Facebook Marketing Strategies from NYC and Los Angeles’ Most Devious Minds

Wired Magazine started a wild-fire when they said, “The Web Is Dead.” Everyone from TechCrunch to Mashable blogged about that blog about blogs vs Facebook. To a large extent, Wired is right on the money. Discussion forums killed the BBS. And Facebook killed discussion forums. Facebook also killed Flickr. Or they at least killed Flickr’s [...]

Maximum Number of Facebook Friends You Can Add Per Day or Hour

OR, How to have as many Facebook friends as Lady Gaga: “You’re Adding Friends Too Quickly. Your Account Will Be Blocked” For many reasons including trust, rapport, history, and familiarity, my last post mentioned that 1 Facebook friend is worth about 22 Twitter followers. So now, if you set out to amass a large Facebook [...]

Twitter vs Facebook Social Media Marketing: CTR Effectiveness and Conversion Rates

After almost half a decade of Twitter and Facebook being around, nobody seems to clearly understand the pros and cons of either for use in marketing. In fact, I started Googling for a competitive matrix that compared all the key web marketing factors applied between Facebook and Twitter. I Fail. So I just built one [...]

Google Adwords vs Facebook Pages Advertising: Which has better CTR and CPC?

When Google first bought the contextual advertising system that later became Adwords, it made them a billion dollars fast. And it was worth it. Google’s credibility was an eternity further ahead than Yahoo’s and All the ads were matched to your search. But in reality, where they made most of their money is that the [...]

Social Media Marketing: How to Use Facebook Pages

I just found Guy Kawasaki’s Alltop on the same topic. But since the link he posted for a free ebook download seems like a email harvesting scam, I’ll just share with you my Facebook marketing secrets. 80% of my traffic comes from Facebook friends. 10% comes from Twitter. The rest come from Google. Based on [...]

How to Export Gmail Inbox Messages as CSV Then Extract All Senders Email Addresses For Importing to Facebook Twitter Linkedin and Sparkah.com

You remember when you first joined a social media networking site like Linkedin, Facebook, and Twitter? The first time was a breeze. You imported your email address contacts and immediately had a chunk of followers, friends, and connections. The trouble is growing this network afterwords. If you want a strategy for consistently growing your follower [...]

How to Automatically Add Senders Email Addresses to Contacts in Gmail

This post can also be alternately entitled, “How to Facebook and Twitter friend everyone who’s ever emailed you – ever.” If you’re building up your “Rolodex,” this tip trick is priceless. Over the years, I’ve collected thousands, no, hundreds of thousands of emails. Funny thing is that while I may have nothing to say to [...]

How to Add the Facebook Like Button to ELGG / PLIGG / WordPress – Dynamic Urls

This took a bit of time to figure out. Once you know how, it’s super easy. Since all the pages in ELGG / PLIGG or any CMS are dynamically generated in PHP, all you have to do is add php code that triggers the physical url into the facebook pluggin. So instead of entering http://DisastEarth.com [...]

3 Reasons You Must Use Facebook for Business

I’m a firm believer in Facebook. The reason is simple. I get about 10000% more clicks and reads and comments and participation from facebook than I do in Twitter. I even wrote a detailed post about Facebook vs Twitter. Facebook is community. Twitter is ticker-tape. Here’s why you should use Facebook for business: 1. Facebook [...]

Debunk: “Mistakes I’ve Made In Social Media via @Leyla_a”

I’ve always enjoyed “sunday morning soliloquy,” Leyla’s blog. In fact, I’ve always liked Leylas. I’ve had three friends named by the same name all with totally different spellings but I’ve liked them all. One day, it would be a pleasure to meet and possibly befriend this fourth Leyla. But until then, I’ve got things to [...]

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