03. We listen

Wednesday July
  • 2010
  • 28

HootSuite’s feature-rich application gives anyone the ability to post updates to their social networks, including Facebook and Twitter. This tool can be used by your business to manage multiple networks using one interface. HootSuite has many features including the ability to schedule tweets, add attachments, and shrink long web addresses so they fit nicely on Twitter – which is restricted to 140 characters. In this tutorial, we are going to provide steps for connecting HootSuite to both Twitter and a Facebook Page. If you give a hoot, stick around!

Signing in to HootSuite is simple. The login and password fields are found on the top-right of the homepage.
Friday July
  • 2010
  • 2

If you’re reading this article you must have an interest in Twitter. Twitter has skyrocketed to stardom in only a few short years. In 2006 the first prototype was launched and today it’s ranking up there with Facebook and Google. Twitter is not going away anytime soon so now might be the time to create a Twitter profile for your company (which is the easy part). After creating the profile your company will need a strategy (which is the difficult part). For now, let’s get down to creating a Twitter profile. Here are the step-by-step directions to create a Twitter profile for your company.

Once at Twitter, click Sign Up to get started.
Wednesday June
  • 2010
  • 9

In a previous article we provided a tutorial on how to add a Facebook Like button and Box to your blog. Now that visitors are ‘liking’ the articles and Fan Page wouldn’t it be nice to see statistics and demographics that will provide a better understanding of your audience? For example, if a majority of visitors are female (and from Wisconsin) you might want to start selling pink Cheeseheads alongside the blog articles. Stick around as we walk you through a brief and easy tutorial on how to track your Like button, Like box, and Share button using Facebook Insights.

Screenshot of Insights Dashboard for Sharing.
Thursday May
  • 2010
  • 20

Monkeys infiltrated wisnet.com's headquarters Thursday morning. Fellow team members Brian and Grant were caught red-handed conspiring with the monkeys. Their daring attempt to take control of the facility fell short when super hero Dave entered the premises. Another attempt was made to regain control and the outcome can only be explained by watching the following video.

Monkeys attack wisnet.com's headquarters from the sky. Watch the video.
Friday May
  • 2010
  • 14

Facebook has recently launched the Like button and Like box. For those of who are not familiar with Facebook you might have run into a "Become a Fan" button when visiting websites. That has been replaced with the Like box and Facebook has added another twist to it... besides liking Facebook Fan Pages your visitors can like specific blog articles, video, images; and when they like them they will be shared with their friends. Stay tuned as we show you an example along with a quick tutorial on creating a like button and box for your website.

The Become a Fan button is now the Like box.
Friday May
  • 2010
  • 7

Why would there be an article about footers? They are at the bottom of the webpage, below the fold, and hold boring information such as copyright and disclaimers. Well, in the last few years designers have been creating some impressive and inspiring footers. Not only are they attractive, it adds extra room to promote blog articles, newsletter signup, and social sites such as your Facebook Fan Page. Plus, it’s consistent and appears on every page of the site. Let’s take a look at some footer designs to see what is possible.

wisnet.com's footer design includes an email subscription sign-up form built into a rocket ship.
Friday April
  • 2010
  • 2

We ran into an issue where our Facebook profile was suspended. In addition, it disabled our Facebook Fan Page. Maybe it was an April Fool's joke but it happened just after we wrote an article about Fan Page Vanity URLs, which directed our visitors to view our fan page. Now that we figured out how to resolve the problem we have a solution... along with an apology from Facebook.

The form to fill in when your Facebook profile has been disabled.
Wednesday March
  • 2010
  • 24

Your familiarity with search engines is important if you are undertaking the marketing aspects of your company. Using a search engine is straightforward but optimizing a site can become more complex. First it starts with observation and then is followed with implementation. To get started first research the three most popular parts of a search engine. Then decide which one is in reach of your goals and budget. Here are three basic visual elements of a search engine.

Google’s 7- Pack includes a web address, phone number along with quantity of reviews.
Tuesday March
  • 2010
  • 23

It’s time to grab your Facebook vanity URL for the Fan Page! After setting up a Fan Page you might have noticed a super long web address. It might have looked like this: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Fond-Du-Lac-WI/wisnetcom/129681521915. It’s long, hard to type, confusing, won’t fit on your business cards, and isn’t the ideal address to forward to a client or vendor. We have a solution and here’s the official tutorial on how to get your very own custom username to create a short and sweet Facebook Fan Page URL. (Also known as vanity URLs.)

Create a vanity URL such as www.facebook.com/wisnet.
Friday March
  • 2010
  • 5

After importing a blog the next step to take is making sure your posts are automatically being added to your Wall. In our last article we provided step-by-step details on how to import a blog to your Facebook Fan Pages. In this tutorial we will show you the final touches; and magically, blog posts will appear on your wall.

Example of blog post appearing on a Facebook Fan Page Wall.

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