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		<title>Why Does My Business Need A Facebook Page?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Facebook 'Like' 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.]]></description>
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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>
<ul>
<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>
<ol>
<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>
</ol>
<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>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>
</ul>
<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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		<title>The Universal Laws of the New Economy</title>
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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; 2012 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>
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<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>
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<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; 2012 <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; 2012 <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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		<title>Using Posterous: Upping the Ante</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 01:57:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Posterous is a blogging platform with a difference! At it's simplest it is a blogging platform that allows you to post via email. Yes! that's right via email. Just create your blog post in your email or in word, add your images and post it directly to Posterous.]]></description>
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<p>First of all what is <a class="zem_slink" title="Posterous" rel="homepage" href="http://www.posterous.com">Posterous</a>? you might well ask.</p>
<p>Posterous is a blogging platform with a difference! At it&#8217;s simplest it is a blogging platform that allows you to post via email. Yes! that&#8217;s right via email. Just create your blog post in your email or in word, add your images and post it directly to Posterous. When you do this the first time, it creates your account and once this is done you can login and change the look and feel and add in your auto-posting options (even to your wordpress.com blog) and from then on all you need to do is send more posts. Easy? simple? you bet!</p>
<p>Posterous even allows you to embed MP3&#8242;s, videos, audio&#8217;s and can turn images into image galleries and slide shows. What more? your PDF&#8217;s and word files are displayed as a Scribd embedded widget,  so if you wish to avoid this you can send it straight in the email. However this does afford some good qualities, it means you don&#8217;t have to re-write all those articles and this means you can post those older reports as blog posts with changing a thing.</p>
<p>Posterous is the blogging platform for those who wish to blog the easy way and is great for beginners. It is also a way for those of us with multiple blogs and social media to aggregate our posting into one place. Yes I know I am going to here screams of &#8220;Duplicate Content&#8221; however you do have to ask yourself does one aggregator qualify as a downside to &#8220;duplicate content&#8217; or does the added benefit of having your content on a site with such a high growth rate outdo the downside?</p>
<p><strong>This is how easy it is:</strong></p>
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<li> <strong>Post to your social media service</strong>. Posterous can automatically spread your post to more than ten sites such as Twitter, Facebook, Flickr and Tumblr.<a title="Posterous blog" href="http://blog.posterous.com/tag/autopost"> Click here to learn how</a>. Here’s a list of Posterous email addresses and what they do:</li>
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<li>post@<a class="zem_slink" title="Posterous" rel="homepage" href="http://www.posterous.com">posterous.com</a> creates a public post and automatically shares to the social medias services you’ve set up.</li>
<li>private@posterous.com creates a non-public</li>
<li>post.posterous@posterous.com makes a public post that is not automaticallytweeted.</li>
<li>twitter@posterous.com spreads your post only via Twitter.</li>
<li>twitter+facebook@posterous.com spreads your post via Twitter and Facebook.</li>
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<p><strong>Post to different Posterous blogs</strong>. For example, twitter@jonesfamily.posterous.com will update http://jonesfamily.posterous.com and your Twitter account. The right side of the @ tells Posterous which Posterous site to post to, and the left side of the @ tells Posterous which external sites to update.</p>
<p><strong>Customize</strong> the look-and-feel of your site. Posterous now supports customization. Select one of the built-in themes, and customize the colors. Or create your own custom theme. You can even port Tumblr themes to Posterous.</p>
<p><strong>Use a custom domain</strong>. By default, Posterous assigns you a domain based on “posterous.com” However, you can change this to a custom domain like Holykaw.com. <a title="Posterous custom domain" href="http://blog.posterous.com/custom-domain-name-support-for">Click here to learn how</a>.</p>
<p><strong>Post pictures inline.</strong> Posterous automatically converts set of photos into a gallery view (where readers click from picture to picture), but if you don’t want a gallery, just put “((nogallery))” in the subject of the email. Posterous will post all the photos individually one after another.</p>
