-Mike

Solid Advice On How To Use Facebook For Marketing

Most of your family probably has a Facebook page. Maybe your parents or grandparents even have a Facebook page. Are your customers there too? Keep reading to find out more about Facebook marketing and how to develop a strong presence on this platform.

Regular interaction is key. Make sure you take notice when people post on your page. Sometimes a member of the public will have a marketing idea that paid PR flacks overlooked. Don’t ignore fans since they happen to be the reason for your success up to now.

Try having a contest to increase followers on your Facebook page. People love to have the chance to win something. If you offer incentives, like additional entries into the contest for sharing, then you will not only give your current followers something of value, but also increase your visibility when they share your contest.

Remember to respect your followers privacy when using Facebook to market your business. If someone sends you a glowing review through a private message, remember to ask their permission before making it public. They may have chosen to send you the message that way because they did not want to be publicly acknowledged.

Try sending updates. Facebook Page Administrators can send messages to every person that “Likes” their page. When you have something valuable on your Facebook business page that your fans should know about, you can send them an update so that they’re aware of it. Be prudent with how often you do this by only sending updates to fans when it’s really important.

You probably have a personal Facebook page so you’re able to think like a customer already because you’ve been marketed to on it in the past. These tips and your knowledge can help you build a successful campaign. The harder you work, the more rewards you’ll see.

By Ajay Kumar: follow-my-blog@beingshoppers.com; Find us on Facebook @beingshoppers.com

What are my goals for completing missions?

1. Contacts. Make new contacts. Who should I friend? Who can I work with?
2. Share content. Find excellent content to share to update my social network profiles.
3. Build wealth.
4. Eliminate noise. Mute people I am not interested in working with on Empire Avenue.

What I do for each mission I complete:

1. Read it completely. I do not take on a mission that I am not willing to complete.
2. Give it a “thumbs up”.
3. Comment on every mission. Often this is a great way to connect with the individual who offered the mission.
4. “Mute” users who issue missions that I am not interested in performing. I do this so that I do not look at their missions again in the future. I want to focus on people who I am interested in. That is just me. I hope only people who find my stuff interesting engage with me.

Mission Types: I will not discuss them all. But, this will give you some ideas of the types of missions available and how you can approach them.

1. FB love (2000 to 10,000 EAVES). These missions want you to review posts on Facebook. I look for missions like this from individuals who have content that I like to share. This gives me the opportunity to look at their content and post content to my Facebook page. If you do too many of these and like too much content I have heard of people getting placed in “like” jail where they cannot like anything for a few hours.
2. Invest in my stock (1500 to 20,000 EAVES, ). These are great. Often people want to build the price of their stock. They will put up the eaves for you to invest. So free investments are always good. It just takes time.
3. Watch my Youtube video (2000 EAVES). These can be a mixed bag. I do not want to endorse a product that I am not interested in or do not believe in. However, many of the videos are worth watching and I just look out for the people whose videos I find helpful.
4. Follow me. Often people are looking to add friends on Facebook, Google +, Twitter, etc. Sometimes they will circle you back. For these missions I think it is a good idea to say something in the comments like if it is Facebook, say, anyone here can friend me on Facebook and I will accept the request.
5. Visit my blog. Often there are no strings attached visit my blog. I will do these and not do anything unless I am comfortable with the content.
6. Retweet. I need to set up a Twitter account and build it up some before I will do this. I will not take on missions and take advantage of anyone. So make sure you are not taking advantage of them either. It is a two way street.
7. Comment on a picture. Similar to reviewing a page, but, these want you to comment on one specific post. Some of these are good and some should be avoided.

Missions I avoid:

1. Install a program. I will not do a mission where a requirement is to install a program that wants to post to my Facebook wall or otherwise requires access.
2. Share. I have no problem sharing content that I agree with, but, I will not share offers that I do notthink are a good deal. If I share something it is my endorsement. I do not want to set up my followers with a bad deal.
3. Certain networks. I do not use some social networks. So I skip those missions.

While Writing this Article Here is what I did:

1. Muted 1 person.
2. Completed over a dozen missions.
3. Added fresh content to Facebook.
4. Wrote this blog post for WordPress.
5. Earned over 100,000 EAVES (would cost US$20 to purchase).

