How to Add a Facebook Like Button to Your Web Site

It seems like those Facebook like buttons are everywhere. But when you add a “like” button to a page of your site, what actually happens?

I think many, many people assume that someone is liking your Facebook page, but this is not always the case. And more importantly, this may not be what you actually want everyone to do.

Let me spell out some of the details behind those buttons.

Like Us on Facebook

When Facebook introduced fan pages or business pages, it gave businesses the ability to create a page for themselves that was separate from personal Facebook pages. These pages are different from personal pages because it is a one-way, rather than two-way interaction.

With personal Facebook pages, you request to be someone’s friend and then they confirm the request. When you like a Facebook page, there is no confirmation; you’re in. Once you have liked a page, news from that page should end up in your news feed.

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Effective Email Marketing for Small Businesses

I presented this 90-minute workshop on Effective Email Marketing for Small Businesses for the Maine Center for Entrepreneurial Development. Below is my slideshow presentation. Effective Email Marketing for Small Businesses View more presentations from Visible Logic, Inc. Here are links to other presentations that I’ve given: Graphic Design 101 for Marketing Professionals Personal vs. Corporate Branding in Social Media Promoting Your Non-Profit in Social Media: Organizational, Cause and Personal Branding

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Your Web Site Does Not Need More Traffic

Everyone seems to wonder: “How much traffic is my web site getting?” “Am I getting enough hits on my web site?” “How much traffic should I expect from my web site?” What you really need to find out is: Am I getting the right traffic to help my business? Because more traffic does not always equate to more leads, more sales, more calls or however you define as success. How […]

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