FACEBOOK TIMELINE LOVE or HATE

There are only two ways that people feel about the new Timeline business page profiles on Facebook.

Just remember that Facebook IS a free service and Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t care if you don’t like it… it’s here to stay so you are going to need to adapt.

Facebook chose an odd size for the graphic that spans the width of the new business timelines 851 x 315

If nothing else you are going to have to use an image editing software to crop or create the image you want to use for your header. There are many tutorials available to help you optimize your new pages and I’ve linked some of my favorites below.

Official Facebook Tutorial for Facebook Timeline Pages

Lindsay Hunt Media posted these great resources on her facebook page here:

Social Mouths – All the Juicy details about Facebook

14 Ways New Facebook Betrays Small Business

Everything You Need To Know (And More) About Facebook Timelines For Brands

Hubspot Blog – Complete Guide to Setting up Timeline Facebook

The Early Bird’s Guide To Timeline On Facebook Pages

Social Media Strategist Jon Loomer posted some great tutorials on his website here:

• Facebook Timeline For Pages: Getting Started
• Facebook Timeline For Pages: Your Cover Photo
• Facebook Timeline For Pages: Private Messages
• Facebook Timeline For Pages: Editing Timeline
• Facebook Timeline For Pages: How to Change Page Name

Let us know what you think and how you adapted your Timeline to meet your business needs.

I just spent the better part of my morning trying to find out how to do this seemingly simple task that I know I’ve done before but could not find in the help or on any forums.

Quicken doesn’t call it a recurring billing so that’s the first problem .

They call it Schedule (the old versions called it memorize)

1. Enter the invoice you want memorized and billed in the future at regular intervals
2. Enter Save
3. Click the “Edit” drop down and scroll to “Schedule Bill or Deposit”
4. It pops up as “Add Transaction Reminder”
5. fill in the next due date
6. how often – Monthly, weekly, quarterly, annually, 1st tuesday of the month..(Lots of options)
7. If you need to add any tracking you can do that here too.
8. Click Ok
9. Now the transaction will appear below your invoices in the “Bill and Income Reminders”
10. From there you can adjust the amounts, print or email the invoice

It’s really very simple to do and a cool feature but just extremely HARD TO FIND!

Let me know if this helped you in the comments below.

For months now Delicious users have been hearing from the internet community that Delicious was going away and that we needed to transfer our bookmarks to any one of dozens of new bookmarking sites out there on the internet.

We did that, but we never really felt at home in any of the places. Delicious doesn’t look like much visually but it’s just so simple and easy to use, easy to find things in and it’s included in pretty much all of the social bookmarking tools, widgets and plugins so we still weren’t really using anything else.

Today we finally heard from Yahoo (The current owners of Delicious) that indeed they are not going to be supporting it anymore but instead of we “Deliciousers” being orphans we are now part of the YouTube family of AVOS.

They plan on breathing new life into this very stagnant yet well loved simple bookmarking site.

“We’re excited to work with this fantastic community and take Delicious to the next level,” said Chad Hurley, CEO of AVOS. “We see a tremendous opportunity to simplify the way users save and share content they discover anywhere on the web.”

“We spoke with numerous parties interested in acquiring the site, and chose Chad and Steve based on their passion and unique vision for Delicious,” said John Matheny, SVP of Communications and Communities at Yahoo!

The YouTube founders plan to innovate the site in the next few months to help solve the problem of “information overload “We see this problem not just in the world of video, but also cutting across every information-intensive media type,” said Chen in the official AVOS Press Release

Why people like to use these things I really couldn’t explain to you, but the fact is that they DO use them and they have become very popular.

As a business you can for FREE claim your business on foursquare and reward your loyal customers and you control the entire thing.  Again, this is FREE marketing! You can create a special for a first time visitor, your Mayor (which is the person who checks in most often along with some other mysterious criteria) for someone on their 10th visit to your location, you as the business owner decide and create your specials.

When anyone is near your location and check in on foursquare they will see a little red note next to your business name and they can check out your special. It draws attention to those that might be near you but not realize you are there and can create enough interest to make them stop by.

The thing that’s great about almost all social networking ideas is that most of them are FREE! Yes they take a little time, but while you or your employees are sitting around waiting for the next customer you can be pro-active with your marketing.

If you don’t do anything else, at least make sure that your business is listed on foursquare. Chances are you might not be and this is yet another free advertising/ marketing opportunity for you. You can even add your twitter link (You do use twitter… right?) and your website address.

Check out foursquare here.

It also makes creating a note on the page almost impossible as it makes you jump through 3 different hoops to get to the right spot.

I recommend waiting until Facebook redesigns this particular ap before you “Claim” your Facebook place.