If you are the owner or manager of a Facebook Business Page you have most likely spent endless hours monitoring your facebook Insights located at the top of your Business Page and viewed any new liker's to your page's list on a regular basis, but do you know how to find out which other Business Page's like your Facebook Page?  

When a business on Facebook logs in as their page they can like other relevant pages, but when they do;  this "LIKE" doesn't add to the overall Liker Count on that page... Make Sense??

So how do you know which Business Pages have taken the time to view and like your page?  Easy...

1. Enter your Facebook Business Page.
   
2. At the top of your page on the left click on "See Likes"
   
3. You will then see a List titled with "People Who Like This"
   
4. Click on the "people Who Like This" Button from the drop down list
   
5. You will then see the "Pages who like this" Option.  Click on this.
   
6. Now you can directly see which business pages have been following you.

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A few year's ago when businesses all got on board the Facebook Page Frenzy, many were unsure how to go about introducing their page or product to others and went about it the wrong way by liking other pages, and then proceeding to "crap" all over the other businesses' pages with posts about their own business.  Needless to say this was most annoying and unwanted by professional business owners who had pride in the appearance of their business pages on Facebook.  

Well today I discovered that this practice of "seagulling" (Term created by the fabulous Karen Gunton from Build A Little Biz) sadly still exists.  After a weekend off over Easter I discovered two posts from another business on my page, marketing their own page with no purpose other than to somehow get me to "pop over and like their page"??  No Thanks!

Other Options other than Seagulling:

There are many ways in which you can use Social Media to gain a larger audience, but "crapping" on pages is unacceptable and will turn businesses away or most likely inspire them to block or report you to Facebook which could result in a temporary ban or closure of your Facebook Page - not the result you were after!

So what can you do to encourage others that you may know to visit your page if you are getting started or just trying to reach 25 likes so you can gain a Facebook Page Username?

5 Easy Ideas on how to get the first 25 Likes to your Page:

1. An oldy but an easy.... Invite your personal Facebook friends to like your page.
2. If you know other business owners and think your business can compliment each other, visit their page, but send them a personal message through the message button, not on their wall.  Explain a little bit about your business and how you think you could work together.  Do not just promote your own business unnecessarily.
3. Include your Facebook address on all outgoing information, email signatures, marketing work, letters etc.
4. Ensure you have social plugins to Facebook added to your Website or Blog so social media users can easily just click on the "Like Button"
5. Email your client list or send a new email to potential customers whom you know and introduce yourself and your business.  (Do not add names to an email database if they have not given you approval.)

More information on Facebook "Seagulling" by Karen Gunton of Build A Little Biz in the link below.  This blog post is from a few year's back but it is still accurate and appropriate today for the same re-occuring problem.  It is certainly worth a read for those wanting further information about this frowned on practice.

{5 Rules to Help You not be Spam-ish on other Facebook Pages  by Build A Little Biz}


Other Handy Posts:

{How to Delete or Ban a User from Your Facebook Page by Blue Bird Internet Marketing}

{Why you Should Sweat the Little Stuff in New Business by Blue Bird Internet Marketing}

Until Next Time,

Judi Gray
Blue Bird Internet Marketing & Social Media

Instagram For Business by Judi Gray
Blue Bird Internet Marketing & Social Media.

Instagram Overview:
Instagram is a mobile phone based app for iphone products & android systems. Instagram allows users to create a profile and share images that predominately taken on their phones, uploaded to Instagram, then cropped to a square shape with the options of editing the images.  Users view a home page of images provided by those they have followed or friends of theirs.  The Instagram App is free to download from the Appstore or GooglePlay.  Instagram was purchased by Facebook in April 2012 and has since made some improvements, for example, the photo feed is now available to view on your PC.

Creating An Instagram Profile:
You will require a username (similar also to Twitter).  I recommend if you are using Instagram for Business Purposes, you use your Company Name if you are representing the company, alternatively for personal use, use your personal name or a varient of.

Instagram Privacy:
Users create their profiles I recommend private for personal usage, which only allows your Instagram friends to view your profile and images & open for business usage so everyone can view your pictures.

