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		<title>Why Does My Business Need A Facebook Page?</title>
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<p>Just this week I had a little idea and put it into action immediately, I created a <a class="zem_slink" title="Facebook" rel="homepage" href="http://facebook.com">Facebook</a> Page to help my clients and other locals Buzz Up their businesses on Facebook and Twitter.</p>
<p>Now what has come out of this for me was the astonishing number of people who have created a personal profile in their business name!</p>
<p>When I did ask a few of them why, I recieved a number of answers including:</p>
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<li>&#8220;I didn&#8217;t know how to make a page&#8221;</li>
<li>&#8220;I wanted to be able to comment as my page&#8221;</li>
<li>&#8220;It was just easier&#8221;</li>
<li>&#8220;What&#8217;s the difference?&#8221;</li>
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<p>This post is for you! All of you who do now know how much you can get out of having a page on Facebook, most especially if you have a website!</p>
<p>Facebook &#8216;Like&#8217; Pages or Fan Pages as they used to be called are Facebooks answer to business profiles and they are created to represent a business, an identity or brand. In fact they are the perfect answer to doing business on Facebook, as there are a number of hidden perks for your business and your website in having a Page.</p>
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<li><strong>Pages are indexed by search engines</strong>, yes your Facebook comments, links and posts will show up in the search engines as being a representative of your brand, business and website and also <strong>serve as high quality back links to your site</strong>.</li>
<li>You can have mutiple Pages, all linked by Favoriting each other and this creates a web of indexible links back to your site.</li>
<li>You can have <strong>unlimited fans</strong> for a Page, but only 5,000 friends.</li>
<li>The box provided under your profile image can be filled with <strong>keywords </strong>which will also be indexed by the search engines and this includes your site URL</li>
<li>The &#8220;<strong>Like&#8217; factor is like a vote</strong> for your page, the more &#8216;Like&#8217;s&#8217; the more votes, and the higher ranked your Page and your own website which is linked to your fan page will be. This is great SEO for your page and your site!</li>
<li>When<strong> other pages Favorite your page,</strong> this is like another vote for your page and your ranking goes up even further and a pic of your Page shows up on their Page under the term Favorite Pages!</li>
<li>You can get away with a lot <strong>more marketing from a Page</strong> than you can from a profile, in face Facebook can and does ban you if you&#8217;re are caught using a personal Profile for marketing, too often.</li>
<li>You are allowed to<strong> message all fans at once</strong>, whereas on a personal profile you are allowed at most 20 people at once, and if you message the same message more than twice in batches your account can be suspended.</li>
<li>You can <strong>create a Welcome Tab</strong> for your Page which can look just a like a mini version of your website, and can gather readers for your blog, or Optins for your material.</li>
<li>It looks much <strong>more professional </strong>for your business than a using a personal profile, and it looks like you know what you are doing!</li>
<li>You can send every post on your Page <strong>directly to Twitter</strong> automatically</li>
<li>There are loads of <strong>great apps</strong> created just for pages!</li>
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<p>You cannot get any of this from a personal profile and if you tried you might find Facebook Admin breathing down your neck!</p>
<p>If you have a business on Facebook, please do yourself and your business a favour and get yourself a Page!</p>
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		<title>Are You Optimizing for SEO 2.0 and 3.0?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 00:13:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I personally asked Matt Cutts (yes he answered me!) on Twitter the other day if anyone could really, honestly promise you first page of Google for your keywords, his answer was an unequivacle, "No! no-one can. The newer algorithms are changed almost daily and semantic search is becoming more relevent by the minute." ]]></description>
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<p>The truth is the internet is changing very fast and one of the ways it is changing is with Search Engine Optimisation and what works now as opposed to even just 6 months ago. If you are paying for someone to SEO your site there is one very important question you need to ask them:</p>
<p><strong>&#8220;Are you optimising for Web 2.0 and 3.0?&#8221;</strong></p>
<p>If they do not know what you are talking about it might be time to rethink hiring them and this is why:</p>
<p>&#8220;Many old SEO strategies have become obsolete, for example ranking for keywords that no one ever searches for &#8211; you know, those &#8220;ego boosters&#8221; that show your site on the first page of <a class="zem_slink" title="Google" rel="homepage" href="http://google.com">Google</a>. Submitting your site to thousands of web directories to get links and submitting your site to the search engines to get indexed are two techniques no serious SEO even considers anymore. Webmasters still believe that exchanging links is the magic answer to higher rankings (they do still play a minor role in Google PageRanks), and many are still obsessing over duplicate content penalties. All these techniques are today used by the inexperienced SEO and by the &#8220;old school&#8221; DIY who fail to understand the dynamics of Web 2.0.</p>
<p><strong>The New SEO 2.0 Trends</p>
<p>Web 2.0 is a social entity, and obviously SEO for Web 2.0 needs to be social.</strong></p>
<p>Building social networks on <a class="zem_slink" title="Facebook" rel="homepage" href="http://facebook.com">Facebook</a>, <a class="zem_slink" title="LinkedIn" rel="homepage" href="http://www.linkedin.com">LinkedIn</a>, Bebo, <a class="zem_slink" title="YouTube" rel="homepage" href="http://www.youtube.com/">YouTube</a>, <a class="zem_slink" title="chromers" rel="homepage" href="http://chrome.talk4fun.net">FriendFeed</a>, Twitter and the like, is only one aspect. If you build them, the followers will not necessarily come. You have to give visitors a reason to become members of your community, and more importantly, you have to give them a reason to click on the links you submit to their attention if you want to fully benefit from the &#8220;network effect&#8221; so many web marketers are talking about today. Twitter is the perfect example of how this &#8220;network effect&#8221; can be beneficial. For example, Dell managed to make $3 million in revenue using Twitter to announce special offers and to communicate with their consumers.&#8221; (flagrantly plagarised from the SitePoint Blog <img src='http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' />  just for you)<br />
<a href="http://www.site-reference.com/articles/Search-Engines/The-Difference-Between-SEO-Web-2-0-and-Advertising.html">http://www.site-reference.com/articles/Search-Engines/The-Difference-Between-SEO-Web-2-0-and-Advertising.html</a> )</p>
<p><strong>DIY SEO Hints: </strong><br />
•    Make sure your phone listings also include your website link<br />
•    List your business website with Google Local Search, add a map, links and description<br />
•    Write articles, press releases, list with directories in your niche and local directories<br />
•    Link your internal pages to each other<br />
• <strong> Get a blog!<br />
•    Use Social Media!</strong></p>
<p>Notice the emphasis on the last two!</p>
<p>&#8220;Let&#8217;s Talk About Link Types</p>
<p><strong>Link Reputation:</strong><br />
Link reputation is just that, the aggregate or culminating characteristic that an internal or external link has acquired.</p>
<p>Each link is viewed as a vote, get enough of them from the right sources and your website gains trust; that trust directly translates into link weight which you can invest into the page or pages of your choice via internal links.</p>
<p>Once a page reaches a certain degree of trust, all of the latent aspects of the (a) content (b) title meta data (c) H1 tag, bolded text, etc. and the various keyword combinations that exist on that page as well as the anchor text linking to that page are consolidated and that page can rank for (d) all of the above.</p>
<p><strong>Authority / Trust:</strong><br />
To view the most trafficked and trusted websites online, just type in WWW into a Google search (with advanced filters set to 100 results). Every one of the sites listed there in descending order all represent the most authoritative sites online.</p>
<p>They are in such a lofty position since they are (a) linked to often (b) referenced often through citation or (c) visited frequently. This trifecta of link popularity and peer review augment the process of page and domain authority.</p>
<p>Getting a link from any website in the top 100 most trafficked or authoritative sites online (using the WWW keyword) could catapult your websites trust to a new level. The more authoritative pages your website has, the more trust, rankings and strength your overall domain can accrue.</p>
<p>How you spend that popularity (what we dub internally as ranking credit) and equity is up to you and ultimately determined by (1) the quality and topical theme of your content and (2) who you link to.</p>
<p>Once your website becomes a hub site (to other spokes in the wheel), each link is a valuable commodity which can be used to elevate other pages in your own website, pass traffic along to those who find that page (from search engines or through navigational means from other sites via links).</p>
<p>This is why it is particularly important to customize your website templates to prevent link loss through replicating too many shingles (text such as recurring navigation in the header, sidebar and footer).</p>
