Press Release: We Can Help You Create a Successful Facebook business Page (3 Mothers 9 Months in the Making — the story of Birthing a Book)

PRESS RELEASE:
Facebook_Marketing_All-in-One_for_Dummies

3 Mothers — 9 months in the making — have birthed this 1 fantabulous book  Facebook Marketing All-In-One for DummiesIf you are not familiar with the Wiley “All-In-One” series — you need to know that this type of book is considered a ‘reference guide’ as it contains everything (soup to nuts) you need to rock whatever the book is about. In this case, it’s Facebook Marketing.

For example, there is a Facebook Marketing for Dummies and the Facebook Marketing “All-In-One” for Dummies. The difference is about 2 inches thick! This 642 page All-in-One contains 9 minibooks ranging from understanding the different Facebook Page types (and how to choose the best one for your business) all the way through advertising, events,  video livestreaming,  apps, social ROI and advanced marketing strategies. There are over 300 examples of how other businesses on Facebook use the tools, applications and marketing strategies we outline in this book!

This book was written with all kinds of business people in mind. The authors are business women and mothers so they deeply understand the daily challenges people face with social media marketing.

“Every page of this book has a step-by-step instruction, a case study, or a tool that businesses can use to open more doors for increasing brand awareness, enhancing customer service, and increasing revenue,” says Phyllis.

Phyllis Khare, Amy Porterfield and Andrea Vahl are the Mother (of all) marketers and co-authors of this marketing strategy book. And by the way, none of them had met in person before the book project started! [Read more...]

The Power of Hashtags – It’s a New Tweetin’ World

concert

(NOTE: this post was originally put up a few weeks ago- I’m updating the blog)

I had such a good time last night. I watched The David Lynch Foundation Change Begins Within Concert with Sir Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr (plus a dozen other performers) THROUGH the tweets of people actually in the audience at Radio City Music Hall, New York (all while I sat in my living room in remote Iowa).

The event planners didn’t advertise a “#” hashtag for the event (note to presenters ALWAYS advertise the offical hashtag), so I had to design and implement a search and find mission!

By the end of the event I had 10 Twitter Search pages up based on keywords (Ringo, Paul McCartney, David Lynch, Howard Stern, etc…) plus the three David Lynch TV backstage staff members who were tweeting away. @heatherhartnett @EdenWeaver @amymydarling (with one of the funniest Tweets of the night RINGO STARR is on stage!! I may pass out. Am I really watching this?! From like, FEET away?!” which is funny because she is in her twenties…

I got instant reactions from people when performers took the stage and rocked the house. I saw the pictures they uploaded right there on TwitPic, I surfed from one to another back and forth in an endless stream of reactions and comments from people as diverse as twitterworld itself.

Then (in the ultimate of technology fun) I shared my computer screen with a friend in Florida using Glance.net so she could see and read all the tweets from the audience with me at the same time.

It’s  New World. I may never venture out into the “real” world again. But You Guys have to keep going out and tweeting back to me – OK?