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Thanks so much for this. I have only just started my facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/LouLovesLearning) so will leave this window open and put this on my to do list for later today.
I love to learn something new everyday – thanks!
ReplyKathy,
I am just learning to design my website & add other social media. It’s all still mind-numbing to me! Thanks for the heads up on more thing I need to learn!
Thanks for the post…I use an opt in box on my fan page and often get more traffic there that on my website. Keep the info coming.
ReplyWe just launched a Fan page for our business a month or so ago, and this is all pretty new to me. Thank you for sharing your expertise!
ReplyDarcie,
I’m not surprised you get more traffic with your page, I’ve heard that from other businesses. I believe it is because you have the benefit of a big PR (high ranking) domain (facebook.com) to boost your page!
An opt in box for my fan page sounds like a great idea. I will definitely have to make it happen.
Thanks for the tutorial.
This is awesome. I’ve seen so many posts on Twitter about this but it something you have to pay for. Thanks for showing how to do it for free.
I don’t have a fan page but am going to bookmark this for when I do.
ReplyChrystal,
I think Facebook Fan pages are still pretty new to most businesses. I’ve talked to larger corporations that are not doing much with social media, their attitude is to sit back and see where it goes. I’m not sure how many fan pages are out there, but check out this list of the top 30
Such a handy post, I clipped it to Evernote. Thanks for the clear and concise How To!
ReplyThis is fabulous! Thank you so much for the step-by-step explanation! Actually, I got lost after the edit your page part… so will have to study this. I really appreciate it as a valuable tool! Thank you!
ReplyCarolyn,
When you edit your Facebook Fan page (“edit your page” under the picture on your fan page), do you see the FBML application in the list? (you’ll need to scroll down past the settings to the applications list). Once you find that (it won’t say “Free Report” like mine does just FBML application) then click on “edit” and proceed with step 3. Hope that helps!
Replylike others above, i don’t have a facebook fan page yet because i’m still working on getting my blog up + live, but will definitely bookmark + revisit this when the time comes!
ReplyCan I do a Vulcan mind meld and suck all the information from your brain! Thank you for easy understandable tutorial. Can’t wait to hear more from you in the coming weeks.
ReplyOoh – I like this. I’m marking this with Read Later so I can find it when I actually have something for people to opt in to. That’s somewhere on the to-do list
ReplyI love this idea. I will have to add this soon. I love your explanation. You are right we seem to have more traffic on our Facebook page. Our audience on Facebook is different than the ones that go to the site.
ReplyGlad you like the info. Let me know what other topics you are interested in, so I can do more blogging!
ReplyThanks for the information and the reminder. I have a “fan” and I am often at a loss when to use it; you got me thinking about giving it a little more love and attention!
ReplyThanks for these instructions, surely they will come in handy when I learn what I’m doing. So new to social media not yet ready for this step.
Lisa Ann Landry – Corporate Trainer – Unleashing the Genie!
ReplyHi Jean,
Well Facebook has certainly changed around things since I wrote this. It’s hard for me to check into as Facebook only allows one FBML per page and many apps are not set up to be tabs.
Do you see the FBML app in your app list? Is this a fan page or some other type of page?
ReplyHi Steven,
No to be honest I haven’t. In any case, this post is rapidly becoming out of date due to the recent Facebook Fan Page upgrade which does away with FBML.
However I can provide some guesses on how to it. With FBML going away you can check into iFrames or just straight HTML. So you might be able to reference an image hosted on your hosting account. Or what I would look into doing is hosting both the image and the opt in code on your server and pulling the functionality via the app feature. Hope this helps.
Updated post so that it is current with the March 2011 Facebook changes!
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