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Do You Separate Real Friends from Website Friends on Facebook?

Do You Separate Real Friends from Website Friends on Facebook?

I received a message from a new “friend” on Facebook.  Right after I accepted him as a friend, he sent me a message asking me why I don’t upload more pictures to my Facebook page. Actually, I do.  But only my real-life friends and family can see them.  “Friends” who know me from my websites [...]

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Fan Page? Forum? Or Both?

Fan Page? Forum? Or Both?

I received an interesting e-mail the other day from a lady named Carrie.  She asked… I want to create a vBulletin forum.  I already have a pretty active Facebook fan page, so I’m thinking of using that audience to announce and promote a new forum.   Should I stick to my fan page, switch to a [...]

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Why People are Missing Your Fan Page Updates

Why People are Missing Your Fan Page Updates

It may be Valentine’s Day, but I have no love in my heart for FaceBook right now. Sometimes I wish they would just leave things alone.  As soon as we get used to how everything works, they change it up on us. This time they really screwed with fan page owners.  And a big thanks [...]

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Is Social Media Distracting or Helping Your Biz?

Is Social Media Distracting or Helping Your Biz?

When I first started making money online in the late 90′s, there was no such thing as social media.  My marketing strategy centered around the search engines. I spent my days altering meta tags and on-page keywords trying to climb to the top of sites like Infoseek, Webcrawler, Excite, Lycos, HotBot and AltaVista.  (Memorieeeeees!) The [...]

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Don’t Take the “Social” Out of Social Networking

Don’t Take the “Social” Out of Social Networking

One of the most popular ways to promote your site is through social networking. However, many of you are taking the “social” part out of the equation because you are relying too heavily on automation. By automation I mean using various online tools and apps that automatically post content to multiple social networking sites at [...]

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