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12 Secret Facebook Features Every Marketer Should Be Using | Post Planner

12 Secret Facebook Features Every Marketer Should Be Using | Post Planner | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it

Using Facebook is easy enough -- most of the 1.49 billion monthly active users on the site would agree. But the social media platform is constantly being updated with new features and tools that make using the platform as a marketing and business tool easier and more effective. 

The problem is that these new features don't always make a splash in the press, so many of the improvements for users aren't well know. 

If you want to up your Facebook skills, check out this infographic from Post Planner. You'll learn how to track the activity of your competitors, use post attribution settings, and even save content for future use....

Jeff Domansky's insight:

12 really practical tips for better Facebook results.

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Supercharge your Facebook Page with these fantastic tips!

Supercharge your Facebook Page with these fantastic tips! | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it

Your brand has most likely spent a considerable amount of time and money building your Facebook presence. With all the changes that Facebook has made, it’s become more challenging to do well on Facebook but it’s not impossible to stay in front of this group.

Facebook fans are a loyal group that consistently like, comment, and share their favorite pages content. Don’t give up on this targeted group of people interested in your brand, instead power up your Facebook presence to maximize your social media marketing efforts....

Jeff Domansky's insight:

Take a look at Peg Fitzpatrick's fab Facebook tips.

Bet Cunillera's curator insight, April 21, 2015 4:22 PM

pàgina sobre com millorar la teva pàgina o el teu perfil de facebook amb simples tips. 

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Brand Publishers Are Ditching Facebook in Favor of Microsites

Brand Publishers Are Ditching Facebook in Favor of Microsites | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it

Brand publishers are more aware that they’re really just renting social media space on Facebook and are moving resources away from the social network.
 

One agency said its clients are pulling away from Facebook in “dramatic numbers”—reallocating their resources to microsites and alternate social channels like LinkedIn—after the agency’s social media managers saw a “dramatic dip” in reach for their messaging over the last 16 months. They attributed this decline to Facebook’s EdgeRank algorithm, which curates the content users see in their News Feeds.


“Brands don’t own what happens on Facebook, and as organic reach has been absolutely eviscerated, they remain aware of that,” said Forrester analyst Nate Elliott, adding that marketers have been telling him that they no longer see Facebook as a viable marketing channel....

Jeff Domansky's insight:

Facebook has a big credibility problem with marketers and advertisers. As long as it remains unpredictable and unreliable as a platform, advertisers will avoid it.

Alex Byalik's curator insight, September 28, 2014 1:55 AM

Facebook has become a vital social media tool for companies to interact with customers, raise brand awareness, and market their goods/services, however more companies are decreasing their social media investments in Facebook instead towards microsites and other alternative social channels. Companies are becoming more aware that "Likes" don't always guarantee that their messages effectively reach consumers. Companies blame the declining reach due to Facebook's EdgeRank algorithm, which organizes the way content is organized in a users news feed. The companies who are marketing their brand complain that they lack a level of control over their pages and the advertisements being sent out are leading to a lower return on their marketing investment in Facebook. This has led to a flight towards microsites or other smaller social media sites. Whether they are piggy backing on a site such as LinkedIn or created their own small site, these sites offer marketers more control over their content and have more options in page creation.  While most of these companies have no plans to fully abandon Facebook, they are still using the site to lure them to these microsites of theirs. According to the Jun Group, clicks that led people to brand-owned-and-operated sites doubled between 2012 and 2013 from 28 percent to 57 percent—while the segment of clicks that ended at Facebook dwindled from 31 percent to 10 percent.


I believe the change is good for marketers who are always striving to enhance their reach and investments. As Facebook becomes more aware of this exodus, then it will most likely adapt to these changes and allow for greater page customization and alter its content algorithm or else risk losing an important segment of its ad revenue. Even if marketers decide to return to Facebook, they now have a new channel to reach potential customers. The problem then moves onto users of social media sites who will be even more bombarded by advertisements no matter which site they go to. 

