Do you have a Facebook Page set up and need to make it more dynamic? Me too. It is so easy to get overwhelmed. The best way for me around that is to focus on one thing at a time.

First focus, find a Facebook Coach.

In 2009 I went to The Twitter Conference L.A. 140tc and saw Mari Smith.1

Mari was part of the branding experts panel, here is a link.

Because of this and Mari’s position in the field I have chosen her as my first line of information and my Facebook Coach. If you have just started a Facebook Page, join my team and follow along by reading this blog. Teal Coach Mari will take us all to success.

I created a folder in my bookmarks and added Mari’s three main sites:

Before we read steps from Mari, lets see how it is done. Take a look at Mari’s Facebook Page.

Here is a list of action items found by just viewing her page:

  1. Use your profile graphic for more than a picture
  2. Learn FBML to create a “Welcome” page
  3. Top of page is call to action to “Like” the page
    • make exciting graphic
    • red arrow point to “Like” button
  4. Next shows info
    • including last tweet
    • including tweet follower count
  5. Next is Video
    • write script
    • find tripod
    • dust off camera
    • video/edit/upload
  6. Welcome Letter
  7. Latest Blog Posts
  8. Flickr Link

We got all these action items by just looking at her page for 2 minutes. Feeling overwhelmed yet? I am.

I have directly linked to her “Welcome!” page and she has made this the default landing page for her Facebook page. Many people believe a welcome page is best as the first thing people see.

My fan page is at http://Facebook.com/FansofEnergy and if you join right now, you’ll go to my Wall. As soon as I’ve completed my tasks, it will be my Welcome page you’ll land on.

  1. If you look at the picture in this link you can see Mari in her signature teal to the right of Tony Robbins. I’m closer to the back of the room under his hand. []

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Get your Facebook Vanity URL

by Yancey on January 11, 2011

Your Facebook Vanity URL is http://Facebook.com/username.

That is it. It’s that simple.

Click the link and for your personal profile you can choose http://Facebook.com/hereismyname

If you want a Facebook Vanity URL for your Facebook Page, I’ve read you need 25 “Fans” first. But once you do, go to http://Facebook.com/username and you can choose your Facebook Page Vanity URL.

What? You want more information? Fine, go here:

http://www.facebook.com/help/?page=897

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Making of a Facebook Page

January 11, 2011

I’ve just started a new Facebook page this year, oh how exciting. I’ll blog some notes here so you can follow along. Facebook Page: Fans of Energy My web site for it is a WordPress blog like this one and I am using the Thesis WordPress Theme for both blogs. FansofEnergy.com Next: How to make [...]

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Oven Parmesan Chicken

December 29, 2010

Adapted from: Better Homes and Gardens New Cook Book – Poultry – Oven Fried Chicken I used 3 bone-in chicken breasts dipped in butter and rolled in mixture of crushed: 1 cup bran flakes (cereal) 1 cup blue corn chips 2 graham crackers 1 teaspoon Italian seasoning 1/4 teaspoon pepper 2/3 cup NICE Parmesan cheese [...]

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Which Shell is the Blog Under?

December 25, 2010

I’m about to try something I’ve never done before, transfer a WordPress Blog database from one URL to another. This blog is where I blog about my blogging. Kinda like a picture of a picture. I currently have it a 4uqi.com and I would like to move it to YanceyG.com. I already have a blog [...]

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Here I Go Again, Another WordPress Blog

December 25, 2010

I’m starting a new project, Fans of Energy, which is a daily energy intention idea. I’ve got my Twitter page, FaceBook page, and now I’ve started my WordPress Blog. I use MediaTemple as my hosting company and they have a nice one click install of WordPress. It actually took me three times before the install [...]

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What do you choose not to apologize for?

September 7, 2010

YanceyG What do you choose not to apologize for? 31 Aug 2010 from web VTRaver01 Being an honest human being. RT @YanceyG: What do you choose not to apologize for? 31 Aug 2010 from HootSuite JoyFull_deb What I believe in….Who I am….RT @YanceyG: What do you choose not to apologize for? 31 Aug 2010 from [...]

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Twitter me this, Twitter me that, Twitter me an interesting fact.

July 28, 2010

A friend was over for lunch today and he asked me what was going on in Twitterland. I said I don’t know, let’s tweet something. Then he said: Twitter me this, Twitter me that, Twitter me an interesting fact. I thought, OK, that’s fantastic, so we tweeted it out. Below are the facts that we [...]

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I made a Tweetcipe Pizza on Twitter

November 13, 2009

I had fun Tweeting a recipe the other day. It was my first one and we had a great time. I called Tweeting the recipe while you are making it Tweetcipe. Others have used the word Tweetcipe to describe recipes that can be written in 140 characters or less. For this post, Tweetcipe is tweeting [...]

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ReTweeting on Twitter (RT)

September 26, 2009

You read something on Twitter and you want to repeat it on your time line. This is called ReTweeting or as everyone shortens it to just RT. Twitter is going to have this automated in a future release but for now, and then if you want to customize, you need to manual RT. The convention [...]

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