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New here lots of questions (15 posts)

Topic tags: driving traffic, promoting website

Melissa Dahan said
1 year, 2 months ago:
hi there, I have an avon facebook page I am trying to promote. I do random Giveaways and such. I am interested in getting people to my avon website. I do not know anything about how to make my page look fancier, nor can I afford to spend the money to buy a template. Wish facebook would offer a template. My question is how do you get people to your business website from the facebook page, or from twitter or pinterest. I on all three. Havent had much luck as of yet.
thank you.
this is mehttp://www.facebook.com/pages/AvonDeals4You-Fundraising-for-Breast-Cancer/239566539441226
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Louis Teoh said
1 year, 2 months ago:
Hi @melissadahan, I’m sure you’re aware that Facebook has just introduced their new timeline for pages. But all pages will have until 30th March to switch to the new timeline. In the meantime, you still can promote your website using pages.
If you’re looking for some beautiful free fanpages templates, maybe you can check out my page and grab the free templates to try them out :
https://www.fb.com/learnsocialmediasecrets
Hope that helps.
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Ann at greenoak said
1 year, 2 months ago:
@louisteoh louis, what do you mean? how will the new timeline affect having your website on facebook? thanks so much
@melissadahan i would make up a little card or something on paper about your facebook page and be sure you give it to your customers, and also put facebook on your reciepts and send an invite thru your email list…..in other words start with your current connections
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Abigail Gorton said
1 year, 2 months ago:
@melissadahan You arrived here at a great time. A lot is changing. Click through the various posts in this club. A lot of them have links to videos that explain the changes. Watch the videos to see how they apply to you.
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Louis Teoh said
1 year, 2 months ago:
@annfurnivall, i beg your pardon. I didn’t make myself very clear.What i mean is we all still have until 30th March to continue using our current pages with the ‘Welcome’ page as the default landing page. There’s no rush to switch to the new timeline where there’s no default landing page anymore and this may present a new problem for all of us to build our email list. We can still use our ‘Welcome’ page with the opt-in form as the landing page for the next 3 weeks to build our email list as much as possible.i’m in no rush to switch yet as i’m still having fans opting into my email list as at this time of writing this post. i hope i’ve made myself clearer this time.
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Peg Sousa said
1 year, 2 months ago:
@melissadahan
hi melissa,you have a somewhat of a challenging set-up because your website is strictly used for ecommerce – there’s really not a lot of content on there. but that being said, it’s always a good idea to include links to your site in as many of your FB posts as it makes sense to (without going overboard!) – so for example, in your most recent where you wrote this:
“The random winner will receive a FREE tube of FootWorks Cream, A FREE Tub of the Foot Works Balm, Avon Bucks and a Coupon for 20 percent off their next order of 50.00 or more!”
You could add additional copy… “…order of $50.00 or more at my Avon website: http://melissadahan.avonrepresentative.com/.”
You wouldn’t want to do that in every single post, cause it would get old and too promotional as a facebook strategy.
You can also link to specific products via your site – and engage your fb fans with questions like: “which of these avon fragrances is your favorite?” with a link to here: http://shop.avon.com/shop/product_list.aspx?level1_id=300&level2_id=304&cat_type=C&omnCode=Fragranc or “Here’s a list of customer favorites – what’s your favorite Avon product?” with link to here: http://shop.avon.com/shop/product_list.aspx?dept=toprate
Also, in your about, (which has a great spot underneath your big cover image) include your website link there, too- so it would say something like: ”I’m fighting breast cancer and have joined Avon to raise money for my family and for cancer research. If you would like to support me, please visit my website.melissadahan.avonrepresentative.com Thank you!”
Hope that makes some sense? Re: Twitter… i think i’d make that more personal for your fans. so you could give updates on how you’re doing with battling your cancer (keep at it, i was diagnosed stage 3c seven years ago), what types of fundraisers you’re doing, how this is effecting your family, how you stay positive etc. it could be more inspirational vs. promotional. that said, when you get a sizeable base of twitter followers, you can definitely let them know when you’re running a special offer with a link to your site.

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Ann at greenoak said
1 year, 2 months ago:
thanks louis..i was a little worried there…..i set my timeline up today…. and think i will like it…i sure want my website on it like it was before….i accidentally published mine and cant get it off.i was just e xperimenting…ha ha.. …but my co admin will fix it tomorrow…
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Melissa Dahan said
1 year, 2 months ago:
Just wanna say I HATE timeline!
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Melissa Dahan said
1 year, 2 months ago:
well i think Im going to switch over to a Facebook group. I hate hate hate the page timeline!!
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Melissa Dahan said
1 year, 2 months ago:
well i think Im going to switch over to a Facebook group. I hate hate hate the page timeline!!
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Melissa Dahan said
1 year, 2 months ago:
well i think Im going to switch over to a Facebook group. I hate hate hate the page timeline!!
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Melissa Dahan said
1 year, 2 months ago:
well i think Im going to switch over to a Facebook group. I hate hate hate the page timeline!!
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Melissa Dahan said
1 year, 2 months ago:
well i think Im going to switch over to a Facebook group. I hate hate hate the page timeline!!
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Melissa Dahan said
1 year, 2 months ago:
ugh my computer went berserk.
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Dedi Mason said
1 year, 2 months ago:
@melissadahan Facebook has a rule in it’s own company about keeping pages look alike. Although we haven’t heard about timeline in groups yet, I would venture to say that they will be moving toward that just like profile pages and business pages. Take a look at my business page. Timeline has given me a great way to showcase what we’re doing right now (booking leagues and outings). Your cover photo can change as often as you need it to in order to draw attention to what you’re currently promoting. However, there are GUIDELINES about what you can have in your cover photo, FOLLOW THEM.
http://www.facebook.com/Lilac.Golf is the page I’ve been building the most right now, but if you look at the page’s Likes (look in the right side of the Timeline), you’ll find links to our other two courses, Thorne Hills and Old Town. All have different covers photos to draw attention to what we have to offer.
Make your cover photo 851 X 315 pixels and your profile picture 180 X 180 pixels. Your profile pic should be fairly plain with a large, clear text unless you have a logo that your customers will easily recognize because it will automatically shrink to 30X30 when you post something.
If you look on the Thorne Brothers at Lilac Golf Course page (linked above), you will see that I had to seriously limit our name in the profile pic in order to make it legible on the posts when I post something. If you look at the Thorne Hills page, you’ll see that the name IS NOT legible on the posts . . . but that logo is the one that I have to use for a number of reasons. At any rate, it’s well known to my customers, so even tiny, they know who it is.
I used to be in cosmetology . . . use the history of AVON and Cosmetology to your advantage in the timeline! Grab quick pieces of history . . . when the first eyeliner was used, when Avon created their first eyeliner, how AVON started, etc to build your own timeline. Makeup has been around for AGES . . . you can post all kinds of neat tidbits into a timeline!
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