<p>By keeping the pages on topic and selectively using optimal anchor text, primary and secondary navigation and being selective with how you funnel the tiers within your website, you can sculpt link equity wisely within your website.</p>
<p>Trust is the last thing you get and it takes links from the right sources, quality content, popularity and time.</p>
<p>The real secret to link building is to start from within your website first, look for lateral opportunities to acquire links from trusted sources, use syndication wisely (RSS, Article Marketing, Directory Submissions, etc.), add a nice blend of social media, PR (press releases) and when possible get as many themed relevant links from others from within your own industry to balance your websites link profile.&#8221; (Again I have taken the best from another post on Site Reference here: <a href="http://www.site-reference.com/articles/Search-Engines/Link-Building-SEO-Link-Types-and-Tactics.html#ixzz0sJiuZ0x5">http://www.site-reference.com/articles/Search-Engines/Link-Building-SEO-Link-Types-and-Tactics.html#ixzz0sJiuZ0x5</a> )</p>
<p>If you have been told that onsite SEO is more important than offsite SEO, that you must keep submitting your site to directories on a daily basis, that you must keep finding the best keywords and updating them weekly &#8211; you are talking to someone who has not upgraded their SEO education for a long time. These days SEO is more about what you do offsite than onsite, about 60/40 so get your site right, your keywords right and then get out there and be social!</p>
<p>Only submit to the newer directories which allow you to update all your information, add images, products and more, these are the backlinks that will count along with your social media linking. Facebook is the biggest site on the web, don&#8217;t you think this might mean that if you put a link back to your site on FB, it might carry a LOT of authority?</p>
<p>SEO is all about staying up with the times, I personally asked <a class="zem_slink" title="Matt Cutts" rel="homepage" href="http://www.mattcutts.com">Matt Cutts</a> (yes he answered me!) on Twitter the other day if anyone could really, honestly promise you first page of Google for your keywords, his answer was an unequivacle, &#8220;No! no-one can.&#8221; Paraphrased: Our newer algorithms are changed almost daily and semantic search is becoming more relevent by the minute.</p>
<p>What&#8217;s semantic search? Web 3.0 &#8211; where your past searches will influence your current searches for each persons IP address, how can anyone promise the first page of Google or any other search engine if all past searches that each individual person makes will influence their future searches? Think about it!</p>
<p>The people who are promising you this will not promise you first page of Google for your keywords, they do promise you first page for certain minor keywords in a local search, not the same thing at all! It is certainly time to be smarter with your time and smarter with your money, spend both wisely on what is working and what is going to continue to work.</p>
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		<title>Corporate Social Media Must Haves!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 05:21:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After a conversation with one of my best clients yesterday, I was shocked to hear that some businesses and corporations still seem to think that social media is just a passing fad. Social Media is in fact taking the world by storm]]></description>
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<p>After a conversation with one of my best clients yesterday, I was shocked to hear that some businesses and corporations still seem to think that social media is just a passing fad. Social Media is in fact taking the world by storm and proof of this is that some of the biggest corporations are not only taking it on they are excelling at it! Look at big brands like Coca Cola, Burger King, Ford, Dell and of course the meteoric success of Starbucks all using social media well.</p>
<p>There are of course some brands who are missing the mark big time and the reasons for this are many, with the main reason being that they are using an old mindset to use new tools.</p>
<p><strong>Old mindsets that miss the mark are:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Social Media is just a passing trend:</strong> not with the numbers on social media steadily rising every day and more social media sites popping up weekly.</li>
<li><strong>Social media is too time consuming</strong>: a social media strategy needs only to set  one or two times a day to be on social media and choosing the right sites on which to put your profiles is a part of the strategy.</li>
<li><strong>Social Media is viewed as just another advertising channel:</strong> social media is anything but this, in fact we must look at it in an entirely new light. Social Media for corporations needs to be put in its own more autonomous category altogether as part of a larger marketing strategy.</li>
<li>They think that it isn&#8217;t worth setting up a central strategy: Social Media is about having a global strategy and global audience, but this must be both created and monitored by the international head office of the corporation.</li>
<li>They aren&#8217;t trying to build communities: using your social media profiles as just another place to advertise, sending out link after link or sales pitch after sales pitch with no conversation is not what social media is about at all.</li>
<li><strong>They don&#8217;t see the long term view: </strong>social media is exponetial and can grow very quickly, BUT it can take little while to generate the trust and respect needed to allow fans to connect with a big brand and this takes time!</li>
<li><strong>They can&#8217;t track it properly so they don&#8217;t trust it: </strong>the metrics are there, but as old mindset marketers everywhere bewail &#8211; none of it is entirely definitive &#8211; this is people and trend driven and unless big brands are keeping up they will go down.</li>
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<p><strong>What Corporations who miss the mark are missing:</strong></p>
<p><strong>Social Media is SOCIAL:</strong> it&#8217;s about building relationships based on trust and respect for the person handling the profiles, this means one very important thing &#8211; you MUST have trust and respect for the person you have handling those profiles. Do they post in ways that authentically represent the brand? Do they have the integrity and sense of enthusiasm necessary to show passion for the brand? Are they incentivise to create a worldwide audience? Starbucks could not have done what they did with social media if they hadn&#8217;t had someone handling their social media who filled this criteria, who is handling your social media strategy?</p>
<p>If this was farmed out to young Sally because she understands Facebook and Twitter, you may want to rethink this. Social Media is a profession and it needs a professional to handle branding and dissemination of your marketing messages and brand awareness, if this is not possible it needs to be someone who is passionate about the brand and has the best interests of it at heart. Social media is fast becoming the &#8216;voice&#8217; of the world, you not only need to know what they&#8217;re saying about you, you need to be listening and responding. Because it is the &#8216;voice of the world&#8217; who is going to be deciding if your corporation makes it or not, yes social media is just that powerful. If you doubt this just take a look at what is happening with BP right now, or what happened with Nestle, Pampers and of course the makers of Mortrin.</p>
<p><strong>Social Media Requires Transparancy: </strong>now this is a big one for many large corporations, the idea that the marketing message is going to be in the hands of &#8216;the people&#8217;, and worse that they may recieve negative comments on their social media profiles where everyone can see them. Here&#8217;s a hard fact &#8211; both of these things are happening anyway and with no listening ear or social media presence what can you do about it? Nothing! The lessons from Domino&#8217;s and other brand who were caught out on social media are profound, when you can hear and converse with your market, when you are in a relationship with them you can create enormous good will and word of mouth by admitting you were wrong and finding a way to settle any disagreements with style and flair!</p>
<p>Not only this, but this kind of transparency also helps to create brand advocates and even evangelists who see your brand as trustworthy, just because your brand was there on the spot admitting you were wrong and settling the dispute online right in front of the world. You can gain such amazing charisma from these small acts of kindness, proving that your brand is still listening to the little guy. This is your opportunity to take the BIG out of BIg brand and bring a warm and fuzzy feeling to your customers that will translate into bottom line win/win for all.</p>
<p><strong>Social Media Means Sharing:</strong> Yes, we&#8217;re back talking about &#8216;warm and fuzzy&#8217; things again. Sharing means listening, communicating and collaboration with your customers, which also means you will be right at the coal face and able to ask your customers what they want from your brand. Talk about the simplest way to &#8216;test&#8217; the market, think of the opportunities to raise your brands worldwide profile! Starbucks have this down pat, asking their audience to &#8216;design&#8217; the next coffee or the Technorati asking their audience to help them design their new logo. This kind of sharing means trust is a two way street and this builds even more trust, this kind of mutual trust and admiration can only translate in higher profits.</p>
