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running a facebook promotion

Run­ning a pro­mo­tion or com­pe­ti­tion on Face­book can be a great way to increase your fan base, get brand expo­sure and aware­ness or cre­ate engage­ment in your Face­book com­mu­nity. In May 2011 Face­book changed it’s pro­mo­tional guide­lines, which cre­ated a new play­ing field for how pro­mo­tions should be run. On top of this things can Con­tinue reading →

Face­book Pages are a great way to engage your com­mu­nity, in a way that doesn’t infringe on their pri­vacy and keep them up-to-date with your activ­ity in a spam free, non-invasive man­ner and best of all you have their per­mis­sion to engage in this way. In my opin­ion too many busi­ness are miss­ing the oppor­tu­ni­ties these pages present or sim­ply doing them because it is the done thing to say they are social and are not really opti­mis­ing the opportunity.

Social Media is no longer a new word, though there is still a lot of new inno­va­tion asso­ci­ated with it. Often we read about hav­ing Social Media Strate­gies, which is ideal. But what hap­pens when one doesn’t have the resources to cre­ate a new strat­egy, but need to inte­grate it into an exist­ing strategy?

Social Media is still a new con­cept to many com­pa­nies and there are still many peo­ple not con­vinced that it can work for them. Then there are com­pa­nies that have embraced it and man­age­ment are enthu­si­as­tic and totally into Social Media. This arti­cle is aimed at peo­ple who have dis­cov­ered social media and believe that it can work for their com­pany, but their man­age­ment are either less than enthu­si­as­tic or per­haps almost in the dark about social media.

The first and prob­a­bly the most impor­tant thing to be able to con­vince man­age­ment that social media is for your busi­ness is

Those of us using Social Media know how effec­tive it can be in dri­ving traf­fic to one’s web­site. But, unlike some make out, it does require ongo­ing effort and per­se­ver­ance. Social Media is not the secret ingre­di­ent to instant suc­cess, how­ever, it is a pow­er­ful tool when com­bined with a focused strat­egy and the com­mit­ment to carry it out.

One of the biggest prob­lems is

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