Every brand and business wants to know the secret of how to increase the number of fans to their Facebook fan page. While there is no one stop shop to success, there are some sure fire ways to grow your fan base organically.
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Earlier this week I announced that I planned on launching the 3,000 Fans to 30 Days program on Wednesday. After coming down with a cold and wanting to make sure that everything was perfect for launch I’ve decided to postpone the launch until Monday. That way everything will be reading including a companion course that I’ve been developing through New Media School. In the meantime, I’ve set up a survey for those that are interested in participating in the 30 days program to gauge your interest in other programs.
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One of the most important habits of any successful individual is the ability to network effectively. I’ve spent years perfecting the art of networking and while I still am not the best, I have come a long way. One of the most important tools to helping me network more effectively is Facebook as it has become my own personal relationship management system (PRM). While I still use a lot of other tools to maintaining my relationships, Facebook is one of the easiest to use relationship management tools. In this guide, I will walk through all the strategies necessary to turn Facebook into your own personal relationship management system.
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As Facebook becomes a center for our personal communication there is an etiquette that has become standard. Over the past few months I’ve been talking with people about their experience with Facebook and the more people I speak to, the more that I learn there are a number of best practices when using the site. After talking to a lot of people, I’ve noticed that I break the rules daily so hopefully you don’t make the same mistakes I have.
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You’re the owner of a local small business and you are trying to figure out the best steps to get on to Facebook to drive new customers. It can be a daunting task and with little extra time in the day, how can you be expected to spend time promoting your business on Facebook? I completely understand the challenges of running a small business and after speaking with lawyers, florists, dentists, and many other small businesses, I’ve compiled the following list of strategies that should help ease the process.
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While small businesses have a huge opportunity to take advantage of the Facebook advertising platform, many large brands are interested in growing their presence on the world’s largest social platform. For those companies there are many opportunities and the challenge is not determining whether or not to be on Facebook but what the best approach is. In this article I’ll outline each of the campaign types, as well as some of the pros and cons of each type.
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Every week I speak to countless businesses and no matter what they are selling, most businesses want to accomplish one thing: sell more. While they know that Facebook advertising can help their business, most don’t know where to get started. Another large percentage of businesses may have dabbled in advertising on the site but they haven’t been able to obtain the conversion ratios they are looking for. In this guide, I’ll walk you through 10 of the most important laws for businesses when advertising on Facebook.
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Yesterday Facebook released an updated version of their friends page to let users more effectively manage their relationships. While some users were frustrated with the changes (as usual), the new design empowers users to more efficiently manage their many groups of friends. While most users have played with Facebook’s friend lists feature, many have still yet to master the feature. We’ve decided to create a comprehensive guide that outlines how you can take advantage of friend lists to manage relationships and how to make Facebook privacy management much easier using friend lists.
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You’ve spent countless hours on Facebook and while navigating through your friends’ profiles you occasionally come across somebody with 1,000 or more friends and think to yourself: does this person really know 1,000 people and why do they have so many friends? Whether you like it or not, the number of friends you have on your profile has suddenly become a regular topic of conversation and many users wear it as a badge of honor.

Aside from the social value developed through a large network, there are many other benefits of improving your network. In his book “How to Win Friends and Influence People“, Dale Carnegie explains how to achieve financial success through building more effective relationships among other things. Facebook can just as easily be used as a tool for accomplishing your goals in similar ways that Dale Carnegie taught.

Below are 10 of the best ways you can use Facebook to win friends and influence people. Please feel free to add to this list in the comments!
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There’s a well known statistic that Facebook loves to tout publicly: 50 percent of active Facebook users return to the site daily. It’s an impressive statistic that few application developers have been able to duplicate. Actually, only one application has been able to reach Facebook’s impressive engagement level but many others have come extremely close. As you will see, these applications are indeed the most addictive applications on Facebook.

We’ve gone through the process of determining which Facebook applications are in fact the most engaging applications on Facebook. So how do we determine engagement? Currently we measure engagement as daily active users (DAUs) divided by monthly active users (MAUs). This metric measures what percentage of an application’s total monthly user base returns to the application daily.
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