Facebook is the largest social networking site in the world, with 1.94 billion+ active users as of March 2017. Marketers are increasingly paying attention to Facebook since the audience is so large and engaged.
Marketers can reach people by direct Facebook advertising or by non-advertising avenues (social media marketing and/or content marketing).
Adapted from Definition of Facebook
Last Monday I set up a business in Advocate Harbour on a Facebook Page, and with in a few days, that Facebook Page had 74 "Likers"... and growing. How did this happen? As I traveled to Advocate Harbour from Truro, Nova Scotia, I noticed that the people were very friendly. Now I am a friendly [...]
Some of us have been waiting for the Facebook Timeline to arrive on our Facebook Business Pages. And here it is. You can try it now. March 31st is date for everyone. I took my Jeff Brown - Social Media Training Facebook Page for a test drive on the new Timeline. Here's what I did [...]
Facebook allows you to see only the people and Pages you interact with most, OR all your friends and Pages. You have to choose what you want to see. Here a video to explain the process: Remeber your options are: Friends and pages you interact with most OR All your friends and Pages If you want to [...]
Using 3rd Party API to post your content into your Facebook can hurt your efforts when it comes to engagement. Your working hard to make things simple. It could be back firing. According to Edgerank Checker... "Using a 3rd party API to update your Facebook Page decreases your likelihood of engagement per fan (on average) [...]
Businesses want to know to get "Likes" for their Facebook Business Pages. Would you like to comment in a Facebook User Profile as a Facebook Page? Would that be helpful? I know I said that my last post was the last one of the week, but this was too good not to do. The new skills you [...]
One of the things I am most proud of is the "Lave A Tip" tab on Facebook that I developed for Crime Stoppers. It is helping solve major crimes in your community. Prior to speaking on social media at the World Crime Stoppers Training Conference in Halifax, Nova Scotia, I had been talking on Skype with [...]
Here is my first video chat with Rob Cairns on Facebook Video Chat. We encountered some tech issues along the way. My comments on issues along the way: We encountered a video driver issue that prevented Rob's external mike form working. This was a problem on his computer; probably unrelated to Facebook Video Chat process. I had [...]
I am writing this post to let my friends know that Facebook is not going to start charging users to use Facebook. Facebook is not going to start charging users period. There have been several posts telling people that Facebook is going to start charging users. This simply is not true. Furthermore, I received this [...]
The new Facebook Facial Recognition feature can be deadly for police services and other agencies where security is important. This needs to be turned off by disabling the feature. This video shows you how to turn off the Facebook Facial Recognition feature. I am still waiting for it to be live in my Privacy settings. If it's [...]
With Allfacebook.com's article "WARNING: FaceNiff Hijacks Facebookers Via Android" comes the need to make sure that you surf your Facebook, Twitter and other social media applications with HTTPS. HTTPS allows you to make a secure internet connection to your social media applications. This prevents information from being intercepted by others while you are in a [...]