Five reasons why your business should be on Facebook

Heard about Facebook but not sure what all the fuss is about? Clever businesses are finding ways to make Facebook one of their most powerful weapons in their online marketing arsenal.

Here are five reasons why your businses should be on Facebook:

1. Extreme Targeting and Testing of your Market

Facebook Ads allow you to target the audience of your ad campaigns down to: city, gender, age, occuptation, interests, relationship status, education level and workplace. Where else do you have that degree of targeting online?  You pay per click – with a daily limit that you’ve set  – and you can access reports that help you determine what’s working and what’s not.  Set up multiple campaigns and evaluate which specific demographics are clicking and/or which are buying.

2. Facebook is GREAT for promoting events

Use Facebook Events to promote your next event.  Once you’ve filled in the details for the event it’s a click of your mouse to invite your ‘Facebook Friends’ and to monitor their replies and RSVPs.  As a latin dancer I am invited to dance events every week and the smart latin dance event promoters are milking it for all its worth.

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Dancing in the rain

As an experienced photographer, as well as a web designer, I am usually the one behind the camera taking photos of other people.  I decided, however, that I wanted to try a self-portrait – but something a little more interesting than the norm.  I enlisted the help of friend and dancing instructor Chantal Huntley, from Smooth Latin Groove, as well as two assistants Caitlin Boag and Scott Walsh, to shoot a photo of us “dancing in the rain”.

Here’s the result!

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Win $50 Cash from Webnerd

This competition is now closed. Click here to find out who won!

Imagine that I gave you $50 cash with the instruction to spend it on something fun. On what would you spend it?

Tell me and go into the draw to win $50 cash.

The winner will be announced here on Monday 9th March.  The $50 is in Australian currency.

How to Enter: Leave a reply, telling me how you would spend $50 in a fun way, and go into the draw to win $50

“Within the first ten minutes James saved me $5,000/year”

It’s been a while since I had a good brag session. The last client project that I wrote about was the Urban Office website and Jim Hardy’s tongue-in-cheek testimonial that “we shouldn’t be this excited about a website!”

Since then we’ve done some other great work and I feel it’s time to highlight some of it. Some of the work I can show you. Other work is more about consulting and/or behind-the-scenes programming, so I can only tell you about that.

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How to live like a king

Artistic, fashion and travel photographer Ben Heys lives like a king. Highly respected in photography circles for his artistic nude and fashion photography, Ben makes his entire income online by licensing his photography to designers.

This is called “stock” photography and he currently has 1300 images available in his Shutterstock.com library.  Each photo is licensed for a lean amount of money – and his commission is even smaller – but the numbers add up to provide a consistent flow of passive income sufficient to live like a king while he travels Asia. Even when he doesn’t work for weeks at a time.

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What the Duck?

When What the Duck cartoonist Aaron Johnson posted to Facebook a photo of his kids playing with the not-yet-available WTD plush toy, he did something very clever indeed.

That photo, entitled “Kid Tested, Kid Approved” appeared on my Facebook page when I next logged in and, being the die-hard fan that I am, I immediately copied and pasted it into the BrisbanePhotography.com community forum.

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Is your website down?

Here’s a nifty little online tool that you can use to discover if a website is down for everyone – or just you. Go to: isthisdown.com

Merry Facebook-mas: Record Traffic on Christmas Eve

Social networking site Facebook.com recorded a record number of people logging on Christmas Eve, grabbing a massive 2.18% of the US market share and 4.65% of the UK market share. For the Poms, that’s one Facebook visit in every 22 site visits anywhere on the Internet! [Src]

We’ll be back Monday 12th January

Webnerd will officially re-open Monday 12th January.  Until then we are busy undertaking business admin and development work to ensure that we do good work for our clients in 2009!

Existing clients are welcome to phone through any urgent/critical tasks.

Christmas Goodies from Webnerd

With not many sleeps left until Christmas it’s time to delete your corporate email and enjoy your Internet connection for a change!

Here are seven little Christmas treats from me to you.

Merry Christmas and I’ll catch up with you in 2009!  Follow me on Twitter in the meantime.