<p><strong>Social Media is About Being Authentic:</strong> Now this comes back to a point I made earlier in this post about who you trust to handle your social media branded profiles. Because social media requires an authentic mindset from everyone and I mean everyone, corporations need to have someone who understand who your brand is, what the brands vision and mission is. What personality your brand has, because your brand needs to be HUMAN! People want to do business with people, social media is to blame for this as it makes every brand more accessable. This is key! Only humans can be authentic, corporations cannot, the human you have as your voice on social media needs to be authentic and authentically representing your brand.</p>
<p><strong>Social Media Requires Consistency:</strong> There is no set and forget in social media, someone needs to be online daily or at least very regularly, in fact the bigger your corporation the more often you will need to be there. This will mean you must have a strategy, a team of people who know what they&#8217;re doing and scheduling, goals and outcomes in place. Social media is constantly changing and growing and you will need someone in charge who is on top of what&#8217;s happening and what&#8217;s trending and what to do next. Someone who understands that social media is all about trickle feeding your social media profiles consistently, answering questions and complaints daily, praising and rewarding your brand advocates and evangelists and coming up with innovative and creative ways to engage your online audience.</p>
<p>Social Media for Corporations needs to be set up by someone who understands your brand and how best to use the different social media platforms for maximum effect, which ones will work for you and how to create initial and continuous engagement for your corporation. Corporations need to start now, social media is not a trend that will die out, in fact it is a steadily growing trend that sees no end to its exponential growth, look at Facebook now topping 500 Million users by mid-July &#8211; the world has found its voice and it is has no intention of losing it again.</p>
<p>Get ready for a whole new world or get left behind.</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 05:25:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Copyright &#169; 2010 AnnieInfinite. Visit the original article at http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/index.php/ins-and-outs-of-facebook-pages/.Ins 1st of all BIG ANNOUNCEMENT! Now you can remove the creator of your page and this is big news because in the past if you allowed an employee or consultant to create a page for you they owned it for life! Now however you can <a href='http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/index.php/ins-and-outs-of-facebook-pages/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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<ol>
<li> 1st of all  BIG ANNOUNCEMENT! Now you can <strong>remove the creator of your page </strong>and this is big news because in the past if you allowed an employee or consultant to create a page for you they owned it for life! Now however you can remove them as admin and retain ownership of your branded page this also unlinks you from your branded page if that is something you want to do.<br />
<strong>Follow the steps below:</strong><br />
While logged in go to the fan page you want to unlink from your personal profile.<br />
Click “edit page” under the profile image.<br />
If you (the creator) are the only admin, add a 2nd admin that you want to transfer the fan page to.<br />
Refresh your page if the 2nd admin doesn’t automatically show up.<br />
You will see a “remove admin” link under the creator’s name…simply click the link and the 2nd (or additional) admin will now have control over the fan page and you the creator will not have access to the Edit Page area.<br />
Refresh your page.<br />
You will be taken back to your <a class="zem_slink" title="Facebook" rel="homepage" href="http://facebook.com">Facebook</a> home page since you no longer have access to the fan page you were editing.<br />
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<p>&gt;</p>
<li>There is some debate about branded Fan (Like) Pages &#8211; whether to <strong>combine it with your personal account or</strong><strong> n</strong><strong>ot</strong>. One of the reasons it is a good idea to combine them both is one I have mentioned before &#8211; being indexed by Search Engines. You will get more SEO from a combined account than you will from an unlinked account! Also it is easier to &#8216;Ignore&#8217; a friend request by asking the person to &#8216;Like&#8217; your page instead and you will get referrals from real world and FB friends when they know what you are doing and what your skills are.</li>
<p>&gt;</p>
<li>Make sure you have the <strong>main information </strong>in your Info page ticked to allow it to show up under your profile image and make sure that the little box provided under your profile image includes your keywords as the search engines use both of these to index your page.</li>
<p>&gt;</p>
<li><strong>Facebook Social Plugins for Pages </strong>are a great way to optimise your branded page and get the word out there about it via your other sites and profiles use them to full effect. They can be found at: http://developers.facebook.com/plugins or<a href="http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/FB_promotepage.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-196" title="FB_promotepage" src="http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/FB_promotepage.jpg" alt="" width="189" height="158" /></a><br />
Go to your Page<br />
Click on Edit Page<br />
Copy the Profile ID onto a notebook page on your computer or just write them down &#8211; this is the numbers after the id= in the URL<br />
Scroll down until you see &#8216;Promote Page with a Like Box&#8217;<br />
Click on this link and follow the instructions<br />
Copy the code and paste into an <a class="zem_slink" title="HTML" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML">HTML</a> box on your on your Profile or any of your sites or blogs</li>
<p>&gt;</p>
<li><strong>Set up a Welcome Page</strong>, this is becoming easier, we used to always use <a class="zem_slink" title="Facebook features" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook_features">FBML</a> or HTML apps for this but now there is a new app called&#8230; wait for it&#8230; Welcome Page! This app still uses html script, but it has the added functionality of tracking your Welcome page hits and is a might easier to use than the others. So give it a try.</li>
<p>&gt;</p>
<li><strong>Tagging yourself or other users or pages </strong>with the @ symbol just like on Twitter, during your posts is another way to be seen, however there is a word of caution here, please use this function with discretion and finesse. Tagging means that the post will not only appear on your wall, but the personal wall of the person or page you have tagged and if done too often can be seen as spamming. I was one of the first people to realise that this function applied to pages as well as people and when I first began to use it I was beseiged with requests from other users and IT consultants for the secret to placing my posts on other pages walls, and there it is just tagging the page in my post.<br />
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<p>&gt;</p>
<li>Use a small <strong>HTML box on your Wall Tab </strong>(200px wide) to feature upcoming events, launches or special announcements on your Page for maximum exposure.</li>
<p>&gt;</p>
<li>Add a &#8216;<strong>Web Profiles app</strong> which allows you to show your other points of contact including your site, blog and other social media profiles as badges on your Wall Tab.<br />
&gt;<br />
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<li><strong>Favourite other pages</strong> on Facebook to your own FB Page this acts a little like backlinks on your site, now that being said don&#8217;t go overboard, but once you do this you can go to that page and leave a comment that your page has favourited their page &#8211; once! Hopefully they will take the hint and reciprocate, if they do not you might want to unfavourite them or if they have a lot of fans leave it in place as you may find it brings you more fans just by association.</li>
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<p><strong>Outs</strong></p>
<ol>
<li> <strong>The Facebook Privacy Debate:</strong> This debate is ongoing and will continue to be as FB administrators and creators try to keep ahead of the online game. My take on this is: if you want to keep your private stuff private &#8211; don&#8217;t put it on the web at all. Choose carefully and add just enough to show your humanity without allowing your profiles anywhere to become filled with your most private photos or information. The thing is whether it&#8217;s Facebook or not the web never deletes anything properly &#8211; &#8220;What&#8217;s on the net, stays on the net.&#8221; (Annie Infinite 2010) Try looking up someone you know has been on the internet for a long time, just <a class="zem_slink" title="Google" rel="homepage" href="http://google.com">Google</a> their name and you will see things from 10, 12.. years ago, information they might rather not have you know, or embarrassing things etc..<strong>HINT</strong>: this is a great way to find out more about the kind of person you might be dealing with in business or personally.</li>
<p>&gt;</p>
<li>Now that any <strong>admin can remove any other admin</strong> on Branded FB Pages you need to be very careful who you allow to be an admin, you wouldn&#8217;t want to be removed from your own Fan Page!</li>
<p>&gt;</p>
<li>Since the latest changes to FB Pages included modifications to <strong>the Info Tab</strong>, (I have had a lot of clients and others asking what they can do, my first recommendation is to just fill up the areas you are given with as much information as possible, not just the information that is asked for. My second recommendation is to add either Extended Information app or the HTML app as a tab to brand your page with more information or a Welcome tab (see Ins) and See this post for more about using the HTML or FBML apps: http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/index.php/facebook-for-business-are-you-missing-out/&gt;</li>
