Posts Tagged ‘Social Networking’
July 14th, 2010 | 
Author: You already have a Facebook Page right? If not, click here to learn how to create one, then come back here!
Once you have your page, it’s great to start building your list of fans, connecting and communicating with your current and future clients. However, it’s also good to make connections with other business owners and to help promote each other. Did you know you can link from your Facebook Page to another Facebook Page? It’s pretty quick and simple.
Log into Facebook with the account you use to moderate your page. Next, navigate to the page you want to link to. Here, we want to link to a local real estate agent, Rodney Camren of Star Team Atlanta Realty. He is a great business contact of mine, a fantastic networker and has been a great advocate for Purple Star Consulting, so I want to share the love!
From the top left of the page, underneath the logo, you will see a link for “Add to my page’s favorites”. Click this link.
If you are an Administrator for more than one page, you will be asked which one you want to add the favorite to. Select and then click Save.
Once you have completed these simple steps, you will see the page listed at the bottom left of your own page. You can promote and endorse other businesses by completing these steps.
That’s it! Pretty simple right?
If you are a reader of this blog, you probably know by now that I am a lover of all things Google! There are so many free tools, applications and services they provide that really help out a small business owner. One such tool is the ability to set up a Google Profile. Now, lets say someone meets you at a networking event. Maybe you were out of cards (heaven forbid! 
) or some how the contact loses your business card. He might just remember your name though. So, if he goes out to Google and types in your name, do you think he could find you? If your company name is the same as your personal name, then he might be in luck. However, if like me, the company name is different, it could be a needle in a haystack, or could it?
If I go out to Google and type in “Megan Walker” (my own name), here is what comes up:
Forget about the search results for websites, there is also a section near the bottom that will highlight profiles. So, if the person I met doesn’t remember my company name, but remembered my own name, he can easily get to me that way. Below is how my profile will look to someone searching online. Notice on the right I have many different links set up. All of them will lead back to Purple Star Consulting, in various different ways.
If you don’t already have a profile, you can simply click here: www.google.com/profiles Setting up a profile is easy. You can choose how much information to share, upload a photograph, add links and more. Try to keep things consistent. If you use a photograph of yourself for your Twitter or Facebook account, use the same one here for easy recognition. Add links to LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, your website and your blog page in particular.
Have fun, and get to it! Feel free to share your new profile link below. Mine is www.google.com/profiles/purplestarconsulting
LinkedIn is a great site that allows for networking, building and strengthening relationships. Setting up a basic profile is free. Formed in 2003, there are over 60 million members, so certainly a site to be on! Along with finding contacts, and making new ones, don’t miss out on the ability to display your blog posts on your profile. Doing this also means they will display on the Home page of all other people you are contacted to. Here is how to achieve this.
Log into your profile. Go to Profile and then Edit My Profile. At the top section, go to Websites. Click on Edit.
From here, you can add up to 3 websites. Select either My RSS Feed, or My Blog. Enter in your blog url if selected, or your rss feed link, then click on Save Changes.
Next, scroll down on the Edit Profile screen till you see Applications. Then click on Add Application to the right.
From the list of applications, select Blog Link by clicking on the name of the app.
Next, click on the link to add the application to your profile. You can determine if you want it displayed on your Profile and the home page, or just one or the other.
Finally, go back to the Home page. You will see the Blog Link application. There are two tabs. One that states By Me, for your own blog posts, and one From My Contacts which shows blogs from others who also have an RSS feed being pulled into LinkedIn. 
What other websites have you found to pull your RSS feed into? Share those places below!
Yesterday we walked you through how to add a Constant Contact sign up box to your website. Well today, let’s make it even easier with a Facebook application. With this new app, you can add a signup box directly to your Facebook Profile or Facebook Page.
Start off by either logging in to Facebook and searching for Constant Contact Labs – Join My Mailing List application, or just click the link in this sentence. Once you get to the facebook application page, click the link “Allow” to give access to the application.
Next enter your user name and password for Constant Contact to log in.
Once you are logged in you can then set a default contact list. You may also select and give users the option to sign up for other contact lists. Click to save the settings once you are done.
Finally, if you want to make sure a tab shows up on your Profile, which means other Facebook users can actually find the link to signup for your newsletter, go to your Application settings and be sure to Add a tab, and modify your privacy settings if needed. Easy!
Posted in Constant Contact | 
Tags: E-mail, Facebook, Small Business, Social Networking | 
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We recently posted about how to create a Facebook Fan Page. Well, while we are on a roll, let’s go ahead and show you how to create your own Fan Box for your website. First of all, log into your facebook account and go to your Facebook Page. Click on the Edit Page link at the top of your page.
This will take you to a page full of all of your FB Page settings. Scroll down and look on the right hand side for the following section. Click on Promote with a Fan Box.
You will see a preview of how your Fan Box will look, depending on the different settings you choose.
For my fan box, I like to include the stream of comments and wall postings. This allows people to see the sort of things you are talking about, the ability to see if it’s worth becoming your fan I suppose! You can also include your fans, and the facebook logo. Finally, select where you want to put your fan box. For your own website, click on Other. The code will be listed below that. Copy the code.
Here is what you can do with the code:
- Send the code to your web designer and tell them where you would like it on your website.
- If you have access to your own pages and are comfortable modifying the code, paste it in directly where you would like to see the Facebook Fan Box
- If you have WordPress, simply log in, go to Appearance on the left navigation, click on Widgets, and use a Text Widget and simply paste the code in there.
Any questions? Let us know below!
