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The first thing I do is point out the flaws because as a social media manager who has to constantly monitor what is going out under our flagship, I am keenly aware of how important that feedback is and can rarely keep it to myself, even if that brand is not my client (and they should be).<br />
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There are some other things that bother me including the blatant use of emojis in brand ads.<br />
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First of all, emojis are used to try and make the post feel more like a fellow user has shared their favorite thing on Facebook. They don't want you to get the sense that it was really written by 20-something brand ad copywriters trying to get you to buy. To me, that is so fake because the second you see the word "sponsored" you know it's an ad. Why hide it? Why try to make your brand in to something you're not?<br />
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I've marketed products and services for some of the world's leading health and wellness experts whose main message to their followers is to BE YOU and stop trying to be what others want you to be.<br />
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I believe the word is, AUTHENTICITY. And the more authentic you are, the more people trust you but like all real relationships, trust takes time.<br />
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Brand ads, or any facebook ads for that matter should be used to build trust in your authentic brand, not trick people into falling for a false sense of authenticity only to find 20 emails from your company in their inbox each day. It's probably going to work for about a week, and then you've lost them for good. Not only that, but they will be wary to click on anything that says "sponsored" again.<br />
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Be real, be simple and be mindful of the fact that emojis, excessive use of #hashtags and bad copywriting not only affect the long-term life of your brand, but also the Facebook algorithm that is the deciding factor on whether ads should even be shown to the people you are trying to reach.<br />
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The people you are trying to reach may not be paying attention, but the newsfeed algorithm is a computer and never sleeps. It already knows that it's going to be harder to get people to click on posts with excessive emojis and #hashtags so it will charge you more for copy that contains them. This eats in to your client's overall ROI.<br />
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No word yet from Facebook on when the issue will be resolved, but users from <a href="https://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/national/facebook-down-social-media-site-not-working-for-many" target="_blank">around the world</a> are experiencing the problem.<br />
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Even though the message reads that it was a maintenance issue, it's hard to believe that Facebook would schedule a maintenance world-wide at such an odd time of day and week, leading many to wonder if it was a hack of some kind.<br />
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The blackout is affecting even third party publishing tools such as Buffer, causing scheduled posts to not be published.<br />
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Embedded Facebook widgets on websites are also being affected, basically leaving large open spots on any web pages that have them.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2024903238433100882.post-56310379247897027252018-02-09T07:29:00.001-06:002018-02-09T07:29:09.704-06:00New tools and features coming to Facebook Groups in 2018.February 9, 2018- Facebook recently announced a series of updates regarding Facebook Groups and the tools that are used to manage them.<br />
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Facebook is finally taking some time to really work on Group features, recognizing that the community aspect of these groups serve a higher good. Their first big announcement was in regards to a new <b><a href="https://communities.fb.com/">Facebook Community Leadership Program</a></b> which will seek to award funds for big ideas that serve unique needs.<br />
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They have announced a new, $10 Million Program aimed at increasing the effectiveness of Facebook Communities: 5, $1 million awards to be dedicated to fund ideas that cater to the community and serve unique needs as well as 100, $50,000 awards to leaders of communities that focus on specific, unique initiatives. These awards will also include things such as training, new tools for helping to manage the community, etc.<br />
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Interested in these awards? Go to <a href="https://communities.fb.com/">https://communities.fb.com/</a> for more info.<br />
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The second big announcement that Facebook made about Groups was that they would be adding 4 new features for admins:<br />
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1. A new Admin Tools Hub which will feature all of the admin tools in one place and an easier way to navigate the ways the group can be administered.<br />
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2. Group Announcements which will include several posts in a grouped setting and pinned to the top of the group. You can schedule announcements ahead of time, add photos to them and they will give admins a lot more flexibility in how those announcements look.<br />
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3. New personalization features to give your Group an even more dynamic and appealing look. This will include picking out a color that will be shown throughout the group.<br />
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4. The best feature by far is the new Rules feature which will give admins a better way to communicate rules to members. They will have their own space, always visible on the group. Incoming members will also be shown the rules when they join. Rules will become a more prominent feature for the community.<br />
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I couldn't help myself though when I noticed one of my favorite tweeters and epic relationship expert, <b><a href="https://twitter.com/iyanlavanzant">Iyanla Vanzant</a></b>, and her hilarious Super Bowl Tweets.<br />
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If you have ever seen Ms. Iyanla in action on her hit series, <b><a href="http://www.oprah.com/app/iyanla-fix-my-life.html">Iyanla: Fix My Life</a></b> (on the Oprah Winfrey Network), then you know she is no-nonsense and a truth-telling Queen. Her mantra is to "call a thing a thing" and when it comes to Super Bowl Sunday, she does just that.<br />
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Without further ado, I give you, Iyanla Vanzant's Super Bowl Tweets:<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2024903238433100882.post-32920855290303839722018-01-31T11:25:00.000-06:002018-01-31T11:25:26.966-06:00Facebook Custom Audiences for Customer File is showing "Not Available" and affecting Ad Performance<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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January 31, 2018 (1/31/18) - Facebook custom audiences created using your customer file (or customer list) is showing "Not Available" for many ad managers and could also be affecting ad performance.<br />
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My current ad campaign was running at its lower-than-usual performance levels and we were not seeing results.<br />
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The below picture was taken after the campaign had been running for 6 Days.<br />
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The reach was much lower than we felt it should be, so I checked the target audience and the list and that is when I discovered that my customer list was showing something unusual.<div>
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Once the target audience was adjusted to remove the list and the look-alike audience from that list so that the only thing we focused on were his website pixel custom audience and the facebook page engagement custom audience, we saw dramatic increase in performance.<br />
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I sent a support request to Facebook and received the following reply:<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace; font-size: 12.09px;">Thank you for contacting Facebook Ad Support. My name is Collin and I'd be happy to answer this inquiry!</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace; font-size: 12.09px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace; font-size: 12.09px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace; font-size: 12.09px;">As noted in our advertising principles, we're constantly looking to improve the quality and security of our advertising platforms. After identifying a technical issue with reach estimation for Custom Audiences that could potentially allow misuse of the functionality, we're temporarily removing the ability to see audience sizes or potential reach estimates for newly created or edited Custom Audiences in Ads Manager and Power Editor, followed by the Ads API by December 22.