Some comments that I posted when completing the missions:

1. “Anyone here can friend request me and I will accept http://www.facebook.com/joe.north.1840?ref=tn_tnmn
2. “Great mission for stock investing. If you buy some of my stock and shout on my wall and I will reciprocate.”
3. When I invest in stock I usually say how many shares I bought in the comments.

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Italiano: versione ombreggiata e ingrandita del simboletto “like” di FB (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

You may have noticed it on some of your friends status updates already, Facebook are currently testing a new feature in the status update box that lets users share what they are doing in a more visual way.

For some Facebook who have received the update, when Facebook asks ‘What are you doing?’ it now includes a drop down menu of options like “feeling”, “eating”, “watching” etc. it seems that these feelings or actions are then added to the status update along with an emotioncon. This feature is similar to what Classic MySpace offered its users.

It is  a clever approach by Facebook as users will share their activity in a way that can be used for ad targeting or indexed in Graph Search. Here is a status update from Pete Cashmore from Mashable, he is feeling amused

Back in 2011 Facebook released the concept of Open Graph, which allowed app developers to create custom verbs and publish structured stories on behalf of a user. Thousands of apps have integrated with Open Graph but Facebook users were put off by how many apps shared their activity without them realising and in turn Open Graph got a bad reputation. Facebook says that the new status feature is not being included in Open Graph at the moment, but I suspect it will in time.

If your like me and you havent got the new status feature on your Facebook page unfortunately you will have to wait until its fully rolled out to all Facebook users.

The Wedding Stationery Co is giving three lucky couples the chance to win either some invitations or save the dates from our PRINTable ranges worth up to £45.00

Print Your Own Wedding Stationery:

Any of the designs from our website are available as a PRINTable file! We design the invitations personally for you and they can be customised with your names, wedding details and we can also change the colours around for you if you wish.

We then send you the design as a digital PDF for you to print infinite copies off on your home printer on the paper of your choice (perfect if you have lots of guests!), giving you the chance to customise your invitations further. Why not choose a beautiful hand-pressed petal paper or lovely brown Kraft card to set the design off. You can even have the design sent over in a JPEG format to insert into an email if you want to be super eco-friendly!

To enter:

1. Head over to Facebook to ‘LIKE’ and ‘SHARE’ our page with your friends; especially if they are getting married too!

2. Post a comment on our wall saying ‘Competition:’ and the name of the range that you would like to win (take a look at www.weddingstationeryco.com)

3. That’s it! The winners will be announced on the 11th May 2013.

Terms and Conditions:

The prize covers PRINTable files only in the following designs: Vintage Classic, Art Deco, Vintage Swirl, Lovebirds, Elegance,

Modern Celtic, Chevron, Autumn Leaves, Vintage Billboard, Hand Drawn & Rustic Tree.

The prize is for PRINTable save the dates or wedding invitations only.

One entry per person.

You must complete all three steps above for a valid competition entry.

Winners will be chosen at random by an impartial person and announced on our blog, Facebook page & Twitter feed.

Closing date for entries is 11th May 2013.

Prize must be claimed within two months of the closing date.

No cash or product substitutions as an alternative.

This prize does not cover bespoke invitation design and bespoke design changes cannot be made to your final choice of product.

Three rounds of proofs are included in the prize.

PRINTable info page can be found here.

Good luck!

Remember the Talent

Remember the Legacy

Remember the Man

Remember Adam

DJ AM – (RIP 1973-2009) (Photo credit: Caesar Sebastian)

I got this from a friend’s facebook account. Hilarious!

Should Facebook be monitored more heavily?

Videos are being shared between friends now more than ever on Facebook and we can’t click play without having to brace ourselves for what we may or may not see!

Personally, I stay clear of most videos in my news feed, I will only watch ones sent directly to me. When videos are circulating from the torturing of animals to self-harm to porn how can we expect our news feed to be safe? The most horrific and vile videos can be seen on Facebook and yet there are millions of 11-16 year olds who could be at the receiving end of these (yes, I know the minimum age is 13 but we all know younger people are on it- they lie).

Would you want your children watching these videos?