 
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Facebook Is Ending the Free Ride

Facebook Is Ending the Free Ride | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it

Facebook pulled the best practical joke of the internet age: the company convinced countless celebrities, bands, and "brands" that its service was the best way to reach people with eyeballs and money. Maybe it is! But now that companies have taken the bait, Facebook is holding the whole operation hostage.


Update: To be perfectly clear, none of this will affect the average Facebook user's ability to freely use Facebook—only entities that use Facebook as a promotional tool.


A source professionally familiar with Facebook's marketing strategy, who requested to remain anonymous, tells Valleywag that the social network is "in the process of" slashing "organic page reach" down to 1 or 2 percent. This would affect "all brands"—meaning an advertising giant like Nike, which has spent a great deal of internet effort collecting over 16 million Facebook likes, would only be able to affect of around a 160,000 of them when it pushes out a post. Companies like Gawker, too, rely on gratis Facebook propagation for a huge amount of their audience. Companies on Facebook will have to pay or be pointless....

Jeff Domansky's insight:

Farcebook marketing follies continue as it alienates business and marketing further and further. In my view, it's an outcome of becoming a public company. It starts with the inevitable cultural and organizational changes, an evolution away from product innovation and its most important audience - consumers. Living and dying by quarterly financials eventually wrings the entrepreneurial spirit from even the best companies.

Diane Dennis's curator insight, March 20, 2014 10:36 AM

This exactly makes my point that the window of time to become an influencer with any social media plug in is small, until the site grows big enough the rules change to serve the site not the users. http://www.InspiredMC.com

Wendy Eagleson's curator insight, March 20, 2014 12:12 PM

The epitome of "Bite your nose off to spite your face!"

aanve's curator insight, March 20, 2014 11:06 PM

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Better Facebook Status Updates | Social Media Today

Better Facebook Status Updates | Social Media Today | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it

Wording is everything when it comes to Facebook. It’s essential to offer concise, easy-to-understand content with clear calls to action. Posting interesting facts, tips, and images and specifically asking your fans to comment on them can inspire interaction and dramatically improve your Facebook fan engagement.


The team at ShortStack — makers of a tool that helps users create Facebook pages and add contests, sweepstakes, video, and more — produced the infographic below. It offers these 10 tips that will help your Facebook status updates stand out from the crowd:...

Jeff Domansky's insight:

Great tips for better Facebook content and a good example of an effective infographic.

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The Complete Guide To The New Facebook For Business Page - AllFacebook

The Complete Guide To The New Facebook For Business Page - AllFacebook | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it
Facebook’s efforts to simplify marketing and advertising on the social network took a giant leap forward with Thursday’s launch of the Facebook for Business page, a single destination for all of the information brands need to tap into Facebook’s...
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Your ultimate cheat sheet to Facebook design - The Creative Edge

Your ultimate cheat sheet to Facebook design - The Creative Edge | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it
With the roll-out of our new Facebook contest category and the growing importance of social media design overall, we thought it was about time to focus on the different elements that make up Facebook design.In this article, we’ll break down the different elements of Facebook to ensure that you’re creating a well-branded and clickable web presence for your client....
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Very useful Facebook design tips. Recommended reading. 9/10
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10 Successful Facebook Marketing Examples

10 Successful Facebook Marketing Examples | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it
Is your Facebook engagement dropping?

Need some inspiration to pump up your Facebook marketing?

As the Facebook news feed continues to change, it’s important to figure out how to make the platform work for you.

In this article I’ll share Facebook pages from both large and small brands, and tips to incorporate their tactics into your Facebook marketing plan.
Jeff Domansky's insight:

Useful lessons from companies who are having success on Facebook despite recent changes to algorithms.

Autopilot Your Business's curator insight, December 29, 2014 7:51 AM

Great real world insights and case studies

Christian Michael's curator insight, January 10, 2015 9:48 AM

Facebook still have the highest form of traffic because it's the highest traffic source from all the social media on the internet.