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace; font-size: 12.09px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace; font-size: 12.09px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace; font-size: 12.09px;">Specifically, we are removing reach estimates for:</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace; font-size: 12.09px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace; font-size: 12.09px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace; font-size: 12.09px;">Custom Audiences from a customer file</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace; font-size: 12.09px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace; font-size: 12.09px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace; font-size: 12.09px;">Offline conversions Custom Audiences</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace; font-size: 12.09px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace; font-size: 12.09px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace; font-size: 12.09px;">Website and mobile app Custom Audiences if using advanced matching via the API</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace; font-size: 12.09px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace; font-size: 12.09px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace; font-size: 12.09px;">Website or mobile app Custom Audiences that do not include customer data and engagement Custom Audiences are unaffected by this update.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace; font-size: 12.09px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace; font-size: 12.09px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace; font-size: 12.09px;">Please note that you will still be able to create Custom Audiences, as well as ads using any type of Custom Audiences, on our platform. Ads delivery and reporting will remain unaffected by this change.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace; font-size: 12.09px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace; font-size: 12.09px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace; font-size: 12.09px;">We understand this solution may affect your campaign planning. To minimize disruption, we are currently investigating solutions to restore these reach estimates in our interfaces.</span><br />
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I have since replied to him and let him know that this change was affecting our campaign and I'll let you know if we receive any word back about this through an UPDATE to this article.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2024903238433100882.post-26428225098349545082017-10-11T10:53:00.000-05:002017-10-11T10:54:55.772-05:00Facebook Not Working on October 11, 2017 (10/11/17)Once again the world is standing still as we wait to see what has happened to Facebook. Thousands of users are reporting that nothing happens when they visit the site, both on their computers or on their smart devices.<br />
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I tried to use my iphone to post into a group but had no luck.<br />
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Many of the outage maps are also reporting that Facebook is down.<br />
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There has been no comment so far from Facebook on what is causing this widespread outage but for this Facebook Marketer, I think it means a vacation day.<br />
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This is a continuation of my post about<b> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/business/news/audience-insights" target="_blank">Facebook’s Newsfeed Algorithm</a></b> and how it uses <b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/help/122175507864081" target="_blank">facial recognition software</a></b> to fine tune what content escapes your page and into a user’s newsfeed. <b><a href="http://lilestyle.blogspot.com/2015/10/what-would-facebook-do-ultimate-key-to_19.html" target="_blank">You might want to take a minute to read about this here</a>.</b><br />
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In this installment, I’ll share what I believe to be the true key to organic reach and engagement on Facebook.<br />
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Following is a list of 5 strategies that I employ for many of my clients and which I have seen success with in the past.<br />
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As a Facebook page manager, I’ve had the opportunity to see the effects of the<b> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/business/news/update-to-facebook-news-feed" target="_blank">latest newsfeed algorithm changes</a></b> across a variety of different-sized pages. The pages with the higher numbers on them seemed to be affected much less than the pages with lower numbers.<br />
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Pages whose posting strategy remained unchanged with regards to times and frequency seemed to see a dip or flat line when it came to page reach and engagement, whereas the pages who increased the frequency of postings on their pages saw a steady growth in engagement and reach.<br />
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Increased postings are hard when you barely have time to schedule just one post a day, but the truth is, you might not be reaching your full potential. <br />
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Remember in my last post when I mentioned that Facebook has to decide which of the 3-5 posts that go out on your favorite Page it will show you in your newsfeed (if any)?<br />
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Well imagine if it was just 1 post a day. Chances are you wouldn’t see that post but once a week perhaps.<br />
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Now imagine if that page was posting 10 times a day.<br />
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With more posts and times to choose from, Facebook now has more opportunities to slip at least 1 of those posts into your newsfeed when there is less competition from other sources.<br />
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An easy test will be to simply double your postings for 1-2 weeks to see what happens.<br />
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In all of my other client’s cases, we saw increased reach and engagement, especially if we varied all of the posts by content type: video uploads, links, graphics and just ordinary status messages.<br />
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Videos are also a huge hit on Facebook right now. You’ll get more views by uploading it to Facebook, even if your video isn’t that popular on YouTube, because that is what Facebook wants, more people watching videos!<br />
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If you really want to think like Facebook thinks, then you have to determine what your audience is engaging with and give them more like that.<br />
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I recommend you take screenshots of your <b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/help/336893449723054/" target="_blank">Facebook Page Insights</a></b> "Overview" screen each week, rather than relying on the actual arrows to tell you how you’re doing. Pay close attention to your overall reach numbers, and actual Engagement numbers (as illustrated).<br />
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If you do it on the same day each week, you’ll be surprised to see that the arrows really are not showing you a week’s worth of progress.<br />
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You should also go to your “Posts” screen in your Facebook Page insights, and <b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/help/1377045265841884" target="_blank">sort all of your posts by the most engaging.</a></b><br />
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Look down through them to see if you can find similarities: colors, text (message), objects, etc. Make a list of all the similarities that you notice and use this as a guide to selecting your content moving forward.<br />
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Of course, you can repost content, and you will see high engagement on previously viral content that has been re-posted, but the numbers never really reach the original levels of engagement, in my experience. It’s better to try and improve on your numbers by finding similar content, but not the same exact content.<br />
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Do this every week but also try to put new content out there so that you don’t get stuck with Facebook showing one content type. It would be a tragedy to paint your audience into a “blue with white stars” corner (<b><a href="http://lilestyle.blogspot.com/2015/10/what-would-facebook-do-ultimate-key-to_19.html" target="_blank">as mentioned in my previous blog post</a></b>).<br />
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I love how social media consultants are always trying to figure out if they should be posting during “high posting times”. It’s funny because Facebook tells each page manager the best posting times and days for THEIR audience and believe me, it IS different for every page.<br />
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Don’t assume you should post on Tuesdays and avoid Saturdays just because someone said that is the most active time overall.<br />
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Remember, we are playing in Facebook world, so what would Facebook do?<br />
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If your page insights say your best posting day is on Wednesdays at 4pm (<b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/help/164982713673403" target="_blank">this is when your followers are on Faceook</a></b>), then post your most important content during that time.<br />
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Look at each day and see what time it peaks and then post in those times. Facebook is using this data and so should you.<br />
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Your page insights will show you data on your followers such as age, gender and location, but the <b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/business/news/audience-insights" target="_blank">Audience Insights</a></b> gives you even more data on your audience. If you really want to think like Facebook thinks, then you need to have a look at the data that is showing here and forget whether or not it’s accurate because it might not be.<br />
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The truth is, the “interest profile” of your audience is what Facebook is working with and is located in its newsfeed algorithm. This Audience Insights tool basically gives you access to the data it has, based on your page followers actions and online activity that they choose to share, and it’s what Facebook uses to determine what content will get seen when you post it.<br />
