Creative Web Biz

How To Sell Music Online

Yemoonyah — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 20:37:16 +0000

How to get started:

You’re an independent artist and would looooove to sell your stuff online but don’t know where to start? Well, it’s actually not that hard and you don’t even need a lot of money to do it either, so here we go:

What you need is an online distributor who will get your music on iTunes, Rhapsody, Napster and all the other major online music stores. Below are listed 4 websites that will do all this for you. Make your pick and get started!

Choose your distributor:

CDBaby

Upload and sell singles or full albums on iTunes, Amazon MP3, Rhapsody, Napster, eMusic and more. No annual fees, 35$ per album, 9$ per single. These prices include CD and download sales on CDBaby.com and worldwide digital and physical distribution. CD-Baby gets 9% of your net income and 4$ per physical CD sold (see pricing details).

Example artist page: El Puente on CDBaby

Tunecore

Tunecore sells through iTunes, Amazon MP3, eMusic, Thumbplay, Napster and AmyStreet. They also provide physical on demand distribution through Amazon. Prices are 9.99$ per single or ringtone, 47.99$ per album, you keep 100% of your royalties.

No artist pages

Songcast

SongCast delivers music to iTunes US and other international iTunes Stores, Rhapsody, Amazon MP3, Emusic, Napster & MediaNet. They ask for a monthly fee of $5.99 plus onetime setup fee of $19.99 per album or $9.99 per single. This includes a free UPC Barcode for every release (the other services charge extra for the code).

Example artist page: Simonne Lee on Songcast

ReverbNation

Sell your music on iTunes, Amazon, etc. and keep 100% of the royalties. Use the free Reverb Store to sell T-shirts, CDs, downloads, hats and ringtones directly to fans on Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, and your home page or blog.. 34.95$ per year for the ‘Essential’ package, 59.95$ for the ‘Pro’ package.

Example artist page: Bantu on ReverbNation

You’d rather sell independently?

Bandcamp

Bandcamp does not distribute your music but rather makes it possible to sell it form your own personalized site . Instead of ads for Sexy Singles Chat, your fans see your design, your music, your URL. You retain all ownership rights and Bandcamp just hangs out in the background handling the tech stuff. They offer your tracks in mp3, AAC, FLAC, Ogg…all the formats your fans demand. Choose between giving away your music, setting a price, letting folks name their price – it’s up to you.

Example artist page: Kiko King on Bandcamp

Promotion:

Now, that your music is for sale online, you still need to let people know about it, otherwise there will be nobody to buy it, right? Here are the three things you will need:

A Facebook fan page

If you don’t have a FB page yet (and I’m not talking about your personal profile here) , go and read ’10 Facebook Fan Page Tips for Creative Entrepreneurs‘ immediately!

A SoundCloud account

SoundCloud lets you move music fast & easy. The platform takes the daily hassle out of receiving, sending & distributing music for artists, record labels & other music professionals.

But here is the most important part: All your public tracks come with the coolest audio player widget on the web. It’s customizable in a matter of seconds and completely flexible to what info you need to show around your tracks. It even lets you link to iTunes, Bandcamp or other any place people can buy your music. This widget can be posted all around the web: your website, blog, Facebook profile or page, you name it!

Example artist page: Braintheft on Soundcloud

The SoundCloud app on Facebook

The SoundCloud app allows you to put tracks that are on SoundCloud.com right in your Facebook profile and page, complete with timed comments, a crisp waveform display and all.

Example: Braintheft fan page

Ready to rock!

Upload your music to the distributor of your choice and to SoundCloud, link the player widget back to where you sell your music (i.e. ITunes) and then hook up the SoundCloud app on Facebook to let your friends and fans know they can finally buy your music online!

Post any questions in the comments section!

