Archive for the ‘Facebook for Business’ Category

Facebook Ads Lands A Guy A Job

Friday, May 22nd, 2009

Jesse sent me a link to this post about Eric and his ad on Facebook.  Lots of hate in those comments, but the idea is a good one.  The post is Jobless Guy Buys Facebook Ads To Land Microsoft Gig. Pretty cool. Not a new idea, though... check out One Day, One ...

Pizza Hut Gets Facebook?

Monday, November 17th, 2008

I got an email from Pizza Hut on Saturday night, and it had this: [caption id="attachment_81" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="click to go to the Facebook Group for Pizza Hut"][/caption] A Pizza Hut Facebook Group?  Is it working for them?  Check this out: Amazing.  There are over a thousand wall posts, videos, etc.  I love ...

What Happened to the “Businesses” Link on Facebook?

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

We mentioned a few times in the book, and on this blog, that the way to get in and access Polls, Beacon (which I am unsure if Facebook is even supporting any more), and other business features is to click on a link down in the footer that says, "businesses". ...

What You Get From Facebook Pages: Default Information

Monday, April 21st, 2008

This is the second in a series of articles I will be posting on Facebook Pages and how they can benefit you and your organization. Facebook Pages are the "Profile" for your business on Facebook. In the last of this series I went over the Applications that get installed by default ...

The “What You get From Facebook Pages” Series: Default Widgets and Applications

Saturday, April 19th, 2008

This is the first in a series of articles I will be posting on Facebook Pages and how they can benefit you and your organization. Facebook Pages are the "Profile" for your business on Facebook. When creating Facebook Pages for clients, I've become very aware that there just isn't any ...

Great Articles on Facebook

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

I was interviewed yesterday by CIO magazine and surprised to see the article today. That's way faster than I'm used to! Here's the article (I got a one-sentence mention on the third page, after an interstitial ad!): When a Colleague is a "Friend": Facebook Users Get a Crash ...

Mari Smith: How to Use Facebook to Strategically Grow Your Business

Monday, March 3rd, 2008

Mari Smith is one intriguing person. She travels the country in an RV with her man, making stops all over the place. What a life! She's also a Facebook enthusiast with great resources. In fact, in our resources chapter we linked to three of her properties. She'll be on ...

Linking Universe Goes Live!

Saturday, March 1st, 2008

One of the applications we mention in the book is a CRM solution called "Linking Universe".  In full disclosure, they were one of my clients, but I thought it would be worth announcing that they went live today!  I generally am selective in my clients - I generally choose those ...