I think Facebook needs to crack down on the videos that are shared and be able to stop explicit videos being shared altogether or block anything with over 18 content on YouTube. Or even for people like me who don’t want the opportunity to see things like that just block videos from the news feed altogether. Have you got any better ideas?

I know it hasn’t always been like this, so when did it all change? And why? Sort it Facebook!

We have all witnessed it and almost everyone has been in the situation. You’re dating someone, things are going great and then, BOOM, out of no where you look on your gf/bf’s Facebook wall and you see some random person, “Hey Baby”. Or maybe you’re out with your man and suddenly a text message comes through, “I miss you”. “Um, baby who is that?”, you ask your girl/boyfriend. “Oh, that’s just my ex, ignore it”, they tell you. But for some reason, you already know that it is far from being over. Now, what kills me about the situation is a lot of the time these supposed to be “ex” companions wait until they actually see that the person has moved on and seems happy in their new relationship to try to slither their way back into the picture. Most of the time they do it SIMPLY because they believe they can. So whose job is it to check this person? Who needs to step up and put this ex in their place? I have a few rules.

1. Ladies, never ever argue with a man’s ex (unless that bitch gets in your face, then you need to drop her ass). Your man needs to check her. There is NO such thing as exes being friends. Don’t believe that shit. If they still talking then they are probably still fucking (or plotting it).

2. Men if you truly care about your new relationship and the new women that you felt was good enough to make a committment to, then you need to be sure your ex is 100% out of the picture. If you are not comfortable doing that then you need to re-evaluate your feelings. Your ex is your ex for a reason.

3. Never ever be the crazy ex that just won’t go away. You look thirsty, desperate, disrespectful and most importantly karma is a bitch. Ha!

So if you’re currently in a relationship that feels like a threesome because instead of you and your companion just enjoying one another, there is a third-party consistently trying to interfere, what should you do? Well it’s simple. Look your partner in the eye and say, “You are with ME now. So you ought to be focusing on making US work. I am uncomfortable with him/her consistently doing x,y and z. What are you going to do about it?” Now how they respond to this will tell you whether you need to just remove YOURSELF from the equation, because sometimes you’ll be the one who ends up hurt and looking like a fool especially when you come home and catch the two of them sexing on the brand new egyptian cotton sheets you just bought for the bedroom. The correct response should be, “Don’t worry, I will handle it and make sure they don’t call/text/bother us any more.” If they say “Well we are still friends” or “We just cool, it’s not like that” or the infamous, “He/she is going through something right now and needs someone to talk to”, DON’T BE A FOOL! Get yourself the hell up out of their messy ass relationship and move on.

The best break ups are clean breaks. I am infamous for them. I don’t call/text you nor answer/respond to you and chances are if I see you in public I won’t even speak. Yes, I keep it cold like that. I pride myself on never being the thirsty ex and I refuse to deal with one. If a man can’t keep his ex in the past then he isn’t the man for me. How about you?

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Before the demon chocolate cake arrived, our day was really good. I was able to get up and cook breakfast for everyone. A very satisfying healthy breakfast! I had my yummy Boresha fat-burning coffee and I got in my SQUATS which were surprisingly much easier today! We went to church and enjoyed a nice service and decided we would fire up the grill! YUM! One thing I absolutely love about the summer is the grill. Definitely my favorite way to cook meat among other things. I got some carne asada and chicken seasoned it with some amazing seasoning and grilled it up! I was so upset because while at the store I forgot to get cilantro. Now, cilantro is my all time favorite herb. I love it on just about everything. Then I got the brightest idea… Get some out of my own garden! DUH. It wasn’t ready until now, so for the first time I was able to use cilantro out of my own garden! It was so fragrant and delicious! Seriously can’t  wait until everything else I’m growing can be harvested.

I’ve never gardened a day in my life. Then all of a sudden last year when I started really looking into all that was in our food from the supermarket I thought to myself I will grow my own. Well, I thought about it, talked about it, but never did it. This year I was determined to get this garden started! So I did. I have two beds with tomatoes, zucchini, cucumber, carrots, string peas, string beans, lettuce, collard greens, spinach, purple carrots and green onion. I also have two planters containing strawberries and three blueberry bushes. Anyone who knows me is probably cracking up and waiting for me to f*ck it up somehow I’m sure. I never would have done this a couple years ago. In fact every place I’ve ever lived I have successfully killed every plant in site including the grass. I will have you know everything is healthy at this time. So eat that suckers.