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For example, let’s say you are an author and you see your audience is primarily women between the ages of 44-65. That says a lot, but when you look at this same audience through the analyzer, you learn that 80% are married and home owners.<br />
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Suddenly you realize that if you offer up content catering to parents (funny kid graphics) or pet owners (cute pet videos), Facebook will find it very suitable to this audience and push it out more than if you had posted pictures of someone playing golf.<br />
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Hopefully by now you can see how it's possible to use this data to manipulate your content into more user’s newsfeeds organically.<br />
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Caution is warranted, however, because eventually this system is set to collapse in on itself due to closed nature. Remember the blue background with white stars conundrum?<br />
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If all we do is keep giving audiences what we know Facebook will show them, then we can’t ever get this audience to engage in other content. This can make it harder and harder to come up with new ways to reach them without having to ad more funds to your marketing budget for ads.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2024903238433100882.post-41608263625834693912015-10-19T09:17:00.000-05:002015-10-19T20:13:16.403-05:00What would Facebook Do? The ultimate key to organic Facebook reach that no one is talking about- Part 1<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This article has been a long time coming. It’s been very difficult trying to decide which direction I wanted to take with it until I saw another headline on an article that read something like “Top 7 Things You Should Be Doing on Facebook” and it did not once mention what I know to be true about Facebook and that is this:<br />
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If I post a picture on my Facebook page, what will Facebook do? Will it show it to 100 people? Will they show it to 4,000 people? When will they see it? For how long?<br />
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Many of us wonder about this when we post our content to our Facebook pages.<br />
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We hope that the audience will “like” it and share it and frantically watch for the little green arrows or red arrows on our insights to see how we’re doing but did you know that you can actually think like Facebook thinks?<br />
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Facebook has even given us the tools, like the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/business/news/audience-insights" target="_blank"><b>Audience Insights</b></a> and <a href="https://www.facebook.com/help/336893449723054/" target="_blank"><b>Page Insights</b></a>, which both give us data that can tell us extensively what our audience will like and not like on Facebook. <br />
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Marketers wonder, "Is that data even accurate?" My answer is, who cares? It’s what Facebook SAYS is accurate and since we are in Facebook world, we need to play by Facebook rules.<br />
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Remember the Facebook Newsfeed Algorithm? <br />
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Well it’s been amped up with some pretty high-tech extras, and my theory is that this includes the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/help/122175507864081" target="_blank"><b>facial recognition software</b></a> that help us to tag our friends when we upload a picture of them onto Facebook.<br />
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Let’s say you are an average user on Facebook, and you like and share an inspiring quote from your favorite author. Let’s say that quote was blue and had lots of stars on it. <br />
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We already know that the Newsfeed Algorithm has logged our interest in the page and will make a point to continue to show things from that Page, but that just isn’t enough because there is a lot of stuff trying to find its way into your newsfeed. <br />
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Facebook needs more information to determine which of the 3-5 posts going out on that page will make it into your newsfeed, if any.<br />
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So how can it tell which posts you’ll like most? This is where the facial recognition software comes in. Facebook can now determine colors, text, and even OBJECTS on the graphics.<br />
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If anyone you follow on Facebook ever posts another blue graphic with stars on it, Facebook will immediately move that one up the list in priority.<br />
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Facebook can rate each graphic coming from a page with attributes that you have engaged with in the past and compare them to all of the other graphics you have ever liked (which is all data stored under your “interest profile”) and the picture with the most similarities in your “interest profile” will be the winner.<br />
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Take a look at the following screen shots that I have taken over time from my personal Facebook Newsfeed. It’s a great example of how Facebook started using these new finely-tuned interest profiles to show me what they thought would be interesting to me in my profile from all of the pages and friends that I follow.<br />
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In each case, the similarities were so freaking obvious, you can see exactly which attributes Facebook was picking out of the content:<br />
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So what exactly does this mean? Well, from a page manager’s perspective, it should be easy for you to use the audience insights and also your page insights to determine what your next biggest viral post will be. I will write about this in my next installment.<br />
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Does it mean that your viral post is viral because people really liked it or because Facebook decided to show it to more people? </h3>
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The answer is both. The trick is to get people to see it, then it will go viral as more people share it. However, you can have the most viral post in the world, and because Facebook doesn’t think your audience will engage with it, well, you’ll never know.<br />
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There is a moral dilemma of course, and hopefully it is obvious to everyone, and that is,how can we escape the loop of continuous repetitive content in our newsfeed and make sure that what we see is REALLY what we see and not what Facebook says we should see?<br />
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There are ways to fine tune your newsfeed experience and I can write about this in a future blog post, however, after managing pages for so long, what I do know is that not everyone has the ability to figure that out. They don’t have the time,patience or knowledge to sit down and create their own custom newsfeed or to set their favorite pages up with notifications or subscribe to events. <br />
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Facebook will and always has been a user’s place and quite honestly, the average Facebook user does not understand all of the possible settings available.<br />
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It will be up to page managers to find a creative way to introduce new content to their users and new ways to engage them with their message and/or brand.<br />
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Make way for brand advocacy campaigns with more accurate communication strategies. It's time to put some serious effort into reading your audience. <b><a href="http://lilestyle.blogspot.com/2015/10/what-would-facebook-do-ultimate-key-to_5.html" target="_blank">More on this in Part 2, http://lilestyle.blogspot.com/2015/10/what-would-facebook-do-ultimate-key-to_5.html</a></b>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2024903238433100882.post-23397433287493691972015-10-11T12:07:00.000-05:002015-10-12T11:16:12.952-05:00Facebook Reactions are now available on Facebook Page insights.As a Facebook pages manager I'm always tickled about new features on Facebook because I never know which ones will stick around and which ones won't. Since I have access to so many client Facebook Pages, I usually see the roll-out of new features on one page and not on the others. This is the case with Facebook's latest new feature, "Reactions".<br />
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This just turned up on one of the more higher reaching posts for the previous week, so I'm not sure how many people have actually had a chance to see that there is a post to react to, but I tracked it down and without disclosing my client (due to privacy issues), here is what it looks like from the timeline:<br />
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As you can see, there are no reaction buttons to click so I was unclear how this would look from someone's perspective (not my own). A quick search on Facebook revealed that users in Ireland and Spain are the only users who will be able to see these reaction buttons. I'll have to check with a former client of mine who is currently in Ireland to see if he can send me a screenshot. :) Stay tuned!</div>
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Facebook's information on this can be found here- <a href="http://newsroom.fb.com/news/2015/10/news-feed-fyi-how-the-reactions-test-will-impact-ranking/"><b>http://newsroom.fb.com/news/2015/10/news-feed-fyi-how-the-reactions-test-will-impact-ranking/</b></a></div>
