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Facebook changes the rules on business pages AGAIN…

Date: 19th August 2010
Comments: 5 Related Categories: facebook
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FAIL stampFirst they renamed Fan Pages to Business Pages, now they’re messing with the way things look.

I have to say I’m not too happy with Facebook over these changes, as they’ll affaect thousands of people who have invested time, effort and money in their Facebook pages.

So what’s happening?

1) The Boxes facility and tab is being removed. So if you have spent time making a really nice layout on your Boxes tab (which some people have) – you’re going to lose it as from next week. It’s not being changed, moved elsewhere or streamlined – it’s being removed. That also means that if you used the boxes facility to have a sign up form, or Google Analytics, or nice graphics, in the left hand side of your Facebook page, you’ll lose it.

Just because I LOOK as if I’m wasting time, doesn’t mean I am

Date: 12th July 2010
Comments: 4 Related Categories: Blogging, Cool Tools, Musings, Social Networking, facebook, twitter
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I saw an interesting post in a forum the other day – the original poster was complaining that one of his suppliers hadn’t been able to complete his work, but was blogging every day, was posting on Facebook, tweeting etc, so they couldn’t be too busy, could they?

The reason I found the post interesting, even amusing, was because the person being complained about is one of my clients, and I know how busy she is. So busy that she pays me to do her blogging, tweeting and Facebooking while she gets on with the work in hand. She also hires a VA to deal with her email, and accounts, so she’s not ‘wasting time’ there either.

Why I think you should always include a picture in a blog post

Date: 25th June 2010
Comments: 1 Related Categories: Blogging, Bonus Tips, facebook
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OK, I know all the marketing speak about a picture being worth a thousand words and a picture breaking up the text to make it more readable. I’ve listened to the experts tell me which side of the blog post the picture should go, and at which paragraph break, to get the best blog response.

But that’s not what I’m talking about (and none of them seem to agree with each other anyway!)

To me, one of the main reasons you should include a picture is simple:

When people share your blog on Facebook, without a picture it just fades away

How to promote your Facebook Fan / Like page to your Facebook contacts

Date: 7th June 2010
Comments: 1 Related Categories: facebook
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You've got a fan page and you love it. Every day you lovingly add content and nurture it, but the fan / like count is stuck in single figures – how can you make it rise?

One thing that lots of you forget is to USE YOUR NETWORK! You have contacts on Facebook alrady, right? People who are intersted in what you do? So ask THEM to become fans of / like your page.

There are two ways to do this:

1) Share the page with your contacts.