Tag: Facebook

  • 7 Tips for Small Business Using Facebook

    7 Tips for Small Business Using Facebook

    There are more than 800 million people on Facebook, so businesses of course want to tap in on all these potential customers.

    Making a Facebook page for your business is easy. You first must create a personal page, and then you can create as many other pages as you desire. Once you have your page up, you will begin to start getting friends and likes. In order to keep visitors coming, more likes, and more friends, which will help grow your business you should follow these tips.

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  • How to Create a Squeaky Clean Facebook Page

    How to Create a Squeaky Clean Facebook Page

    More and more employers are turning to Social Media accounts (and not your CV) when it comes to finding out more about their perspective employee. A surprising amount of companies will deny someone a job, too, if they find something they don’t like or agree with on your page, which seems pretty unfair on you; especially if you don’t have the chance to defend yourself!

    ‘What? That photo of me in the BBQ Rib eating competition?! It was… for charity!’

    It’s becoming ever more important to clean up your social media profiles for this exact reason. Do you want to miss out on your dream job simply because you forgot to de-tag the drunken photos from your last night out? Protect yourself from snoopy employers as soon as possible so you can relax in interviews; knowing they’ll find nothing but your wonderful (industry related) statuses, your (frequent) charity work and those glorious (cultured) holidays.

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  • Keeping Old Friends, Making New Ones: Social Networking Alternatives to Facebook

    Keeping Old Friends, Making New Ones: Social Networking Alternatives to Facebook

    The rise of social networking has been decried by several observers for decreasing sociability and actual face time. The fact is social websites provide a convenient and easy method to not only communicate with old friends but also make communications more personal. Instead of a letter once a month, it is possible to continue the relationship at the same level of intensity possible for next-door neighbors.

    Of course, keeping old friends is only part of the picture. Many people have interests that are not shared by individuals in their geographic proximity. This is especially common in rural areas. Even in densely populated areas, it can be difficult to locate those who share your interests or hobbies. Social networking provides a solution to these problems, provided you are aware of the possibilities.

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  • 5 Reasons Your Business Should Stick with Facebook

    5 Reasons Your Business Should Stick with Facebook

    Social media is a huge part of many businesses today.

    Marketing to a whole new audience from around the globe has many benefits.

    However, some companies are wondering if they should jump ship from Facebook to Google+.

    Here are five reasons to stick with Facebook rather than switching to Google+.

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  • Enhance Your Fan Page With Facebook Templates

    Enhance Your Fan Page With Facebook Templates

    Have you ever thought of having your own business but you just don’t know where and how to start?

    Of course, capital will always be a big factor in starting your own biz but you need not to worry any more for the big expenses for the advertisements and promotions.

    As what you can observe nowadays, many people are starting to get in the business world and they are confident enough that they will have a powerful tool that can help them promote their brand and have people patronize it.

    Technology plays a very important role here, as this is one of the major components, which most people rely on.

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  • A New Face of Facebook Profile: Timeline

    A New Face of Facebook Profile: Timeline

    Dislike. This is the feedback received by Facebook when they change the look of the profile page a few weeks ago. Millions of Facebook users were not happy with the change, especially without notice, that majority of Facebook users posted complains about this change in their Facebook page.

    What Facebook did was change the layout of the profile page. Let us say, a friend just posted a tweet about a discount voucher for shoebuy and ebags that she discovered from the net.

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  • Facebook Viruses: Don’t be Fooled

    Facebook Viruses: Don’t be Fooled

    Facebook is the place to talk with friends, share photos and catch up with old acquaintances, but you shouldn’t have to deal with Facebook viruses. Unfortunately it’s also the place to get infected with computer malware. The most well-known recent infection was the Koobface worm, seen at first as a video offer.

    “Check out this Paris Hilton video!”

    “I caught you on a secret cam!”

    Click on the video attachment, and you get instructions to load a viewer for the video, usually Flash Player. If you agree to download the viewer, your computer gets infected with all sorts of nasty things.

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