Facebook Adds 60 Timeline Apps; What’s it Mean?
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Facebook gathered reporters in a San Francisco restaurant Wednesday evening to announce the release of 60 new apps that will allow Facebook users to automatically share more information on their timeline profiles. The implications for small- and medium-sized businesses aren’t obvious, but we’ll get back to that in a minute. A full list of available apps (I still want to more »
Read MoreQuestion of the day: How to make a message go viral on Facebook
Question of the day: “How can I get the word out and take advantage of the viral nature of social media to promote our upcoming Juice Conference?” – Skip Bates, Bangor Savings Bank Great question, Skip. It’s true, social media can be a powerful tool for spreading the news about an event, and two excellent tools to use are tagging more »
Read MoreHave people you want to know more about? Introducing the Facebook Subscribe button
Facebook has been busy rolling out several improvements recently that are designed to allow content to be viewed more broadly on Facebook and throughout the web, as well as to help you have more control over what you see in your news feed. Designed to allow you hear directly from people that you are interested in but don’t know personally more »
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A sneak peek at the new Facebook changes
Along with death and taxes, it seems we also can count on inevitable panic over the latest Facebook updates. Earlier this month, Facebook introduced a new format in which only important messages reach your wall, while other not-as-important messages only show up in what is called the “ticker.” This update is only part of what will be a major update more »
Read More5 Ways to Bolster your Facebook Privacy
Since Facebook added its new Ticker feature last week, we’ve all started to see posts and information about people we don’t know. It feels like eavesdropping. Facebook is getting blamed for playing fast and loose with privacy, but we’re seeing more than we want to know because Facebook users are poor stewards of their own privacy. Among other things, the more »
Read MoreSocial Media Maven
How to Create a Facebook Page for your Business 1.Create your page Login to Facebook with your own personal account and go to the following page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/create.php Under “Official Page” on the left, choose the type of page you are creating Give the page a name [NOTE: Choose carefully! Once you choose a page name, this CANNOT be changed. Consider more »
Read MoreQuestion of the day: How can I see if my push for Facebook fans is working?
We often receive questions from businesses that want to grow their fan base and audience on Facebook and aren’t sure how. We work with our clients on a variety of strategies including compelling content, outbound marketing, contests and more. But, the trick is in measuring the effectiveness of the effort. So how do you do that? It used to be more »
Read MoreSpreading your wings on Facebook to grow your fan base
OK, you’ve done it; you’ve built a Facebook page for your business. You’ve got a few fans and made your family and personal friends join in, and you’ve added a few posts and photos. Now what? When do the riches come? How do new people find out about your page? The answer is what we call outbound marketing, and the more »
Read MoreSocial Media Help is out there: Opportunities in Camden, Bethel and Bangor
We get asked LOTS of questions every day from people wondering why something has changed, what their strategy should be, if Google will pick up their Facebook posts, if Twitter and other social media marketing is really necessary and more. Social media has taken marketing by storm and since you are busy running a business, you may find that you and more »
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