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The overall feedback on mentions has been nothing short of brutal, with both <a href="http://mashable.com/2015/10/09/facebook-reactions-problems/#VIOBYLr5L8qM" target="_blank"><b>Mashable</b></a> and<b> <a href="http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2015/10/09/447199869/wheres-the-why-button-readers-react-to-facebook-reactions" target="_blank">NPR</a></b> among some of the many reporting on the overall negative reactions of users. Page mangers like myself, however, will find the added input highly enjoyable with a hot cup of coffee in the morning.</div>
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Insufficient Permission- You do not have the necessary permission for the specified Page to perform the requested action.<br />
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So what action am I trying to perform when this message pops up? Basically, just scrolling down the page (which causes Facebook to have to retrieve older posts) will make this message pop up.<br />
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A quick google search of this reveals that this is a standard FB message that occurs when you try to do something that is "not allowed" on Facebook such as using your FB page to post to a Group wall for example.<br />
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Nothing yet on the Facebook Help Desk with known issues, so I guess I'll wait to see if anyone else experiences this today. Comment below if you do.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2024903238433100882.post-13772132997831813592015-09-17T13:15:00.001-05:002015-09-17T13:17:20.476-05:00Facebook not working on September 17, 2015It's hard to believe it's almost been a whole year since the great<a href="http://lilestyle.blogspot.com/2013/10/102113-day-that-facebook-broke-down.html" target="_blank"> Facebook crash of 2014</a> but yet again, it appears that something on Facebook is majorly broken.<br />
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No one seems to be tweeting about it yet on Twitter and for me it seems to be on again, off again. We'll keep you updated.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2024903238433100882.post-64818733196198139802014-06-11T09:48:00.000-05:002014-06-11T10:05:04.904-05:00June 11, 2014 - Facebook Pages Error - Images won't upload to your Facebook PageThe internet has gone wild this morning because Facebook Pages stopped working. It appears that people are unable to upload photos at this time. <a href="http://screencast.com/t/fZP3JnZDPaA" target="_blank"><b>Watch the video below</b></a> for an example:<br />
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Meanwhile, software publishing tool <a href="http://www.grosocial.com/" target="_blank"><b>GroSocial</b></a> yesterday reported that their Facebook API (the software used to access Facebook Pages) was not working properly, causing the software to be unable to post anything at all to pages.<br />
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<a href="https://newsroom.fb.com/" target="_blank"><b>Facebook</b></a> has declined to give an update as of this posting, but it is clear that the problem has escalated from their change in API to the platform itself.<br />
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It is still unclear how many people have been affected by this or how long this will last. Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2024903238433100882.post-37934800761247438782014-05-23T12:09:00.000-05:002014-05-23T12:09:17.848-05:00Facebook now tells admins how many people a page post is being "served" to.In an apparent move to be more transparent about Facebook's Newsfeed algorithm, it appears that the text that shows to administrators under each Facebook page post has changed.<br />
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It used to read, "x number of people saw this post" and now it reads, "This post was served to x number of people".<br />
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As a page administrator for many high profile pages (and low profile pages for that matter), I can say that this is somewhat a relief. I can't tell you how many people would ask me why their entire population wouldn't "see" a post that we put out on the page. Many times we were asked if we could do anything to make it better, as though it was something we were doing wrong, until we explained <a href="https://www.facebook.com/help/327131014036297/" target="_blank"><b>Facebook's Newsfeed Algorithm.</b></a><br />
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Now it is more apparent that Facebook is choosing which of our content to "serve" up to the people who have liked the page and which content is doomed to sit stagnant on our timeline.<br />
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There is hope however, besides the apparent "Boost Post" option where you pay Facebook to make sure your content<b> </b>gets into everyone's newsfeed, and that is to post smart.<br />
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Facebook's newsfeed algorithm is based on people's "likes and interests" which they fill out when they create a profile. It also looks at what types of content people engage with not just on your page but on other pages as well. If you have a tendency to click on video links, then you are going to get a LOT more video links in your newsfeed.<br />
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If you have an important message to get out to your followers, you should create content that is in alignment with the best posting types on your page, as shown by your Facebook Page insights.<br />
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Here's how:<br />
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In this case, it looks like our links are being served to the widest audience, so we should continue with this trend. That is great news since we will soon be starting a website for this page.<br />
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Interesting also is that our regular status updates (without images or links) get served to the second widest audience, and photos are a close 3rd.<br />
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You can also click the "Top Posts from Pages You Watch" to see how other pages' content is being "served" to their audiences. Overall, I like this new language, as it makes a lot more sense to people about where their content ends up (besides making nice decorations for their Facebook pages).<br />
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What are your thoughts or questions?Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2024903238433100882.post-51587176193896349122014-02-08T09:02:00.002-06:002014-02-08T09:20:46.962-06:00Important changes coming for Admins of Facebook Pages.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Here is one of the side-effects we experience from managing so many Facebook Pages for our clients: we get to see changes to Facebook Pages before other users. One such example happened this morning when we logged in to manage a client's page.<br />
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We had a notification about some interesting changes coming to Facebook Pages starting February 20, 2014 and only for certain users.<br />
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<a href="http://www.facebook.com/help/225783087608655" target="_blank"><b>According to Facebook: </b></a><br />
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On a Page post, the name of the person who posted will be listed below the name of your Page next to <b>Posted by</b>. On a Page comment, the name of the person who commented will be listed below the comment next to <b>Commented on by</b>. </div>
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You will also be able to see who posted or scheduled posts for your page, taking the guesswork out of who to ask for information.<a href="http://www.facebook.com/help/www/226947190654977"></a></div>
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My team and I are excited about this feature. Sometimes our clients like to jump on an post and we have a hard time knowing if it was them or one of us. Score one for Facebook!</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2024903238433100882.post-91618767183939164862013-11-08T10:10:00.000-06:002013-11-08T10:46:28.450-06:00Facebook Pages Not Loading for Administrators - November 8, 2013<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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As of 9:45am Central Time on November 8, 2013, we began experiencing a major outage of all 30 pages that we are administrators for. One minute they were working fine, and then suddenly, they wouldn't load into the browser.<br />
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We currently have access to our admin panel, activity logs and page settings, but can not get the Timeline to load, nor can we update our pages with any content. <br />
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Internet service providers do not seem to play a role in the problem because our administrators use different providers to access the pages on Facebook. Here is a screenshot of what the page looks like when an administrator tries to load access it: <br />
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We have sent a request to our Facebook representative and will let everyone know what the reply is and meanwhile will continue to update this article as we get information.<br />
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We have been successful in accessing our admin pages again after one hour of trying. Nothing yet has been issued from Facebook, but we'll update as soon as we know. Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2024903238433100882.post-50820416521123478702013-10-21T09:04:00.000-05:002013-10-21T09:46:37.326-05:0010/21/13 - The Day that Facebook BROKE DOWN - Trouble with Groups, Commenting, and Posting on Facebook.Today will go down in the history books as the day that Facebook broke down. The problems seemed to be coming from the computer at first, but the more we dig, the more we are discovering that this is a wide-spread Facebook issue.<br />
