Comments on: Dear Facebook – why are you being so difficult? (part 2) http://www.simplyzesty.com/facebook/dear-facebook-difficult-part-2/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=dear-facebook-difficult-part-2 Building your brand through social media Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:33:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Luke http://www.simplyzesty.com/facebook/dear-facebook-difficult-part-2/#comment-3453 Luke Sun, 29 Nov 2009 17:36:02 +0000 http://www.simplyzesty.com/?p=5041#comment-3453 Good post. This is obviously about forcing brand-owner dependency on ads in order to get anything done on facebook, with all the natural viral potential removed. It doesn't just spoil things for brands that don't currently buy ads, but also messes things up for those that spend thousands. Pushing users to pages for competitions and contests was one of the most effective ways to begin engaging. Clicks on ads will be tougher to get and FB will lose out on CPC income. How now to connect with new audiences through FB ads - which are hugely limited anyway - is going to become a real head-scratcher, and I'm guessing more will look to take users off FB and to their own sites. And 7 day approval is just a joke. Brands should be recognised for the value that they add for users (if they are doing it right) rather than the value they could add to facebook ad revenue. Good post. This is obviously about forcing brand-owner dependency on ads in order to get anything done on facebook, with all the natural viral potential removed. It doesn’t just spoil things for brands that don’t currently buy ads, but also messes things up for those that spend thousands. Pushing users to pages for competitions and contests was one of the most effective ways to begin engaging. Clicks on ads will be tougher to get and FB will lose out on CPC income. How now to connect with new audiences through FB ads – which are hugely limited anyway – is going to become a real head-scratcher, and I’m guessing more will look to take users off FB and to their own sites. And 7 day approval is just a joke. Brands should be recognised for the value that they add for users (if they are doing it right) rather than the value they could add to facebook ad revenue.

]]> By: 10 video tips helping to build Facebook Fan Pages http://www.simplyzesty.com/facebook/dear-facebook-difficult-part-2/#comment-3261 10 video tips helping to build Facebook Fan Pages Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:19:20 +0000 http://www.simplyzesty.com/?p=5041#comment-3261 [...] things clients and readers of this blog ask us about are Facebook fan pages and how to create them. Only yesterday Lauren was complaining about just how hard they are to manage so we wanted to create a guide that would answer some of the [...] [...] things clients and readers of this blog ask us about are Facebook fan pages and how to create them. Only yesterday Lauren was complaining about just how hard they are to manage so we wanted to create a guide that would answer some of the [...]

]]> By: Alex Karis http://www.simplyzesty.com/facebook/dear-facebook-difficult-part-2/#comment-3252 Alex Karis Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:06:03 +0000 http://www.simplyzesty.com/?p=5041#comment-3252 Fan Box still there folks..Click Edit page, Scroll down on the right and you will see it there. Agreed about everything else! Fan Box still there folks..Click Edit page, Scroll down on the right and you will see it there. Agreed about everything else!

]]> By: Steve Stenzel http://www.simplyzesty.com/facebook/dear-facebook-difficult-part-2/#comment-3233 Steve Stenzel Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:50:10 +0000 http://www.simplyzesty.com/?p=5041#comment-3233 It's all true! It’s all true!

]]> By: Brid http://www.simplyzesty.com/facebook/dear-facebook-difficult-part-2/#comment-3227 Brid Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:53:04 +0000 http://www.simplyzesty.com/?p=5041#comment-3227 great post lauren, didn't know about the competition changes, @patrick if you hover over any farmville updates and click the hide button on the right hand side you're able to hide the whole application - it's great :) great post lauren, didn’t know about the competition changes,
@patrick if you hover over any farmville updates and click the hide button on the right hand side you’re able to hide the whole application – it’s great :)

]]> By: Fred http://www.simplyzesty.com/facebook/dear-facebook-difficult-part-2/#comment-3226 Fred Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:22:29 +0000 http://www.simplyzesty.com/?p=5041#comment-3226 Great post Loz. It's clear all the limitations that Facebook is giving to pages, unfortunately the majority make no sense at all. Last week, I did a lot of research to fin the TOP Facebook pages in the world and see if they found the key to something I wasn't aware of. The best you can find is personalised tabs with images and HTML text (with very poor styles). On top of this, the majority of those personalised pages look like websites from 1997. I'm sure that's not even close to the best that Facebook can offer. Only one nice improvement I have to mention.. is being able to target messages based on country and language: http://www.allfacebook.com/2009/11/facebook-target-stream-stories/ Best Fred Great post Loz. It’s clear all the limitations that Facebook is giving to pages, unfortunately the majority make no sense at all. Last week, I did a lot of research to fin the TOP Facebook pages in the world and see if they found the key to something I wasn’t aware of. The best you can find is personalised tabs with images and HTML text (with very poor styles). On top of this, the majority of those personalised pages look like websites from 1997. I’m sure that’s not even close to the best that Facebook can offer. Only one nice improvement I have to mention.. is being able to target messages based on country and language: http://www.allfacebook.com/2009/11/facebook-target-stream-stories/

Best
Fred

]]> By: Lauren Fisher http://www.simplyzesty.com/facebook/dear-facebook-difficult-part-2/#comment-3225 Lauren Fisher Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:57:49 +0000 http://www.simplyzesty.com/?p=5041#comment-3225 Well unfortunately that's the way it seems to be going for Facebook. Pages are still a great option for businesses, but just not as open as they used to be. It'll be interesting to see what else they introduce... Well unfortunately that’s the way it seems to be going for Facebook. Pages are still a great option for businesses, but just not as open as they used to be. It’ll be interesting to see what else they introduce…

]]> By: Lauren Fisher http://www.simplyzesty.com/facebook/dear-facebook-difficult-part-2/#comment-3224 Lauren Fisher Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:56:44 +0000 http://www.simplyzesty.com/?p=5041#comment-3224 Yeah I had a nightmare with it myself. They certainly don't get any awards for Plain English. Generally forums are useful for this kind of thing, but not a replacement for the official word from Facebook. Yeah I had a nightmare with it myself. They certainly don’t get any awards for Plain English. Generally forums are useful for this kind of thing, but not a replacement for the official word from Facebook.

]]> By: Patrick Murphy http://www.simplyzesty.com/facebook/dear-facebook-difficult-part-2/#comment-3222 Patrick Murphy Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:52:30 +0000 http://www.simplyzesty.com/?p=5041#comment-3222 I want to know how to stop those updates on how people are doing with their farm... Very good post, what is the next step then? Is this the end of open social media? I want to know how to stop those updates on how people are doing with their farm… Very good post, what is the next step then? Is this the end of open social media?

]]> By: Stewart Curry http://www.simplyzesty.com/facebook/dear-facebook-difficult-part-2/#comment-3221 Stewart Curry Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:42:14 +0000 http://www.simplyzesty.com/?p=5041#comment-3221 The documentation for Facebook is a dog as well - I had to end up using Google to find the revised guidelines and the terms & conditions for promoting pages, as the site links are crap. For example, try finding the rules for linking to a Facebook fan page via a banner ad without using Google - it's a pain in the ass The documentation for Facebook is a dog as well – I had to end up using Google to find the revised guidelines and the terms & conditions for promoting pages, as the site links are crap. For example, try finding the rules for linking to a Facebook fan page via a banner ad without using Google – it’s a pain in the ass

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