Growing Facebook Likes and Autoresponder Optins – Quickly
Imagine being able to grow your Facebook fan base AND grow your autoresponder list at the same time? Two birds one stone so to speak. The graph above shows an increase in Facebook Likes the exact same day I incorporated a new strategy that would grow my opt in list AND Facebook Like count.
Notice the icon under my Social Media buttons on the right hand side. It says to “Subscribe with Facebook”.
Click it. You will be automatically added to a newsletter (double optin) and directed to my Facebook application in order to “Like” the page.
The Facebook app also requests permission to post on your wall. You don’t have to, of course, but imagine the number of website visitors who will.
So what does this mean – posting to walls?
Well, when someone grants permission to allow you to post on their wall, you can now post a comment as if it were from the person themselves.
Running a special offer in your restaurant next weekend? Then post a comment on Monday – it will go onto their wall as soon as you post, and the best part is their friends and family will see the post and go check out the link!
So, try it for yourself – click the Subscribe With Facebook logo on the right. The results demonstrated in the graph are from this website
Oh, and if you want one of these applications yourself – drop me a line and I’ll set up a demo for you before you decide to go ahead.
Email Addresses Removed from Google Places Listings
I’ve noticed the past couple of days that the majority of Google Places listings have their email addresses removed from them. It’s an unusual move on Google’s behalf to do this as I feel it’s as important as the URL, phone number and street address – especially for making contact out of hours.
But none the less if you administer a Google Places account there is still a way to get your email address visible (until Google Places fix this at least):
1. Log into your Google Places Listing and scroll on down to Additional Details
2. Follow the image below
I am not sure as to why Google decided to do this as it doesn’t appear to be region or country specific – Australia, UK, USA and Ireland from what I’ve been testing are all missing this. However, MapPI is returning email addresses for those who have included their emails in the same fashion as the work around I mention above.
The Blumenthals website equally has some information on this also.
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Getting Found On Google Workshop
A big thank you to the charities who attended my training course last Wednesday 8th December 2010. It was a thoroughly enjoyable session and delighted that so many of you already started seeing results.
Charities attending my workshop
O2 and Vodafone Username and Password Router Settings
This post is a little unusual for a blog about marketing, but I figured it might be of use to some of you seeing as I found it quite difficult to get the accurate information I required on a Google search.
The story goes…
Having changed broadband providers several times over the years I’ve collected a number of routers and their associated passwords for logging ONTO the web. Note that I am not talking here about the router detault username and passwords (typically admin:password or admin:admin) but the actual login details the ROUTER uses to talk back to the internet.
So this evening my internet went down. I thought perhaps there was a fault with the line so checked for a dial tone – success – landline was fine. Next was to restart the router a couple of times. No luck. Logged into the router and checked for the gateway details – Nothing in it.
I have recently changed from Vodafone to O2 but have yet to receive their router – so this made me think that possibly the router username and password was at fault. And it was. Obviously this evening it was my turn to become an O2 broadband customer. *thrill*
So if you are with Vodafone and are in the middle of changing to O2 and your router drops access, try changing the username & password:
o2 details:
username: o2@o2.ie
password: broadband
vodafone details:
username: vodafone@vodafone.ie
password: broadband
I would imagine changing from O2 to Vodafone would result in the same details being used
Facebook email invite
Ok I’m seeing some very crazy things out there – people foaming at the mouth for a Facebook email invite – wanting to be one of the first to test drive the new features of the Social Media giant’s Project Titan baby. I’ve seen Ebay bids on Facebook Invites currently going for $305!
From the research I’ve done this morning it seems that the only way you can currently get Facebook email is by Invite only. Luckily I have found a page within Facebook that will allow you to opt in to receive an invite, when they are ready to give them out that is – get your Facebook email invite request by opting in. You need to be signed in to request an invite.
Facebook to rival Gmail
Ok so there’s been talk of this for the past week or so of Facebook launching its own mail service not unlike Google’s Gmail.
Project Titan as it’s been called wlill rival the popular search giant in a head to head battle to become the favourite mail service amongst Facebook users.
Since Google announced it was stopping Facebook’s access into the users Gmail contacts list this comes at an opportune time for Zuckerberg to announce Project Titan in a move that could see Facebook taking over Google in the most favourited website since the Social network began back in 2004.