<p><strong>Post from any site.</strong> The Posterous bookmarklet lets you quickly grab content out of the page you’re on. You can click and drag to select text and then click “Share on Posterous” in your bookmark bar. Or just click the bookmark without selecting anything and it will auto-detect all large photos, video and media on the page. <a title="Posterous bookmarklet" href="http://blog.posterous.com/tag/bookmarklet">Click here to learn how</a>.</p>
<p><strong>Create a group site</strong>. You can add contributors to your site, and they don’t need to create an account. They simply email post@sitename.posterous.com. All contributors will be notified of new posts and comments by email.</p>
<p><strong>Post using links not embed code</strong>. If you want to post a video from Youtube, photo from Flickr, or TV show from Hulu, just send Posterous the URL. There’s no need to copy and paste the embed code. Posterous will take the url you send and convert it into an embedded video automatically.</p>
<p><strong>Add tags</strong>. You can add tags to posts by putting them in the title of the email. For example, “((tags: food, New York))” will add those two tags to the post. This also works in the Bookmarklet and iPhone application.</p>
<p><strong>Enable public postings. </strong>Turn on “Post by moderation” in your account settings, and anyone can email post@sitename.posterous.com to add something to your site. You just need to approve each post before it goes public. This is a great way to accept user-generated content.</p>
<p><strong>Add a your location.</strong> Posterous can automatically add a Google map to your post to show where you took the photo. All you have to do is geotagg your photos..</p>
<p><strong>Don&#8217;t include your email signature.</strong> Do you have an email signature that you don’t want posted? Either cut it or end your post with “#end” and Posterous won’t publish anything after it.</p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 00:14:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AnnieInfinite</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The most important thing I can recommend is this: If you are present and a presence on your fan page your fan base will grow just as quickly as your friends.]]></description>
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<p>I hear a lot of people asking about growing their fan base on their <a class="zem_slink" title="Facebook" rel="homepage" href="http://facebook.com">Facebook</a> Fan Page, and the answer is to create engagement through various means. <strong>The most important thing I can recommend is this: </strong></p>
<p><strong>If you are <a title="Social Media Blog" href="http://www.socialmediablog.com/found-the-missing-ingredient-to-the-social-media-stone-soup/found-the-missing-ingredient-to-the-social-media-stone-soup/comment-page-1/#comment-77">present and <em>a presence</em></a> on your fan page your fan base will grow just as quickly as your friends.<br />
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<li> Make sure to <strong>Add Value</strong> to your fans by posting great content and information in the form of blogs posts &#8211; your own and other experts in your field &#8211; that&#8217;s right, do not be afraid to prove that you are secure in your role by promoting others. Answer questions your fans may have and try to always to so promptly. Join in conversations, comment on other fan pages and use the @ feature to credit other fan pages for their information if you are reposting.
<p>Other great ways to Add Value in the form of information is to bring your own blog feed into your Pages &#8211; Notes Tab, or you could choose to feed in selected Twitter updates via the RSS feed from your favorites to keep it updating. Then all you do is favorite your own blog updates, quotes and selceted retweets for them to instantly appear on your page.<br />
<a href="http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/promote-fan-page-01.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-87" title="promote-fan-page-01" src="http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/promote-fan-page-01.jpg" alt="Promote your Facebook Fan Page" width="550" height="298" /></a></li>
<li><strong>Add a Static <a class="zem_slink" title="Facebook features" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook_features">FBML</a> or HTML App</strong> on it&#8217;s own tab on your Fan Page and configure it a little like a &#8220;Landing or Squeeze page&#8221; this is almost like having a Mini Website on your FB Fan Page and you can add in an Optin box and so much more.</li>
<li><strong>Converse with your fans:</strong> ask them quesitons about their own businesses, their own challenges in your niche&#8217;s arena, give credit to others, give praise when it is due, quote others including other Facebookers. Find ways to create great conversation on your Page. Clue: conversation = engagement.</li>
<li> <strong>Post photo&#8217;s</strong> of you with friends, at seminars and your own place of business or workshops, at meetups and tweetups etc.. and tag the people you are seen with in those photo&#8217;s with a personal comment.</li>
<li> <strong>Promote your FB Fan Page</strong> on Twitter, your email signature, your online signature, your business card, and even on the bottom of your comments &#8211; when appropriate</li>
<li> <strong>Link your page to your Twitter account</strong> so that all your FB Fan Page comments automagically appear on your Twitter stream http://facebook.com/twitter Do this with your Friendfeed and any other social profiles you have.