<li>While not strictly speaking an Out this is required reading, do read the <strong>FB Promotion Guidelines</strong> and make sure to stay within the boundaries. If you don&#8217;t you&#8217;re out! You can get your page reinstated, but why go to all that trouble when it is easier to do the right thing by everyone, including yourself.</li>
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<p>and you just have to read this post by Wong Ching Ya: <a href="http://www.wchingya.com/2010/06/facebook-applications-enhance-fan-page.html">31 Facebook Applications to Enhance Your Facebook Page</a></p>
<p><strong>Older TZB posts mentioning Facebook Pages:</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/index.php/what-facebooks-new-likes-and-interests-means-for-marketers/">http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/index.php/what-facebooks-new-likes-and-interests-means-for-marketers/</a><br />
<a href="http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/index.php/how-to-grow-your-facebook-fans/">http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/index.php/how-to-grow-your-facebook-fans/</a><br />
<a href="http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/index.php/facebook-pages-goals-fans-and-engagement/">http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/index.php/facebook-pages-goals-fans-and-engagement/</a></p>
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		<title>What&#8217;s all the Hype About Location Based Marketing?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 May 2010 22:30:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The new 'smart' phones are about to change the web again forever and one of the ways you can stay ahead of the game, along with making sure your site is optimized for mobile is to 'geo-tag' your site with one of the new location based social sites: Foursquare]]></description>
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<p>The new &#8216;smart&#8217; phones are about to change the web again forever and one of the ways you can stay ahead of the game, along with making sure your site is optimized for mobile is to <strong>&#8216;geo-tag&#8217; your site</strong> with one of the new <strong>location based social sites</strong>: <a class="zem_slink" title="Foursquare" rel="homepage" href="http://www.foursquare.com">Foursquare</a>, <a class="zem_slink" title="Gowalla" rel="homepage" href="http://gowalla.com">Gowalla</a>, BriteKite, Yelp, MyTown&#8230;</p>
<p>A simple explanation for these new <strong>geo-tagging</strong> sites is that location based social networking allows members of those communities to share their location through GPS, mobile email or text message. Once you have been located in an area you can then get a list of businesses and venues to choose from, simply choose the coffee shop, shopping centre, club or resort where you are actually located and &#8216;check in&#8217;. Once you have done this you can add comments and reviews about the venue, or let friends know your there and meet up.</p>
<p>For members this allows them to broadcast their whereabouts and ask others to join them, or just show off, but f<strong>or businesses this is a whole new ballgame! </strong></p>
<p>What&#8217;s really interesting about an app like Foursquare, currently the leading location based community site, after coming from behind after a late start, is how local businesses can leverage their presence on the site to attract more customers. The idea is that Foursquare and Gowalla and others give out &#8216;badges&#8217; and other kinds of kudos to members for checking in. The more times you check in the more badges and honours the member gets until they earn what is called a &#8216;Mayorship&#8217; (on Foursquare).</p>
<p>A &#8216;Mayorship&#8217; usually comes with a prize and this is determined by the business itself, usually a discount or an extra added bonus for being a regular. <strong>This takes &#8216;checking in&#8217;to your business to the level of an online game and gaming is huge!</strong></p>
<p><strong>Let&#8217;s give an example:</strong></p>
<p>Imagine you are visiting a new city for the first time, before you go you log onto the site and search for &#8220;resorts in Noosa&#8221; and up pops a list of resorts, scrolling through you find the perfect accommodation (with great onsite reviews) for you and make a booking after noting down the phone number or website booking page. When you arrive at the resort you make sure to &#8216;checkin&#8217; at Foursquare as you check into your hotel, you get to your room and using your phone again you log on and &#8216;search&#8217; the area for a restaurant, you have a taste for Thai food tonight so your search is for &#8220;Thai food in Noosa.&#8221; Again a list of suitable place pops up and you check the reviews and find one that everyone seems to rave about and ring them and make a reservation. Of course when you get there you &#8216;check in&#8217; at Foursquare as they have a special, if you check in 3 times you will get a free bottle of wine with your meal.</p>
<p>Next morning you want to shop&#8230;</p>
<p>Now the list of sites you get is based on those smart early adopters who have listed their sites and/or made sure their sites were coded with GIS data, those that don&#8217;t show up have lost out. Are you listed?</p>
<p>From a marketing perspective the introduction of location based social sites is a goldmine:</p>
<ol>
<li>Prequalified Target: The consumer is already near you and looking for something in your area, if you are closer to where the customer is located they are much more likely to come to you &#8211; location based marketing. Interestingly if the consumer doesn&#8217;t use a search term the site they are using just gives them a list of businesses near them so there is also the probability of dropins as people learn that your business is close.</li>
<li>Increased Impulse Buying: Your marketing message is delivered to the consumer, in real time, as they search for businesses in their area, e.g. &#8220;Customers who dine with us in the next 30 minutes recieve a 15% discount,&#8221; prompting an immediate response.</li>
<li>Relationship Marketing: Customers who frequent your business earn badges and &#8216;Mayorships&#8217; thus earning loyalty bonuses and building a relationship with you and your business (there are many ways this can be capitalised on in a win-win for you and your customer). This also create a history with you which can be used as research for your marketing, tracking what works and what doesn&#8217;t and responding to the customer trends allows you to give your customers what they want from you.</li>
<li>Targeted Promotions and Direct Marketing: Your promotions are truly targetted to your customers in real time via their own location, search and &#8216;checkin&#8217; habits and are delivered on demand. No waste of flyers or advertising in other ways.</li>
<li>Customer Engagement: By earning badges and bonuses your customer feels like a &#8216;star&#8217; in your eyes and uses this emotional engagement to boast to their friends, creating brand recognition and loyatly and amazing word-of-mouth marketing that easily goes fractal (my version of viral).</li>
<li>ROI: Loyaty and &#8216;Gaming&#8217; for badges and Mayorships determines a high rate of repeat &#8216;checkins&#8217; and purchases with amazing Return on Investment.</li>
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<p>If you are going to use more than one site for instance Foursquare and Gowalla make sure you have thoroughly researched beforehand the different ways these sites earn customer loyalty and plan ahead. Add your website and your specials to each site and then make sure you advertise your presence on these sites and the specials customers and clients will recieve for &#8216;checking in&#8217; on social media and on the front door of your business/es.</p>
<p>Make sure everyone who interacts with your business knows that you are on these sites and that you are rewarding loyalty online and offline!</p>
<p>These new location bases social sites are still new and updating their customization options all the time so make sure you keep track of what&#8217;s available to businesses e.g. :</p>
<p><strong>Foursquare</strong>: Once you have an account on Foursquare you can then create to-do lists giving users and &#8216;friends&#8217; a list of places to explore in your area, imagine the possibilities of adding to-do lists that include your business?</p>
<p>You can then add your business, if it is already added by someone else you can then claim your business which will be verified by them via phone call or email to make sure you really are the manager or marketing manager of that site. When you do this you immediately have the chance to create your first visitors and Mayorship specials.</p>
<p>Please know ahead of time what specials you would like to offer people for their loyaly, there are options to reward customers for different levels of loyatly including how many visits, immediate specials&#8230;</p>
<p>Then it is time to decide how to use the many options available to your business to <strong>reward customer loyalty:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Coupons</li>
<li>Travel and sightseeing tips</li>
<li>Recommendations (cross marketing opportunities abound)</li>
<li>Specials</li>
</ul>
<p>Now it&#8217;s up to you, how many ways can you think of to use this new location based marketing?</p>
<p>More links for your research into Location Based Marketing:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2010/04/20/google-local-business-center-now-google-places">http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2010/04/20/google-local-business-center-now-google-places</a><br />
<a href="http://mashable.com/2010/02/19/business-geolcation-ready/">http://mashable.com/2010/02/19/business-geolcation-ready/</a><br />
<a href="http://mashable.com/2009/12/10/fourquare-tips/">http://mashable.com/2009/12/10/fourquare-tips/</a><br />
<a href="http://mashable.com/2009/12/10/fourquare-tips/">http://mashable.com/2010/01/15/10-foursquare-apps/</a></p>
