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This week as Facebook continues to concentrate on making money, we try to save you some; with tips on promoting offers, advice on what makes the perfect Post and pitfalls to avoid when you are marketing your business on Facebook. We also look at the value of having a Facebook Page, and how to communicate that value to potential clients.
Author: Scott Ayres, Post Planner
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What makes the perfect Facebook Post? Find out how Oreo’s simple post during the Super Bowl power outage stood out from all the rest.
Author: Dennis Yu, Bizmetrics
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We regularly come across tricky questions about the value of marketing a business on Facebook. Here are some great answers to some of those most troublesome questions, like ‘How do you know you’re succeeding as a business on Facebook?’ – I’d like to phone a friend please!
<< Want to be a Facebook Marketer? Read this
Author: Scott Ayres, Post Planner
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Most Facebook marketers were very much opposed to EdgeRank in the beginning, but it rewards good content and punishes bad content. How can this be a bad thing? It filters news in users’ feeds, based on what they engage with most.
Twitter and Google+ don’t do this; could EdgeRank actually be one of the best things about marketing on Facebook?
<< On the Edge of your seat? Find out more
Author: Jon Loomer, Jon Loomer Digital
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If you have been promoting offers on Facebook, you will have noticed that the cost of doing so is rising at an alarming rate. Jon Loomer shares how to effectively promote your offers, looking at both cost and targeting. Can anyone say ‘Power Editor?’
<< Frugal Facebookers – here’s the link
Author: Andrea Vahl, AndreaVahl.com
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Where Facebook are concerned, it is vital that you know what NOT to do. If you fail to follow policies, don’t respond to comments, or have a Profile for your business instead of a Page, you could be in trouble. These will all have a much more detrimental effect on your business than a piece of content that didn’t get the engagement you had hoped for.
<< Do NOT miss the full article
Author: Brittany Darwell, Inside Facebook
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The commercialization of Facebook continues, as changes are made to encourage users to ‘give a gift’ to their friends. If Facebook manage to crack this, it may become a valuable source of revenue and a significant sales pipeline for business Pages. They have a way to go yet, if revenues are anything to go by.
<< Don’t look a gift-horse in the mouth. Click here
Author: Justin Lafferty, All Facebook
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We have all had customers that we know would benefit from a Facebook Page. This is a great infographic outlining the steps to take to get a reluctant client to ‘like’ the idea of marketing their business on Facebook.
Author: Ekaterina Walter, Clickz
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Graph Search presents an enormous opportunity for brands, particularly in the area of local search. Results will be filtered to include friends’ likes and recommendations at the top of the listings. You want to be ahead of the curve on this; be prepared and make sure your brand appears high in those search results.
Author: Amy Porterfield, Amy Porterfield.com
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A successful Facebook marketing campaign takes time, resources and effort. Once you have a loyal and engaged fan base, how do you turn these prospects into customers and get a return on your investment?
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