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Pictures, FaceBookand your Fan Page – the Missing Tag

by on November 9, 2009 in Best Practices, FaceBook

You can’t get enough pictures on FaceBook, especially if you have a Fan Page. With 16 Billion plus photos on FaceBook, this is an area you do not want to miss. It is a great way to promote your business and your Fans! Photos hit your Fans news feed, just like a post does. Add Captions, tag people and find the balance that makes photos interesting and comment worthy. Remember you must enable tagging of photos on your Fan Page, this is not on by default. Scroll down to the bottom right of your Fan Page and you should see a photo box and edit options, click on edit options and enable your Fans to Tag themselves and their friends in Photos. Why? Because when people are tagged in photos their friends see those pictures and as a result they see your Fan Page. This is an easy, cheap, great way to organically grow your fan base.

You can only tag people you are friends with, asking people to tag themselves works or find a contest or prize as an incentive for people to tag themselves. If you have a business with walk in traffic, start taking pictures of people and getting them up on the Fan Page, ask the people in the photos to tag themselves and to share the fan page with their friends. You can also put up a sign with your FaceBook address encouraging people to become a Fan of your page on FaceBook. Whatever you do, get photos on your fan page and start interacting with your people.

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FaceBook Tagging – Should you adjust your notifications

by on September 15, 2009 in Best Practices, FaceBook

As I tested the new “tagging” feature in FaceBook I realized I had to adjust my FaceBook Notifications. Why? Because I detest getting emails about activity on FaceBook. If you have read my Blog, you know I love FaceBook and believe every business should have a Fan Page. As a result I check FaceBook multiple times a day and use Lists to manage my groups of friends so I can have a reasonable chance of following all of the activity that occurs on any given day. Which brings me back to this great new feature, tagging people.

The feature is easy to implement, simply use the @ symbol and as you type FaceBook pulls up your friends names and lets you select the name. As of today this only works for Status updates, but note the notifications will trigger with any comments on that post as well. If you use Twitter you may be surprised. Rather than leaving my name as @jamieginsberg FaceBook simply makes the name a blue link and leaves it as Jamie Ginsberg. I have hated the Twitter naming convention for a while and really appreciate the way FaceBook has implemented this feature. Keep in mind that people you tag in your status updates will have a notification appear on their FaceBook page and get an email, until they do what I did, shut off their notifications. Simply go to Settings in the top right and select Account then Notifications. You will see several new Notifications (maybe the relative ones also if you missed that update). I shut all of these off. Do what works best for you, but play with this new feature…it is awesome!

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