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<b>Facebook Groups </b>- users are unable to upload any media nor can they post messages. Admins are unable to add or remove group members nor can they pin or unpin posts from the top of the group.<br />
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<b>Commenting</b> - users are unable to post comments to their friends posts. The error looks something like this: <br />
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<b>"Likes" not working</b> - error messages also occur when you are trying to like another person's comment.<br />
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<b>Posting -</b> users are getting error messages when trying to post status updates. <b><a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2013/10/21/the-facebook-status-update-problem-isnt-just-you/?mod=e2tw" target="_blank">This blog reports</a> </b>that several people are experiencing this message when trying to post an update, but this problem seems to be more sporadic.<br />
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We have several friends all over the country and the world as a matter of fact and all of them are reporting some kind of trouble, although not all of their troubles are the same.<b> </b><a href="http://www.isitdownrightnow.com/facebook.com.html" target="_blank"><b>This site</b> </a>also indicates that users from all over the world are experiencing issues as well.<br />
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So far Facebook has not published anything online about this event. We're curious to see what the issue really is because it isn't just in the United States. Users in Hong Kong are even experiencing these issues.<br />
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We tried to file an error report on<a href="http://www.facebook.com/help/contact/197060467057875" target="_blank"> <b>Facebook's support site</b></a><b> </b>and received this error message:<br />
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<span style="color: lime;"><b>Update#2: </b>At 9:44am CST, I attempted to comment on a friend's post that she made on my timeline. It seems the issues will continue to be sporadic.</span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;"><b>Update: </b>Looks like most major news outlets have picked up on the outage. They are reporting that things are getting back to normal although posting will be sporadic. Comment below and let us know how things are going for you.<b> </b></span><br />
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Also, you might want to tune into<a href="https://newsroom.fb.com/News" target="_blank"><b> Facebook's News Room</b></a> for any updates straight from Facebook (although it seems that they have their hands full and can't get to an announcement just yet).</span><b><br /></b>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2024903238433100882.post-79091537358693496932013-04-28T11:03:00.000-05:002013-04-28T14:33:58.960-05:00Facebook Storage Failure Error runs rampant across multiple browsers- April 28, 2013<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Facebook Storage Failure occurs when you try to upload a picture to Facebook.</td></tr>
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Today our team noticed a wide-spread issue between several of our managed Facebook pages. We kept receiving the Storage Failure upload error when trying to update the pages' timeline with a photo.<br />
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While trying multiple times on Firefox, Chrome and Explorer, we noticed the problem existed on all of these browsers, yet remained intermittent.<br />
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Firefox seems to have a better success rate after multiple tries.<br />
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Upon researching Facebook's known issues, we found several cases where this has come up, but not as of 2013, so something must have changed overnight. We'll continue to monitor the current Facebook blog.<br />
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During our research, we came across several recent mentions from users who were experiencing this same issue as of today, April 28, 2013. <br />
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Should you encounter this issue, you may wish to try several times to get the photo to upload and you may also wish to report the issue to Facebook: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/help/contact/397722186921491?rdrhc">https://www.facebook.com/help/contact/397722186921491?rdrhc</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2024903238433100882.post-2569773582126704572012-11-09T14:50:00.001-06:002012-11-09T14:50:26.285-06:00What you should and should NOT post on FacebookThis past political season has been full of heated debates, finger pointing, lies and mis-direction and not necessarily all from one political party or the other. It seems that everywhere you looked there was someone posting on Social Networks something political in nature.<br />
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One of my favorite Memes on Facebook are the SomeeCards that are constantly being posted and this one is truly reflective of the past political season:<br />
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But even with as many political posts as I came across on Facebook, nothing was quite so alarming as some of the posts found on a newly elected Kansas State Representative's facebook page. Now it's one thing to post such content on your page and keep the privacy settings limited to just your friends and entirely different thing to post that content to your page publicly for all the world to see.<br />
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Rightfully so, people began complaining about his Facebook content to the local news station, which eventually prompted an investigative report which aired on the 10 o'clock news. I was asked for my professional opinion related to these posts, which I replied immediately that they were in violation of Facebook's rules of conduct.<br />
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See the entire interview here: <br />
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If you read Facebook's rules, you can clearly see several items which the Kansas State Representative was in violation of. I explained how you can report the images to Facebook to have them deleted. Facebook has been known to close your account if they find you in violation of the rules, so it's best to play things on the safe side, especially when you are a public official.<br />
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After reviewing the rules and the images and videos on the good Representative's page, it was clear that they were in violation. Even though the images were posted by someone else and shared to the page, the Representative can still be held accountable for the content.<br />
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There are ways to report the images to Facebook, which did on several of the images. Surprisingly enough, Facebook refused to take the offensive images down. It's not clear whether more people need to complain before Facebook will actually enforce their own rules, or if it was just a matter of not having a real person to follow up with the claim. We'll make sure to stay on top of the situation to see what Facebook's response will be.<br />
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For now, it is unclear what is really allowed on Facebook. The rules should be evident enough, but with no one to enforce them, it really is like having no rules at all.<br />
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What do you think? You can watch the interview and see the images in question for yourself and we'd love to hear what you would do.<br />
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As a Social Media Manager, I have access to dozens of Facebook pages and I am also listed as a Facebook Developer. This usually means that I find out about interesting things going on with Facebook before most normal users.<br />
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Today, as I was perusing one of my client's Page Insights, I noticed a pop-up message that was asking me if I would like to do a survey. A survey for Facebook? How can I resist? I have LOTS of feedback for Facebook!<br />
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So the survey started innocently enough. It asked what I liked about Facebook Pages. For me, the things I love most about the Facebook Pages are the customizable options with the Timeline covers and the applications with custom tabs. Things like that really make me happy, but I am kind of geeky that way.<br />
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The next question from Facebook asked me what I DIDN'T like about the pages... even daring me to "BE AS SPECIFIC AS POSSIBLE". Oh boy, they asked for it. Here is what I said:<br />
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1. I don't like that Facebook applications (the custom tabs) cannot be accessed with your mobile device. I have been reading so many studies that indicate more and more people are accessing Facebook with their <a href="http://pewinternet.org/Reports/2012/Smartphone-Update-Sept-2012.aspx" target="_blank">mobile devices rather than a computer</a> so it didn't make sense to me WHY we can't see the custom tabs on Facebook Mobile apps.<br />
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2. I don't like that the Facebook mobile app didn't allow for SHARING of posts. Sharing is the most important form of engagement that your page could possibly receive. It pretty much guarantees you new likes to your page with high amounts of sharing. Why can't we share posts and pictures from pages with our Mobile Apps? <a href="http://youtu.be/hp3lIqVxzzk" target="_blank">Now, I have seen that there can be ways to do it, but it is very limited.</a><br />
