One Minute Facebook Tip: List Yourself as the Owner of Your Business Page

To help increase your personal profile visibility on your Facebook biz page, so everyone remembers that it’s you who own your fan page, follow these 5 easy steps: 1.    From your Facebook biz page, not your personal profile, click on “Edit Page.” 2.    Next, on the left of the settings page, click on “Featured.” 3.   …

“Do-It-Yourself” Facebook Notifications

Have you noticed that Facebook isn’t sending certain notifications? During the past several weeks I have not been getting notifications when I comment on others’ posts. In Touch Promotions engages with other pages; that is, we like and comment on other pages’ posts. Sometimes I don’t need a notification when a page responds to one of my …

Getting Started with Email Marketing and Social Media | Free Webinar

Want to get started with Email Marketing and Social Media? This free webinar is for you! Learn how to set up your Constant Contact account, and your Facebook and LinkedIn business pages and profiles. Webinar – Tuesday, November 29th Click here for more information and registration.

Facebook’s Major Redesign: What Does It Mean for Your Business?

Facebook introduced a few changes over the last couple of weeks, including: “Subscribe;” Share features (public, friends, custom); new Update Status tool; Fine Tuning your news feed; adding New Lists for us (thank you very much); view who is sharing your posts; Smart Lists; and a “Needs Review” function. (Click here to see a photo …

Facebook Upgrades: A Photo Album

Here are the changes Facebook made during the last two weeks in August, 2011 and the first couple of weeks in September 2011. Today we heard these changes are a mere foreshadow of a complete Facebook overhaul. We look at the upgrades here to get a glimpse of what’s ahead. The “Inline Privacy Control” change …

Facebook Foible a Blessing in Disguise

Facebook had some problems this weekend. Many of us couldn’t see more than one page in our news feeds. I got this message: “This stream is unavailable at this time. Please try again soon.” With all the work business pages have to do to keep up with our social media marketing, I wondered what to …

UnIntended Consequences

Facebook’s New Feature Erases Profile Info Facebook announced a new function last week that at first excited many of us e-consultants. Clients who had set up their Facebook business pages as personal profiles approached us over the years asking how to change their business pages from a personal profile to an official business page. At …

Japan’s Great Loss and Mashable’s Great Faux Pas

Wow, so far March has been quite a month of surprise and tragedy. We’re living through one of the most catastrophic events we’ve experienced in our lifetime. The 9.0 earthquake and subsequent tsunami, aftershocks and nuclear plant meltdown that hit Japan March 11th are changing our world, forcing many of us to put our localized …

Catching the Bug: Nostalgic for the Viruses I Haven’t Seen

I was going through some posts today and got a bit nostalgic. At In Touch Promotions we try to post promptly whenever we hear of a virus, phishing scheme or nasty worm crawling around the ’net. I haven’t seen many of these little bugs in action, which I guess is a good thing, even though …

Best Practices or Paranoia? 3 Facebook Tips to Keep You Safe

I’ve been checking out some fun Facebook apps lately and of course, they have to access my personal information so that I can use them on my business pages. Since I am old and un-trusting I wondered why these apps have to access personal info and, in some cases, info on my friends. One particular …