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Final Follow Up to Facebook’s New Play to Play

This is a follow up to two posts I did mid summer about Facebook’s Promoted Posts Last one is here http://chefforfeng.wordpress.com/2012/06/08/bed-and-breakfasts-and-facebooks-new-pay-to-play-part-two/ Since then I have the opportunity to play around with the feature through my own fan page and with … Continue reading

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Bed and Breakfasts, Steps on Evaluating a Marketing Company

It seems like every day I get a call or email from a friend (who has an inn) or a client who just got solicited by a marketing company wanting to know what the skinny is on a company, I … Continue reading

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Do you really know if your violating Facebook’s terms of service?

Unfortunately many social media networks don’t make their terms of service clear. And because using it and setting accounts up is not straightforward and intuitive, many businesses go against the platforms terms of service without even being aware of it. … Continue reading

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Heck, Don’t buy my stuff, BUY MY STUFF!

Yesterday I was at my monthly Chamber of Commerce Ambassador’s meeting and a brief discussion sprang up about the personal side of Facebook. In a nutshell people don’t want to see game posts and sales pitches. Several hours later I … Continue reading

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More on Google+ Business Pages for Bed and Breakfasts

This is a continuation of last weeks post: Google+ Business Pages for Bed and Breakfasts http://chefforfeng.wordpress.com/2011/11/11/google-business-pagesfor-bed-and-breakfasts/ Some additional relevant reading about Google+ for Businesses: Connect your Google+ Page to your AdWords campaigns http://adwords.blogspot.com/2011/11/connect-your-google-page-to-your.html From the Google Blog: This week we introduced Google+ Pages, a … Continue reading

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Some food styling tips for Bed and Breakfasts

A few notes from a recent B&B conference seminar I presented at. On a personal note I found something extremely interesting while putting together my presentation for the seminar. I went through over 800 Facebook Bed and Breakfast fan pages … Continue reading

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Good News for Facebook Fan Page Owners

For almost a year, Facebook has had the option of letting any admin (administrator) of a page, delete the Fan page itself, with no way of getting the page back, even with appeals to Facebook, when it was gone, it … Continue reading

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