Why Facebook is Better than Google for Advertisers
I am a long-time online advertiser, managing my first $$multi-million budget campaign back in 1998. Back then in the prehistoric days of the Internet, there was no Google, no Facebook and no big ad networks. It was an easier choice for advertisers. If you like the site, you advertised on it.
Over the years, there have [...]
Facebook Advertisers – Share Your Experiences for Your Chance to Win!
Make your case by submitting a brief case study on your best or worst experience with Facebook Ads. Got a great Facebook ad story? Get featured in our upcoming book, Facebook Advertising for Dummies, due out in the fall. Explain your objective, include a screen shot(s), and result highlights. It’s that easy. With your help, we’ll select a winner and even send you a copy of the book when it’s published.
Facebook Readying eCommerce Offering?
I was pleasantly surprised to see a new design to the Facebook home page when I woke up this snowy Sat. morning. Facebook was even nice enough to bring attention to the new features. But one menu item easily accessible via the new pull down Account Tab on the upper right corner of the screen [...]
Facebook Welcomes Its 300-Millionth Member
Wasn’t it just several months ago that Facebook announced it had reached the miraculous milestone of 250 million members? Well, that’s old news. The network now touts 300 million members worldwide. Now, if Facebook were a country, it would be the third most populous one on the planet.
But, the company really dropped a bomb when [...]
Is Facebook Talk Just Around the Corner
According to Vivox, the leader in social network and virtual world talking applications, soon Facebook members will be able to talk to their friends as easy as they can chat via Facebook chat. The developer is event making its technology available to other Facebook application developers via API.
The potential to add talk capabilities to a [...]
Tag Your It – Facebook Adds Tagging to Notes and Updates
Tagging has been a popular Facebook photo/video feature for the past year or so. Through a simple one-click process, you can identify someone in a photo or video, which will in turn notify that person as to the reference (unless that individual’s personal profile privacy settings prevent them from being “tagged”). Today, Facebook added a [...]
Pixable Makes Printing Your Facebook Photo Albums a Snap
An MIT start-up , Pixable, enables users to create and print photo books using their Facebook content. It offers a fast, easy and creative way to transform your Facebook albums into printed memorabilia such as photo books, calendars, or posters, which are printed, packaged and home delivered, all at an affordable price.
Why would you [...]
Facebook MythBusters
Would you ever have imagined that your relationship status determines whether or not you’re likely to use a Facebook app? Me neither! And, the common belief is that the more wall activity a person has on Facebook, the more likely they are to send virtual gifts. Nope. Not true.
BLiNQ Media just released an unprecedented white [...]
With Facebook Pages – Who needs a Website?
I was talking to a small business owner last night. They are in the middle of a very costly redesign of their B2C website and I couldn’t help but ask if they had plans to set up on Facebook as well.
Right now, I have Facebook on the brain. As you may recall I am in [...]