How To Create Facebook Lists

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How To Create Facebook Lists

Most people are un-aware that there is now a feature on Facebook that will allow you to create lists of all those you want to follow, so I have added a great video in the post to show you How To Create Facebook Lists.

The great thing about Facebook when they made the changes last year to our personal profiles was that they gave us the ability to put people into lists. We had lists for all sorts of things like countries, friends,, family, school friends, ex-girl friends etc etc :-)   and then Google + came and also allowed us to do the same they also offer us the ability to put people into lists. That makes life easy as we can keep things very neat and tidy. Nothing quite like being organised, then the people we really wanted to hear from or share with were in special groups… very friendly I thought…

Now Facebook has gone one step further we can now setup lists for who we want to get posts from in Facebook… It’s abit like an RSS feed in some ways in that with an RSS feed we subscribe to whatever or where ever the feed comes from and then every time there is a new article we get notified.

Well it’s the same thing with the lists in Facebook. We can go and find the Favorite People, Books, Companies, Movies and we can put them into our own special lists. The other cool thing is if you follow someone and they have a list you like the look of you can also add that list to your list…

I know it sounds all very complicated but it’s not and it will save you time going through piles of Facebook posts to find the things that you are really interested in…

Of course this is both good and bad.

The Good:  If you want people to put you in there list then you are going to have to give great content so that should tidy things up abit and stop the spamy affiliate Fan Pages…

The Bad: If you are one of those spammy pages I mentioned before you may find you don’t get much traffic or interaction, so we are all going to have to lift our game.

Here is a video I found by Amy Porterfield that explains it so well. I was going to do my own video by why re-invent the wheel this is very good.

How To Create Facebook Lists Video

If you can’t see your lists on your Facebook it just may not be in your country yet, so here is a link to Facebook Lists and you can start there and follow the video

That’s it really a short post but one that has a great video with everything you need to know on how to create Facebook lists. 

I thought this would be really helpful as well Mari Smith had this created on her site and points to a number of the changes to the New Facebook Business Pages. I know it’s not that clear but if you click on the picture it will take you to her site where the picture is and you can download it there.

 

 

 

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Facebook Business Page Changes

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Facebook Business Page Changes

Wow, when Facebook changed the Business Pages people sure did not like it, so I am going to pick out some Facebook Business Pages Changes and show you in the video how you can use them to really make your page stand out from the rest.

I feel the changes are really good now that I have had sometime to play around but I like many others were very annoyed at first.

However I can see that Facebook also would like to clean things up on the Business Pages and with everyone now having to go right to peoples walls hopefully there will be some work done and cleaned up.

So many Facebook Business Pages were just rubbish, no engagement not much of anything but now Facebook has got us or forced us back to do what it was designed to do in the first place, and that is to talk to people, not just blast them with spam … So many Pages setup with Welcome Pages that were sub-standard. So much affiliate spam as well… so I for one am pleased to see a tidy up and those serious about doing business online will come up with great walls that are pleasing and engaging. (how many times did I just use the word “so”)

You can still send people direct to a Welcome Page by just getting the URL of the page so that can still happen, it’s just that no one is now forced to go to that page nor forced to “Like” it before seeing the wall…. so that is also a good thing I think. How many times did you like something and then saw what the offer was and thought… grrrr wish I had not liked them .

I think that the new changes will force people to use Facebooks advertising as well so that the advert can send people to pages especially setup for the advert. Of course you have always been able to do that, but now with no Welcome Page or Pitch Page as the set page we will have to find other ways to get peoples names and emails and likes. So Paid Adverts, will be the way to go and I am sure Facebook will be rubbing their hands in glee at the prospect.

