The Facebook Marketing Bible January 2012 Edition Is Now Available

A new year brings new opportunities to grow your audience and deepen your customer relationships on Facebook. Start your first quarter campaigns with the just-released January 2012 edition of the Facebook Marketing Bible: The Comprehensive Guide to Market Your Brand, Company, Product, or Service Inside Facebook.

The Facebook Marketing Bible has enabled thousands of brands, app developers, content publishers, and businesses of all sizes to do more with Facebook, from the basics of creating a winning fan page, to the complexities of social plugin integration on an off-Facebook site.

The web edition of the Facebook Marketing Bible includes detailed resource pages, comprehensive how-to guides, and case studies analyzing today’s most successful marketing and advertising campaigns on Facebook.

Now that Facebook is nearing the 800 million monthly active user mark, there’s never been a better time to reach your target audience through marketing on Facebook.

The January 2012 edition includes updated coverage of the following topics:

Facebook Insights: All You Need to Know. Facebook updated Insights this fall, and now admins have an even greater wealth of data and metrics to help design successful, cost-effective campaigns. Our “All you need to know” guide includes a detailed walk-through of new Insights features and usage scenarios.How Brands Can Use the Subscribe Button to Drive Referral Traffic. While the Subscribe Button is limited to Profiles (and not Pages), it can be an additional source of referral traffic for websites. We include tips on how to leverage the social graph of your organization to build a following from Facebook, and bring it to your product or company site.Minimizing Your Facebook Ad CPC Bid Prices by Avoiding Bid Competition. When running ads on Facebook, advertisers must consider more than just creative and targeting to achieve optimal performance at the lowest cost. This guide shows you how to get the most from your Facebook advertising budget.How to Use Facebook Hidden Wall and Other Page Moderation Tools to Protect Brand Reputation. Highly engaging Pages can quickly blossom into a valuable community that will raise awareness of the brand through positive word-of-mouth. This is our guide to managing your brand’s reputation on Facebook using the “Hidden Wall” and other Page moderation tools.Increasing Virality of your Page’s News Feed Posts Via the Share Button. Making the posts you publish stand out in the Facebook news feed is crucial to maximizing primary key performance metrics such as brand lift, clicks, impressions, Likes, comments, and reposts. This guide provides a walk-through how the View Shares link works, and provide strategies for how you can attain Shares and the benefits they bring for your business.Improving Your Facebook Page With Customized Tab Applications. We present a detailed breakdown of ten examples of brands doing innovative work with customized tab apps, and highlight what your business can learn from these top campaigns.Gaining Fans with new Facebook features, “Merge Duplicate Pages” and “Invite Friends” to Gain Fans. Facebook has released new features that marketers should know about. These guides detail how to engage your Page’s most dedicated fans while growing your overall fan base.How to Manage Critics, “Trolls,” and Spammers on your Facebook Page. How does Facebook change the rules of community management, and how can brands turn critics into positive opportunities for dialogue? We look at real examples and provide a step-by-step guide for Page admins.How to Sync Your Facebook Page Updates With Your Twitter Profile — and Why You Shouldn’t. How do Facebook and Twitter differ, and when is customization needed? This guide compares and contrasts the unique strengths of each platform and shows you how to get the most from both.Commenting for Facebook marketers, a guide that shows you how to make the most out of public, and highly visible, conversations with your fans on Facebook.Bringing the storefront to your Facebook Page, a breakdown of key features for storefront applications that bring sales transactions directly to your Page.Our guide to the Facebook Send button that details Facebook’s latest addition to its social plugins.Facebook applications versus offsite integrations and what works best for marketing your business or brand.Our detailed style and strategy guide to Facebook’s Like button that helps you identify the right design for your off-Facebook content site.An overview of Graph API meta tags and how they enable you to maximize the value of your implemented Like buttons.Facebook Applications, Social Plugins, Connect and Instant Personalization – details on how to use the wide variety of options available for engaging Facebook users.Updates to Facebook Questions, and how recent changes to this user-facing feature will affect your approach to brand marketing through this ‘no-cost’ channel.Strategies to help you navigate Facebook’s recent major Page redesign, whether you’re representing a major brand, small business, or public figure.Facebook’s expanding options for advertisers, and how any advertiser can get more from new features like Sponsored Stories, self-specified landing tabs, and more.The latest featured Facebook’s campaigns that show you how other brands are testing Facebook’s evolving marketing opportunities.New frontiers in brand and performance marketing on Facebook, including opportunities within social games.Facebook Places and Deals, the company’s evolving location-based feature that presents new marketing opportunities for businesses both on and offline.Facebook Groups, a new way for users to connect and collaborate with others who share their interests and affiliations, and new ideas for marketing with Groups on Facebook.Facebook’s latest advertising guidelines updates and what they mean for advertisers throughout the ecosystem.Audience growth and engagement, including best practices for holding on to fans, keeping marketing channels open, and re-engaging your audience on Facebook.Plus, comprehensive walk-throughs of Facebook’s tools for advertisers, web content publishers, and Page administrators.

