Through a webinar given by Amy Porterfield in early February, I was introduced to Nathan at http://lujure.com

… and I believe that SME also uses some Lujure resources.

I have several fan pages so some are still in progress. One of my primary pages (http://www.facebook.com/Christ.Crucified) has some tips I got from the Lujure webinars, as well as a few I came up with on my own (which turns out they weren’t such original ideas because others used them too).

My fan page went from just over 100 to over 300 in two weeks with very little prompting other than the changeover, and providing a copy of my latest book for free in pdf and kindle.

One suggestion from Lujure was to use the tab covers to point out items, like the tab under the ‘Like’ button.  You can check that out at the first fan page I mentioned and also this one, http://www.facebook.com/SovereignGrace.Anniston

@mgoes  Wow, thanks for offering that up, Michael. Just this morning I was thinking of changing my cover photo because basically it is a mock up of the book cover that the fan page is about. But I’ve noticed that with my other pages, and even with my own personal page, I’ve had a lot more ‘likes’ and more interaction just because of the timeline switch and using more images.

Thanks again.

I agree with @jacquigage-brown, thanks guys – @alexandrabriggs @joncardwell @mgoes for the useful info.  I’m about to launch and this is the sort of thing that is useful to me.  It makes sense though, with all the clutter that our minds have to work through each day, engaging photos and short news items are easier to digest.

@joncardwell     How did you make the custom tabs? Did you build them or use a program?

Hi @sheilahoeft

I actually used the tools from http://www.lujure.com.  Their website interfaces with Facebook so that you can build the page, adjust it to timeline width, and set it up so the fangate in each page will effectively capture a like.

They have 3 plans, which you can see on https://lujure.com/plans/

The basic plan is free but its limited to one tab and one page; however, the lujure platform is so versatile, it provides a lot of things you can do on one tab. The consultant plan is $30/month, which is what I have; and then they have the business plan ($300/mo for those actually building Facebook pages and websites for clients– which I would do but I just don’t have the time).

I have several Facebook Fan pages as well as several blogs and websites so it was worth my getting the consultant plan.

But if you only have the one Fan page, perhaps using shortstack will be good, as @mgoes suggested. If you haven’t seen Michael’s Fanpage, shortstack has provided him a very useful tool to allow him to do several things that lujure does… and it’s free.  I haven’t used it, but I’m familiar with it and you can find it here, http://www.shortstack.com

In fact, I might make this recommendation.  Get shortstack, as it is free, and work with your fan page (which I’ve already ‘Liked’ btw), and while you’re working w/shortstack, subscribe to the lujure emails, you’ll get one in about a week or two that will announce a webinar that their CEO, Nathan Latka, will host, showing the things that Lujure can do and how easy it is (I do my own graphics and know html code, etc… but with Lujure, you don’t have to know anything about that and still make very creative tabs through their app). After an hour webinar you can decide whether it is for you or not.

And since the basic plan is free for only one tab, go ahead and get that as well while you’re waiting and fool around with it until the webinar.

If you have any other questions about it, please feel free to send a message.  Here are some of the Fan Pages I have worked on somewhat… and have a few more that I have to get to.  One of the other things about Lujure is that I didn’t build everyone of these from scratch. Once I put some of the items together, YouTube, blog, website portion, Amazon.com, etc., that has become a permanent template, so I just used the template on some of my other pages; you’ll notice that there are some similarities.

http://www.facebook.com/Christ.Crucified

http://www.facebook.com/SovereignGrace.Anniston

https://www.facebook.com/Puritan.FamilyDevotion

https://www.facebook.com/Against.Calvinism.aParody4ourGeneration

The last two listed still need a tweak or two…. and I have a few other pages that I haven’t even gotten to yet (as I mentioned before).

@jacquigage-brown and @emmagillings  I realize that you asked @alexandrabriggs for samples of her clients work, and that mine aren’t exactly clients (well, in one sense the 2nd one & last one are non-paying clients, sort of), but at least this gives you an idea of what is out there and how I’ve taken advantage of the new timeline changes.

hope this has helped

@jacquigage-brown one of the client pages I have done a lot of work on tabs with is  https://www.facebook.com/WellPetsEconomyClinics

@mgoes I’ve had the same issue with keeping a custom graphic on the photo page… I’ve failed once I upload something else. @Alexandra Briggs is there a trick to this? Thanks!

@jacquigage-brown and @mgoes As near as I can tell, this hasn’t changed with the Fan pages, the most recent posted wall pic becomes the image that shows up as a tab cover for the photos.

What is good about this is that you can do as I have done, and use the “About” information for something creative, e.g., link to free ebook, website, etc., while keeping very important description information intact when clicking on the “About” words below the space. In this way I can take my latest wall photo and use an arrow to direct to the space on the left.  The new timeline allows for hiding the image so it only shows up in my photo albums and as the most recent cover for the photos.

