Top Small Business Facebook Page Finalists: This Week in Social Media

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Finalists: Top 10 Small Business Facebook Pages

We received over 1800 nominations for more than 500 business pages in our Top 10 Small Business Facebook Page contest.

Take a look at this list of 23 outstanding finalists!

The Judges: Our panel of Facebook experts includes Amy Porterfield, Andrea Vahl and Phyllis Khare (co-authors of Facebook Marketing All-in-One for Dummies). They’re currently finishing up their reviews of these sites.

Here are the finalists (in alphabetical order):

• BeStitched Needlepoint
• Chocolate for Breakfast
• Dog Pack Snacks
• Earthegy
• Galaxy Restaurant
• Gorgeous Jewellery Ltd
• How to Market Your Horse Business
• Koyal Wholesale
• Legendary Whitetails
• NOCO Genius / Battery Chargers
• Obeo
• Palm Tree Charters, St John USVI
• Phunk My Space
• PoolSupplyWorld
• Precision Paddleboards
• RecruitMilitary
• Red-I by Chelsea
• Social Media Branding with Kim Garst
• Superhero Stuff
• Talking Finger
• The Chicken Chick at Egg Carton Labels by ADozenGirlz
• The 3/50 Project
• Zox Straps

How We’ll Pick the Winners

#1: Initial Qualification

A page must have a compelling Facebook presence, must have been nominated multiple times by multiple individuals and must be regularly updated. If someone nominated more than one page, only the first nomination was counted.

#2: Final Winner Selection

• Quality of Facebook page: Our judges will examine and score the Facebook page of each finalist (65% of decision).
• Fan engagement: Regular comments from readers are another sign of a healthy Facebook page. In addition, the number of nominations for a specific page plays a part in this (35%).

Congratulations to the finalists! We’ll announce the winners here soon!

What do you think about these Facebook pages? Leave your comments below.

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What’s New This Week?

Facebook Launches Sponsored Results: TechCrunch reports that Facebook has started rolling out Sponsored Results. This is Facebook’s version of Google’s AdWords, or pay-per-click search ads.

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YouTube Launches Ads for Mobile Devices: “Mobile growth on YouTube has been phenomenal.”  YouTube now has “TrueView in-stream video ads on mobile devices.”

Discussion From Our Networking Clubs: Thousands of social media marketers and small business owners are asking questions and helping others in our free Networking Clubs. Here are a few interesting discussions worth highlighting:

• Guest expert Phyllis Khare on Facebook Apps
• Sign up for a free blog review
• Social media in 2017

Foursquare Lets Users Tag Friends on Facebook and Twitter: Foursquare users can now mention friends in Foursquare check-ins, and automatically tag them on Facebook and Twitter.

Here’s a useful social media tool worth noting:

Feedspot: A social feed reader based on topics, currently still in beta.

GraphEffect: A collaboration platform for social marketers.

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