<p><a href="http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/promote-fan-page-02.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-88" title="promote-fan-page-02" src="http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/promote-fan-page-02.jpg" alt="Facebook to Twitter" width="503" height="319" /></a></li>
<li> <strong>Favourite other Pages on FB</strong>, this is easily done by clicking on this link and choosing which page to link it to.
<p><a href="http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/FB_favs1-copy.gif"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-89" title="FB_favs1-copy" src="http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/FB_favs1-copy.gif" alt="Favorite a page on Facebook" width="800" height="521" /></a></li>
<li><strong> Try out the Social Ads on FB</strong>: you can easily choose to target certain areas, age groups, sex, keywords and more and they&#8217;re easy to set up.</li>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2009 00:15:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AnnieInfinite</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This list of Twitter apps and sites and some of my hints on how I use them,  will provide you with some ideas on how to do the same for your busy social media calendars:]]></description>
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<p>There are loads of different ways to use <a class="zem_slink" title="Twitter" rel="homepage" href="http://twitter.com">Twitter</a> to enhance your social media marketing, I must admit I like the ones that make my life easier either by simplifying it in some way or by providing a time effective solution to my busy day.</p>
<p>This list of Twitter apps and sites and some of my hints on how I use them,  will provide you with some ideas on how to do the same for your busy social media calendars:</p>
<p><a title="Twitter downloads page" href="http://twitter.com/downloads"><strong>Twitter Widgets and Downloads Page</strong></a>: A list right on Twitter itself of Twitter apps and widgets you can use to streamline your Twittering, and use to update other profiles like <a class="zem_slink" title="Facebook" rel="homepage" href="http://facebook.com">Facebook</a> and <a class="zem_slink" title="FriendFeed" rel="homepage" href="http://friendfeed.com">Friendfeed</a>.</p>
<p><strong><a title="TweetBubble" href="http://tweetbubble.com ">Tweetbubble</a></strong>: This app allows you to record a short message via video and place it right on your Twitter profile where it will play anytime a user check out your profile.</p>
<p><a title="Twitwall" href="http://twitwall.com"><strong>TwitWall</strong></a>: Blogging app for Twitter, allows you to create articles and blog post including images and video and is auto linked to your Twitter profile.</p>
<p><a title="Taweet" href="http://taweet.com"><strong>Taweet</strong></a>: An event lister linked to your Twitter profile to publicise your events.</p>
<p><a title="Twiturly" href="http://twitturly.com"><strong>Twiturly</strong></a>: Find out what links are tops on Twitter in real time.</p>
<p><a title="Tweetiator" href="http://tweetiator.com"><strong>Tweetiator</strong></a>: this site notifies you when your links are shared on Twitter and by whom &#8211; very useful!</p>
<p><a title="Just Tweet It" href="http://justtweetit.com"><strong>JustTweetIt</strong></a>: a directory of Twitter users &#8211; great to find users in your niche etc..</p>
<p><a title="Twellow" href="http://twellow.com"><strong>Twellow</strong></a>: the Twitter Business Directory &#8211; get listed!</p>
<p><a title="Tweetmeme" href="http://tweetmeme.com"><strong>Tweetmeme</strong></a>: Search and retweet the hottest stories on Twitter. Get the plugin for your blog and allow your posts to rate on <a class="zem_slink" title="TweetMeme" rel="homepage" href="http://www.tweetmeme.com">Tweetmeme</a>.</p>
<p><a title="Twtpoll" href="http://twtpoll.com"><strong>TwtPoll</strong></a>: easy to use poll app for Twitter, ask question, take surveys.</p>
<p><a title="Seesmic" href="http://seesmic.com"><strong>Seesmic</strong></a>: my Fav Twitter desktop app for tweeting multiple accounts, seeing my twitter lists, and more</p>
