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Re: New promotions & offers page

Caroline McCullough — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 22:06:22 -0000

Hi Mel, be sure to submit your promotion via our Promotions & Offers submit form. See the tab above. Thanks heaps! Cas.

Re: Roadtesting Facebook’s new welcome page platform: iwipa

Caroline McCullough — Sun, 01 May 2011 12:08:30 -0000

Hey Christina, click on "Edit Page" in the top right hand corner of your business page, and go to the option that says "Default Landing Tab". If you set that to your welcome page, then new visitors will land on that page but returning visitors will go directly to your wall. I hope that helps! Cas.

Re: Almost 9000 Facebook “likers”: How should we celebrate?

Caroline McCullough — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 03:09:14 -0000

Thanks Isabelle! We'd have to abide by Facebook rules. With nearly 9000 fans we certainly don't want to give Facebook a reason to delete our page, but I do like the idea of a challenge of some kind. Who else?

Re: Almost 9000 Facebook “likers”: How should we celebrate?

Caroline McCullough — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 13:29:27 -0000

Basically, you cannot ask anyone to do anything on Facebook other than "like" your page to enter a comp. All comps need to be run through third party apps (such as our blog and iframes) rather than directly on FB pages. Many businesses break the rules and we all find them confusing. You can find out more about FB comp rules in this great article here: http://www.simplyzesty.com/.... Hope that clarifies!

Re: Roadtesting Facebook’s new welcome page platform: iwipa

Caroline McCullough — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 03:51:59 -0000

Hi Tom, is the download page on your website? Are you talking about PDF? If it is, then you just link to wherever you've uploaded the document using a hyperlink on your fangate page. With the fangate page, it should show up for the user once the user has refreshed the screen. Liking your page should automatically refresh the page and take them to whichever page you have nominated as the landing page for people who "like" your site. Which welcome page software are you using? I hope that is helpful. i would recommend asking questions like this on our forum, which we've just relaunched. We can then shoot the question through to Facebook for others share their knowledge on as well. We have a lot of very savvy WAHPs on Support a WAHP. All the best, Cas.

Re: Top 7 Reasons Blogs Fail and What to Do About It

Caroline McCullough — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 18:07:54 -0000

My blogs rock along okay for the most part, but even with the content that results in lots of comments and hits, it still doesn't get shared around as much as I'd like. I have asked our FB followers what they'd like us to write about though, and I think that has helped us gain some clarity about what small home-based businesses need info on. But it's such a diverse bunch of businesses, it's really hard to know sometimes. Anyway, thanks for the post Michael.

Re: Roadtesting Facebook’s new welcome page platform: iwipa

Caroline McCullough — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 07:45:14 -0000

The short answer is "yes" but you'll probably need to spend a little time watching the tutorial videos. The IWIPA framework is for landing pages on your Facebook business page, ie the fist page that someone lands on when they click on the link to your page. There are some other frameworks available now. I will do an update in the near future. All the best with it! cheers, Cas.

Re: Beware the Facebook spam police

Caroline McCullough — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 20:55:30 -0000

You're welcome Elaine, and thanks for notifying us. You've really paid it forward!

Re: Beware the Facebook spam police

Caroline McCullough — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 21:01:33 -0000

Hi Sue, I'm really sorry to hear that. But I hope it doesn't put you off growing your business on Facebook. It pays to read as much as you can about Facebook marketing before participating in any kind of marketing activity on Facebook. There are also a few amazing mumpreneurs who run Facebook workshops. We recommend Foyster's Facebook Workshop to new businesses. Hope to see you back on Facebook soon!

Re: Beware the Facebook spam police

Caroline McCullough — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 21:07:53 -0000

Ha, that's too bad. I thought it was educational for people to understand. We welcome business shoutouts on our page but have strict posting guidelines. However on my own business page I don't allow it at all unless someone's asked me first, as it's just not appropriate to the page. Really, people don't do themselves any favors by posting on other business pages unless the page is designed for that, which the Support a WAHP page is.

Re: Beware the Facebook spam police

Caroline McCullough — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 03:35:14 -0000

I agree! We are just wading around in the dark sometimes!

Re: Beware the Facebook spam police

Caroline McCullough — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 09:40:58 -0000

Hi Cathie, you are welcome! That's a really good question regarding Facebook's tagging policy. I am curious too! I think that this spam filtering was not intentionally targeted at these tagging games.