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		<dc:creator>AnnieInfinite</dc:creator>
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<p>Why, I hear you ask?</p>
<p>First of all go take another look at the &#8216;Info&#8217; tab on your profile, if you&#8217;re like many FBer&#8217;s you hardly ever look at your own &#8216;Info&#8217; tab, you will see that now all the information you filled out on that page concerning your interests both business and personal have been attached to new pages with their own Thumbnails, some of these thumbnails have no real pages &#8211; yet.</p>
<p>What this means for marketers is that you can now target your marketing according to all this new information which is being indexed and geo &#8211; tagged via <a class="zem_slink" title="Google" rel="homepage" href="http://google.com">Google</a>!</p>
<p>Let me run that by you again &#8211; everything that you fill out on your Info tab is now not only indexable and targetable it is being used by <a href="http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/index.php/facebook-for-business-are-you-missing-out/">Facebook</a> to do just that! That&#8217;s why we do not &#8216;Fan&#8217; pages any more, this is why we now like Pages &#8211; because we can now target those &#8216;likes and interests&#8217; and market directly to the people who have clicked on them.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">No longer are fans only targetable by their own pages, they are targetable via their own profiles and the &#8216;likes and interests&#8217; that are catalogued on their profiles as well. Now every time you click you &#8216;LIKE&#8217; something: e.g. a movie, book, music, a news story or an FB Page &#8211; this data is added to the general social search engine that is <a href="http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/index.php/facebook-for-business-are-you-missing-out/">Facebook</a> and this updates your permanent Facebook profile at the same time.</p>
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<p style="text-align: left;">Now I want to make it clear Facebook does not expose your data to everyone &#8211; only to those people you&#8217;ve have given permission to as a friend will actually see your profile as always, but the collated data us now being used by Facebook Advertising to target marketing more specifically to those who have shown an interest via the &#8216;likes and interests&#8217; including FB Pages on their profile.</p>
<p>This makes FaceBook  Advertising rival Google and perhaps be even more influencial, FB are not relying on keywords but rather YOUR likes and interests, now that&#8217;s a step forward in the evolution of online marketing!!</p>
<p>For more information check out this Mashable post: <a title="Mashable" href="http://mashable.com/2010/04/19/facebook-pages">http://mashable.com/2010/04/19/facebook-pages</a></p>
<p>and this one is a video from Mark Zuckerberg himself on Facebook Changes to expect: <a href="http://mashable.com/2010/04/21/zuckerberg-video/">http://mashable.com/2010/04/21/zuckerberg-video/</a></p>
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<blockquote><p>&#8220;<em>Of all the endeavors we humans are now engaged in, perhaps the grandest of them all is <strong>the steady weaving together of our lives, minds, and artifacts into a global scale network. </strong> This great work has been going on for decades, but recently our ability to connect has accelerated. Two brand-new technological achievements&#8211;the silicon chip and the silicate glass fiber&#8211;have rammed together with incredible speed. Like nuclear particles crashing together in a cyclotron, the intersection of these two innovations has unleashed a never-before-seen force: the power of a pervasive net. As this grand net spreads, an animated swarm is reticulating the surface of the planet. We are clothing the globe with a network society.</p>
<p><strong>The dynamic of our society, and particularly our new economy, will increasingly obey the logic of networks</strong>. Understanding how networks work will be the key to understanding how the economy works.</em>&#8221; (<a class="zem_slink" title="New Rules for the New Economy" rel="amazon" href="http://www.amazon.com/New-Rules-Economy-Kevin-Kelly/dp/014028060X%3FSubscriptionId%3D0G81C5DAZ03ZR9WH9X82%26tag%3Dzemanta-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D014028060X">New Rules for the New Economy</a> &#8211; Kevin Kelly, 1998)</p></blockquote>
<p><strong>Using <a href="http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/index.php/tracking-your-social-media-analytics/">social media</a> and the art of conversation underpins the new economy,</strong> it is the foundation for the networking that is so important to the 21st century. Gone are the days of the advertiser here is the time of the value based marketer, the individual and business that adds value long before their customers and clients have begun to buy.</p>
<p>This new economy entrepreneur &#8216;gets it&#8217;; that working in line with the way the universe itself works will create a cogent alignment with the reality of primal chaos, the matrix from which all reality emerges and when you are working in line with the universe magic happens.</p>
<p>&#8220;<em>The atom is the icon of the 20th century. The atom whirls alone. It is the metaphor for individuality. But the atom is the past. The symbol for the next century is the net. The net has no center, no orbits, no certainty. It is an indefinite web of causes. The net is the archetype displayed to represent all circuits, all intelligence, all interdependence, all things economic, social, or ecological, all communications, all democracy, all families, all large systems, almost all that we find interesting and important. Whereas the atom represents clean simplicity, the net channels messy complexity.&#8221;</em></p>
<p>In other words the new 21st Century icon is the quantum wave, where all, and I mean everything begins. Before there is an atom, the symbol of matter in the universe there is the wave of probability this is a scientific fact and that wave is representative of the new economy. The quantum wave is probability rather than certainties and it is the true essence of our universe, that wave of chaos (meaning primal soup out of which all matter comes) it is <strong>the matrix where all things are possible and yet nothing is certain unless and until it is defined by thought, belief</strong> or in our case the crowd in our communities and tribes on the internet.</p>
<p>The internet has changed our lives forever and now <a href="http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/index.php/tracking-your-social-media-analytics/">social media</a> has changed things even more, we are not in the information age any more we are in the information sharing age and this means networking &#8211; building communities and creating tribes. Where information is shared, conversed about and agreed upon we have our realities, our certainties and our matter. Out of the primal chaos of the everchanging conversation on the world wide web we begin to see memes (viral conversations) around which we form tribes and communities.</p>
<p>This is where Fractal Magic Marketing comes into it&#8217;s own and meets the world of the online wave, it is only by interacting with full understanding of the new economy and the way waves of possibility and probablity work that we will learn how to marketing in this new economy.</p>
<p><strong>Do you understand the rules of the new economy? </strong></p>
<p>&#8220;<em>The three great currents of the network economy: <strong>vast globalization, steady dematerialization into knowledge, and deep, ubiquitous networking</strong>&#8211;these three tides are washing over all shores. Their encroachment is steady, and self-reinforcing. Their combined effect can be rendered simply: The net wins&#8230;</em>&#8221;</p>
<p>Are you marketing within the rules of the new economy? Using the laws of the universe to create memes from your marketing messages? Some clues are within this text:</p>
<p>&#8220;<em>Networks are nurtured by making it as easy as possible to participate. The more diverse the players in your network&#8211;competitors, customers, associations, and critics&#8211;the better. Becoming a member should be a breeze. You want to know who your customers are, but you don&#8217;t want to make it hard for them to get to you (IDs, yes; passwords, no). You want to make it easy for your competitors to join too (all their customers could potentially be yours as well). Be open to the power of network effects: Relationships are more powerful than technical quality</em>.&#8221;</p>
<p><strong>Fractal Magic Marketing is the only marketing system that takes advantage of the scientificly applied laws of the universe via quantum wave theory, </strong>direct from a former secondary science teacher who turned online marketer extra-ordinaire.</p>
<p>&#8220;<em>Unlike viral marketing, which grows enormously and then dies quickly, fractal marketing goes forever, repeating itself at every scale imaginable.&#8221;</em></p>
<p><em>&#8220;One of the most interesting things to note about Fractal Magick MarketingTM is that it is all about infinite growth that is built on the value of the product, service or brand, not the amount of hype created around it.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Fractal Magick MarketingTM is all about being totally authentic, giving loads of value, giving back and building your brand on those rock solid values.&#8221;</em></p>
<p>&#8220;<em>Marketers should now be thinking and acting differently as humanity once again finds it&#8217;s voice and the power to create or destroy businesses, perhaps even nations through the power of <a href="http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/index.php/tracking-your-social-media-analytics/">social media</a> and world-wide conversations.</em>&#8221; (quotes from the Fractal Magic Marketing course &#8211; Stay tuned for more about the launch of this amazing system in the next few weeks &#8211; coming soon to a computer near you).</p>
