Social Media Marketing

Posts about social media marketing including LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram and other social media sites. I particularly speak about using social media for coaches, consultants, course creators and other heart centered entrepreneurs.

Facebook Wouldn’t Let You Reserve Your Fan Page Vanity URL? Do it Sunday

1 Comment / Facebook, News, Social Media Marketing /

At midnight eastern June 12th, Facebook opened the doors for people to reserve their usernames as vanity Facebook URLs (I’m www.Facebook.com/AndreaStenberg). There was a fully of activity at midnight and many experts were amazed that Facebook didn’t crash as people rushed to reserve their own names. Meanwhile, many people rushed to reserve vanity URLs for […]

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How to Build Relationships With Your LinkedIn Connections

3 Comments / LinkedIn, Networking, Social Media Marketing /

LinkedIn has a much more rigid set of rules regarding adding new people than other social media sites. If you break the rules you are much more likely to get a virtual hand-slap or get your account frozen than on any other site. It’s also not immediately clear how to converse with people you don’t

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Reserve Your Facebook User Name or Vanity URL

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Unlike Twitter or LinkedIn, as I write this post Facebook does not have user friendly or Vanity URLs for members. On Twitter, you can find me at www.Twitter.com/andreastenberg. On Facebook it’s http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home#/profile.php?id=785250004&ref=profile. All this changes at one minute after midnight (your local time) Saturday June 13th. If you’re reading this on Friday June 12th, that’s

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LinkedIn Events – Use it For Finding or Promoting Events

LinkedIn, Marketing Basics, Social Media Marketing /

In November 2008 LinkedIn added an Events Feature. This feature allows members to add events they are organizing or merely attending. Since this feature is fairly new and not yet widely used, it does have some nice potential as a networking and marketing tool. When you go to the events home, it lists upcoming events.

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Twitter Basics: How Virtual Small Talk Can Build Relationships

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First thing every morning I open my email, then my web browser, then Word then TweetDeck. The same order every morning. Yes, it’s a tad anal but I don’t even have to look at the screen to switch between applications. This morning when I opened TweetDeck I found a flurry of retweets (people passing along

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