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Increase the Effectiveness of Your Business’s Facebook Presence

Tuesday, October 11th, 2011

Creating an engaging experience on facebook is a science.

Check out the impressive stats below to increase the effectiveness of your business’s Facebook Wall Posts. Social media can be a real tool that can truly work for your business so apply these stats when writing future posts.

  • Posts made between 8 PM and 7 AM receive 20% more user engagement.
  • On WEDNESDAYS, fan engagement is 8% above average.
  • Posting 1 to 2 times per DAY produces 40% higher user engagement.
  • Posting 1 to 4 times per WEEK produces 71% higher user engagement.
  • Posts with 80 characters or less receive 66% higher engagement.
  • Posts with 1 to 40 characters – generate the highest engagement.
  • Ask questions to spark dialogue – “question” Posts have DOUBLE the comments rates than “non-question” Posts.
  • Fill in the blank Posts receive 9 times more Comments than other Posts.
  • Offer fans “$ off” and coupons. Posts containing these offer-related keywords receive the highest engagement.
  • “$ OFF” offers receive twice the engagement of “% OFF” offers.
  • Status-only Posts receive 94 % higher than average engagement so keep your posts SIMPLE.

Thanks to SocialMediaToday and LinkedIn for sharing the following facebook engagement stats discovered in Buddy Media’s study: Strategies for Effective Facebook Wall Posts for the Retail Industry.

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Contact Form Not Working? It might be Yahoo’s fault and Blueprint Groupe Discovered This Solution…

Thursday, July 29th, 2010

So we have a client who insists on staying with their hosting provider, Yahoo, and all of a sudden their contact form was not working.

So after hours and hours of research I have found out the problem and a solution.

If you are unfortunate enough to have a client’s site or your own site hosted on Yahoo they do not accept third party php scripts. However, there is a work around to get your contact form working.

All you need to do is clear off the code that says:

From: $email

If you don’t clear that code the only email address that will be accepted as a valid email address in the contact form will be emails that come from the domain name of the website. Example being:

example@example.com OR whatever@theDomainTheContactFormIsOn.com

This can be a serious pain in the ass (it was for me today) and if possible I would suggest not using Yahoo to host your domain and to switch to a better hosting provider.

Sincerely,

the Fixer-Guy Guru of the week (hahaha)

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