Re: Social Media Promotions and the Law: What You Need to Know

Caroline McCullough — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 17:56:54 -0000

Thanks for posting the section about official rules. As our business runs a lot of contests and sweepstakes, these are really helpful. It would be really great to have an article on running charity auctions on Facebook. There has been a lot of confusion and angst about breaking Facebook rules of late given the crackdown on posting on others' pages. Small businesses would like to be assured their generosity won't see them suspended on Facebook. Any chance you could write something about this?

Re: Going to market

Caroline McCullough — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 00:33:05 -0000

You're welcome! My e-book is coming and that will have stacks more info in it. cheers, Cas.

Re: Going to market

Caroline McCullough — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 00:35:21 -0000

Ha ha KA, you need no justification for an ipad2 surely! You just need to make sure you have good internet access wherever you are. A 3g sim card from Telstra is probably the best bet. I looked into mobile eftpos and the fees were astronomical. I use the ipad for all sorts of things so it has worked out a more flexible option. Nowadays you can even create bar codes to scan your products so that you can email an invoice to your customers from your ipad or iphone. Amazing technology!

Re: Beware the Facebook spam police

Caroline McCullough — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 09:04:11 -0000

Hi Jo, I'm sorry to hear people are losing likers, but I guess the important thing is to keep those people who really are interested in your business. Businesses need to realise that putting all their eggs in one basket does not a profit make. With my small business, I started small and grew naturally and now have nearly 800 likers, quite a few of whom are also customers and clients. I have rarely posted on someone else's wall and only when I had something of substance to share. It does pay off to take the slow and steady but that doesn't mean you can't be doing other things to grow your business. All the best! cheers, Cas.

Re: 4 Tips for Effective Facebook Community Management

Caroline McCullough — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 16:48:37 -0000

It's all well and good hiring a community manager if you have the funds to employ people but for small and micro businesses that can be one thing on a long list of tasks you'd like to outsource. Then there's the issue of any page admin being able to delete your page. You'd need to have iron-clad contracts to ensure that doesn't happen and even then, it could (in theory). Again, hiring a lawyer to draft something like that is on a long list of tasks to outsource for small businesses. Thanks for the article though. As a community manager/owner I appreciate the validation. Warmly, Cas.

Re: Win Free Tickets to Facebook Success Summit 2011

Caroline McCullough — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 17:10:12 -0000

My business partner and I nurture an ever growing community of home-based businesses on Facebook and we'd love to attend the conference to be able to provide our 9400 fans better information to help them grow their businesses. Aside from that, we really want our business to grow because we work from sun-up to midnight, any spare moment of the day, in between parenting young children, grocery shopping, taking kids to sports and theatre classes, cleaning, going to the gym, attending networking events and staring vacantly at the TV (actually, that last one virtually never happens). We are passionate about supporting other home-based businesses and practice what we preach by buying from our fanbase on a regular basis. With all our commitments, we'd never make it to the airport, let alone on a plane to the US to attend a conference like this IRL, so we'd really love to win two tickets to attend this fantastic virtual event. Thank you for the opportunity!

Re: The winners of the Support a WAHP 2011 Top WAHP Competition

Caroline McCullough — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 08:34:30 -0000

Hi Joh, unfortunately, voting has now closed, hence the post about the winners. Feel free to nominate Denise again next year. We love her business too, which is why she made the top 11 finalists list.

Re: Blogging when you’re not confident with words

Caroline McCullough — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 11:58:35 -0000

Hi Kathy, thanks for your comment. I'd love to know how you get on with your re-writing! Feel free to post a link here to your next blog article. All the best, Cas.

Re: Blogging when you’re not confident with words

Caroline McCullough — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 11:59:06 -0000

Thanks Suzanne. So glad it was helpful for you.

Re: Sourcing products for a party plan business

Caroline McCullough — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 03:43:47 -0000

Hi Sandy, feel free to put this request on our Facebook page and forum too. Kelly from Funky Monkey Giftware may be interested. She's based in Caboolture so not far from you. I'll ask her.

Re: Networking on Facebook to improve engagement

Caroline McCullough — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 02:42:07 -0000

So glad to hear that Ebony! We'll do it all again next week!

Re: How to Move Your Facebook Tabs to Secure Hosting Required by Facebook

Caroline McCullough — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 18:24:55 -0000

Hi Tim, does this mean that any links inside an app like Wildfire or Static HTML (ie. links to our website) have to have the https in front of them? Am just trying to get my head around the technicalities. cheers, Cas.

Re: In the Spotlight Competition: September Winner

Caroline McCullough — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 13:22:38 -0000

Make sure you cast your vote on the poll on the website front page ladies! : )