<p>Swarms need real-time communication. Living systems don’t have the luxury of waiting overnight to process an incoming signal. If they had to sleep on it, they could die in their sleep. With few exceptions, nature reacts in real time.&#8221;</p>
<p>Another quote from a site called &#8216;<a href="http://neweconomyentrepreneurs.com/new-economy/">New Economy Entrepreneurs</a>&#8216; outlines the understandings you will need to participate easily in the new economy:</p>
<p>&#8220;The following list of names personify the essence of a New Economy Entrepreneur:</p>
<p>* Warren Buffett<br />
* Ariana Huffington<br />
* Oprah<br />
* The Guy Who Runs the Koi Fusion Food Cart in Portland, Oregon</p>
<p>Okay, okay. You were with me until the last name on the list, weren’t you? <img src='http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>What does a local food cart guy possibly have in common with those other Big Famous People?</p>
<p>Simple.</p>
<p>1. He is someone who invests his energies into adding value to the world through his business ventures that reflect what he is passionate about (an entrepreneur);</p>
<p>AND…</p>
<p>2. He embraces the power of technology to get Big Things Done (in his case, he uses <a href="http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/index.php/tracking-your-social-media-analytics/">Social Media</a> sites like Facebook and Twitter to attract a loyal customer base who eventually creates a “buzz” about his business and grows his profits for him — the epitome of new economy tools).</p>
<p>In fact, <a href="http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/index.php/tracking-your-social-media-analytics/">Social Media</a> has allowed this man to take his business from one cart to five, all in less than a year’s time! There is no other way he could have grown as quickly had it not been for the Internet. Of course, once the buzz about his scrumptious multi-cultural tacos was flying all over Facebook and Twitter feeds, the local news media picked up his story and ran a couple of human interest pieces on him and his business, only adding exponentially to his customer base because people saw him on TV.</p>
<p>Thus, a New Economy Entrepreneur is someone who engages in businesses* he or she owns that:</p>
<p>* reflect his or her passions<br />
* add value to the world<br />
* capitalize on the power of the Internet to multiply efforts, improve efficiency, and increase profits.</p>
<p>*Note emphasis on the plural of business — businesses. I point this out because it is critical to understanding what a New Economy Entrepreneur is. NEE are never one-dimensional. Having multiple streams of income is an essential component of the overall definition, just like chocolate chips are an essential part of chocolate chip cookies.&#8221;</p>
<p><strong>The Zen Bull team have taken this to heart and are so excited to reveal our new sites which are to form a trio of sites</strong> along with The Zen Bull, to give an wholistic experience to those who are interested in learning more about being their authentic selves, revealing their own magnificence to the world and interacting with those who are on the same path.</p>
<p><strong>Over the next week we are launching our new sites The Inward Road and The BuddhaField:</strong></p>
<p>The Inward Road is a presenter site featuring 16 amazing spiritual, personal growth and wholistic natural health presenters on topics from authenticity, life strategies, health, homeopathy and more.. via video, articles, audios and workshops.</p>
<p>..and our sister site The BuddhaField is an interactive social site where you can be fully you and speak and interact with others on the same journey, form groups and interact with the presenters from The Inward Road.</p>
<p>The good news for you is that one membership will cover both sites basically the cost of 3 cups of coffer per month to have access to all this incredible material and interaction. We will also be introducing feature business pages where you can promote your wholistic and spiritual business to the select people who are members of these sites.</p>
<p>We know that people just like you who are on their own personal journey to add value to the world via their passion and are dedicated to pursuing their own authentic selves and passions will be eager to find out more, so please stay tuned for more information.</p>
<p><a href="http://thezenbull.com">The Zen Bull</a></p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Copyright &#169; 2010 AnnieInfinite. Visit the original article at http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/index.php/do-you-know-these-social-media-personalities/.When you play and work on Social Media for as long as I have, you realise that there are some social media types you come across regularly, now I could just tell you what to look for, but I thought I would have some fun with <a href='http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/index.php/do-you-know-these-social-media-personalities/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="tweetmeme_button" style="float: right; margin-left: 10px;"><a href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thezenbull.com%2Fblog%2Findex.php%2Fdo-you-know-these-social-media-personalities%2F"><img src="http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton.gif?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thezenbull.com%2Fblog%2Findex.php%2Fdo-you-know-these-social-media-personalities%2F" height="61" width="51" /></a></div>Copyright &copy; 2010 <a href="http://www.thezenbull.com/blog">AnnieInfinite</a>. Visit the original article at <a href="http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/index.php/do-you-know-these-social-media-personalities/">http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/index.php/do-you-know-these-social-media-personalities/</a>.<br /><p>When you play and work on Social Media for as long as I have, you realise that there are some social media types you come across regularly, now I could just tell you what to look for, but I thought I would have some fun with this and give you a little more insight at the same time by using dogs as my reference <img src='http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>So sit back and enjoy this post and gain some inights into the characteristics of some of the most prolific social media personalit<a href="http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/puppies1.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-145" style="margin: 6px;" title="puppies1" src="http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/puppies1.jpg" alt="" width="144" height="115" /></a>y types:</p>
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<li><strong>The Puppy </strong>- the total newbie to social media, this personality type makes mistakes however they are endearing and learn from watching other more experienced personalities. When you meet a newbie it is a good idea to be a little patient with them until they learn the etiquette, when they make a mistake because they have been watching and modelling their comments on the &#8216;wrong&#8217; type, guidance is the best option until they learn the ropes.<a href="http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Chihuahua4.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-146 alignleft" style="margin: 6px;" title="Chihuahua4" src="http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Chihuahua4.jpg" alt="" width="108" height="104" /></a></li>
<li><strong>The Chihuahua </strong>- This personality type yaps often and yet seems to say very little, there is no substance, rhyme or reason for their tweets and posts they can be seen typing things like: &#8220;sitting watching tv and chillin&#8217; with ma bro&#8221; or the classic &#8220;gotta go pee&#8221; Yapping all day long about nothing in particular trying to get noticed.<br />
<a href="http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/POODLES.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-147" style="margin: 6px;" title="POODLES" src="http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/POODLES.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="142" /></a></li>
<li><strong>The Miniature Poodle </strong>- These posts can be classified as sickly sweet, this SM personality like quotes and fires them off one after the other in quick succession and has little or nothing to say at all other than &#8220;I just love my life&#8221; etc.. , again no real substance or conversation. This is the cream puff of the social media world again nothing of real substance however occasionally they post a quote worth reposting or retweeting.<strong><a href="http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/doberman-harness-big2_LRG.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-148  alignleft" style="margin: 6px;" title="doberman-harness-big2_LRG" src="http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/doberman-harness-big2_LRG.jpg" alt="" width="143" height="120" /></a></strong></li>
<li><strong>The Doberman</strong> &#8211; now this SM personality is all business and no nonsence, they are there to advertise their product, service and brand and do not bother with any real world conversation. Their posts are characterised by no-nonsence marketing which is often sent out via autobot so they don&#8217;t have to bother replying or conversing at all. The all business character of the SM universe and often blocked by me even though I too market online.<br />
<a href="http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/snarling-dog_thumb.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full  wp-image-149" style="margin: 6px;" title="snarling-dog_thumb" src="http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/snarling-dog_thumb.jpg" alt="" width="83" height="88" /></a></li>
<li><strong>The Mongrel</strong> &#8211; it is interesting what types are attracted to social media and this type loves to bad mouth others, cause trouble and gossip, they will find any user and treat them to a post denegrating their personality, looks, and posts in a rude and uncouth manner and are best blocked at your earliest conventience for good. Obviously have no other way to gain the fame they seek and have a bad attitude.