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How Facebook's Instagram integration could rock the industry | Inside Facebook

How Facebook's Instagram integration could rock the industry | Inside Facebook | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it

According to John McDermott at Digiday, Instagram is conducting a test (yes, for now it’s just a test) with Mercedes-Benz that allows them to target Facebook users who previously saw one of its Instagram ads. While this development is eye-opening in and of itself, as it gives hints into Facebook plans on returning their $1B investment, it also shows Facebook’s commitment to transforming how advertising not only can coexist with social media, but thrive and break into new levels of adoption.


What stands out the most to me is how inherent behavioral characteristics seen on both Facebook and Instagram are being aligned with their natural fit in the conversion funnel. As noted by McDermott, Instagram’s product naturally promotes behavior more conducive to the top of the funnel, where brand awareness comes into play. If Instagram is committed to preserving the user experience that allowed them to break 200 million users, it behooves them to preserve this characteristic of their product and not to “forcefully” incorporate more direct-response elements like call-to-action buttons, etc....

Jeff Domansky's insight:

Marketing alert: Digital marketers are used to assimilating platform updates and advancements into their ad campaigns, but there could be a sea change on the horizon.

John H Drew Jr.'s curator insight, August 14, 2014 2:56 PM

Facebook has just finished a deal to acquire mobile photo sharing app Instagram for approximately $1 billion in cash and stock. Instagram will remain an independently branded standalone app that’s separate from Facebook, but the services will increase their ties to each other. The transaction should go through this quarter pending some standard closing procedures.

 

Last year, documents for a standalone Facebook mobile photo sharing app were attained by TechCrunch. Now it seems Facebook would rather buy Instagram which comes with a built-in community of photographers and photo lovers, while simultaneously squashing a threat to its dominance in photo sharing.

 

At 27 million registered users on iOS alone, Instagram was increasingly positioning itself as a social network in its own right — not just a photo-sharing app. And it was clear that some users were doing more of the daily sharing actvities on Instagram rather than Facebook’s all-in-one mobile apps, which had to be cluttered with nearly every feature of the desktop site.

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Artist Has Months-Long Facebook Conversation With an Applebee's

Artist Has Months-Long Facebook Conversation With an Applebee's | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it

If this Applebee's could talk, it might say, "Hello, friend!"


Chip Zdarsky is a comic book artist and journalist. He is also a devoted pen pal ... of an Applebee's. For the past several months, Zdarsky has taken to Facebook to befriend one of the fast-casual chain's Canadian franchises. And the franchise has, fortunately, returned his overtures. The results of the unlikely duo's interaction — you can read the whole thing at Buzzfeed — are hilarious and delightful and wonderfully weird. And maybe, in their way, literary. The Chip/Applebee's exchanges, played out on Applebee's Facebook page, are like Waiting for Godot ... if God were an Applebee's. They're like Her ... if ScarJo were a riblet....

Jeff Domansky's insight:

Talk about engagement! It's a weird but useful lesson for business. Have fun. Engage.

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17 Things Marketers Should Delete From Their Facebook Strategy NOW

17 Things Marketers Should Delete From Their Facebook Strategy NOW | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it

Now with over 750 million members, there's no doubt that Facebook should be a part of your business' social media marketing strategy. At this point, it's almost insane to think that your own prospects and customers aren't on Facebook, which is why many businesses are realizing they need to create an engaging and valuable Facebook presence for their fans that also serves as a viable channel for generating traffic and leads for their business.


But for every business that understands it needs a Facebook strategy, there are just as many businesses that are executing their strategy incorrectly. To make sure you're not falling into bad Facebook marketing practices, below is our definitive list of things businesses should delete from their Facebook strategy...immediately....

Jeff Domansky's insight:

Superb advice for better Facebook business pages. Recommended reading for social strategists.

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