Collard Greens

 My beds

Herbs

Strawberry Planter from Waddell Woodworking LLC (bestplace in Vancouver to get beds and planters in my opinion! Discount for repeat customers!) Everything is bigger now, but you get the idea. As you can tell I am very proud of my garden.

I have gotten a lot of feedback about starting a paleo lifestyle. Several of my friends and relatives wanted to know what got me into it or why did I decide to? I was introduced to paleo by a couple good friends of mine. They were always posting pictures of their food to a page on Facebook. Me being the nosey person I am started looking into the page they were posting to and decided to follow it as well. That page was Health and Effectivity. That month, April, he was doing a “sexy food” challenge. You post pictures of your paleo meals to the page and then a winner is determined. This page is so cool! Gives a lot of great challenges monthly. Even offers a work out regimen to follow if you are interested. The other website that I absolutely adore and is excellent is Paleo Cupboard. This website offers a shopping list and a lot of good starting recipes. There’s also a Facebook page and blog that you can get to from the website. Hope this helps those interested! Below you will find meals from today. Lunch was late and kinda led into dinner, so no pic for that. Hope you all enjoy!

Breakfast! Organic Broccoli- brussel sprout- jalapeno- onion “hash” cooked in coconut oil w/ kosher salt and pepper. 3 organic eggs w/ cumin kosher salt and pepper, turkey and bacon! YUM

Lunch/Dinner Grilled carne asada seasoned with olive oil, kosher salt, garlic, cayenne and black pepper. Grilled chicken thighs seasoned with turmeric, coriander, cumin, cinnamon, ginger, garlic, black pepper and clove. And and amazing salad of organic baby kale, beet tips, baby spinach and chards dressed with vinaigrette (evoo, vinegar, kosher salt, black pepper, raw honey, minced garlic and chopped cilantro from my garden!!! ) BEST dressing ever! And a glass of red wine, had to celebrate Cinco De Mayo…

Biggest Loser Flyer

Enter any time

Rules

1. Any overweight Dog or Cat is eligible to enter.

2. Enter by bringing to High Tails a current photo of your pet.

3. Fill out a registration card with your contact info, current pet weight and ideal weight goal.

4. As this is an “everybody wins” contest, sharing progress, setbacks, tips, etc is encouraged. You can post these on our Facebook page and/or bring in notes with your progress and a photo and we will post at the store.  Share what tips work for you, what doesn’t, new ideas, etc as you progress.

5. When you reach your dog or cat’s goal, bring in a new photo, date goal is reached, and share details:  how much weight lost, how this has changed your pet’s habits, fitness, enjoyment of life, etc—and anything else you want to share about what this accomplishment has contributed to your bond.

6. No limit to number of pets from the same household who can enter!

7. Every dog and cat who achieves his/her goal will win a supply of his favorite healthy food from High Tails, a basket of healthy treats, and a toy for active enjoyment.

8. There will be a grand prize for the Biggest Loser Cat & Dog.  It will be something awesome, selected for the particular animals winning the contest.

Come on down to High Tails Dog & Cat Outfitters

to enter:

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50633 Highway 6 & 24

(the I-70 Frontage Rd)

Glenwood Springs, CO 81601

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Social networks are very important nowadays, social networks are in the top of the best traffic sources. You can do a lot of great stuff and get a lot of good results if you know how to use the social networks properly. Social networks were created so that people around the world could connect, sort of the same reason why the internet was created, to connect people. But, social networks have the advantage of showing the others, showing info about them, showing what they like or not. Knowing customer’s prefferences is a great advantage, it makes the marketing job a lot easier.

But how to get likes on your Facebook page, how to get people to hit Google Plus “+1″ button? How to get the visitors of your website to tweet one of your articles or products? It’s quite easy, you don’t need to be a programmer or a marketer in order to do this.

All you have to do is install a Free Social Widget (click on the link). That way, the widget will be shown on your website and visitors will have the possibility to click “Like” in order to like your Facebook page, they will have the possibility to click “+1” in order to help your rank increase or they will tweet the link of your article. This way, you will get real and good social engagement.

