Showing posts with label facebook. Show all posts
Showing posts with label facebook. Show all posts

Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Custom Facebook Tabs Now Available at the New Social Media Idea Gallery

Visual Alliance Media is pleased to announce the launch of its Social Media Idea Gallery – a Facebook Page designed with small and medium sized businesses in mind.  

At the Social Media Idea Gallery, accessible at http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Social-Media-Idea-Galle ..., visitors can view and purchase three different template designs for custom tabs on Facebook Pages, starting at $199.  Additionally, they can view various truly “custom” options for tabs as well as explore examples of custom tab work completed by the Visual Alliance Media team.

“On many occasions, we have been approached by business owners who have basically said ‘anyone can have a Facebook Page.  How can I differentiate mine so that it stands out among my competition?’” says J. Anthony, spokesperson for Visual Alliance Media.  “Until the release of our Social Media Idea Gallery, our response to them included the suggestion to create a custom tab using FBML, HTML and CSS or to engage a company like Visual Alliance Media to do it for them.  Without the template designs, however, the cost started much higher than $199.”

Visual Alliance Media also provides its social media marketing services (including the low cost template-based custom tabs) in a white label fashion to other social media marketing professionals, enabling them to provide a new service to their clients (under their brand) and to create a new revenue stream for themselves without having to invest time and money into learning to code in FBML, HTML and CSS.

Visit the Social Media Idea Gallery at http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Social-Media-Idea-Galle ....  Be sure to “Like” it to be kept up to date on new product offerings as well as to receive periodic tips and tricks to help with your social media marketing activities.

Sunday, May 2, 2010

Advanced Training Group and Social Networking in Action

Social Networking is making the business world smaller whilst making each business target a larger client base and audience. Social networking sites such as Facebook and Flikr are allowing clients to window shop more for the products and services that they require and for the business owners it’s indirectly buying client loyalty.

From a networking perspective with Distressed Invest Property being based in Europe, while Advanced Training Group based in Bangkok, Thailand, it proves that social networking and conducting business globally to be easier than ever. A point that is not lost on both companies.

Distressed Invest are property specialists focussing on international properties that need selling quickly and for a price under the market value.  For example, clients may have defaulted on their mortgage payments and the bank has foreclosed the mortgage. This leaves the bank with a problem as they still are owed the money and they now have a bank of properties they have no experience of selling.

Ken Thorkildsen, of Advanced Training Group, has been advising and consulting with Distressed Invest on how best to use and market with social networking. “Distressed Invest usually market to their clients with email and telephone call. You just need to check your emails every day to see the amount of junk and spam that is being sent to us all every day via email which means that the proper business emails you send can often not get read or indeed may end up in the junk mail folder.”

“One to one telephone consultations will definitely build up a relationship with clients and indeed advising clients that all calls will be followed up by an email is always to be recommended.” Ken goes on, “Social Networking will now allow Distressed Invest Property to give clients up to the minute news and information on products and properties without the need to keep inundating the client with telephone calls and emails. It also gives clients the opportunity to browse of “window shop” the services and also to make comment etc on Distressed Invest and for other clients to browse these comments. Facebook for example has 462m users worldwide and will grow into an excellent shop window for Distressed Invest.”

“The AT Group, in addition, believe that Twitter will also be an excellent marketing tool for Distressed Invest. Twitter is non offensive in that it is a simple couple of lines of marketing to each client directing them to updates etc at the blog they have started.” Ken concludes, “I wouldn’t say it is a new direction for Distressed Invest, however it is an additional approach to their already professional and successful business model and AT Group look forward to helping and watching the business grow and the success that will grow with it. This ultimately is the mission for Advanced Training Group and their clients.”

Matthew Moore, founder of Distressed Invest adds, “I have been involved in marketing and real estate for many years and I feel that that the external expertise and new approach from AT Group will definitely help grow Distressed Invest. The amount of networking contacts we all have through our many years of business it makes sense to move our marketing into this direction. With AT Group behind the majority of the marketing, it will allow me and my team to focus directly on servicing our clients. I am very pleased and indeed very excited about the way forward.”

Distressed Invest can be found at
http://www.facebook.com/DistressedInvestProperty
http://www.twitter.com/DistInvProperty
http://www.gainmaker.com/property.html


Advanced Training Group can be found at:
On Facebook @ Advanced Training Group
http://www.ATGroup.org
http://www.twitter.com/advtraininggrp

Saturday, March 13, 2010

Facebook Fan Page Pays Dividends for Entrepreneur

Like a lot of business people who knew they had to “get on Facebook,” Don Campbell started out two years ago by creating a personal profile.

Later, he realized it was a better fit for his business, Expand2Web.com, to have its own Facebook Fan Page. He created it himself, hoping to have unique content and added interactivity. But his business, creating WordPress websites and templates for small business, kept him busy and he never got much further than a basic fan page.

Then a colleague from the search marketing firm BlitzLocal offered to help him build out a fully featured, interactive fan page. The company’s developers built some pages and introduced him to some Facebook Apps and FBML, Facebook Markup Language, which allows page owners to customize and “brand” their Fan Page tabs to be consistent with their websites.
Even though it’s still quite new, the improved Fan Page has allowed Campbell to connect with fans, friends and potential customers, in ways different than through other social media.
“I've found the interactivity is much richer here than Twitter, or even my blog in some cases, because people can add photos, movies and other types of content. It’s a much more vibrant discussion,” Campbell says.

Campbell writes about his experiences here:
http://www.expand2web.com/blog/bringing-expand2web-facebook/

Source: http://www.prlog.org/10573213-facebook-fan-page-pays-dividends-for-small-business-web-entrepreneur.html