I spend a lot of time checking the business pages of local businesses and other businesses that I like on Facebook. Facebook marketing is part of my job, so I’m very critical and observant of what other people do. I’ve found that lot of these pages are either very boring or the ones that are very active and quite popular are ignoring some of Facebook’s Terms and Conditions and risk getting their pages deleted. I’m not sure that they are all ignoring the terms and conditions on purpose, but some definitely are. I know this because I’ve asked them and they’ve told me “everyone else is doing it” which is true, but it’s not the best way to go about it.

I’m talking about Facebook Contests and Cover Photos. [click to continue…]

Hungry Jacks App being used by the Hamburglar

I am one of those people who has their iPhone in their hand basically every moment of every day. I’d have it my hand right now if my hands weren’t busy typing this. I have spent hundreds of dollars on apps over the past few years and I’ve lost interest in a lot of them quickly and have downloaded apps for dozens of businesses and found many of them pointless. I’ve gone out of my way to find some really good apps for local businesses in Melbourne where I live and the one that stood out the most to me is one that I’d been using already for several months, the Hungry Jack’s Makes It Better App (or simply the “Hungry Jack’s App” as everyone calls it). [click to continue…]

Why are some Marketing and PR experts scared of social networking?

September 13, 2012

For quite some time I have been concerned that Marketing and PR staff at major companies are scared of social media. This might sound crazy or uneducated, but these are common reasons why they will not allow their companies to have a Facebook page: No time to maintain it No budget to maintain it People will [...]

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Facebook now allows Post Scheduling for Business Pages

June 6, 2012

Facebook has been unveiling a lot of new features on a regular basis in the past few months leading up to their IPO. One new feature in their post IPO updates has been Post Scheduling for Business Pages . This update seems long overdue and it is surprising Facebook never got around to doing it [...]

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Understanding Facebook Games (For Parents)

April 4, 2012

Other than being a great social networking website, Facebook is also a very popular gaming website. Millions of people participate in games on Facebook regularly and like many other gaming or internet activities, it is something that may cause some issues if the parents do not understand how Facebook games work and if the children [...]

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Better screening needed for Facebook ads

March 27, 2012

Facebook should have a better screening process for their ads. Every now and then I notice scams and other questionable gift card contests and whatnot popping up on Facebook. I probably should have blogged about those earlier. A little while ago I noticed a few actual paid ads that are obvious scams. The two I [...]

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Time for businesses to finally bite the Timeline bullet

March 23, 2012

Now that Facebook has given all Pages the new Facebook Timeline there has never been a better time to move your business from a personal profile or a Group to a proper Facebook Page. Sure there are some issues with it for businesses that had pages previously, but to a business that hasn’t used the [...]

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How to install the Pinterest Pin It button on your iPhone

February 16, 2012

If you have a Pinterest account and an iPhone, you might as well install the Pinterest App from the iTunes App store. Like most social networking apps, it is free and can be downloaded here Once it’s installed on your iPhone, you can sign in either with your Facebook/Twitter/Email and easily repin things, but how [...]

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Pinterest – Visually bookmark your finds on the internet

February 1, 2012

One of the new big players in the social media scene is Pinterest. It has been growing rapidly over the past few months and is primarily geared towards females but males are starting to get into it as well.  It seems to draw inspiration from other content sharing sites such as Tumblr, but everything about [...]

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Integration between Social and SEO is great news for users.

January 19, 2012

In the old days companies would have different teams for their social and SEO work. SEO was just about getting found by users and the social team (if there even was a social team) would try and keep those people around. Now, inbound links from notable social media accounts (likes, shares, +1s etc) can “vote” [...]

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