<p><a href="http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Bassett.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-151 alignleft" style="margin: 6px;" title="Bassett" src="http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Bassett.jpg" alt="" width="108" height="108" /></a></li>
<li><strong>The Basset Hound </strong>- this type tells you every little thing about their lives, they are often looking for sympathy and they post pathetic comments and tweets hoping that you will be reeled into their lives in a way that you will feel you need to help them in some way. This creates the very attention that they crave. They love playing the victim and often ask for help in ways that are downright rude &#8220;I am so low at the moment the only way I feel better is when I write my story, I cannot type and so really need someone to buy me a voice recorder &#8211; this is the one I want LINK&#8221; (a real post I saw on my <a href="http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/index.php/facebook-for-business-are-you-missing-out/">Facebook</a> wall recently)<br />
<a href="http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/german_shepherd.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-150" style="margin: 6px;" title="german_shepherd" src="http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/german_shepherd.jpg" alt="" width="98" height="100" /></a></li>
<li><strong>The German Shepherd </strong>- now this personality is worth knowing, although they are there for business they also understand the need to converse and be social on social media, they will openly edify other businesses and people and are up for a cross marketing opportunity or two. They often post items of interest from all over the web and are generally business-like and social at the same time.
<p><a href="http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Golden-Retriever-Dog-Photographic-P.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-152" style="margin: 6px;" title="Golden-Retriever-Dog-Photographic-P" src="http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Golden-Retriever-Dog-Photographic-P.jpg" alt="" width="122" height="162" /></a></li>
<li><strong>The Golden Retreiver</strong> &#8211; This social media personality truly gets social media, they create relationships and friendships at the same time as cultivating their business and marketing relationships. They will openly post about their life while not becoming completely boring and are great at cross marketing with those they are &#8216;friends&#8217; with, even their direct competition, understanding that competition is only an untapped market. Look for the Golden Retrievers they are focussed on creating great relationships and helping you to become successful as they understand that reciprocity is a key component of social media.</li>
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<p><strong>Have you got any Social Media personality types you would like to add to this list? Leave me a comment and tell me about them..</strong></p>
<p><a title="The Zen Bull" href="http://thezenbull.com">The Zen Bull</a></p>
<p>DISCLAIMER &#8211; I love dogs and at no time am I saying that any of the dog types mentioned in this post are unloveable or not worth having, this is just meant to be a bit of fun. At no time were any dogs harmed during the creation of this post.</p>
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		<title>Best Social Media Posts &#8211; this week</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 23:52:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AnnieInfinite</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Great posts for this week by major players in Social Media:]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="tweetmeme_button" style="float: right; margin-left: 10px;"><a href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thezenbull.com%2Fblog%2Findex.php%2Fbest-social-media-posts-this-week%2F"><img src="http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton.gif?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thezenbull.com%2Fblog%2Findex.php%2Fbest-social-media-posts-this-week%2F" height="61" width="51" /></a></div>Copyright &copy; 2010 <a href="http://www.thezenbull.com/blog">AnnieInfinite</a>. Visit the original article at <a href="http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/index.php/best-social-media-posts-this-week/">http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/index.php/best-social-media-posts-this-week/</a>.<br /><p><strong>Great posts for this week by major players in Social Media:</strong><a href="http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/online-social-networking-2.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-128" title="online-social-networking-2" src="http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/online-social-networking-2.jpg" alt="" width="475" height="317" /></a><br />
<a href="http://www.lifehack.org/articles/lifehack/twitter-hack-5-ways-to-up-your-visible-iq.html">http://www.lifehack.org/articles/lifehack/twitter-hack-5-ways-to-up-your-visible-iq.html</a><br />
Why should you care about appearing smart on <a class="zem_slink" title="Twitter" rel="homepage" href="http://twitter.com">Twitter</a>? Because the people who hire, promote, fire, date, marry, and divorce you will all read your tweets (updates) at some point.</p>
<p><a href="http://mashable.com/2010/03/19/facebook-fan-engagement/">http://mashable.com/2010/03/19/facebook-fan-engagement/</a><br />
there are many brands who’ve surpassed the one million fan mark, while their peers have languished in the thousands. What’s their secret? These companies have figured out how to move from “broadcast” mode into engagement. They have engaged people so well that their fans even invite others along for the ride.</p>
<p><a href="http://mashable.com/2010/03/19/global-social-media-usage/">http://mashable.com/2010/03/19/global-social-media-usage/</a><br />
According to the Nielsen Company, the global average time spent per person on social networking sites is now nearly five and half hours per month (February 2010 data), with <a class="zem_slink" title="Facebook" rel="homepage" href="http://facebook.com">Facebook</a> accounting for the majority of that time.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.jenniearmato.com/blog/general/viral-marketing-facebook-game-game">http://www.jenniearmato.com/blog/general/viral-marketing-facebook-game-game</a><br />
What’s the REAL SECRET POWER OF FACEBOOK?  Well you would be right if you said 1) the number of people that go there, 2) the number of connections you can make 3) the networking you can do or 4) the entertainment apps.  Each one of these has something I call ‘gravitational pull’ – like gravity, they pull you towards them and make you want to stay, but they are not the Secret to viral marketing on Facebook.</p>
<p><a href="http://socialmediarockstar.com/how-to-build-a-massive-online-community">http://socialmediarockstar.com/how-to-build-a-massive-online-community</a><br />
Josh shares tips for building an online community and tells how he grew the site to almost 50,000 members:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.allfacebook.com/2010/03/facebook-the-tool-of-big-brother/">http://www.allfacebook.com/2010/03/facebook-the-tool-of-big-brother/</a><br />
If you’ve been up to “no good,” you might want to think twice about who you ‘friend’ on Facebook and other social media sites, because there just might be a government official trying to track you down. The EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) has been collecting information on how a variety of U.S. federal agencies are fighting crime using Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, <a class="zem_slink" title="LinkedIn" rel="homepage" href="http://www.linkedin.com">LinkedIn</a>, and other social networks.</p>
<p><a href="http://mashable.com/2010/03/18/social-media-sites-data/">http://mashable.com/2010/03/18/social-media-sites-data/</a><br />
Twitterers mostly consume news, MySpace users want games and entertainment, Facebookers are into both news and community and <a class="zem_slink" title="Digg" rel="homepage" href="http://www.digg.com">Digg</a>’s audience has a mixed bag of interests.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.personalbrandingblog.com/legitimizing-your-lackluster-linkedin/">http://www.personalbrandingblog.com/legitimizing-your-lackluster-linkedin/</a><br />
Over the last few years LinkedIn has evolved to play a central role in professional networking and relationship building. I’ve come to find it very disappointing when I see a profile that looks like it was thrown together in 20 minutes, doesn’t have much thought put in to it, or is clearly overdue for an update.</p>
<p><a href="http://staynalive.com/articles/2010/03/18/facebook-goes-after-their-trademark-in-popular-domains/">http://staynalive.com/articles/2010/03/18/facebook-goes-after-their-trademark-in-popular-domains/</a><br />
