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Win A Facebook Marketing Makeover: New Facebook Contest

To celebrate the release of my newest Facebook marketing book - Facebook Marketing: An Hour A Day, Second Edition - coauthored with Chris Treadaway, I just launched a fun contest on my Facebook fan p...

10 may 12

10 Reasons To Use Google+ Hangouts To Grow Your Business

Guest blog post by Kevin K. Lau. Have you signed up for Google+ yet? If you’re not yet active on Google’s social network, you’re missing out on a powerful business tool. One of Google+...

07 apr 12

Facebook Timeline for Business Pages – 21 Key Points To Know

If you have not yet converted your Facebook fan page over to the new Timeline design, your page will automatically convert on March 30th, 2012 which is coming up fast. This post covers the majority o...

14 mar 12

Facebook Launches ‘Facebook Offers’ For Businesses

A few select brands on Facebook are currently running tests of a new Facebook product for businesses called “Offers.” The most recent Offer, which generated a fair amount of buzz in the p...

29 feb 12

Facebook Groups Get A New Design — With Cover Image

The din of excitement about Facebook Timeline for Pages might be drowning out any news about a new look for Facebook Groups! InsideFacebook.com first announced this change on February 2nd, showing th...

23 feb 12

Coca-Cola Testing Facebook Timeline Brand Page?

Facebook’s Timeline design for Pages is coming very soon! As mentioned in this post, rumor has it that Facebook will be announcing Timeline for Pages at the first ever Facebook Marketing Confer...

17 feb 12

5 Facebook Changes: Ticker, Photos, Timeline for Pages and More

Every time you log on to Facebook, you may notice a subtle change… or a massive change! This post serves to address a few of the smaller changes you may not have noticed yet, and also to let yo...

11 feb 12

Facebook Timeline Cover Images – Is Promotional Content Allowed?

Mari Smith - Facebook Timeline Cover Image When you switch to the new Facebook Timeline, one of the first new features you’ll see is the ability to add a large “Cover” image. You...

17 dec 11

My One Word Theme For 2012: GROWTH

It’s that time of year again where I ruminate for a while on which one word I would like to choose as my overarching guide for the entire following year. I find this practice to be very powerfu...

10 dec 11

7 Ways To Craft Your Facebook Posts For Maximum Shares

Facebook recently changed the way users interact with content on fan pages: any user, including non-fans, can now post on fan page walls and like/comment/share fan page content. In other words, a Fac...

14 nov 11

12 Tenets of Relationship Marketing Effectiveness

Relationship marketing refers to everything you do to make your prospective and current customers aware of your products and services, position your business in their minds as the obvious choice, and...

27 oct 11

Relationship Marketing and Social Media Projects — Mega Update

This post serves as an update of all I’ve been working on over the past couple of months — I ended up taking an unintentional hiatus from publishing my own blog posts since August. Phew! ...

24 oct 11

What’s So Exciting About Google+ – An Overview

Is Google’s hot new social network Google+ a serious “threat” to Facebook? Or Twitter? In the short or long term, I don’t think so. But, Google+ will certainly make Facebook, ...

09 aug 11

How To Edit Your New Facebook Chat Sidebar and Settings

Facebook Chat Sidebar You may have noticed the new Facebook Chat Sidebar when you logged in to Facebook recently. The list of friends displayed in this sidebar is supposed to be the friends you inter...

17 jul 11

The #1 Mistake On Your Personal Facebook Profile

When Facebook upgraded personal profiles to the new design, most of the new features took effect without much effort on the user’s part. If you don’t like a certain photo in your five-pho...

24 may 11

Facebook Old Groups Migration to New Groups – What You Need To Know

Many businesses have been confused as to whether a Facebook Group or a Facebook Page is the best solution when it comes to marketing on the largest online social network. I’ve always recommende...

10 may 11

Top Facebook Marketing Resources – Compiled in Storify

Thanks to Mashable and Robert Scoble, I recently discovered the brilliant new platform, Storify which just came out of private beta. If you often spend many long hours searching through all the diffe...

03 may 11

Gary Vaynerchuk On Scaling Social Media – Highlights from Gulltaggen, Norway

I recently had the great pleasure of speaking at the prestigious Gulltaggen (“Golden Tag”) event in Oslo, Norway. Gulltaggen is the Nordic premiere digital marketing conference. Among the...

27 apr 11

Top Ten Favorite Social Media Tools For Daily Use

There are many online tools I use every single day to manage my social media marketing effectiveness. In my recent interview with Darren Hardy for the May 2011 issue of SUCCESS Magazine, I talked abo...

06 apr 11

Six Ways To Effectively Promote Events on Facebook – Case Study

Any time you offer an event – live or virtual – there are several ways you can capitalize on Facebook’s tools to increase your event registrations. Thing is, many Facebook users cre...

22 mar 11

15 Frequently Asked Questions About Facebook Pages

Facebook provides a comprehensive Help Center with its own range of FAQs along with helpful content from a vast number of users. [Theres even a handy Leaderboard - Top Contributor - with points syste...

16 mar 11

New iFrames Facebook Page App With Fan Gate Option – from Wildfire

The clock is ticking to March 11th, 2011 when Facebook will no longer allow the creation of new FBML custom tabs/apps. Users will need to switch to iFrames where you basically create your own app and...

07 mar 11

Facebook Comments Plugin Upgrades – What You Need To Know

The Facebook Comments Box Social Plugin now includes incredible, game-changing features. When you add this plugin to your blog/website, visitors can leave a comment as their Facebook profile or any P...

02 mar 11

Essential Guide To Facebook Page Changes [SCREENSHOTS]

Facebook unveiled major upgrades to fan Pages on February 10. If you have not yet upgraded your Page(s), you can do so here. I recommended choosing the Preview option first to get a feel for whatR...

21 feb 11

How To Use The New Facebook Photo Viewer As A Marketing Tool

The recent Facebook Page upgrades unveiled some of the most complex features we’ve seen on the platform yet. Navigating Facebook as your Page OR Profile; posting and commenting on other Pages a...

15 feb 11

5 Ways To Record Videos For Your Social Media Marketing

No amount of sophisticated technology will ever take the place of connecting live, in person. When we’re with someone in person, we can feel their energy, watch their body language, and look in...

08 feb 11

Facebook Ad Targeting – Best Practices

Facebook Ads is the most targeted traffic your advertising dollars can buy. Sure, we’ve had Google AdWords for some time and they’re very powerful and effective. But Facebook takes the ab...

04 feb 11

New Tool Measures Your Facebook Page EdgeRank Score

Getting your Facebook fan page posts seen in the News Feeds is one of the most important – and elusive – aspects of marketing on Facebook. Jeff Widman of BrandGlue.com discovered that som...

31 jan 11

Four Ways To Post On Your Facebook Fan Page As Yourself

Facebook fan page Admins can only comment on fan pages they administer as the fan page ID. It’s not possible to comment as your personal profile, so long as you’re an Admin. However, clea...

26 jan 11

Facebook Fan Page Notifications With Hyper Alerts Free App!

Often when businesses set up a Facebook fan page they don’t necessarily have the time to monitor the page regularly for fan activity. Notifications of fan posts and comments would be ideal for ...

21 jan 11

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