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Facebook and Twitter For Your Non Profit
Tips and Tricks for Enhancing Your Brand and making it “likeable”
Presented by Cathy RodgersSeven Waves Marketing
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Facebook founder Mark Zuckerman
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• Over 900 million objects that people interact with (pages, groups, events and community pages)
• Average user is connected to 80 community pages, groups and events
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• Average user creates 90 pieces of content each month
• More than 30 billion pieces of content shared each month. (web links, news stories, blog posts, notes, photo albums, etc.)
Source: Facebook Stats: http://www.facebook.com/press/info.php?statistics
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• There are more than 150 million active users currently accessing Facebook through their mobile devices.
• People who use Facebook on their mobile devices are twice as active on Facebook than non-mobile users.
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Referrals
68% of U.S. facebook users are more likely to buy on a positive facebook friend referral
- eMarketer
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Create a Page for your Business
http://www.facebook.com/pages/create.php
Or search “create” in your fb search bar
Or find a page you like and go to the bottom:“Create a Page for My Business”
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You must have a personal page in order to create a business page.
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You Could be Shut Down
“Profiles represent individuals and must be held under an individual name, while Pages allow an organization, business, celebrity, or band to maintain a professional presence on Facebook. You may only create Facebook Pages to represent real organizations of which you are an authorized representative. “
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1. Establish your Name / Brand / Intent before Starting
• A strategy is important
• facebook will not let you change the name of your page so get it right the first time.
• Designate a backup administrator
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1. For all Non Profits and Small Business Owners Be sure to click
“Local Business” – Not “Brand”
1. This will let give you an additional information box on your home page
3. Or you end up with only a “founded in” box
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2. Photo / Logo Size
• Expand beyond your Photo / Logo
• Avatar of your Logo displays at 200 pixels wide by 520 deep
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2. Sizes
200 x 500 px
200 x 545 px
200 x 600 px
Thanks to www.Clear-River.com
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After uploading large image, click back on “Change Picture”
Edit Thumbnail size
Slide box over imageto select thumb
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Create new tabs and choose where new users will land when coming from the net
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Monthly fee for hostingGraphics
* Caution: You want to own all the information for your brand, don’t depend on other sources / even facebook.
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• Edit photos with
• Hootsuite
• Schedule facebook or Twitter posts on hootsuite
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• Your Calendar
Turn your events into a 140 character note on Twitter
Create an Event on facebook Avoid Attachments
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Log into your page 1-2 times per day
1. To answer all inquiries
2. To check for spam
3. Currently there are no notifications when someone makes a comment on your page
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Most Under-utilized Feature
In the box directly under “suggest to friends” where you see “write something” and above the info/hours of operation box.
Put your personalized info here – along with a linkto your website(s)
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Reminder: Facebook is Worldwide
1. What if they land on your page? What will they see?Be sure to put your location – you now manage a mini-website / make everything is intuitive for youraudience
2. Info Tab – Be sure to fill out all information
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Add Your Blog to Your Page with a tab
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Search for FBML Application
To create a Landing Page Tab
FBML allows you to drop in customcode with graphics
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Bring it all to facebookwith Involver.com
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Add a Newsletter Subscribe Form to your Page
with an Auto Responder
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How will they find you?
Set up your Facebook URL(after 25 fans)
Be found on Google
Go to: http://www.facebook.com/username/
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Now you have a Link to Share
Go to: http://www.facebook.com/MySavannahBiz
When someone “likes” your page it shows up in their newsfeed …
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It’s easy to update your fans
Go to Edit page / then “Send an Update”
Turn the Town Purple! Savannah Memory WalkYou are AttendingShare Public Event
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Need some Leads?
•Suggest to your friends •Buy an Ad on Facebook for some exposure.
•Promote with an icon Link on your Website / Blog
•Promote with a Like Box
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• Ask some open ended questions
• Offer exclusive coupons or specials • Allow your fans to post comments + photos
• Make it fun!
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• Post more images & tag for better engagement
• Post news before noon – traffic is usually up 7:30 – 9:00 am / around noon / 7:30 pm – 8:30 • Trivia: Friday is one of the best days to post news
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http://www.facebook.com/insights/
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Twitter.com
• Twitter is getting your text message to someone via their phone (Prime spot)
• Sign up on the home page
• Put some thought into your Twtter ID, which will be the brand you are identified with • Save your passwords and have a backup for your account
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• Twitter will make suggestions on who to follow based on your location – to get you started.
• Follow other people and companies that you are interested in and who you want to follow you via the “search” bar.
• Make sure you upload a photo or logo and fill in a description of your company so you will be authentic and don’t follow others w/o photo.
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• Be sure to follow others:> You could be perceived as a spammer by
not following others.
• Search for topics by putting the # symbol in front of your term
• Don’t just talk about yourself
• Help promote things going on in your community
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• Don’t use Twitter as a place to “vent”
• Say hello to others by using the @ symbol
• Use the “RT” in front of @7wavescathy to promote a message that person sent
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Presented by Cathy RodgersSeven Waves Marketing
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