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How I Grew My Facebook Fans 30 Percent in One Day

Kyle Judkins — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 23:00:00 +0000

Getting your Facebook Fan Page to grow can be easy at first. You pester your high school and college friends to join, so you have more than your wife and mom as your Facebook Fans. You might also do a quick blog post (see here and here) or blast out a message to your Twitter followers.

All of these are great places to get your fan base started and give you a nice starting base. Recently, I did an experiment on my other blog, LostInTechnology to get people to join my Facebook Fan Page for that blog. This experiment centered around Google Wave.

To set the story up, Google Wave is a new service that has generated a lot of buzz. It is also, currently, invite only. I was fortunate enough to get a Google Wave invite, and once I got the invite, I had several more to give away. Instead of being nice to my friends, I decided to give them away to my dedicated reader base at LostInTechnology, but I didn’t want to give them away for nothing, so I asked my readers to join my Facebook Fan Page in order to receive an invite.

It was a simple task that people were willing to do in order to get an invite to Google Wave. One thing to consider when giving away something to your readers is to make sure it fits the audience. Google Wave is a new technology product that is in beta, and it fits right in with what my audience is interested in at LostInTechnology. They were very excited about the technology and wanted to get involved with it an learn about how it worked. I made it easy to get in on the fun with very little investment.

Giving back to your readers is something I recommend you always do, but a lot of times you can ask for something in return if you are giving away something with enough value. How do you drive readers to follow you on Twitter or join your Facebook Fan Page?

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Your Brand’s Homepage is Everywhere

Kyle Judkins — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 22:32:50 +0000

The other day at a local Social Media Club meeting I had a great conversation with Melissa Taylor. We talked about how your brand now has lots of homepages (Twitter, YouTube, etc.). This is definitely true, but the idea of this isn’t very new.

It started several years ago when people started going to Google for information about your brand instead of your brand’s homepage. Google search results became a billboard for your brand, and consumers associated whatever Google returned with your brand. If you weren’t working on SEO, you may have lost some brand equity over the years by consumers seeing varying search results.

Today, social networks are now doing the same thing. Consumers will search for your brand or talk about your brand, no matter if you are involved or not. There are conversations and pages built around your brand, and if you aren’t there to speak to those conversations, someone else is defining your brand for you.

I’m sure you’ve probably heard all these things before, but Melissa referred me to a great video that has Adam Brown from Coca-Cola talking about this very issue. It’s definitely worth a watch. The video and slides are embedded below.

Coca-Cola: Sharing What Matters, Adam Brown; presented by GasPedal and the Social Media Business Council from GasPedal on Vimeo.

BlogWell New York Social Media Case Study: Coca-Cola, presented by Adam Brown

View more documents from GasPedal.

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Join UpYourSocial on Facebook

Kyle Judkins — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 19:38:25 +0000

A week or so ago, I set up a Facebook Fan Page for UpYourSocial. Since this is a blog about social media, I thought it would be great to have a place where the fans of this site can interact.

The page is really simple right now, but I hope that we can get some conversation going on the wall. Also, feel free to provide me with any feedback or suggestions you may have. I look forward to interacting with everyone.

To become a fan, just click on the badge below.

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How To Claim Your Facebook Fan Page Custom URL

Kyle Judkins — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 22:00:00 +0000

It wasn’t too long ago that there was a Facebook name land grab for personal usernames as well as fan page usernames. When it was first announced, there were a few restrictions on which pages were eligible for the custom URLs. Now, you only need to have more than 25 fans.

To get started, just go over to http://www.facebook.com/username, and you should see the following.

If you haven’t already set up your own custom URL, you can do that from here. If you have, click on Set a username to get started.

Select the page you want to set up a username for. It will check the availability of the current name of the page and offer that name to you if it is available. If it isn’t or you want to name it something else, you are free to do so. Well, that’s it. Go get your custom URL and share it in the comments.

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How To Find Your Facebook Friends on Twitter

Kyle Judkins — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 21:06:19 +0000

There are lots of services out there that will add friends from one social network to another. Today, I’m going to tell you about fb140. It lets you find all of your Facebook friends on Twitter and is super easy to use.

To start, just click on the link above. Next, you will enter your Facebook and Twitter credentials.

Once you’ve logged into both accounts, all you have to do is just check all the friends you want to add.

There is one drawback to this application. fb140 uses your Facebook friends’ website links to find a Twitter URL, so if you friends don’t have Twitter listed, fb140 won’t find them.

[via Inside Facebook]

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How To Download Facebook Photo Albums

Kyle Judkins — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:00:03 +0000

If you’ve been on Facebook for over five minutes, I’m sure you’ve noticed that everyone likes to upload pictures to Facebook. Many times they may be uploading pictures of you or pictures of trips you went on.

Who wants to download each of the pictures one by one? It’s a pain and takes way to long. That’s where the Firefox plugin FacePAD comes in. It allows you to quickly and easily download entire Facebook photo albums.

How To Use FacePAD

Just install the application from the link above. Then, log into Facebook and find the album you want to download. Right click on the album name, then select Download Album with FacePAD.

That’s it. You’ve just downloaded your favorite Facebook album.

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