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3. Finally, there needs to be a better solution for advertising on Facebook. I have the ability to drive ad traffic to custom tabs which, if done correctly, can be used like a landing page. But what I want is for it to be a legitimate "choice" under Facebook advertising to drive traffic to your custom tab or better yet, give us the ability to drive all new incoming traffic to a landing page like in the olden days.<br />
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Facebook then said that they were considering offering Businesses a special "Package" for their Page with a long list of great things that they said would be included, which I am putting here for your review (along with my personal reactions to each):<br />
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1. Mobile apps that will show custom tabs (Hooray!)<br />
2. Availability of Email and Chat to report problems with your page (What's this going to cost?)<br />
3. 5 Free Promoted Posts each month (Nothing's free on Facebook anymore...)<br />
4. Access to PHONE SUPPORT for your Pages (now I KNOW this is going to cost us...)<br />
5. Removal of all ads from the right-hand side of your page (Really? This seems lame...)<br />
6. Option to respond to comments and wall-posts through private message (Taking things off the mat... I like that)<br />
7. Option to post to page as an employee personality and not the page (we sort of already have this option)<br />
8. Prominent Business listing in Facebook search (as opposed to what?)<br />
9. Access to yearly discussions with Business Page owners who are "successful" (I already do this as a professional, year round, it's what I DO)<br />
10. A listing of other Pages in your general field and how their success compares to yours (this could be good or bad, depending on what your line of work is)<br />
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I'm sure there were a couple of more options there, but unfortunately I didn't have the foresight to write all of them down. Once I was finished giving them feedback as to how "valuable" I found all of the special options, they asked me if I would consider paying $50 a month for this Package.<br />
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Many of these options really won't affect my client's visibility but it could affect a lot of others in a positive way. For example, one could easily spend more than $50 on promoted posts each month, which to me really is worth the funds as it greatly increases your Page's visibility more than the traditional Facebook ad.<br />
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The truth is, now that Facebook is trading on the market, they have to look into all possible revenue streams. Advertising is pulling in a lot right now, and they have <a href="http://allfacebook.com/we-are-social-edgerank-changes_b102159" target="_blank">changed their Newsfeed Edgerank Algorithm</a> so that Pages feel the need to promote their posts in order to stay in front of their followers' top stories. Finding ways to "sweeten the pot" for Pages both offers businesses a way to have more advanced Pages than other businesses as well as adds an extra revenue stream for Facebook.<br />
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Businesses should prepare their budgets for 2013 to allow for extra Facebook spending if they want to stay on the cutting edge. <br />
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2024903238433100882.post-56814640355383980252012-03-11T14:24:00.001-05:002012-03-11T14:26:23.614-05:00A Social Experiment - Part 1, Starting a MovementPresident and Owner of LileStyle Productions, <a href="http://lilestyle.com/media_angie.htm" target="_blank">Angie Lile</a>, has many passions. She loves to play around on social media sites and absorbs social media news at the same rate as her coffee/smoothie. She loves her kids and family and how much time she gets to spend with them when she's not on Facebook. She loves her friend and LileStyle's Senior Writer, <a href="http://lilestyle.com/media.htm" target="_blank">Susan Stocking</a> and her extreme abilities in the kitchen and uncanny way of finding a great deal.<br />
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But recently, Angie was consumed by an all new passion: flat-packed furniture. Particularly the kind you find at Ikea.<br />
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Having driven with Susan to an Ikea in Chicago and making their first ever purchases, walking through the vast spaces filled with every kind of room configuration imaginable and playing with all of the cabinets and drawers, this dynamic duo decided to begin a new social experiment with grand ideas of accomplishments.<br />
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Hence, the "<a href="http://www.facebook.com/BringIkeaToKansasCity" target="_blank"><b>Bring Ikea to Kansas City</b></a>" movement was begun. Susan and Angie sat down to discuss how to start a movement and quickly decided that a Facebook page would be the easiest and quickest way to start. They talked about what they could provide on a Facebook page that would get people as excited about Ikea as they were. There were many ideas tossed about and Angie used her Facebook technical skills to formulate the new page.<br />
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She added two very custom tabs to the page which would serve to (a) raise the overall visibility of the page to others and (b) give people who supported the page a reason to come back to the page over and over again.<br />
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"The first tab was easy," said Angie of her experiences. "I had just returned from a social media seminar where there was a lot of talk about Pinterest and how the demographic of Pinterest was about 75% women. This is the same as the demographic we had assumed would be interested in our page, so we decided to start a Pinterest account for uploading pictures that we had taken at Ikea to the board. Then I created a custom tab with "<a href="http://faceitpages.com/">FaceitPages.com</a>" and embedded our Pinterest board into it."<br />
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The response with Pinterest has been very slow, but mostly because the team has not been actively pinning things to it. The plan is to increase pinning so more followers will pick up Movement.<br />
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The second tab that was added to the Facebook page was a community tab which allows users to post when they are planning a trip to Ikea. Others can then either plan their trip at the same time or give a list of items to the ones going and ask them to bring the items back. According to Lile, "Since we don't have Ikea in Kansas City, most people are faced with a minimum of 7 hours in a car to get to the nearest store. With a drive like that, I would ask my friends and family if they want me to bring them anything. The 'Ikea or BUST' tab does the same thing on a larger scale."<br />
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The Facebook page is only one week old and has garnered an amazing 400 Likes, mostly through word of mouth. The next phase of the plan will involve an investment of $25.00 into advertising to see if more people will see the page. We'll make sure the advertising is focused on the four states closest to Kansas City: Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Iowa.<br />
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As the movement continues to build, LileStyle will implement many other tactics and document them here. This will also cover the content type that we use. So far, we have noticed that pictures of locations in Kansas City that have an "Ikea" sign photo-shopped in, are the most popular content. People also love the photos which depict Ikea used in functional ways. Please be sure to follow this blog or <a href="http://lilestyle.com/index.html" target="_blank">sign up for our newsletter</a> to see how this social experiment unfolds.<br />
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2024903238433100882.post-22085905202049025812012-03-01T12:06:00.000-06:002012-03-01T12:06:33.860-06:00How do the new Facebook Pages Timeline affect you?<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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It's been a flurry of activity in the LileStyle office where we spent the entire day listening and reading about the new <a href="http://newsroom.fb.com/Announcements/Announcing-an-Update-to-Pages-100.aspx" target="_blank">Facebook Timeline for Brand Pages</a> announcement.<br />
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Many are asking the same questions we were asking... "What happened to the landing pages?"<br />
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Facebook specifically dodged and avoided all questions regarding landing pages, but it is clear that the option is no longer available under the management tab with the new timeline feature. You can have custom tabs (which most landing pages are), but you cannot send new traffic to a specific tab. All new traffic will now go to the default home screen for your page.<br />
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So why hasn't Facebook just said, "We dumped this feature.."?<br />
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Our assumption is that Facebook has not yet decided to scrap this ability, but will wait to see what kind of feedback they will get once people realize it is not there. So they are remaining tight-lipped, but we also know that there are new features coming that have not made it to the test site as of yet.<br />
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Those changes include:<br />
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<b>1. Administration levels.</b><br />
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No admin is created equal so they are creating 5 admin levels which would mean that you could avoid the problem of having a disgruntled admin kick everyone off the page and take over. This is great news for anyone with multiple admins on a page.<br />