The free social widget is provided by StatRadar.com

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Imagine being told about your accomplishments, and praised for the good things you’ve done. A while back, my mom told me about a story that takes place in an African tribe. This tribe though is very different, from other settings. It believes that every human being is special, and has something to bring into the world, and that each of us deserves love, safety and peace. When a person makes a mistake, instead of judging that person or criticizing this person, they take this person to the centre of the town and the entire tribe surrounds them. Rather than telling this person the bad characteristics about themselves, they tell this person everything wonderful thing he or she has ever done. This tribe understands in the pursuit of happiness, and peace people make mistakes, and as a human it’s natural for us to have errors. The community sees these drawbacks not as failures, but as cries for help.

Everyone wants to be cared for, and wants to know they are loved unconditionally.  There is a difference between being a bad person, and doing a bad thing, and this act shows just that. Not only do I find this kind, but I find it inspiring. I want to be a better person, after reading this.

Just remember you are beautiful, and worth something, and you’re on this earth for a reason! Thanks for reading.

Hanging with Mr. Empire Avenue (Photo credit: Jeff Hester)

There is no single secret to success. Likewise there is no single best format for a biography on Empire Avenue. You can pick and chose among many options as outlined below.

Styles of biographies of individuals in the leader boards of Empire Avenue include:

1. Tipster – People who write a few hundred or more words providing advice on how they made it in the top 100. This is the biography that I am aiming for with my biography.
2. Life story – People who provide their life story in sometimes excruciating detail and perhaps in 3rd person.
3. Warning – People who tell you all the things not to do: Don’t friend me on Facebook. Don’t ask questions. Don’t be dumb.
4. Inviting – People who tell you how to interact with with: Please friend me on Facebook. Please ask me questions in my community.
5. Contacts – People who provide all their handles online and how to connect with them.
6. Activist – People who have a cause that they are trying to promote: Animal Rights, Consumer Product Safety, you name it.
7. Business – People who use Empire Avenue to help their business and who are willing to show exactly how they do it.
8. All of the above – Some individuals include most of the information above all in well presented well written statement.
9. Cut and paste artist – These biographies are where you can see that the individual copied and pasted their biography or promotional materials from another project. It might have a dozen or more links. But, the individual did not take any time to properly format it for their Empire Avenue biography.
10. Minimalist – People who say 10 words or less. Often the individual will cover several of the above areas all in 10 words or less.

What style do you use in your biography?

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Martha Stewart, the media mogul who went from D.I.Y. goddess to convicted felon then worked her way back into America’s heart, has decided to sign up for a Match.com profile. The best part? She needs your help deciding on a profile picture.

On the Facebook page for her magazine, Martha Stewart Living, viewers are able to cast their vote for the winning photo. One features the now 71-year old in a green shirt and her signature strand of pearls. The other shows a more saucy side, trading in her pastels for black lace, windswept hair and bright pink lipstick. And let’s be honest, she doesn’t look a day over 50.

Stewart’s latest endeavor to look for love comes three years after a break up with her long-term boyfriend.

Her decision to go online has sparked some controversy, with many people seeing it as a marketing ploy (see: comments on ANY article). But I think Stewart’s use of online dating is commendable. Finding time for dating is hard, particularly when you run a multibillion dollar company. If I made $150,000+ a year (yes, that is a specification for her match) and had the necessary qualifications, I would try my hand at Martha Stewart’s heart.

Here is a list of Dos and Don’ts and Maybes I am currently using to post on my church’s Facebook page.

DO

Post general prayers such as:

“We pray for all people in their daily life and work; For our families, friends, and neighbors, and for those who are alone.”

Post “shareable” prayer postcards:

Post information on online prayer resources:

The Episcopal Church has a moderated prayer wall online that is free and open to the public.

DON’T

Do not post a prayer request with names and/or specific illnesses:

“St. Tim’s prays for Jon Doe as he undergoes surgery this afternoon.”

MAYBE

I posted a request for prayers of thanks and blessing twice and the response was good.  Here is the post I used:

“We thank you, Lord, for all the blessings of this life.”

It’s Thankful Thursday! What are you thankful for today? Please feel free to tell us in the comments below!

If a person requests prayers for themselves on your church Facebook page, you may consider posting the prayer request.