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Four great ways to gain Facebook fans
Last week I published an article about “Why you must invest in a Facebook page instead of profile for your business”. This week I decided to touch on things you can do to gain more fans for your page on Facebook.
YouTube is a great tool to broadcast yourself or your business. The good thing about it is that it’s open to everyone and it gives you the option of posting the video to your Facebook page. There are people who are now famous because of YouTube. You must be creative with your video so that it can catch the attention of your fans and motivate them share it with their friends. You can introduce yourself and your business to the world. Don’t forget to include links to your Facebook page, Twitter page or Website.
If you have a website or blog, installing a Facebook page plug-in can really help you gain more followers. However, people will not like your Facebook page if the content of your website or blog is outdated or not interesting. Creativity is essential.
Have fliers around your shop, advertising your Facebook page. Put it on your business card or post it on a receipt. You must also make sure that your Facebook page user name is personalised. This makes it easy for people to find you on Facebook and to be able to remember your Facebook page URL.
Facebook ads are also another great way to gain more followers. There is a cost involved and the price depends on your targeting criteria, so you are in control of how much you spend.
5 Powerful Social Media Tools
For the past few days I have been researching suitable Social Media applications that will assist me managing clients’ Social Media platforms. I once recommended two Social Media tools a while back. Since change is good, we have also decided to do so and try new web tools. I came across incredible web applications and decided to share some of them with you. You can choose one (or more) that best suits your needs.
This application allows you to publish your content to the popular social media platforms, including Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, WordPress, Blogger, Tumblr, Facebook Photos, and YouTube. It also allows you to schedule your updates to the above mentioned Social Networks.
The exciting part about Postling is that the dashboard makes it easy to keep track of all your responses, it’s very convenient to setup and it’s affordable. They also have a free account; however, it only supports a single account, one brand and one user.
This platform supports Facebook and Twitter only. It’s a very good web application for those who manage campaigns on a regular basis. The campaign involves scheduling content over a period of time using links, status updates, quotes, questions and photos.
What makes this application unique is that they have a feature called “Circle”. Once you have created your circle and invited your friends. Rooster will alert your Circle members to share your post every time you update your profile, Facebook or Twitter pages. This application is free but only supports three publishing destinations at the moment.
This application allows you to publish your content to any of the popular social media platforms, including WordPress, Facebook, Twitter, Blogger, LinkedIn and Flickr. The good thing about this web application is that it also supports text messaging; email marketing, analytics and multiple users and multiple accounts. See the image below some of its features that Sendible support.
This web application helps small and large businesses to track and analyze conversations across Twitter and Facebook in one place. It also includes a search function for any conversation about your brand on Twitter and Facebook. How is that for a piece of software? This means you are not going to be left out when people say something about you or your brand.
Just like TweetDeck, Yoono is also a free web application which is available as a browser extension, desktop app and mobile app. The dashboard gives you the power to have all your Social Networks such as Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, LinkedIn, YouTube and more in one place.
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How well are you doing on YouTube?
YouTube Insight has helped millions of you learn more about your YouTube videos and figure out when, where, and why your videos are popular. But what if you could learn not just which of your videos are hot on the site, but which specific parts of those videos are hotter than others? What if you could know exactly when viewers tend to leave your videos, or which scenes within a video they watch again and again?
Well, in case you didn’t already know, YouTube now has an insight called “Hot Spots” that can help you with exactly this.
See Your YouTube Video: Hot or Not on Google’s blog.
Zakumi is born
On my way to work this morning I heard about him for the first time. Zakumi is the name of the official FIFA mascot for the 20101 Football in SA.
So of course my first “task” of the day was to see what Zakumi’s online presence and profile is like, keeping in mind that he was only “born” last night, 22 September. The name “Zakumi” is a composition of “ZA” standing for South Africa and “kumi”, which translates into “10″ in various languages across Africa.
Doing a Google search, I found Seattle Times to be # 1 in the results for .com and for pages from South Africa, coda.co.za was first. No PPC ads YET for either local or international search.
My next step was to see what www.zakumi.co.za/com looks like. I must say I was disappointed to arrive at FIFA.com. Yes, the homepage, not even a dediciated Zakumi page. They do in fact have a www.fifa.com/zakumi that features news and a slide show of the green leopard. Oh, wait, I see a video as well, let me have a look at it.
Well, it seems that FIFA does not like Mac’s…a pity. The message I get when clicking on the video link:
Sorry, FIFA.com videos cannot be viewed on a Mac OS.
Time to see what Zakumi’s social profile looks like online:
- Youtube: 3 videos
- Facebook: 6 different profiles / fan pages
- Zoopy: nothing yet
So, all in all not bad for a baby that’s only about 12 hours old.
