Did you know you can get free marketing on Facebook? It's true! Besides that, it's very easy, only requires a few small steps and is HIGHLY visible. What's also great is you're able to customize your advertising to say and promote anything you want to (keeping within Facebook overall guidelines, of course). And did I mention it's all free?
As one of the top 5 visited websites of the world, entrepreneurs obviously know the power of promoting their product and services on Facebook. Having a lot of friends (that have a lot of friends, that have a lot of friends... You get the picture) that you can promote your business too is like money in the bank. However, those advertisements you see on the sides of Facebook's pages aren't free. Facebook, just like Google, know there's real money to be made from these little advertisements and people will pay good money to buy their time. Unfotunately, as one friend of mine learned, having a little advertising link doesn't always guarantee your link will be clicked and your product or service viewed. In fact, for 2 weeks of paid advertising, the poor girl only ended up with 80 total clicks and swore she'd never use Facebook again.
Well, here's a solution I suggested to her that doesn't cost a penny and stays on Facebook for as long as you want it to. It's an application you can utilize within Facebook called "Custom Profile Box". I incorporated my box into Facebook about a week ago and its already generated leads for my home mlm business. I designed the box on Facebook to incorporate 3 information capture boxes (name, email and phone number) and when someone puts in their information, voila(!), I have a new lead for my mlm business list that will always be there for me.
So here's what you do: Obviously, you need to create a new Facebook account for yourself (www.facebook.com). Once inside Facebook, go to the white, rectangular search bar, upper right hand corner of all the Facebook pages. Type in, "Custom Profile Box" into the search bar and hit return. At this point, you'll be taken to an application called, appropriately enough, "Custom Profile Box". Basically, Custom Profile Box is an editor that generates html for you. What's nice, as the name implies, is you can fully customize your box using whatever colors, text or size you'd like. You can insert images, strikethrough, and color backgrounds. Finally, once you've created your new box, you can go back and re-customize it again, and again.
Now, here's the key! A lot of people have tried incorporating this application without success. What these poor folks do not understand, is there are just a few more minor steps that need to be taken care of in another area of Facebook. So, here are the steps, in order, to make sure you are successful:
1. Add the app and click "Apply" button on the confirmation window.
2. Edit the app settings for the app by hovering your mouse over the "Settings" menu and then selecting "Application Settings".
3. On the list of apps, a drop down "Show" menu, select "Authorized" to show all the apps authorized to access your profile data.
4. Click on "Edit Settings" link next to the name of the app.
5. In the pop-up window, make sure the "Profile" tab is highlighted.
6. Next to the "Box" item is the word "Add". Click on this to add a box to your profile for this app.
7.Decide and modify the Privacy depending on whether you want your friends and network only to see the box, or everybody etc.
8. You are done setting up the app.
9. Click on the "Applications" status bar menu and select the app from the pop up window.
10. An editor will load, and takes 30 secs or so on busy connection.
11. In the editor window type the text, place pictures and change font sizes, text colours etc as you need it. Try a simple text heading in bold and a few lines of text underneath for starters.
12. To save your creation to the app box, click on the "Update" button.
13. If all is well your box should appear in the boxes section of your profile.
14. Click on your profile, and select the boxes tab.
15. See your app box and your creation in it.
16. You can drag your box to any desired location on the page by left clicking the box and dragging around.
That's it, a short simple setup course for you.
Hope it helps you all.
If you'd like to see my box, look me up on Facebook (Tom Gurnee) and friends me. Be sure to look at my custom box under my "Boxes" tab and it will be the first thing you see on that page! And yes, the nice thing is, it's all free and will be there as long as I want it to be.
Tom Gurnee aggressively researches information the leaders in the MLM world have to offer and he shares this content openly in hopes that others will follow in his footsteps to become successful entrepreneurs themselves. "Success Leaves Clues", as Napoleon Hill states and to become wealthy and successful, one must emulate what these people have already done. If you're interested and you want to generate more traffic and leads to your business, visit his site now. And yes, there's lots of FREE information there!
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