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As part of the promotion for her new Facebook Money Mastery course, Mari Smith did a webinar on her Top Ten Techie Tips for Facebook and there were some interesting titbits in there. 1. Understand Edgerank Edgerank is the formula that determines the visiblity of the content you post on your fan page wall. The [...]

Two fascinating programmes on BBC2 this evening. An hour about life in Britain in the Seventies – the rise of Margaret Thatcher, the effects of a culture that tried to make people live in high rise concrete jungles. By tearing down the Victorian slums and replacing them with modern tower blocks containing indoor toilets and [...]

I watched a very interesting webinar by Amy Porterfield, the author of Facebook Marketing for Dummies, recently where she listed her Dirty Dozen – the top 12 Mistakes that many Facebook users perpetrate on a daily basis. 1. Most people are perplexed with whether to choose Facebook profiles or pages I come across this a [...]

I am indebted to Matt Garrett for alerting me to the fact that Facebook has a spam filter for its private message system. On my home page, I looked at the left hand sidebar and clicked the Messages tab. Another menu dropped down with an option called ‘Other’. Inside were 52 messages stretching back over [...]

Jo, My phone isn’t ringing and I’m not getting any traffic to my site.  I wondered if I could try out your SEO Services to see if that helps.  Is there a code or something that I can buy from you? This is not the first type of email or phone call I have received [...]

Following all the recent changes involved with Business Timelines, there is now a new and simplifed process to convert Facebook Profile to Page without losing your friends/fans.  Click on the link to find out more   I don’t think there are many of us who have not noticed people who have set up Facebook Personal [...]

Great infographic which talks you through the pros and cons of each of the different social media networks so you can decide which one is the best for your business. Click on the image to go through to the full size at source. In a survey of 1500 Facebook users, 60% said they only knew [...]

As predicted by Social Media Examiner last week, yesterday Facebook decided to realign their Business Pages with the image layouts on their Personal Profiles and change both the size and the position. From 180x180px, the squares are now 160x160px and, instead of sitting half in and half out of the cover image, they are now [...]

Sometimes I use my personal profile to post onto my Facebook Business Page and at others I like to post as my business by implementing the ‘Use Facebook As’ Function from the dropdown menu at the top right next to Home. Trouble is, over the last few days it has disappeared from its normal position [...]