Recently we’ve been asked a lot about graphics and design to help businesses beef up their social networking profiles. Custom Facebook landing pages to announce contests, profile images and Twitter backgrounds are the most common requests.

Did you know…???

If you have a Facebook fan page, you can create a custom page that NON-fans will see first when then find you on Facebook. You can use this custom page to encourage them to “Like” your page – with a contest, promotion, or just great info and graphics. (See the iPhone special at right.) Not only does this allow you to converse with more people online, it also broadcasts their decision to “Like” you to their Friends, spreading the word about your business.

Did you know…???

If you have a Facebook fan page, the amount of space available for your profile photo is a lot longer than that of personal pages? This allows you to have a bookmark-sized graphic full of info about your business down the left side of your profile at all times. (See the long, blue image above.)

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You can use your LinkedIn account to help your search engine rankings by using keywords in the area that links your profile back to your web site? Rather than just “My Website” or “My Portfolio”, we can help you add custom info here that will benefit your company web site.

Don’t go it alone! If you need help rounding ouy your social media presence, give us a call today: 727-521-1386.

We’re on Facebook… is your business?

If you’re not sure if a Facebook fan page is right for your industry, call us and we’ll discuss it with you in plain English.

Or, you can take a tip from the “big guys”. Coca Cola and Unilever are foregoing creating specialized campaign sites, or “microsites”, and instead putting their marketing on online social networking sites such as Facebook and YouTube. What can you learn from this? Market where your customers already are instead of trying to convince them to come to your site. (Part of the whole “don’t reinvent the wheel” thing.) We hear Coca Cola has also created an internal guide to educate its employees on how to interact with the social media audiences. It seems as though for 2010, social media will dictate more and more marketing activity.

If you want to learn more about why businesses should have Facbook fan pages, here’s an article one of our design friends wrote about it – there’s no need for us to reinvent the wheel either!