Facebook: What Else is New?

Posted on November 4, 2011 by Alan Jenkin

Facebook has been changing so much lately that it’s hard to keep up with it! In the previous post you read about Frictionless Sharing: you probably already know that another big change that will happening soon is replacing the Facebook profile by the Timeline. What will this mean for you and your Facebook marketing?

When Will You See Timeline?

The first question everyone is asking is “When will this happen?” I checked with Facebook and they say: “Timeline will be available in the upcoming weeks.” Your guess is as good as mine as to what that means – presumably it’s another way of saying “We’re working on it”!

What Will Timeline Look Like?

Concerning how it will look, Facebook tells us: “Your timeline is your collection of top photos, stories and life events.” In essence, it will contain everything you ever posted to Facebook organized in a way that helps you find what you’re looking for. It also gives you the chance to mark what you consider to be important, and even (yes!) delete the items you wish were not there: would that our real lives were that simple!

How Will Timeline Affect You?

When Timeline is released, I can imagine that there will be a flurry of Facebook activity as everyone sets about reorganizing their profiles. You will probably remove some of the older stuff that is not relevant to who you are now, reorganize your photos into more appropriate albums, and update material that is starting to grow old. That’s quite apart from deleting those embarrassing photos and posts!

What You Need To Do Now

So what should you do now? I suggest three things:

Decide what you want your Facebook profile to look like. Is it a personal, fun, profile or a business-oriented one? Either way, you will need to keep a lot of personal information there, because Facebook is a social medium: a corporate approach will not encourage people to know, like and trust you.
Read the Facebook “Help” information on Timeline – “Get Started”. This will tell you what you can do and help you to … well, get started! Devise your strategy based on what you want your profile to look like.
Implement the strategy by working step-by-step through Facebook‘s suggestions for getting started. Review the results as you go, keeping the important items in front of the reader and relegating the others. Nobody is likely to want to read everything you have there, so make sure they get your message up front.

When you have done this (and preferably not before) take a look at other people’s profiles to see if you can get some other good ideas for your own. This is also the time to ask other people to look at yours with a view to positive suggestions. Often they will see things about you that you never thought were important or interesting: you might also get some customers this way, but don’t think of that as the object of the exercise!

What Else?

What did I miss? Let me know what you thought of and I forgot.

Top Twitter Tools For 2009

Posted on April 2, 2009 by Katie Liljeberg

Twitter is taking the online network marketing world by storm and the number of twitter tools for 2009 are rapidly showing up on blogs all over the web. The twitter PHENOMENON has even created its own lingo: you and your tweeps (followers) make tweets (posts) in the twittersphere. Oh, yes, you can see that little blue birdie almost everywhere these days.

The entire concept and process of twitter is fairly simple to use, and can be an excellent resource to market your internet network marketing business. In addition, there are always fun new gidgets and gadgets being developed… after all, twitter has become a necessity to online marketers and casual users alike.

Here are 8 Top Twitter Tools to take note of for 2009:

Twitturly: a service for tracking what specific URLs people are talking about as they appear on twitter. People will “vote” for a URL and the higher the vote the better that link ranks. Most of us share links on twitter all the time, and Twitturly makes tracking the most popular URLs an easy task.

Tweet Later: a service that allows you to schedule your tweets and keep them ticking even when you’re not sitting in front of your computer. Send an automated note to thank new tweeps for following you, automatically set up to follow those that follow you, manage all your twitter accounts from one central spot, get automatic updates on keywords you’ve selected that come through, and so much more!

Twiddeo: Is video more your thing? Twiddeo lets you do what you do best: updates with video. Upload from the web, record from your webcam or cameraphone. It’s simple!

Twitter Buttons: This one is so cool and by far the simplest tool to use for colorfully designed twitter widgets. Simply add your ID into the partially created URL and hit GO. This one step adds your personal twitter ID into the html code for easy copy/paste transition into your blog or website.

Twiggit: an automated service that lets your twitter friends know what articles you digg.

TweetCube: allows you to share files on twitter. Simple as that. Blast out your images, videos, music and more with just a couple of clicks, and your files are automatically posted in the twittersphere.

Twellow: a service that helps users find people to follow by categorizing and organizing twitter into hundreds of specific niches to make searching a breeze. Whatever you’re interested in, whatever niche you market in, find other users to follow that are interested in the same thing. Simple. Brilliant.

TweetDeck: a fully-featured Adobe Air desktop application that uses a powerful customizable column format to let you quickly view any combination of people you follow on twitter. It can filter your columns by keyword, focusing on the subject matter you’re interested in. You can also use it to organize and mark the tweets you’ve seen, keep track of postings, utilize URL shorteners, filter tweets, and so much more.

No matter how you tweet or use this powerful social network as part of building your internet network marketing business, you are sure to find the perfect twitter tool to fit your style.

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5 Simple Steps To Brand Yourself On The Internet and Increase Profits

Posted on March 29, 2009 by Katie Liljeberg

Why should you brand yourself on the internet?

No matter what you’re trying to market online for your internet network marketing business, people will not only listen to a familiar voice, they will become wound-up excited fans for life. For years network marketers have understood that posture and positioning are everything; but today it’s all taken to another level, where everything happens online and seeing your name rank in Google is a largely rewarding goal.

Personal branding is no longer owned just by the famous. It’s a powerful concept that targets everyday people and is extremely important if you want to monetize using the internet.

Here are 5 crucial action steps to crafting your personal brand on the internet:

First Things First -Get a Personal Domain Name!

See if your name is available and if it is, GRAB IT! If not, remember you’re trying to promote yourself, not another company. You can find reasonably inexpensive domains at places like GoDaddy or Omnis.

Give Yourself a Home

Make this domain your “online home