In my last post I talked about having a consistent brand – every experience your customer has with your business must send a consistent message in order for them to trust what you say about your business. Today I’d like to show you how one business is doing this while combining traditional advertising with social […]
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If you’re using Facebook to market your small business, you might want to take a look at advertising on Facebook. There are a number of ways to use ads to drive traffic and build awareness on Facebook. When you create an ad event on Facebook, you can easily create an ad to promote the event.
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Many people already know they can link their Twitter updates with their Facebook status updates – whenever you post a Tweet on Twitter it also updates your Facebook status. This can be a great time saver – you can update two social media sites for the price of one. But what about your Facebook page?
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At midnight eastern June 12th, Facebook opened the doors for people to reserve their usernames as vanity Facebook URLs (I’m www.Facebook.com/AndreaStenberg). There was a fully of activity at midnight and many experts were amazed that Facebook didn’t crash as people rushed to reserve their own names. Meanwhile, many people rushed to reserve vanity URLs for
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In the previous two blog posts I wrote about Facebook’s unwritten rules which, if broken, can get you banned from Facebook. In today’s post I’m wrapping up this series with some additional thoughts on the subject. Getting Banned Isn’t the Only Issue If you follow ethical networking strategies on Facebook and focus on quality rather
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Monday morning I saw a Tweet from internet marketer Kathleen Gage; she’d been banned from Facebook. I was surprised to say the least. I know there are spammers and unethical types on Facebook and elsewhere on the web, but Kathleen isn’t one of them. I’m connected to her in multiple social media sites and know
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One Tuesday last spring, Twitter users logged into their accounts to discover all their followers were gone. So were the people they were following. Instead of being part of one big Twitter party, everyone was alone in the virtual Twitterverse. What happened? Twitter’s server crashed and deleted everyone’s followers. For Twitter addicts this was a
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Many small business owners are still asking “what the point of social media?” In spite of Facebook’s statistics that the fastest growing group of users is the over 25 group, a large number of people still haven’t taken the plunge. Another group has signed up to Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn or another group and then scratch
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Updated May 2017 If you’re new to social media marketing and trying to figure out where to start, it can be a daunting task. There are so many different sites; where do you go first? Even if there is a social media site devoted specifically to your industry or teeming with your target market, I
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One of the hardest things about being an entrepreneur is not having someone to bounce ideas off of. You don’t have anyone in the next cubicle to ask “hey, how do you do …” However, if you’ve built a good social media network, you can have the next best thing. I’m currently organizing a course
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