Facebook Buisness Page Changes List:

  • Timeline / Use it to show of your Company/ Product / Business
  • Pined / Pin the things to the top that you want to show off
  • Private Messaging / communicate with private messages with their fans and users
  • Tabs / Only 4 Tabs visable now
  • Top Picture / Cover Image
  • No Default Landing Page / No more Fan gating” pages to garner more organic “likes”
  • Highlight / Feature Content full page style

In the video I show all these in the above list plus I mention the Fanta Business Page if you want to go and take look. It’s fun maybe you can find one of the missing people.

The sizes for the New Pages as discussed in the video

The top picture size is 851 x 315

The Tabs, those small pictures under the timeline cover are 111 x 74

The pages are now 810 pixels wide, so much room there to play around with.


The video is only 9 minutes long and am sure you will learn heaps that will help you if you have a business page. So if you are sitting on the fence not knowing which way to jump .. will you get a Business Page or Will I not get a Business Page…We can help you. If you don’t have one then we offer a service that builds them for you, it’s called a very catchy title ” Done for you Business Pages” :-) we will also teach you how to use the pages and how to promote them. So just contact us and we can help you.

However if you like to do it all yourself then we can also help you there. Gary has a training site up showing you step by step how to set a Business Page up without using WordPress or any Pay Monthly Software. If you want to check that out then go over to FB Easy Page Builder

 

That’s about all I have to say, check out the video Facebook Business Page Changes and also head over to the FB Easy Page Builder if you want to get your own page up.

Please “like” Comment and Share this article…. How will you handle the changes?

 

 

 

All Things Internet

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All Things Internet Radio Show

I was approached and asked why I had not done a Radio Show. I guess I had never thought about it really. Then the local radio station got in touch and jumped at the idea of both myself and Gary hosting a radio show every week call “All Things Internet”  I am so glad Gary is there as it really is lots of things to do to make the show All things Internet really tick along. Buttons to push, all over the place, music to find and then topics to cover every week. Now that has been abit difficult as I am used to being able to show people what I am talking about while doing a webinar but this is all so different.

So we have 6 months of radio shows ahead and really once I get to the studio it’s a whole lot of fun.

Here is why I went ahead and did the whole Radio show broadcast.

Think about it, 6 months at 30 minutes a time. That is a whole lot of programs and a whole lot of data that I can now take and produce into all sorts of great products. I have enough information here to put into a membership site, e-books, MP3′s and also into Video. Let alone what it does for my credibility. 6 months is a long time to run a radio show for someone who has never done this before. Roughly that’s around 24 different products that I will produce through the program.

Plus I also get to go on some of the other radio programs as well to share on there.

Why am I sharing this with you well… easy, because local radio stations are always looking for great radio hosts, topics and subjects to be talked about by normal people. I am sure that you could be one of those people, as I am also sure you know something about a niche your into that needs to be shared.

Take that information and share it on the local radio station, get your following, then also take all your broadcasts and turn them into a product of some sort that could be sold or given away in exchange for name and email. There are many options…. Good news is you don’t have to do all this yourself. There are outsources that will do transcribing, that will take your MP3′s and turn them into videos, build you a website or membership site. You do what you are good at then ask someone either on www.Elance.com to help you out with the rest.

 

You have information in you that needs to come out :-) ..

If you don’t know how to do all this then let me help you. You can contact me on the contact button, share with me what you have and what you want to do and I am sure we can get something happening for you.

What do we talk about on All Things Internet… well that’s easy…. all things Internet. We talk about the things listed below and as the weeks go on there will be more topics. I just love to share. So here is a link to the Community Radio Station that we have our show on which is every Monday at 2pm New Zealand time. You can search for the show and listen to older shows also you can go to the All Things Internet website where we have all the shows on there to listen to.

Here is a sample… all about using Trademe to make money online….

Trademe Podcast

 

All Things Internet is an INFORMATION website run in conjunction with our weekly Local Radio show. We are devoted online marketing professionals who know and understand the internet and how frustrating and confusing the Internet can be for both home user and business owners alike. You will find all things Internet a very helpful site and am sure find many answers to those questions you have about Online Marketing, Social Media, Making Money Online ….. Travel on round the site where we will discuss all things Internet.

