This year at SXSW I made it a goal to try to network with as many people as I could. Thanks to my new position at Posse Social Media, I was given a phone number that made this super easy. I simply meet someone who I want to connect with and instead of giving them their one millionth business card of the weekend, I give them a phone number. They text this phone number with their name and email address [...]
#6. A Community That Chats, Grows! Make sure you encourage your fans to interact with each other and chat back and forth. You can do this easiest by ‘spotlighting’ fans; singling out those who have interacted the most, said something cool in a post, or has been helpful to others. This gives everyone a chance to know each other and you can even swap around links and highlight your fans for free under the assumption that they will highlight you [...]
Any savvy business owner working with Facebook knows that quality fans are the keys to success. Super fans are a breed above; they are users who not only check on your page, but give you access to their data through their Facebook page and will encourage other people to purchase from you as well. It’s free advertising baby! But how do you get a vague sort of fan to go to Super Fan? In an overall picture, it takes time, [...]
If by some random happenstance you missed out on today’s F8 conference held by Facebook’s own Mark Zuckerberg, here are some of the highlights. After a somewhat amusing intro skit courtesy SNL’s own Andy Samberg, Zuckerberg took the stage to speak about what looks to be the most radical makeover Facebook has seen since it first premiered in 2007. If Facebook started out being all about the profile, and then morphed into being all about the wall, get ready for [...]
