The New Recommendations Bar Earlier this week, Facebook announced a new recommendation bar. There’s been a recommendations box around for a while now. The bar is different… You’ll see the new Facebook “bar” pop up in a little while down on the right corner. At the moment it’s a nice, unintrusive like button. As you […]
How Not To Run A Facebook Ad Campaign – A Lesson From The BBC
I’ve been watching with interest the Facebook Ad fake likes story reported over on the BBC online technology channel. I’d love to know how anyone with obviously no clue how things work can run not one but three stories (so far) on reported fake likes from Facebook ads. I’m not going to jump in and […]
Facebook Ads – Avoiding the Telemarketer Lies and How To Start Your Own Campaign
Yesterdays blog, How Not To Promote Your Business On Facebook took the conversation in a bit of an unexpected direction over on MLBO Facebook Page. The spotlight turned to Facebook Ads and the spate of random telemarketing calls claiming to be calling on behalf of Facebook. I am sick of getting calls from people claiming […]
How Not To Promote Your Business On Facebook
In my previous post, I covered the three essential elements to promote your local business online. To recap they are: A website Google Places (Now Google +Local) Citations Many small business owners I speak to are resistant to investing in a website because they promote their business on Facebook. It’s “free” after all and don’t […]
5 Fab Free Tools To Help You Increase Your Online Visibility and Connections
Like everyone who uses the web for business, time can fly in a blink. There you are, expanding your reach, increasing your online visibility and making new connections. Before you know it you’ve spent hours doing nothing much of anything… Well, nothing productive anyway. It’s easy to get wrapped up in tools and the […]
New Facebook WordPress Plugin Test
Finally Facebook have released an official Facebook WordPress plugin. So far it has been fairly simple to set up, although I’ve only activated the social publisher. This is a test post, let’s see how it goes!
55% UK Businesses Fail In Social Media… Are You One Of Them?
The “Tackling The Social Challenge” Report from EPI Server highlights a very disturbing social media problem… Only 45% of marketers monitor their own social communities, forums and blogs. I find that quite shocking. The whole point of social media is to interact. It allows you to add your personality and style to your business online. […]