  • How to make money Online
  • Your Business Online
  • Does your website Suck
  • 5 Strategies to get customers to your website

more topics to come each week….

Check out the Radio show and the website, it has information there for both Newbies and those of you abit further along, for those of you just starting out on the Internet and what to do and how to do it, to those of you who have a business online or offline and are struggling to get customers or the help you need to get your business into the 21st century.
Wherever you are on the scale All things Internet is there to help you, so just go check it out :-)

 

 

How to Use Youtube Annotations

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How to Use Youtube Annotations

I am sure you all know the importance of Youtube these days in your marketing, the issue is to get people to subscribe  and also to be able to update videos easily when something might change, this is where YouTube Annotations come in. So today I am going to show you how to use Youtube Annotations to add a subscribe button to your videos, and also below discuss some other great uses for the Youtube Annotations.

Lots of people have no idea how to do this so here goes…. before I get you to watch the video the YouTube Annotations option is amazing you can use it for all sorts of things. Let me give you some ideas:

  • Add a message inside video
  • Add your website address
  • Add Phone number or contact details
  • Add a comment
  • Add a link so people can be sent some where else
  • Add  a text watermark
  • Now let me expand on these ideas…
  • Add a message inside the video:

If you want to get a message across to people you might talk about on the video you can also add the message there to rein force what you just said. It’s a great way to add reminders. You can make the message as long as you want, but I would be inclined to keep it short and sweet.

Add your Website address:

If you look on Youtube you will find 1000′s of videos with no links no under the video and none even in the video itself. With the new layout of the Youtube you will need to keep this in mind and be more vigilant in making sure you have your web address or URL on the video itself.

 

Add Phone number or contact details:

If you don’t have a website, or you want people to do something else like call you, or visit you at your place you can add in this as well. And as you will see in the video you can drag it out and make it show on the screen for as long as you need to.


Add a comment:

Really same as above in the add a message. The good news is if something changes and you don’t want to change the video then you can go in and just add an annotation. It’s just brilliant.

Add a link so people can be sent some where else:

I love the fact that you can send people to either another video, your channel, subscribe page and a few other options in there, it’s excellent so if you have a series of videos on a topic then you can send people from one to the next one, that is sheer genius.


Add  a text watermark:

I am not sure if you have had people steal your videos but I have, so I make sure I make it as hard as possible for them to do that. I am not talking about taking my video and putting it on their site I am talking about copying it using Camtasia or something like it and then putting their own details on it. Grrrr anyway to stop that it’s a good idea to add comments or web address’s in places where it makes it hard to get them out of. So think about how you going to do that, now not every video of yours will be taken and ripped off but some generic ones you may have had made for you can be. So if you don’t have Camtasia then use the annotations to slow the people down abit. It won’t stop them totally but it’s a start.

I have started to use this as a watermark as most do not want a picture of me sitting in there video so this works quite well, the other thing that works well is putting your web address in as a watermark. In saying that you would need to use a program like Camtasia to do it for you. The You Tube Annotations does not really do as good a job as this picture, but as I said it’s a good start.

So here goes the Video:

How to Use Youtube Annotations To Add A Subscribe Button

 

Something you need to understand and realise is that if you bring the video from YouTube into your website or if someone else takes your video from YouTube and puts it on their site the Annotations don’t go through on the video. So best to make sure your important stuff :-) is already in the video like your web address etc. Annotations is for veiwing in Youtube. But at any rate they are fantastic tool to use, so thank you Youtube.

Hope that had some useful information for you and you can use it to grow your Subscribers and also to send traffic to where ever you need to send it.If you are looking for more posts on Youtube then I have a few written and there will be more coming as Youtube changes over. So more Youtube goodies.

That ends the lesson on How to Use Youtube Annotations.

 

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