Social Media: Old is New again
September 16, 2011 by Lennie Appelquist
Filed under Facebook Friday
The increased accessibility to information afforded by the internet has brought with it several business practices that are not really new, but were never as prevalent now as they were before the advent of the internet. This is most evident with business using social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter in their online marketing [...]
Hook, Line And Facebook
September 9, 2011 by Lennie Appelquist
Filed under Facebook Friday
Throughout the years, numerous marketing gurus, advertising experts, and super sales people have come up with sometimes novel, other times laughable ways of reaching and grabbing the collective attention of the consuming public. Some methods have been lauded as modern breakthroughs, others the newest strategies in contemporary marketing strategies, with all claiming to have used [...]
Why Use Facebook In Marketing At All
September 2, 2011 by Lennie Appelquist
Filed under Facebook Friday
Social media being what it is now provides an immensely effective way of marketing your business online, in what would otherwise be an extremely crowded and saturated market. What was once a fad and a way to connect with old friends now is now a full blown marketing sensation. Facebook is one of the more [...]
Facebook For Business
August 19, 2011 by Lennie Appelquist
Filed under Facebook Friday, Google, Strategies
Facebook: New guide provides advice on how to make the most of the site Facebook has launched a new page called Facebook for Business. The how-to page guides businesses on how to best use the site’s pages, ads, deals, social plugins and sponsored stories. The page was added to Facebook after Google not only asked [...]
Facebook Comments on Your WordPress Blog
March 2, 2011 by Lennie Appelquist
Filed under Facebook Friday, Wordpress Wednesday
Adding Facebook Comments System to your Site So check this out… You know the cool commenting feature on Facebook that allows you to comment on status updates, pictures, other people’s comments and Facebook Pages? Well, how would you like to have that capability on your own wordpress site? Now you can! What Facebook Comments Is [...]
Eight Tips to Develop Good Twitter Followers
January 25, 2011 by Lennie Appelquist
Filed under Twitter Tuesday
Twitter Tuesday Tip of the Week: Adding Awesome Followers! Twitter is almost everywhere these days and used by companies both large and small. Some have a reasonable base of followers but not all have good followers who are actively interested in the product or company and who read the tweets. There are seven simple steps [...]
Customize Your Facebook Fan Page
January 21, 2011 by Lennie Appelquist
Filed under Facebook Friday
Facebook Friday Tip of the Week Creating a Custom Landing Page on your Facebook Fan Page. Facebook landing pages can provide a wonderful opportunity to interact with customers in the social media venue. Customers who choose to browse a fan page want, and should by rights find, a little individuality and above all interactivity. Not [...]
Location Based Marketing – What Works and What Is Not Working Yet
January 20, 2011 by Lennie Appelquist
Filed under Small Business Thursday
Small Business Thursday Tip Of The Week: Location, Location, Location Location based marketing could work, the idea is sound the technology is there but it hasn’t quite taken flight yet, at least not on all fronts. The way it might work in a perfect social environment is that the customer checks into the store and [...]
Creating a Successul Facebook Fan Page
January 7, 2011 by Lennie Appelquist
Filed under Facebook, Facebook Friday
Facebook Friday Tip of the Week Creating a Fan Page that engages your audience. Why are Some Facebook Pages So Successful? There is a little more to a successful Facebook page than enthusiasm for the product and enthusiasm for communicating through the social network. There has to be just a bit more and the most [...]
Social Networking Marketing Boiled Down To Dollars and Cents
January 3, 2011 by Lennie Appelquist
Filed under Marketing Monday, Social Media
Marketing Monday Tip of the Week: Market on Social Networks! The big wave in marketing is marketing and branding through social networking sites. However, who is to say just how many dollars and cents this can make a company? The idea is sound, but where are the facts and figures? The dollars and sense and [...]
Little Known Social Media Fact – Facebook and Business Pages
December 31, 2010 by Lennie Appelquist
Filed under Facebook, Facebook Friday
Facebook Friday Tip of the Week Leveraging the Power of a Facebook Business Account Facebook limits the individual user to a single account on the other hand it does not limit business pages and there are also a few perks that go with that as well. An individual can only have a single account so [...]
Facebook Influences Small Businesses
December 24, 2010 by Lennie Appelquist
Filed under Doing Business Online, Facebook, Facebook Friday
Facebook Friday Tip of the Week Use your Facebook Fan Page to Drive People into your Business – The Sprinkles Effect It is no news now that social networking sites like Facebook are a great tool for the small and large business if used the right way. What most businesses are doing right now, is [...]
What Is Hootsuite?
December 14, 2010 by Lennie Appelquist
Filed under Twitter, Twitter Tuesday
Here is your Twitter Tuesday Tip of the Week: In this era of too many places to post to, too many jobs to be done, and when even the most efficient mult-tasker finds there are not enough hours in the day, Hootsuite is a savior. Hootsuite is a web based application containing an entire set [...]
Facebook Unveils New Design
December 10, 2010 by Lennie Appelquist
Filed under Facebook, Facebook Friday
Here is your Facebook Friday Story of the Week: Facebook’s decision to redesign its users profile pages has some wishing its engineers had created a “dislike” button, so says an article on the New York Daily News site. The revamp, announced Sunday afternoon in a blog post by Facebook engineer Josh Wiseman and touted in [...]
5 Facebook Profile Photos to Avoid
December 3, 2010 by Lennie Appelquist
Filed under Facebook, Facebook Friday
I have said it before, what happens in Vegas stays on Facebook. Welcome to this brand new weekly feature here in the FMMG blog: Facebook Friday! Stardate 2010 – Facebook is here folks, your future boss is on it and so is your future spouse (and future inlaws). It’s time to use common sense – [...]