Image Hash Tags:
To create interest, users use #Hashtags attached to all of their posts (similar to Twitter) (See More on Hash Tags Here).  For Example a business would always tag themselves e.g. #mybusiness and to tag someone else in the post, eg someone you want to link to your image you use the @symbol - much the same as Facebook. 

Get Creative:
Photography is fun!  If you don't like taking images or generally don't notice the beautiful things in the world around you - hand this job to someone who does, someone with a creative eye.

Business's may wonder what type of images they should post to Instagram.  Consumers always love to see your products, but don't overload them with them.  


A few ideas to get you started:
1.    Behind the Scenes - show your work office, the set-up of a photo shoot, the creative process in making a product, not always just the finished result.  Users will feel like they get an "inside look to how your business works"
2.    Introduce your employees - images of your employees do not need to be boring - showcase their favourite desk items, pair of shoes, or projects they are working on.
3.    Preperation - are you preparing for a project?  Show the finished product of your work along with the work involved.
4.    What are you doing?  - Are you attending a conference, meeting someone new from another business - why not showcase their businesses as well?  Take a photo of your favorite funky coffee shop and share.  Food Images are always popular also.  Always remember to add the information of where the image was taken so credit can be given to the photographed business.
5.    Sneak-Peek's - offer consumers a sneak-peek into your upcoming product launches or projects. Let them feel like an insider!

Let Us know how you go!  List your links in the Comment's Below.

Judi Gray
Blue Bird Internet Marketing & Social Media

I first started using Instagram regularly for personal use last year after taking a family trip to Western Australia.  I wanted a way of sharing photos of the places we had visited, without sharing them with everyone on my Personal Facebook Page.  For me, Instagram was the perfect option.  It was easy to take images directly on my phone, upload them with a short description or tag the location the image was taken at.  My Instagram account was only available for view by my closest friends and family and it was so easy to use.  

Since this, I have enjoyed Instagram as a "stress free" viewing option in the evenings.  Instagram is easy to flick through on my phone and view beautiful images & interesting stories all within a photograph.  Pictures really do tell a thousand words and the more creative you can be, the more Interesting Instagram can be. 

This is the first installment on Instagram from Blue Bird Internet Marketing & Social Meida.  It will be followed by further articles on how to use Instagram for Business as well as other tips hints and a new Monthly Blog Post which will be titled "Inspire Two" which will feature two images and users that I have been following on Instagram and one of their recent images/stories that has caught my eye.

So click click click away! 

Have any recommendations of Users you love on Instagram or favorite #hashtags?  Let us know in the comments below.

Judi
Blue Bird Internet Marketing & Social Media

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Not only is the page more appealing with more information, but the Page Owner, World Jewellery which is a Quality Sterling Silver Jewellery Wholesaler in Lismore, New South Wales; has made a point of adding regular information and images and posting regularly which has resulted in renewed interaction from "likers" of the page as well as many new fans to the page.  The transformation has been a great success. 


The World Jewellery Page Make-Over Included:
Re-sizing of Business Logo Profile Picture
Cover Image Re-sizing and loading
Custom Tabs with links to Website, Retailer List and Shop with Custom Images
Custom Facebook Username Creation
Description and information review
and more...
 
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So it happens to the best of us... every now and then some pathetic individual or spammer decides to make inappropriate or unwanted comments on your precious Facebook Business Page - which quite honestly is a pain in the you know what! 


Instead of just deleting their unwanted comment, why not block the user alltogether?  Its a very easy process and this is how it is done:

1.  Find the unwanted comment on your Facebook Business Page.
2.  Hover over the comment and in the top right corner of the comment you will see a small cross appear.  Click on this cross. (shown in photo below) it will say mark as spam once you have clicked on the cross.

3.  You will then get another small message from facebook saying that "You've hidden this comment so that the person who wrote it and their friends can see it still"  It offers a choice to undo the action of hiding the comment or to ban the user... Click on Ban User (see Below)

4.  The final screen message will say that you have "Deleted the comment so that no one can see it"  It then offers an option to report the comment as abusive - this is totally up to you.  It also gives confirmation that the particular user has been banned from your page - YEY! (See Image below) 

If you are would just like to remove a certain person from your business page that has not commented on anything, but is a liker, just send me an email at info@bluebirdinternetmarketing.com and I can talk you through it.

Judi

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