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Are you missing important messages on Facebook?

by Erno Hannink. Follow him on Twitter here Share your thoughts!

When a friend on Facebook sends you a message you can clearly see it at the top left of every page. When other people, whom are not directly connect to you, sends you a message it ends up in a secret box.

While writing an article about Facebook lists I was testing my groups. Clicking through the updates of my groups in the favorites I clicked on ‘Messages’ and ‘Other’.

There I saw it, messages from the last 4-5 months that I had completely missed. People asking questions, one potential client, attendees of my webinars that asked me to join the group.

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Published in: Facebook tips Tags: Facebook, messages, missing

The perfect profile photo for Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Google+ and more – 5 tips

by Erno Hannink. Follow him on Twitter here 2 comments, add yours

Earlier today I was reading Buy•ology by Martin Lindstrom and it reminded me of an article I wrote last year on ErnoHannink.nl. With Martin’s book I now found research to support my post.

In Chapter 3 of his book, Martin talks about mirror neurons (Mirror Neuron on Wikipedia). Interesting part of the book on how we experience feelings by looking at others doing something.

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Published in: Social networks Tags: 30DTC, avatar, Facebook, gravatar, image, LinkedIn, photo, profile, twitter, YouTube

Change the name of your Facebook Business Page #30DTC

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You have a successful business page for your company, but your company name changed and you have more than 100 people following your page.

Before you had to keep the name or create a new page.
Now you can request a name change with Facebook.

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Published in: Facebook tips Tags: 30DTC, business page, challenge, Facebook, page, traffic

Danger: Facebook personal profile is not a business page #QandA

by Erno Hannink. Follow him on Twitter here 10 comments, add yours

One of the things I get the most questions about for Facebook is on the personal profile. Questions like: “Do I need a personal profile to create a business page?”, “How can I start a page for our business without people knowing that I created it?” “Can I delete the personal profile after I have created the business page?”

Watch the screencast video about Personal Profile vs Business Page

This screencast video shows examples of pages and I show how you quickly can recognize a personal profile or business page.

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Published in: Q&A videos Tags: business page, Facebook, page, pages, personal profile

Discover the New Facebook Timeline for business pages to attract fans

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Facebook introduced the Timeline on our personal profiles in 2011. It was only a matter of time before it will be rolled out to the pages section on Facebook.

February 29, 2012 Facebook introduced Timeline for their business pages. Now you have until March 30, 2012 to optimize your page so it looks great in Timeline. That is the date that all pages will automatically switch to this new layout.

Facebook Timeline for pages

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Published in: Facebook tips Tags: business page, Facebook, Facebook timeline, pages, timeline

Someone created a Facebook business page with my business name and it wasn’t me. #QandA

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You are starting or just started a page on Facebook for your business. Then you do a quick search and you find a business page with your business name that you did not create. Whats is going on? Can you remove that page?

There can be a view reasons why this page is there:

You or a colleague added an employer with the business name to their personal profile. They just added the name of the company without connecting it to a page. This happens often.
Facebook automatically creates an empty page, with the blue briefcase, with the business name.
Someone checked in at your location using your business name. Here Facebook also creates a page automatically, a ‘place’.
Someone, possibly a fan, started a page for your business

What to do?

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Published in: Q&A videos Tags: #QandA, business page, Facebook, page, Weekly Q & A

Add your Facebook business page to your personal profile in 6 steps [video]

by Erno Hannink. Follow him on Twitter here Share your thoughts!

Often I get the question “I have 2 pages on Facebook now, one that I have created and one that I did not create. How can I change that?”

What most of the times happened was that at some point you have added your company as work experience in your personal profile on Facebook, without creating an actual business page.

This is when Facebook automatically creates a page. One that has this briefcase (see below) and you can not edit it.

This video explains what is happening and how to correct it including a short screencast.