If you spend time on Facebook, you’ve noticed some changes. These changes have been a little bit of a headache for Business Pages – first because developing a new strategy midstream with new rules is rarely super fun. But I have collected some tips that will hopefully be helpful to anyone who maintains a Business … Continue reading
Author Archives: Ann Treacy
Social Media 101 Presentation
Today I was pleased to give a presentation on social media. I started with one of my favorite videos – and then the actual presentation. I was also able to sneak in an invitation to a free webinar tomorrow at noon on “10 Reasons to Blog for your Business” http://www.mnrem.com/blog/?p=718 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eUeL3n7fDs Continue reading
Highlight for finding (and making?) friends
I know I’ve been terrible about sending out Bytes. I will try to be better – but something worth sharing caught my eye today: Highlight: http://highlig.ht/ Sadly it’s not available for the Droid, so I can’t use it yet – but I think just the idea of it is interesting in a kind of creepy … Continue reading
free webinar on Google Tools today at noon
Today I’m presenting for a free webinar on Free Google Tools at noon until 1:00 (CST). You are all welcome to attend. It’s a project for the Minnesota Renewable Energy Marketplace. http://www.mnrem.com/blog/?page_id=53 You can register here: https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/606704318 Here’s the official description: Google has a range of free tools that can not only save your money but make … Continue reading
Meet Your Neighbors
I’m sorry I’ve been totally lax on the Bytes lately. It’s just been so busy. But I ran into a fun tool that I wanted to share: http://neighbors.whitepages.com/ Type in your address and it will give you the addresses, names and a map of your neighbors. While I have some privacy concerns – I like … Continue reading
Facebook Contest Upcoming Webinar
Happy New Year! Today’s Byte is a little different. First I wanted to send a reminder on a free webinar that I’m doing on Thursday on Facebook Stats: http://tinyurl.com/7m6hccc Please feel free join us. Then I’m working with a group that is looking for product reviews – one lucky reviewer will win a $100 gift … Continue reading
Facebook page edits
A couple of weeks ago I gave a presentation on Creating Facebook Pages for businesses. You can see the slides and access an archive of the webinar here: http://www.mnrem.com/blog/?p=537 (I’m doing another free webinar on Facebook stats on January 5 – you can get details here: http://www.mnrem.com/blog/?p=548) An interesting question came up after the webinar. … Continue reading
SEMRush & Free webinar on Facebook Pages
This week I got a chance to try out a paid service thanks to SEMRush. They track organic search engine ranking and Pay Per Click ads. http://www.semrush.com Type in a keyword phrase to find the popularity of a term, the cost per click to bid on that term in Google ads, the competition for that … Continue reading
LinkedIn for busiensses
I’m totally cheating today. I‘m heavily borrowing tips today from an article I can across: A Guide to Generating Leads on LinkedIn. http://tinyurl.com/3bcmvpn The author provides some good reason for folks to go on LinkedIn – and they don’t all revolve around getting a job. As the title implies – it’s a great tool for getting … Continue reading
Google Places – how people use it
I’m trying to take time to do more research and I thought I’d write up a quick synopsis of the research when it’s interesting enough to share. Today I read the following: Eye Tracking and Click Mapping Google Places. http://tinyurl.com/3ssqzcc Published by Meditative Research, they tracked click-through rates on Google Places. Google Places (http://www.google.com/places/) is … Continue reading
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