The only thing that you can do, is to edit your “Manage Permissions” and uncheck the box under “Posting Visibility” that allows for everyone to post photos and videos to your wall. This prevents someone else from publishing an image that will show up in your photos cover tab… unfortunately, that will minimize interaction if that is important for you (and for me it is important on most of my Fan Pages). Yet, even if you remove everyone else’s ability to post photos and videos on your wall, you still have the problem with your own pics. There is only one solution for that. Keep a cover tab that you are using, and every time a new image is posted on your wall, just post a the cover again and then go to the top right corner and use “Hide from page.”

One good thing about the timeline is that you can use the “Events, Milestones +” and post an image using that option and it won’t show up in wall photos.

I wish I were wrong about this, but is seems the only thing we can do (as far as I have researched it; but that was back in Feb, and it may have changed, but I don’t think so).  Hope this has helped.

@mgoes

hi Michael.  In one way, yes; but only in using it to post an image on the wall, whereas it doesn’t bother my photo tabs cover at all.

The image in Events/Milestones will show up in your photo album, which is good… and in your case with the cycles, that’s a great thing… for example, if Indian, say, was coming out with a new model, you can post that in Events with the expected date that for unveiling, provide the photo, it won’t disturb the photo tab cover, and it can take customers to the photo album if you’d like, for more information about the bike.

Milestones would provide something similar; anniversary say of Harley-Davidson’s returning to HD from AMF… In your case especially, I’d use the Events/Milestones a lot to generate interest and take them to more info on your Fan Page… in this way, you can use the photo cover image as something, like Alexandra and Andrea mentioned, to direct folks to your “About” information… and as I kind of mentioned previously, it doesn’t have to be “about” anything, just something to direct your customers to wherever you want them to go.

hope this has helped

@alexandrabriggs @mgoes @joncardwell @sharispiewak- Thanks for these great ideas.. I am going to try short stack.. Was following Lujure for a while a good friend has their development package. What turned me off in on of his seminars is of course he builds the value then he says $30.00 instead of $550.00 or whatever it was.. then you go to website and see it is $30.00/  month.. I also was following a guy named Chris Farrell out of England, seems like a great guy, but when I just recently added my application from his video my site doesn’t show up very well on Facebook, I even set my application to be wide.. anyone knows how to solve this?

Found out that I cannot use the free version of ShortStack on a page with less than 2000 likes because I also admin a page with more than 5000 likes.  That was where I hit a road block.  Will keep it in my back pocket in case I really need to use it one day, but will not pay the fee just for messing around (which is all I was doing).

What is your Facebook page URL?
@prestonodenbrett

@alexandrabriggs im pretty happy with the new  cover we picked….its 4  pictures that      shows  as  much or more than our welcome  page  used to  say, ….we dont even have the welcome page on  the main page anymore…we  also  chose to put our like # as  a  main  tab,  since its  so high, 2600, that was  kind of a hard  decision… but it seemed  many places with lots of  likes  showed it and  those with few  didnt….

we did ours without  help,  we have   too many  fans  for   shortstack…. 

im  using the highlite  button  a lot,  making  the page   as  much  eye candy as i  can…

we dont  use  any of  the outside apps  or whatever you  call them,  just  stay  within  the  facebook options..

also  i like the new  insight charts…what i  dont like is   confusion over  the  comments…i think ive seen them  all  then later i  will  be  in the pictures and see a  comment i missed…i like to   reply  to each  comment….  the  navigation  is  still  kind of  confusing…they  comment on old  albums   quite a  bit…..  a  few posts  have  gotten over  50  interactions…  i cant manage that  every day… 

Thanks for the info @AlexandraBriggs

i really like the  cover…great pictures and it  shows  how  broad an area  you  cover…and its  cheery and positive….i  like all the pictures on the page too…

  the little words on the  welcome tab   was  about unreadable…

@alexandrabriggs LOL I love the WellPets page….happy dogs and the colour orange…winning combo -  What a great job!

Alexandra can I be cheeky and request that you ‘Like’ my page please? I have already liked your WellPets from my personal Facebook page, but I understand if you dont want to as this isnt the ‘Like Exchange’ Forum : )

@jaimetyler

hi jaime,

just off the top of my head, i think the FB actual cover size is 111pix wide by 72pix high… but what is important is getting the ration right. FB has been pretty good about resizing these (so far), and will fit nicely as long as the ratio is right.

i’ve actually cheated a little because my pics have a bit of the bottom of my pic cut off if i use FB’s  recommended size.  so what i have done is this:

with my cover pics, i scan drawings and other art i have done (or others’ art i have permission to use) and use adobe photoshop to dress it up for the cover. you can use any decent  editor… MS paint will do the trick or adobe elements in the older versions can be found for $10 to $20 quite often.

anyway, i make the size of the image i intend to use for my cover at 810 x 500 using 72 dpi. this makes it large enough to work with, it allows for a crisper, sharper image when its reduced to size at 72dpi, and as you will see if you do the ratio for this, it doesn’t quite get to 111 x 72, more like 111 x 69… but then the very bottom of my border doesn’t get cut off.

hope this has helped.  if you need more specific help on it, please feel free to send me a msg via sme

Hello,
Anybody there!!! Please help me. I need Facebook Fans from Brazil. How can I get them in easy way? Is there any Software or Site to get Targeted Fans easy?