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<b>2. Real-time insights.</b><br />
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Insights currently operate with a several day delay so it may take that long to see how well your posts are doing. With real-time insights, we'll get to see immediately how the post is being engaged with, and we'll be allowed to make edits to the post to create more engagement. This is a great tool that can be used for fine-tuning your message.<br />
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<b>So what's new?</b><br />
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Some the the biggest changes that are in place right now:<br />
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<b>1. Message feature.</b><br />
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We know that people are trying to figure out how to message their fans. Facebook has brought us ONE step closer by adding a "message" button to the page. You have the option to not display this feature, but the default is set to be there. This allows followers to open up a message box to send a message to the page. It will show up in the admin area for all of the admins to see and respond to right from the interface.<br />
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As far as we can tell, this does not mean that the page can just randomly message followers, rather it is a one-way request for conversation that must be initiated by the follower.<br />
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<b>2. Custom Cover Creation.</b><br />
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This will be an amazing way to create a more dynamic page because you can change your cover out as often as you like. Watch the video below to learn how to create and change your cover.<br />
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<b>3. Custom Application Icons.</b><br />
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Now you can create custom Application Icons and replace the old ones with something that better ties in the theme of your page. Take a look at <a href="http://www.facebook.com/livestrong" target="_blank">LiveStrong's page</a> and how the application tabs match the cover:<br />
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Watch the video below to learn how to change your application tabs.<br />
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<b>4. New Admin Panel.</b><br />
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The admin panel is now streamlined to show you what you want to know at a glance. This is also where you can find the message panel to respond to messages.<br />
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How to customize your Page<br />
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Watch this informational video where we walk you through the changes and show you how to customize your page:<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2024903238433100882.post-83253221112456833582012-02-21T11:31:00.000-06:002012-02-21T11:31:58.905-06:00A lesson in failed Facebook security and 5 tips for prevention.<br />
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We provide <a href="http://lilestyle.com/socialmediamarketing.htm" target="_blank">social media management services</a> for various clients. Some of these clients are very
high-profile clients with what you would call “Celebrity” status.
This is a story about one of these clients, who I will not name
since we usually operate as ghost managers. Let's just call this
client “Mr. X.”</div>
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One day, Mr. X, who has a personal
account on Facebook as well as a Facebook Celebrity Page, had his
Facebook account hacked. Our first warning came in the form of an
email from Facebook, letting Mr. X know that his email address was
being changed from an “aol” account to a “yahoo” account.
This was strange since Mr. X knew that he did not have a yahoo
account.</div>
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That was when Mr. X forwarded the email
to our team. We immediately went to the Facebook account and
attempted to log in as Mr. X, only to get a failure saying that we
did not have the correct password. We immediately followed Facebook
protocols to report the page as a hijacked page.</div>
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As it turned out, the hacker had not
just created a Yahoo account for Mr. X, but also a new Facebook
account using the old aol email account. So when we put in the aol
account, we discovered that there was a second account and all of our
attempts to retrieve the password would only succeed in getting us
into a fake account. This was set up as a decoy so that we would not
attempt a recovery on the true account.</div>
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Seeing through the decoy, we used the
Yahoo email address that was not connected to the true account and
followed Facebook procedure to report the account as hacked. This
allowed us to regain control of the true account. However, the damage
had been done. The page in which Mr. X was an administrator, was now
no longer in his control. The hacker had gone to the page
administration settings and removed all of the administrators from
the page and assigned his/her personal account administration access
instead. We had officially lost control of the page.</div>
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We have been on Facebook, managing
accounts and various issues here since 2006 and have never seen this
happen. Mr. X had a very large audience and the hacker was now
“posting” malicious links all over the page to no end. We
anxiously searched through all of the help links and articles on
Facebook and found several instances where this had happened with no
happy resolution. We had no choice but to report the page as having
illegal content on it, so that the page would be suspended
immediately. Since that time we asked a panel of experts at the <a href="http://ragan.com/" target="_blank">Ragan</a> Social Media and PR Conference in Las Vegas to see what they had to say. No one had an answer.</div>
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If you have a Facebook page and have
granted access to various administrators to help you run this page,
then you need to pay attention. We have determined that there could
have been measures in place to help us avoid this situation. These
measures include:</div>
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Creating a centralized email
account where all social media notifications go and that the social
media team has access to 24/7. This gives the team the time they
need to respond immediately to any notifications that come from
Facebook. In this case, the hacker attacked in the middle of the
night, when we were all asleep. The damage had been done and no one
could see what had happened until hours later.</div>
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Create a strict schedule where all
social media accounts and email accounts have a password change once
a month.</div>
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Make sure all passwords are
different for all social accounts. Do not repeat passwords for any
of your accounts.</div>
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Make sure all passwords are a
minimum of 8 characters, contain a mix of alpha and numeric and
include at least 1 symbol. Have you social media team create the
passwords for you. Keep the passwords in a secure location and do
not email them to your personal accounts.</div>
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For Facebook administration,
create a new Facebook account that is specifically used to
administrate the Facebook page. This account has a special password
that is changed monthly and it is completely blocked from public
view, reducing the risk of being hacked. Make sure that the Facebook
page is ONLY managed by this one account.</div>
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"How Simple is Social Media?" <br />
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We recently received this question in
our inbox from Christina on February 17, 2012. It was really great
timing too because <a href="http://lilestyle.com/media_angie.htm" target="_blank">Angie Lile</a> had just returned from the<a href="http://ragan.com/" target="_blank"> Ragan</a> Social
Media Summit in Las Vegas. This was a large culmination of social
media folks from all over the globe who come together to learn from
each other and from the top experts in the field. We heard
presentations from <a href="http://www.southwest.com/" target="_blank">Southwest Airlines</a>, <a href="http://dsc.discovery.com/" target="_blank">The Discovery Channel</a> and
<a href="http://www.zappos.com/" target="_blank">Zappos</a>, just to name a few.</div>
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The top experts consisted of <a href="http://www.briansolis.com/" target="_blank">BrianSolis</a> and <a href="http://www.chrisbrogan.com/" target="_blank">Chris Brogan</a> who closed the event out with a plethora of
F-Bombs and social hilarity mixed with sound advice for how we should
approach Social Media.</div>
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One of the common themes that Angie
noticed with all of these social strategies was that social <i>should</i>
be simple and that you <i>should</i> be using social to connect with
individuals rather than counting them as a “Like” or a
“follower”. Social followers are not statistics, they are people
and if you expect for this to work for you, your actions should
definitely follow this belief system.</div>
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There were several questions that you can ask yourself to find out whether you are in alignment with your beliefs or not and we've compiled them for you here:</div>
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<br /><strong><em>1. What are your company/brand's
values? What do you believe in?</em></strong> <br />
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Your company is not just about
making a profit, it actually has a value system, a belief system.
