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How to Create Your Own Page on Facebook

AnnieInfinite — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 01:51:54 +0000

I have recieved a few requests for an easy step-by-step guide to creating your page on Facebook, this is a very easy process although there are a few extra tips that can come in very handy when creating a page to help maximise your leverage, your conversations and your exposure that can make a real difference to the success of your page.

So here goes:

First of all the easiest way to “Create your own page” is to go to another person’s page and scroll down to the bottom of the left hand side of the page and look for the link – as shown here
You will be taken to a new page where you can fill in the form with the name and type of your reason for creating a page. Here you have some very important choices to make as the information you choose here is written in stone! So let’s go through your choices:
* Choose your business typ - either a Local Business or if it is a Product or Service or if it is time to brand you as well Public Figure. Here you can also decide if you are more of a community or group based around a certain subject or meetup.
* Choose the name of your page – Here use your Business name, the name of your product or service or of course your own name if you are branding yourself. EXPERT HINT: add two descriptors or keywords of your brand here so that people and search engines know what this page is about. This is expecially important if your business or product name is not clear about what it is. e.g. Our business “The Zen Bull” does not prolaim itself as a website and online marketing company so our descriptors on our FB Page name are “Website Creation and Marketing”.
Once you have made these very important decisions click on ‘Create Official Page’ and Bingo! you have your very own page!
The next page you will see is the very new ‘Getting Started’ page with lots for you to do: Here you will put in the profile image for your page EXPERT HINT: don’t waste this very important real estate – make sure you have a profile image that displays your business or product to maximum effect. See previous post here Ins and Outs of Facebook Pages for more information on enhancing your Page
When filling out your Page information please make good use of all the spaces provided -if you cannot see a box that describes exactly what you need use anything available, as in the case of a Local Business page there is a box provided for describing Transportation and Parking – instead use this to describe your business or product and what you do, and what you solve and your passion for your business.
Once you have filled out as much as you want or need to on this list it is time to see your behind the scenes ‘Edit Page’ dashboard and set up your settings for maximum effect on your page.
Go to ‘Edit Page’ underneath your profile image and click this will bring you to a long page with lots of settings on it. For beginners the main setting to change is the Wall Settings – click on it and this will open to a smaller area where you can change these settings your choices are “Only Posts by Page” or “All Posts” choose all posts for enabling the maximum conversations on your page. This is very important to go from being an advertising page to a conversational, relationship marketing page.Yes you may have to delete the occasional annoying post, this is far better than being an advertising page after all Facebook is a social platform.
You may want to add more applications to your page as encouraged in my other posts on Facebook:
Why Does My Business Need a Facebook Page?
Facebook for Business Are You Missing Out?
to do this scroll down to the bottom of your ‘Edit Page’ dashboard and click on ‘Add more’ – easy!
Oh! and don’t forget to ‘Like’ your own page Be your own first ‘Liker’ this creates your very first FB ‘vote’ for your page and your stats will begin to go up immediately and with every ‘Liker’ and link.
Another great post can be found here: How to create a facebook fan page

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Review MarketMeTweet – Twitter Branding and Management Tool

AnnieInfinite — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 02:28:17 +0000

A few posts ago I raved about a new Twitter branding tool called TweetBrand a free little Twitter app put out by the makers of the all new and amazing MarketMe Tweet. 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.

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.

How TweetBrand rebrands your Tweets

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, “Wait until you see what’s coming, you’re going to love it!” They were right!

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?

Let’s have a look at the most relevent functions of Market Me Tweet:

Multiple Accounts:

MarketMe Tweet allows you to handle multiple accounts right from it’s interface, users must first login using OAuth and then follow the protocols set out in the user help files.

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.

To Setup Your Brand: Go to Step 2 ‘Create Your App’ > Sign in to Twitter account > Go to Brand app > Retrieve the consumer and secret key > Step 3 to fill in fields.

Shrink your links with Bit.ly:

Users can now shrink their links with Bit.ly right from the app via a little button that’s even easier than using my previous favorite Twitter app Seesmic.

Reply Campaigns:

Tracking keywords just became so much easier with MarketMe Tweet, 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.

Once you “Run” a campaign tweets will show up from various users who used that keyword in their tweets.

Once you have found these people you can hover over the keyword in their tweet andthe word “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.

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.

No matter what your stance on automation and if or how you use it remember authenticity and being real are key elements for success.

Scheduled Tweets:

I don’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 – the most important things you can be doing on sociall media.

That being said this function does save me some time and I love it!

Threaded Conversations:

This is new on Twitter and you don’t miss out on them using MarketMe Tweet right from your desktop – see who you are conversing with and read back the whole conversation via the threads – love this as sometimes it can be a while since I started a conversation and some replies don’t make sense unless I can refresh my memory.

Follow/Unfollow Users:

This is self explanatory but I have to tell you it means I can manage my followers right from my desktop – very useful.

Group Management:

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.

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. MarketMeTweet does this in such a way that no matter what you are tweeting, your link is available to your audience every time you tweet.

For a short time only this excellent Twitter Client is available for just $39 for life! and there is an affiliate program that goes with it where you can earn money for recommeding it along to your friends and followers – as far as I am concerned you are doing them a favour!

Review: Love it! Get yours HERE

BREAKING NEWS: MMT now has Twitter List support! and coming soon Mobile support!!

I love that they are continuing to add features like this – thanks Tammy!

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