I’ll grab a bag of popcorn and watch how this unfolds
Finding Leads on Twitter Training Course
If you were one of the many who downloaded and enjoyed my “Feed the bluebird” report then you will know the potential this report holds if implemented correctly.
Since releasing that report I have since given four training sessions on it – and each one has been a huge success!
Now I’m making available to you the same powerpoint presentation I use to deliver my “Finding Leads on Twitter” message – where I show the participants exactly how to find leads and how to automate the process.
I charged €47 to companies to attend my Find Leads on Twitter training course, and the value presented inside the Powerpoint is well worth the initial investment. Let’s not forget the potential business you can get from this business – offline businesses need this information! You know this information, you present the course to them and
Here’s a video of some of the slides in the powerpoint workshop:
When purchasing the powerpoint workshop you will also get specific PLR rights to the Feed The Bluebird report where you can edit it to suit your own needs. That’s right, you’ll receive the word document I used to create the pdf report and you can rework it to suite your own needs.
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About the Workshop
The Powerpoint presentation consists of 40 slides that takes the participants through what they need to do so as they can set up and automate a process that will allow them to find business on Twitter. When you purchase this workshop all you need to do is edit the contact details in it to suit your own needs.
Bonus
I will also include a seperate Presentation that consists of “Quick Tips” and techniques that website owners can implement on their website to help them with their presence online. This always goes down well and a complete joy to watch as they feverishly try to write down all the golden nuggets!
To buy this package from me I am initially releasing it to 10 people only – and I will work with these ten people via email and Skype while they tweak the course to suit their needs.
After these ten copies are sold the price is going up so it’s a first come first served basis.
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Upon payment you will receive a download link immediately. Any problems shoot an email to the address in the receipt.
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Google Instant on Google.ie
This morning at 8am my default Google.ie search field changed from the normal search and click method to the new Google Instant search method, providing instant results as you type your query. This should appear by default if you are signed into your Gmail account.
Google Instant has been available on .com and .uk Google search pages, as well as others I’m sure, but the Instant results hadn’t been made available for Google.ie until 8am this morning, according to my clock 
Before 8am it wasn’t there – at 8am it was.
CPM is going to be affected by this initially and not sure how all the Google Operators will perform in providing basic logic searches, but initial testing indicates it is performing well.
Try typing in this search phrase:
Ireland site:twitter.com
You will notice that Google Instant doesn’t return instant results when using the site:operator for Twitter. Seems to be the same for other site: queries too.
How to Find Businesses on Twitter By Location
The graph below shows an upturn in the number of searches Twitter gets from Google in Ireland.
As you can see Twitter is on the rise.
And so too are the number of people looking for businesses on Twitter.
I often use Twitter to help get in contact with businesses - if I have a problem with a product I will simply tweet the company and they typically respond within minutes.
But what about when you are looking for prospects or clients? How easy is it to find a restaurant in your area?
Well it’s not really that easy to do. If you were to use the advanced twitter search you could enter a keyword and a location and pull up a series of results based on that criteria, but what if you did this search:
This will return all tweets with the words Restaurant in them. I want to FIND businesses that are restaurants, not people tweeting looking for or talking about restaurants.
So how do we find businesses on Twitter based on their bio and location? It’s simple – we turn to Google (surprise surprise).
Google indexes Twitter accounts and includes the Twitter profile data. This data includes a bit called the Bio. See image below:
Notice in Bio you can see the word Restaurant. Also notice in Location you can see Dublin.
So I want to use Google to return to me Twitter accounts with Restaurant and Dublin in the profile. Simple
The concept is simple but the search syntax is not so. In a bid to make this easy I’ll paste the query I use into this blog post, but please note that if you do these searches rapidly Google will trigger a “Sorry… this looks like an automated query” page. No problem, just enter the captcha and you’re good to go.
The query:
(intitle:”restaurant * on twitter” OR intext:”bio * restaurant”) intext:”location * Dublin” site:twitter.com
Simply paste the above query into Google and it will return for you your desired results.
Or for those who don’t like my wit: Google.ie
So that’s how you can find businesses on Twitter by location.
I have an Excel spreadsheet I use which incorporates this search query in beautifully. The video below demonstrates how to use this spreadsheet.
If you’re interested in a copy of the spreadsheet its yours for €5