Thanks

@leopoldpanovi thank you for this tip. It’s a bit buggy (doesnt even work well in firefox, in safari you’ll have problems with long texts), but I like it at the moment. I’ll be using it for my project Mensa Battle for the next free 7 days. Then I’ll see

@krmcgee I didn’t make design changes on the page after posting. The reason the website falls where it does is because when the company first set up the page they did so with an address and a PLACE page was created. I removed the address (since it is only the home office) but the page did not change over to a BUSINESS Page.  Putting the link to the website first in the about section will only appear as intended for actual BUSINESS pages.

I went with Orange on the Well Pets cover as this is a color the business uses as a primary across channels. WooBox did not cause the link issue as I explained it is the page itself that doesn’t put the link first. It is likely this is something that will change as Facebook is constantly changing.

@krmcgee for the Well Pets page it became important to give a quick link to the Google calendar of upcoming clinics as well as the online store. This was key for the taps on that page. For other pages I have integrated YouTube and Foursquare since we try to drive to those other social media channels as well. It all depends on what you are trying to accomplish with the page.

@krmcgee I have posted videos to both Facebook and YouTube for certain pages. If you visit Marian University for St.Vincent Health (http://www.facebook.com/MarianUniversityforSt.VincentHealth) you can see what I did with the tabs and video postings. I have colleagues that have become more active in the posts for this page as well. 

@krmcgee I wasn’t asking for any postings. I do not participate in Like Exchanges and prefer all of our “likes” come from true prospective students. I was simply sharing how I have the YouTube tab as well as a Facebook Video tab (hidden in the secondary tabs). The same videos are posted to both

@krmcgee I did not use WooBox for that page. All of the tabs are individual or Facebook applications. There weren’t specific tabs to create for this page at the time that could not already be accommodated by existing applications. 

forgot the @alexandrabriggs

You can also quickly create a custom page on Google Sites http://sites.google.com and then build you page apps on Facebook. Its free and has a secure url. Any changes you make on your site in Google reflects on your page.

@ebooksestate there are many free alternatives online to creating Facebook apps for your timeline. 

I have made this short list to help you and anyone else on the page who might be looking for places to build their apps : Enjoy!  

• Page Modo : http://www.pagemodo.com/
• Wix :  http://www.wix.com/  I have used this free tool for my welcome page at : http://on.fb.me/Je91PU 
• Shortstack : http://www.shortstack.com/ 
• Tabsite :  http://www.tabsite.com/ 

  Hope this helps assist you a little further along your Journey  

@ebooksestate No problem happy to help

@alexandrabriggs seems to have vaporized.

I just got a great idea regarding the topic’s subject but I’m not tellin’. I’m gonna use it myself first. Business comes first.

I like the idea of a link in the cover image.

@alexandrabriggs Yeah, I’ve been trying to watch all 3 clubs instead of getting in a rut posting in just one. I’d say your pages have managed to give me a few really good ideas. Yes, I’m referring to the expanded cover image description.

I’m kind of being and didn’t have time to read through them all but be careful with your cover images, because placing call to actions in them is a NO NO in the eyes of FB. If you do you have to be really creative and discrete because FB vision for the cover page is what has been mentioned in this thread which is photos, creative imagery of your product. Drawing attention to the like button through your tab page images helps out with “bending the rules” LOL.

https://www.facebook.com/QReativeLab
https://www.facebook.com/TheLabDesignGroup

Use a fangate it’s really helpful, now don’t get me wrong I dont’ have a lot of fans but I do understand how to put a page together. FB has given us the ability to use the URL’s from our tabs to post in blogs, websites, etc. so when you build a tab and add a fangate it helps get your count up.

I personally use FPE
http://fanpageengine.com/cboffer/apps?hop=thelabdg
it’saffordable and it gives you a number of apps so you can create tabs.

In conclusion be very creative with your cover photo and use your tabs to draw them in. Now I may be wrong, but that has been what’s working for many businesses I’ve came across. I hope this adds to someone’s knowledge base.

I will give ShortStack a try. I am having difficulty getting likes on my Facebook Pages.

@claramathews If you want to come learn what we have been doing as well as many of our other customers, you can always join us on our page. We post a lot of stuff that could help you. It is harder now, but not impossible.