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Brand Yourself on Your Personal Facebook Page

Have you looked at all the ways you can brand yourself on your personal Facebook page? Whether you have a Facebook business page or not, include branded information in your personal part of Facebook too. In general, I recommend that business owners create a business page. Doing so helps increase your search engine optimization (SEO). You also have many features on your business page not available on your personal page. Yet, some people go into overwhelm when they think of managing a business page. Others choose to use their personal presence primarily for business purposes. Do an audit of your [...]

By |2018-09-10T10:29:24-06:00September 10th, 2018|0 Comments

17 Options When Posting on a Facebook Business Page: Part 2

Did you know there are 17 options to choose from when posting on a Facebook Business Page? Until a student prompted me to explain these more fully in a class, I had ignored most of these options. This is a follow-up to last week’s post, which covered five of these options: 17 Options When Posting on a Facebook Business Page. Here’s information on the rest.   12 More Options When You Post on a Facebook Business Page If you click on the Advertise Your Business tab, Facebook gives you seven ways you can promote your business. The Get Directions option [...]

By |2018-08-08T08:40:29-06:00August 8th, 2018|0 Comments

17 Options When Posting on a Facebook Business Page

Did you know there are 17 options when posting to a Facebook Business Page? To be honest, I hadn’t paid much attention to most of them until a student in a Facebook business page class started asking about them. The main option I’ve used is adding a photo or video, which Facebook highly recommends over text-only posts. My student’s interest in knowing more prompted me to take the time to check them all out. I’ll discuss some here and I’ll describe more of them in next week’s post.   5 Options to Make Your Facebook Business Posts Stand Out Just as [...]

By |2018-08-01T22:10:39-06:00August 1st, 2018|0 Comments

Invite Your Facebook Friends to Like Your Facebook Business Page

Inviting your Facebook Friends to like your Facebook business page might seem obvious. Yet, many people don’t do it. Or perhaps they don’t know how. Facebook removed the “Invite Your Friends” option from the drop-down menu found when you click on the three dots just under your page’s cover photo. There could be people, like me, who were wondering how to use the Invite Your Friends option. Now, to find that option, you need to go the Community Section, found on the right-hand side of your business page. Please note that this invitation will show up in your friends’ notifications. [...]

By |2018-05-02T21:28:12-06:00May 2nd, 2018|0 Comments

Get More Engagement on Your Facebook Business Page

Get More Engagement on Your Facebook Business Page Pages with more engagement in the form of likes, comments, and shares get more visibility. That means the posts from these pages are more likely to be seen in the news feeds of those who have liked the page. So, how do you increase engagement? Buffer Social published a terrific article in September 2017 called “Post Less, Boost Top Posts, and More: 14 Ways to Increase Page Engagement.”   Some of Their Suggestions Include: Post when your page’s fans are on Facebook. Go to your page’s Insights section and click on Posts. [...]

By |2018-03-14T22:12:09-06:00March 14th, 2018|0 Comments

Protecting Your Security on Facebook

Have you thought about protecting your security on Facebook? Feeling secure on Facebook is a top priority for my clients and the students in my classes. Some of these folks have even avoided Facebook completely due to concerns over security. Naturally, the Security and Login section within your Settings menu is the most important section related to this subject. You can find it by clicking on the little downward pointing arrow at the top right of your menu bar and then scrolling down to Settings and clicking on it. The Security and Login section is toward the top of the [...]

By |2018-02-06T21:34:25-07:00February 6th, 2018|0 Comments

The Pros and Cons of Tagging People on Facebook

Have you thought about the pros and cons of tagging people on Facebook? Part of me likes it when I’m brought into a post someone else created. Another part of me gets annoyed when this happens. Tagging is when someone on Facebook identifies a friend in a picture. It also happens when someone enters the name of a Facebook friend in a post or comment. Doing either of these creates a hyperlink from the person posting to the personal page of the person being tagged. Depending on their settings, the tagged person gets a notification that someone tagged them. Cons [...]

By |2018-01-31T22:01:52-07:00January 31st, 2018|0 Comments

Facebook Groups – Why Start One?

Facebook groups - what's the value of starting one? That is a question I’ve asked myself often during my years of working in social media. I’ve participated in a range of Facebook groups. Like anything else on social media, some have been more valuable than others. Recently, I decided to create a Facebook group that ties in with my new Meetup group: Simplify Your Social Media. At the first Meetup, someone asked if we could form a Facebook group. They pointed out that having one would provide a way for us to communicate between our monthly gatherings. So, to help [...]

By |2018-01-15T20:55:36-07:00January 15th, 2018|0 Comments

How to Stop Following Facebook Friends and Facebook Business Pages

Ever wonder how to how to stop following people and pages on Facebook? Some people have never considered this, but many find that eventually they want to follow fewer friends and/or business pages, but they don’t want to end those relationships. Unfollowing allows you to stop receiving their posts without unfriending them, which can be awkward. Although Facebook doesn’t notify someone that you unfriended them, you could come up in the list of people they might want to friend, which might make them wonder. And while you may have liked a business page, perhaps you don’t want to be notified [...]

By |2017-07-31T22:07:35-06:00July 31st, 2017|0 Comments

Use Facebook to Honor Your Favorite Local Organizations

How can you use Facebook to honor local organizations such as chambers of commerce, professional/trade organizations, broad-based business networking groups, category-specific leads/referral groups? Last week, in just one day, I attended: the monthly meeting of my professional organization my favorite broad-based networking group a signature event hosted by one of the chambers of commerce I belong to. Because each of these organizations is so important to me, I often spread the word about them through Facebook. I don’t do this every time I attend a meeting, but each of these gatherings felt special enough to me to call attention to [...]

By |2017-06-12T23:23:21-06:00June 12th, 2017|0 Comments
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