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FaceBook Marketing Resource Guide

AlliedBloggers — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 18:59:45 +0000

What is there to tell about FaceBook? You know (or should know) that it is the largest social network in the sphere (presently), and that with the proper knowledge, could help you catapult your online business to a different level. Marketing on FaceBook cab be easy for experienced users, but for thsoe who are just undergoing their first steps, it might be a bit complicated to understand how it works.

The first thing on FaceBook that is not recommended is to “use” your personal account business purposes. Confusing as it may sound, personal is just that, and should limit to use it for personal related stuff only. For business purposes, FaceBook is better attained by creating “pages” that are tailored for your business.

Faissal of FansBridge, for those of you that don’t know him, is an avid social web marketer and an “addict” for all things Facebook. His eBook, FaceBook Marketing Secrets Guide, is just one of the many contributions he provides on his website. In this guide, he covers many aspects of successfully marketing your business using FaceBook and more specifically, it runs you through some important topics, such as:

1. How to create and set your Facebook Page correctly?
2. How to get free fans?
3. How to encourage your Fans?
4. How to use your page Settings?
5. How to increase your business using your page?
6. How to use the Facebook advertising system?
7. What you should do next?

And a bit more… Trully a gem whose read is highly recommended. It is free education provided by one of the most experienced users I have stumbled upon. Plus, FansBridge does not stop there. You will also find many informative articles about social media marketing.

Go give it a try. Read the eBook and you may just be surprised on how much you are missing with you marketing efforts using FaceBook.

Ways Of Aiming The Right Social Media Sites

AlliedBloggers — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 20:06:20 +0000

All of the bloggers as well as the companies are targeting the social media channels in recent days. We all know that there is only one reason to get more and more traffic to their sites and blogs. In fact, bloggers are using the way to maximize their number of visitors and companies are doing such to increase their sales. Ultimately, everyone is using the trick to make more benefits. Let’s describe in details the ways to aim the social media sites.

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Content Curation Tool and Definition

AlliedBloggers — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 20:57:02 +0000

What Is Content Curation (definition)?

Good question and my quest to find an easy to understand definition of content curation yielded very little results. I did however come across GetCurata.com which defines a content curator like this:

A Content Curator is someone who continually finds, groups, organizes and shares the best and most relevant content on a specific issue online.

I guess the above definition should shed a bit more of light about content curation, if you are quite new to the subject.

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Why Google Plus Can Be Used for Blogging Purposes

AlliedBloggers — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 00:18:52 +0000

I have good luck with Google stuff as I usually get an early invite from Google to test out their new products. It’s nothing special. I happen to be one of those people who get things rolled out to their account early. Just like Google Wave, Google Buzz, I was able to join in on Google Plus early (and without any invitation, of course). My first reaction was, ‘this is it!’

Google+ is an amazing platform. Although there are things that can be argued about, overall Google+ is a hit from my end. It turned out to be more interesting to me when I figured out that I can actually use it for blogging purposes as well. Not only that, I thought for a few minutes and came up with a few reasons why blogging on Google+ may actually be better than blogging on an actual ‘blogging‘ platform.

Today, I’d like to share those reasons with you and know what your opinion is on them.

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Facebook Comments Plugin: 5 Advantages and 5 Disadvantages

AlliedBloggers — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 23:58:27 +0000

As many of you probably know already, Facebook offers a social plugin for developers who wish to integrate their blogs further with their Facebook pages/profiles. The Facebook Comments Plugin is a simple piece of code in either FBML (Facebook Markup Language similar to HTML or Hyper Text Markup Language) or an iframe to be embedded in the source code of the blog. This plugin can be used as the only option for comments or in conjunction with the default commenting system of the blog. While many other integrated commenting plugins like Disqus also use Facebook integration, the Facebook Comments Plugin is also popular as a standalone system.

Here we shall look at the various advantages and disadvantages of the Facebook Comments Plugin.

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Are There Other Twitter Re-Tweeting Rules To Follow?

AlliedBloggers — Sat, 07 May 2011 16:12:16 +0000

As some of you know, I participate most of the time on a weekly Twitter chat on Wednesdays called Community Manager. It’s pretty neat sometimes, and today it was on the topic of blogging communities, something I like to talk about often.

Days ago I asked people if they comment on blogs they share via Twitter. It’s gotten a lively discussion and has even sparked conversation on other blogs. Well, something else came up today that begs the question as to whether people should ever be retweeting content that goes on through a Twitter Chat.

Actually, this came from someone who wasn’t even part of the chat. As I’d mentioned in the original post on chats, some folks don’t really like it when a group of people take up an hour or two for these chat sessions. I debated with myself how I felt and decided that I wanted to participate and that pretty much is that.

2 Excellent Facebook Page Apps to Get Email Notifications (2011)

AlliedBloggers — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 16:12:44 +0000

It has been four months since we talked about how to receive email notification for facebook page updates. Up till today, this feature remains unavailable on facebook. Apart from regular checking, page admin can only rely on third party applications to monitor upcoming posts and comments from fans.

I had previously introduced Page Notifier and Fan Page Notifier to monitor page activity (read this post to learn more about them). Page Notifier’s free version provides one-time-scan per 24 hours. As much I’m satisfied with its results, I longed for more scans in a day. As for Fan Page Notifier, the last time I got an email notification from it was end of December 2010. Not sure why it stopped. I went back in and updated my subscription recently, we’ll see how it performs few days later.

It’s absolutely fair to have limitations when using a free application, I understand that. In fact, I appreciate the app developers for trying to make our lives easier with these nifty facebook applications. Still, it never stops me to source for better alternatives, which is why I’m thrilled to introduce you these two new, free facebook applications that made my page monitoring a lot easier starting 2011…

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End Of Real Time Search

AlliedBloggers — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 15:14:32 +0000

An interesting article over on Programmable Web the other day about whether not it is finally the end for real time search that I suggest you read. In the article it talks about two major real time search sites that shut down in recent months leaving only Topsy and Google as the primary real time search sites (there are a handful of others too).

The article talks about whether real time search is a fad or just isn’t leveraged properly in “search engine” style results pages which is probably more the case, real time searches to have relevant results can’t have a simple single column feed that updates so quickly you can’t really read the tweets as they pass as can happen when searching for something like “Justin Bieber” on Google.

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How to Promote Your Brand on LinkedIn and Facebook Page with Testimonials (Portfolio)

AlliedBloggers — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 00:18:09 +0000

I hope you had a blast fine-tuning your blog with testimonials last week. It’s really encouraging to hear that some are trying out the methods, can’t wait to receive more feedbacks on that! In the mean time, I will be sharing few more practical ways to display testimonials (and portfolio) on your LinkedIn and Facebook Page!

Now there are definitely limitations comparing to working on a self-hosted blog because application is the main key. Not the best of plans but hopefully you can be inspired by this post and work out creative ways to promote your brand…

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16+ Facebook Tips You Don’t Want to Miss!

AlliedBloggers — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 17:53:16 +0000

It’s good to be home! For those of you who missed my last post, I was taking a short break from the net due to health reasons. Glad to start writing again, but I won’t be force feeding you with lengthy posts just yet. How about something light and easy this week with a few handy tips for your daily facebook experience?

16++ Facebook Tips You Should Not Miss!

#1 To Control Facebook Font Size for Readability
#2 To Bold and Underline your text in Facebook Chat
#3 To Bypass 420 characters limit for Status Updates
#4 To Increase the number of Pages or Friends to appear in News Feed
#5 To Display extra Information on Facebook Page Wall with ‘Founded’

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