profiles or feeding back to Facebook. How to block the apps Opting out of Instant Personalization does not stop these apps from appearing.
Top 5 Facebook Marketing Mistakes Small Businesses Make
This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business. While Facebook marketing is on the rise among small businesses, many are still struggling to master the basics. "Many people have difficulty with just the basic Page set up," says social media marketing consultant Nicole Krug. "For example, I still see people setting up their business as a profile page instead of a business Page. Here are five more common Facebook marketing mistakes to avoid: 1. Ask any social marketing consultant what the number-one no-no is on Facebook, and he'll likely tell you it's "broadcasting" your messages instead of providing fans with relevant content and engaging on an continual basis. "With Facebook, marketers of any size can do effective, word-of-mouth marketing at scale for the very first time. "Your job is to interact, not just to broadcast," says Shankman. 2. 3.
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