Learn more about the January 2012 edition of the Facebook Marketing Bible at FacebookMarketingBible.com.

Recent Featured Facebook Campaigns

Zynga, Farmers Insurance, and NokiaPepsi and SavingStar, Banana Republic, Tabasco, and HondaFood Network, Pizza Hut, Coca-Cola and Cost PlusAlamo Rent A Car, National Geographic Channel and FoxCraftsman, Unilever and FarmVille Chinese, American Express and El Pollo LocoBucca di Beppo, Bissell, Bank of the West and the NBACoca-Cola, Qatar Ariways, Clearasil and EsuranceMarriott Resorts, The National Guard, Discover Boating, Bravo, and Nike

Building Your Brand through Facebook Pages

Facebook vs Twitter – What’s Different, What’s The Same And Why Smart Marketers Use BothPage Destination Tab Ad Campaign StrategiesFacebook Pages and Public ProfilesThe Profile Page – A Walk-Through

Designing Your Facebook Page

Improving Your Facebook Page With Customized Tab Applications: 10 ExamplesFacebook Page Redesign 2011: Marketing Stategies and Best PracticesThe Wall Tab for Making Pages Dynamic and ViralHow to Choose a Landing ‘Tab’ for your Facebook PageAdding Custom Modules to Your Page

Communicating Through Your Facebook Page

How Brands Can Use Facebook’s Subscribe Button to Drive Referral Traffic to Their WebsiteHow to Sync Your Facebook Page Updates With Your Twitter Profile — and Why You Shouldn’tHow to Get Facebook Users to Like Your Page: The First Step to EngagementHow Your Business Should Reply To Facebook CommentsDemographic Targeting for Status UpdatesHow to Avoid Having Your Page, Open Graph Object, or Application Unliked, Removed, Muted, or Blacklisted

Growing Your Fan Base and More Ways to Promote Your Facebook Page

Gaining More Fans With Facebook’s New “Merge Duplicate Pages” FeatureHow Facebook Pages Can Use “Invite Friends” to Gain FansHow Brands Can Advertise within Social GamesThe Basics of Status Updates for PagesIncrease Engagement and Insight through Status TaggingHow to Grow Your Page’s Audience through Page InvitationsSMS Subscription Service for PagesBranded Virtual Gifts on Facebook Pages for Viral Advertising

Advanced Strategies for Facebook Pages

How Top Brands Conduct Ecommerce on Facebook: Best PracticesFacebook Ecommerce: What Features Are Important in a Page Storefront ApplicationThe Best Facebook Page Strategies and the Pages That Use ThemStrategy: How to Promote Your Page in 6 StepsMarketing Strategy: 4 Reasons Why Marketers Should Invest in Pages Before Groups10 Key SEO Strategies Every Facebook Page Owner Should Know8 Best Practices for Retailers on FacebookMarketers Actively Bidding for Generic Facebook Pages

The Facebook Open Graph for Marketers and Content Publishers

How to Use Facebook Open Graph Apps for Marketing Through the Ticker and TimelineThe Like Button Style Guide: How to Pick the Design That’s Right for Your WebsiteHow to Choose Open Graph Tags That Maximize the Value of Your Like ButtonsFacebook Connect Integration Best Practices from the Platform ShowcaseImplementation Options: Like ButtonFacebook CTO Bret Taylor Discusses the Open Graph

More Ways to Market on Facebook: Questions, Places, and Deals

How Pages Can Use the Relaunched Facebook Questions ProductHow to Create a Deal with Facebook DealsThe Places We’ll Go: How marketers can use Facebook’s new location featuresFacebook Questions – A Walk-ThroughHow Marketers Can Get The Most Out Of Facebook QuestionsGroups and SEO – a Quick Overview

Advertising on Facebook

Page Destination Tab Ad Campaign StrategiesSponsored Stories Ads: Walk-Through and Marketing Campaign StrategiesFacebook Ads: Read Before You Get StartedFacebook Ads – A Walk-ThroughThe Facebook Ads ManagerFacebook Self-Serve Ad Types: Page AdsFacebook Self-Serve Ad Types: Event Ads

Ads Targeting on Facebook

10 Powerful Targeting Methods Facebook Ads Every Performance Advertiser Should KnowFriends of Connections TargetingFacebook Ads: Language Targeting4 Connection Targeting Tests Every Advertiser Should RunFrom Keyword Targeting to People Targeting: Understanding Performance Advertising with Facebook’s Tim KendallTime Scheduling

Tools and How-Tos for Marketers

Facebook “Insights” Metrics Dashboard for Page ManagersUsing Third Party Tools to Manage Your Facebook PageHow Page Owners Can Restrict Content for Underage UsersHow to Export Your Facebook Page Updates to Twitter

Policies, Privacy, and Guidelines to Watch

Promotional/Sweepstakes Policies for Facebook PagesThe Future of Sharing on Facebook: A Hybrid Public/Private ModelFacebook’s Guidelines for Promoting Pages Outside Facebook

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