Typically it mirror's your own belief system. The more you are in
alignment with this the more your business will grow to incorporate
those beliefs. Think of your social sites as your company's
personality. As such, it would operate under the same beliefs. It
would react with real-world environments in the same way.
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<strong><em>2. What goals have you established
for your social media efforts? </em></strong><br />
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If your only goal is about driving
traffic to your website then you are setting yourself up for
failure. The number one reason for social followers to move away
from your social sites is because they feel like they are being
spammed each time they see you. Not only that, but you run the risk
of being excluded from your followers newsfeed because you lack
engagement with your content. Create a goal list that includes other
things such as creating a community space, providing customer
service, or building relationships with your fans. For example
Zappos rarely markets their shoes to their followers and instead
they use social to interact with their followers on a more personal
level. Sending pizza's to a random follower is considered the norm
for Zappos. They don't ever think about selling when they interact
with people so they have a very loyal fan base.<br />
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<strong><em>3. What kind of business or company
do you see yourself having in 10 years?</em></strong> <br />
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Do you want to be the
company that gives rewards back to their employees? Will you have
employees? Brand advocates come in all shapes and sizes, but
research shows that the most valuable advocates can be your
employees. Southwest airlines encourages their employees to share
work-related stories which generates a huge amount of buzz for the
brand on all of the social channels. Not everyone has Southwest's
45k employees but even 1 can be a great asset to your message.<br />
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<strong><em>4. How do you see followers
benefiting from your content?</em></strong> <br />
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If a follower is benefiting from your
social feed, they will want to share that with others. With each
post that you create, really ask yourself if this is something that
you would share with others? If you have any doubts about putting it
out there, then don't do it. If you don't want to read it, others
will not want to either. It's that simple! If your company is
mirroring your values, then it will be easy to find those pieces of
content that inspire you and you will know instantly that this is
what you want to share.<br />
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<strong><em>5. What are your followers saying about you or your company?</em></strong><br />
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Don't be
afraid to dig deep and see if your followers like what you are
putting out there. You will want to change your strategy as you go
along and see what works best. This is no place for a
set-it-and-forget-it mentality. This includes opening a dialog when
someone says they don't like what they see. If you start receiving
negative feedback, make sure you stick it out and figure out how to
find a solution. Even if you need to stand your ground. This shows
that the social presence that they are interacting with is not just
some inanimate thing not worthy of interacting with. You might even
be surprised to find a few fans in your corner when things go that
way. The obvious goal here is to be transparent and people will
respect you more.<br />
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2024903238433100882.post-75035193297944328562011-12-05T20:08:00.000-06:002011-12-05T20:08:58.903-06:00LileStyle Productions offers a social media boot camp for Authors<a href="http://lilestyle.com/SocialMediaTrainingWebinar-for-Authors.htm" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" class="alignright size-full wp-image-21083" height="250" src="http://vividlife.me/ultimate/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/SM_Author_Webinar.jpg" title="SM_Author_Webinar" width="300" /></a>If you are an Author or are considering writing a book, then you really want to check out this upcoming webinar offered by LileStyle Productions, LLC.<br />
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<a href="http://vividlife.me/ultimate/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/img_9644.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="" class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-21084" height="150" src="http://vividlife.me/ultimate/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/img_9644-150x150.jpg" title="img_9644" width="150" /></a>When Angie Lile was in the second grade, she was constantly writing sentences during recess time...<br />
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"I shall not talk in class"<br />
"I shall not talk in class"<br />
"I shall not talk in class"<br />
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Even at a young age she was embracing her love for communicating messages. It's no surprise that Angie has found her way into the hearts of some of the world's most profound spiritual authors which have given her the responsibility of amplifying their messages to people all over the world.<br />
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Using the video skills she acquired from the New York-based Food Network coupled with her years of social media expertise, Angie has grown her business to include many more writers, while she continues to expand on her social media training.<br />
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Each year Angie attends Social Media Seminars led by the World's most successful Social Media leaders in Industry Marketing. She has learned Twitter tactics from Guy Kowasaki and some really great Facebook strategies from the experts who handle Hallmark, Southwest Airlines and Sprint.<br />
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Many hours are spent each day pouring over social media news about trends and disasters, making her a literal Maven on the subject. All of her friends agree that if you mention Social Media in Angie's presence, you might not get her to shut up!<br />
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Along with managing accounts for several authors and for VividLife.me, Angie has provided Social Media advice to some of the world's top Authors including: Neale Donald Walsch, Author of Conversations with God and other New York Times best-selling books; Hay House Author Doreen Virtue who has written over 20 books about Angels and Spirituality; and Ghost Whisperer's Producer and World Famous Medium, James Van Praagh just to name a few.<br />
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