New Facebook Timeline Fan Page Highlights

Once again another change has occurred and been mandated to our Facebook pages.  This time I took the approach of making the change to my personal page and fan pages sooner rather than when Facebook forced the change. I have spent the last few weeks learning about some of the changes and how to best utilize them to promote and present the page and the new components. I personally like the larger Timeline Cover Picture. This allows you … [Read more...]

How To Update A Facebook Fan Page From Your Smart Phone

I am the administrator of an ever growing list of fan pages for myself and my clients and so it has become necessary to do updates and posts throughout the day.  I am pretty mobile throughout the day and try to send updates when I pop open my laptop but I knew I needed to figure out a way to do it with my smart phone.    I wasn't sure if I could make it work but I thought there must be a way to do it.   Well with a … [Read more...]

Facebook Apps Directory Shut Down

I have been trying to find the Facebook App Directory this week on every time I tried there was a message that the page was not found.  At first I thought I was just missing something but after a couple more tries with no results I started looking for what the problem was.  Well, I found out why.  Facebook has shut down the App Directory.   Here is the announcement from the Facebook directory announcing the change.  … [Read more...]

How To Optimize Your Facebook Fan Page for the Search Engines

We spend a lot of time working hard on the keyword strategies and optimizing our websites for the search engines but as Facebook continues to take on a larger roll with businesses as the #1 social media platform where they can get their brand and message out to the public it is vital to get your Facebook Fan Page to rank well in the search engines as well.  Sometimes it could be more important with the ease of getting someone on your … [Read more...]

The State of Social Media Marketing 2011 – Are You Social Surf Ready?

Recently a report was released about the state of social media marketing to generate business. This is one of those topics that is one virtually everyone's mind these days.  It doesn't matter if you are a consumer or a business owner at some point you consider the potential or are offered the potential to do business via social media marketing.  So the question is what works and what doesn't.   What trends are … [Read more...]

How To Create iFrame Fan Pages – The iFrame Classroom

On March 11, 2011 the world changed forever, Facebook stopped allowing you to build Fan Pages in FBML ( Facebook Markup Language ).   The significance of this is only now just being realized.  As time goes on and more and more applications and ways of using Facebook are created, the more powerful this move will be.  Free iFrame Fan Page Tutorial Classroom - Complete with Free Hosting - Free Autoresponder - Free … [Read more...]

Advanced Facebook Searching – How To Find Stuff On Facebook

It is amazing all of the things that Facebook can do for you.  It laser targets ads for you, it sorts through your news feeds to post the most relevant and popular information and now it even provides you with a tool to poll your friends that allows them to add choices to the polling question.  What Doesn't Facebook Do Well??? The one thing that Facebook does not seem to do very well is provide a good search tool to laser … [Read more...]

How To Add A Dislike Option To Your Facebook Status

How many times have you wanted to Dislike something on Facebook.  The Like button is all over the place and you can certainly voice your opinion with a click of the button if you Like something but when I don't like something I want that to be known almost more than if I like it.   Are you with me on this? Well I stumbled on one of the coolest little Apps called Status Magic.  In fact you can give your fans or friends a … [Read more...]

Facebook Apps You Need To Include On Your Fan Pages

I have been working hard on the FREE Fan Page Tutorial Program and part of the work I have been doing is surfing a lot of different Fan Pages to see what other people are doing.  There are some really cool ones out there and they will just keep getting better with the iFrame platform.  I am excited about all the possibilities.  One of the things I have discovered is there are some "must have" Apps you need to … [Read more...]

Removing Facebook iFrame Scroll Bars – An Adventure

The World Has Changed Forever Well it is official, the world has changed forever - Facebook no longer accepts FBML Fan Pages.  This has created quit the buzz in the internet world and one that has certainly brought a good bit of attention to Facebook.  In that respect alone it has already proven to be a good move.  Now it seems that although the creation of the fan pages will take a bit more time and skills the possibilities are … [Read more...]