Facebook Ads

Hi all,

Welcome to my weekly mailing readers who are joining us here.

Facebooks ads are quite interesting, aren't they! Has anyone given them a try? You will not find a more targeted way to market. You can define your outgoing and snail mail by targeted demographics but these are usually people you have already identified. If you are using email you "must" only communicate with those you already know.

Facebook allows you to target the exisitng Facebook demographics within the "entire" Facebook membership, not just your networks. You may target geography, age, sex, keywords, education, workplace, relationship status, even language! It really does hold true possibilities.

A client of mine, new to facebook, is a photographer. He had experienced seeing ads for some of the major players in his field appear "only" when he was on his photo gallery pages and when he would be thinking about such services! Choice of keywords made that happen. I really don't know in the world of the small business person where else you would have that happen. Does anyone have input on that?

Please share your experiences with us ... not just with Facebook Ads but pay per click on Search Engines as well! I welcome your comments.

Finding Ideas For Article Writing On Twitter!

Hello all,

Having started using Twitter when it was still pretty much in beta I find it fascinating to learn how it's uses have expanded amongst the professionals.

My weekly mailing this week mentioned how journalists will search Twitter for ideas for articles. Never thought of strategizing my tweets for such an opportunity, but it definitely is something to think about. Is anyone already doing that?

The use of hash marks would probably be the best way to begin. You could also carefuly choose your followers. Actually, where you can have multiple accounts on Twitter you might just want to set up multiple accounts for different types of conversations. Combine that with the use of hash tags and you probably would have some visible success! Something to think about for sure.

Let me know your ideas ... I welcome your creative thinking!

Keep your business garden growing ...
margie!

Search Engines Like Bloggers!

I welcome all of you who came here from this weeks weekly mailing! It is a fact that search engines like bloggers! So let's talk about it....

"How do I write a blog" is a common question. Blogs were originally daily journals and that alone suggest a "freestyle" form of writing . .. just letting it flow as it comes to the mind. You can still do this with just an additional "bit" of the mechanical.

Go ahead and write "freesyle!" Then go back, once completed, and insert keywords you have identified as important to your topic. Use both keywords and/or keyphrases.

Don't like to write and need guidance? Find out what people are reading about, look for the keywords and patch the thoughts together! It will come to you, I promise. Or another idea, talk about it! Pretend there is someone sitting across the kitchen table from you and just converse! Then write down what you said. You might record it and then write from the recording.

Comment below on your challenges and we can all try to help you out! Need to know first so submit what keeps you from becoming a blogging bullet on the internet! :-)

As in all things in life .. practice makes perfect! You'll soon be teaching others how to write a blog!

Keep your business garden growing ...
margie