It has long been known that Facebook Apps are not to have the name “Facebook” in their names, but it would appear that Facebook is starting to go after domain names too.  Just recently, they have asked such major sites as Mari Smith’s WhyFacebook.com, to change their name in defense of their own Trademark.</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 02:28:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AnnieInfinite</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now not only does the new MarketMe Tweet brand your tweets it's a complete Twitter desktop management tool, with plans to keep it updated, relevent and add more features according to users requests - who could ask for more?]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="tweetmeme_button" style="float: right; margin-left: 10px;"><a href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thezenbull.com%2Fblog%2Findex.php%2Freview-marketmetweet-twitter-branding-and-management-tool%2F"><img src="http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton.gif?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thezenbull.com%2Fblog%2Findex.php%2Freview-marketmetweet-twitter-branding-and-management-tool%2F" height="61" width="51" /></a></div>Copyright &copy; 2010 <a href="http://www.thezenbull.com/blog">AnnieInfinite</a>. Visit the original article at <a href="http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/index.php/review-marketmetweet-twitter-branding-and-management-tool/">http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/index.php/review-marketmetweet-twitter-branding-and-management-tool/</a>.<br /><p>A few posts ago I raved about a new <a class="zem_slink" title="Twitter" rel="homepage" href="http://twitter.com">Twitter</a> branding tool called TweetBrand a free little Twitter app put out by the makers of the all new and amazing <a title="MarketMeTweet " href="http://www.marketmetweet.com/idevaffiliate/idevaffiliate.php?id=111">MarketMe Tweet</a>. This cute little desktop app is able to brand every tweet with your URL and a link back to your site in place of the usual via ?? seen at the bottom of all tweets.</p>
<p>As you can see in the image below it works without taking any space from your character count and as far as I am concerned is a sweet use of Twitter real estate.</p>
<div id="attachment_75" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 630px"><a href="http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/Tweetbrand-image.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-75" title="Tweetbrand image" src="http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/Tweetbrand-image.jpg" alt="" width="620" height="303" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">How TweetBrand rebrands your Tweets</p></div>
<p>Now along comes the much awaited MarketMe Tweet taking this tool to a whole new level! After using the original Tweetbrand for a week or so, I emailed the lovely people at MarketMeTweet and asked them if they had plans for a multi-account version and lucky for me the reply was, &#8220;Wait until you see what&#8217;s coming, you&#8217;re going to love it!&#8221; They were right!</p>
<p>Now not only does the new <a title="MarketMeTweet " href="http://www.marketmetweet.com/idevaffiliate/idevaffiliate.php?id=111">MarketMe Tweet</a> brand your tweets it&#8217;s a complete Twitter desktop management tool, with plans to keep it updated, relevent and add more features according to users requests &#8211; who could ask for more?</p>
<p><a href="http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/mmtscreen.png"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-120" title="mmtscreen" src="http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/mmtscreen.png" alt="Market Me Tweet" width="456" height="241" /></a></p>
<p><strong>Let&#8217;s have a look at the most relevent functions of Market Me Tweet:</strong></p>
<p><strong>Multiple Accounts:</strong><a href="http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/MarketMe-Tweet_brandmanagement.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-112" title="MarketMe-Tweet_brandmanagement" src="http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/MarketMe-Tweet_brandmanagement.jpg" alt="" width="400" height="410" /></a></p>
<p>MarketMe Tweet allows you to handle multiple accounts right from it&#8217;s interface, users must first login using <a class="zem_slink" title="OAuth" rel="homepage" href="http://oauth.net">OAuth</a> and then follow the protocols set out in the user help files.</p>
<p>Once it is done you will have the ability to brand any and all of your user accounts right from your desktop. Changing accounts is as easy a choosing from the list you have created, and can be done on the fly as you tweet.</p>
<p>To Setup Your Brand: Go to Step 2 ‘Create Your App’ &gt; Sign in to Twitter account &gt; Go to Brand app &gt; Retrieve the consumer and secret key &gt; Step 3 to fill in fields.</p>
<p><strong>Shrink your links with Bit.ly:</strong></p>
<p>Users can now shrink their links with Bit.ly right from the app via a little button that&#8217;s even easier than using my previous favorite Twitter app Seesmic.</p>
<p><strong><a href="http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/rep1.png"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-121" style="margin: 6px;" title="rep1" src="http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/rep1.png" alt="Market Me Tweet Reply Campains 1" width="336" height="310" /></a>Reply Campaigns:</strong></p>
<p>Tracking keywords just became so much easier with<em> MarketMe Tweet</em>, not only you can track multiple keywords at the same time (and filter out unwanted terms for accuracy using ‘Negative Keyword’ option), you can also include reply templates for targeted users.</p>
<p>Once you &#8220;Run&#8221; a campaign tweets will show up from various users who used that keyword in their tweets.</p>
<p>Once you have found these people you can hover over the keyword in their tweet andthe word &#8220;Reply will appear justc lick on this to instantly send the auto-reply you have created to them, picking up another follower based on your niche keywords.</p>
<p>If you have a real distaste for automated Tweets, worry no longer you also have the option to reply live to them, still taking advantage of finding people who are interested in your niche.</p>
<p>No matter what your stance on automation and if or how you use it remember authenticity and being real are key elements for success.</p>
<p><strong>Scheduled Tweets:<a href="http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/MMT_scheduling.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-122" title="MMT_scheduling" src="http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/MMT_scheduling.jpg" alt="" width="399" height="367" /></a></strong></p>
<p>I don&#8217;t schedule a lot of tweets however it can be useful if you are planning to be away, or to use them for tweeting links out to your followers. I like to on Twitter myself to connect and interact on a very regular basis, but the truth it is, if I am on all day, I cannot hope to get much work done either. So I do automate some of my tweets, some quotes and links are loaded up each morning so that something  is going out every couple of hours all day and then when I am having a free moment I connect live and reply to my followers and friends, retweet great posts, answer questions and converse &#8211; the most important things you can be doing on sociall media.</p>
<p>That being said this function does save me some time and I love it!</p>
<p><strong>Threaded Con</strong><strong><a href="http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/MMT_Groups-management.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-115" style="margin: 6px;" title="MMT_Groups-management" src="http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/MMT_Groups-management.jpg" alt="" width="330" height="326" /></a></strong><strong>versations:</strong></p>
<p>This is new on Twitter and you don&#8217;t miss out on them using MarketMe Tweet right from your desktop &#8211; see who you are conversing with and read back the whole conversation via the threads &#8211; love this as sometimes it can be a while since I started a conversation and some replies don&#8217;t make sense unless I can refresh my memory.</p>
<p><strong>Follow/Unfollow Users: </strong></p>
<p>This is self explanatory but I have to tell you it means I can manage my followers right from my desktop &#8211; very useful.</p>
<p><strong>Group Management:</strong></p>
<p>Create groups of people right on MarketMe Tweet, easy to keep up with your favourites, or according to geo-location or niche. Works just like Twitter lists.<strong><a href="http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/MMT_lists.png"><img class="size-full wp-image-118 alignright" style="margin-right: 5px; margin-left: 5px;" title="MMT_lists" src="http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/MMT_lists.png" alt="" width="227" height="391" /></a></strong></p>
<p>Now that we have a full review of the features of this amazing tool, all I can say is the most attractive thing for me is the ability to brand my own and my clients Tweets with a linkable URL. Branding your business and your self online is about making yourself stand out in every situation and making it really, really easy for your audience to find you and come to your site to learn more, to purchase product or to book your services. <a title="MarketMeTweet " href="http://www.marketmetweet.com/idevaffiliate/idevaffiliate.php?id=111">MarketMeTweet</a> does this in such a way that no matter what you are tweeting, your link is available to your audience every time you tweet.</p>
<p>For a short time only this excellent Twitter Client is available for just $39 for life! and there is an <a title="MarketMeTweet affiliate" href="http://www.marketmetweet.com/idevaffiliate/index.php?ref=111">affiliate program </a>that goes with it where you can earn money for recommeding it along to your friends and followers &#8211; as far as I am concerned you are doing them a favour! <img src='http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>Review: Love it! Get yours <a title="MarketMeTweet " href="http://www.marketmetweet.com/idevaffiliate/idevaffiliate.php?id=111">HERE</a></p>
<p><strong> BREAKING NEWS:</strong> MMT now has Twitter List support! and coming soon Mobile support!!</p>
<p>I love that they are continuing to add features like this &#8211; thanks Tammy!</p>
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