<p><a title="Tweetdeck" href="http://tweetdeck.com"><strong>Tweetdeck</strong></a>: another Twitter desktop app which is also a fav of many Tweeters</p>
<p><a title="Tweetmic" href="http://tweetmic.com"><strong>Tweetmic</strong></a>: an iPhone client that allows you to record a HD audio and tweetcast it directly to Twitter</p>
<p><a title="Free Twitter Designer" href="http://freetwitterdesigner.com"><strong>FreeTwitterDesigner</strong></a>: Create a professional looking Twitter background for free, certainly not the only one, but very easy to use and pastes your new design straight to Twitter for you.</p>
<p><strong>Selective Twitter to Facebook</strong>: Now this one is not a link, but it is one of the handiest things I can tell you about linking your Facebook and Twitter accounts. Many people use the Twitter widget for this however this results in what I term as an unsightly mess as all your Tweet end up willy nilly on your Facebook  profile which can be quite annoying on other peoples walls and if you are a prolific Tweeter can also result in your overstepping the boundaries of Facebook protocol and getting yourself blocked, or banned.</p>
<p>How to make only selected Tweets appear in your Facebook wall: in Facebook either on your Profile or preferably your Fan Page go to Notes (if you are on your FB Fan Page first go into Edit page and look for the Notes app in your list) once there you will hopefully find a link that says &#8220;Import Blog&#8221; now open your Twitter profile page and look for &#8220;Favorites&#8221; click on it and this will take you to your favorites page (hopefully you have favorites some items along the way).</p>
<p>Now hover your mouse over the RSS link on the lower right hand area of your Twitter Favorites page a link should appear on the bottom toolbar, copy this link (I had to use pen and paper <img src='http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> , now go back to Facebook and paste that link into the URL of your Import Blog page. If you have done this correctly another page will appear which asks you if this is the feed you wish to import. Click on &#8220;Import Blog&#8221;</p>
<p>Now when you want a selected Tweet to appear automagically on your FB Wall all you need to do is Favorite it and it stops the cluttering of your wall and those of your friends with loads of useless information!</p>
<p>Now that is handy!</p>
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		<title>Brand Your Tweets with New Tool</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 04:19:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AnnieInfinite</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You know at the bottom of each Tweet where it says via ? e.g. via Seesmic, via Power Twitter, or via Hootsuite now it can say "via your url" and click through to your specified url of choice and it couldn't be easier to set up with full video and image support and best of all it is free.]]></description>
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<p>You know at the bottom of each Tweet where it says via ? e.g. from Seesmic, from the web, or from Hootsuite now it can say &#8220;from your url&#8221; and click through to your specified url of choice and it couldn&#8217;t be easier to set up with full video and image support and best of all it is free.</p>
<p>Who could ask for any thing more? Try it out today here <a title="TweetBrand" href="http://www.marketmetweet.com/idevaffiliate/idevaffiliate.php?id=111">TweetBrand</a> by Market Me Tweet</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>This takes Twitter branding to a whole new level!</p>
<p>Watch this video for more:</p>
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<p>Get this cute little app today &#8211; it&#8217;s free! <a title="TweetBrand" href="http://www.marketmetweet.com/idevaffiliate/idevaffiliate.php?id=111">TweetBrand</a> by Market Me Tweet</p>
<p>Hint I have it up on my desktop screen all day and use it to Tweet whenever I have an idea &#8211; too easy!</p>
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