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Domain Name Transfer The Easy Way

Yemoonyah — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 15:08:24 +0000

After I decided to switch domain names from Kabai33.com to CreativeWebBiz.com, I started researching how to go about it. Most blog posts I found on the topic described methods that included mod-rewrites, altering my .htaccess file and moving all of my files to another place…too complicated for me! I like it simple! Usually I am always happy to improve my skills but this time I really didn’t feel like investing the time to figure it all out. So I found an easier way and here is how it works:

Register your new domain with your web host.
Ask your web host to make the new url your main domain. This means that your account, your databases, your files and everything else will be automatically renamed to match your new web address.
Create a permanent redirect (301) from your old domain to your new one (if you don’t know how to do this, ask your web host to help you with this). A 301 will make sure that everyone who tries to find you under the old url will be redirected to the new one.
Change all external links that point to your site, e.g. the links on your Facebook page and your Twitter profile.
Make the Google juice flow by submitting your new site url, so they can start crawling and indexing it.

That’s it!

Easy right? When you’re done, let me know how it worked out for you in the comments.

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Business Ebooks & Audios for Creative Entrepreneurs

Yemoonyah — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 22:00:03 +0000

How to Conquer Marketing and Make a Living With Your Art

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A one hour audio interview with Naomi Dunford and Megan Morris about art, marketing and running an ittybiz. Very important things that you can do to help the right people find you, like you, and want to buy from you.

Hear how you can do what YOU want in you art, and still make money;
Hear why artists don’t need a USP (lucky you!);
Hear why custom furniture is the place to look for marketing advice;
Advice on ways to get more eyeballs on your stuff;
Hear why high-end art is the way to go if you hate marketing;
Hear how you might be able to make more money by taking donations instead of selling your art straight-trade

How to Conquer Marketing & Make A Living With Your Art by Naomi Dunford of IttyBiz.com

10 Steps to Powerful Online Self Promotion for Creatives

Freelancers and people in creative professions are often very good at the work they do, but, because they have little insight into how to promote their work, find themselves with little recognition, few sales and very few decent clients. Not getting the recognition and the clients you deserve can be frustrating, especially when you know you need to promote yourself and your work, but just lack the tools and the know-how to do so effectively.

You can experience the peace of mind that comes with knowing exactly how to create exposure for your work to the right people. With ‘10 Steps’ you will be introduced to a simple yet extensive step by step system that will allow this kind of regular targeted exposure to become a reality. You will be shown how getting regular clients and making consistent sales works according to a specific cycle that is addressed throughout the ten steps.

The book reveals how to set yourself apart amongst the competition, become a credible, recognized authority in your field and establish and promote an effective personal online presence.

10 Steps to Powerful Online Self Promotion for Creatives by Alex Mathers of Red Lemon Club

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I’d rather be in the Studio! The Artist’s No-Excuse Guide to Self-Promotion

If your ready to get past the excuses you’ve been making for your lack of success…if you’re ready to get out of the studio and take charge…this book will offer practical advice to help you sell more art and build an art career that lasts.

This book is the result of more than a decade consulting with artists. Alyson Stanfield wrote it for every artist who wants more recognition. Yes, you may have heard of some of this before, but you have never had all of this information in a single resource. I promise.

I’d rather be in the Studio by Alyson B. Stanfield of ArtBizBlog

Tip: also check out the other ebooks by Alyson

Multiple Streams of Income: A Guide to Creating Income for Artists and Crafters

In order to create the financial success you desire, you have to find multiple ways to bring in income. You should have a good combination of active and passive income. Read this ebook and you’ll have the beginning of a basic plan and a focus on the areas you need to work on in order to achieve success in your business and make a living doing what you really love.

Multiple Streams of Income: A Guide to Creating Income for Artists and Crafters by Laura Bray of KatyDiddy

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Update: ‘Kabai33′ becomes ‘Creative Web Biz’

Yemoonyah — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 14:25:24 +0000

Kabai33 has a new name!

During these last weeks I had the time to reconsider my business strategies concerning this blog. As you all know, the focus of Kabai33 has shifted over time from being an artist blog to a site that focuses on tips, tools and resources for creative entrepreneurs. I don’t really know how this happened, but it did almost by itself, so I guess I’ll call it fate! I just meet so many people who want to know how I started my own online art biz because they want to do it too and I am happy to answer their questions and create services, like the Creative Web Biz Kit, to get them started.

Now I decided to let this also reflect in the name of my blog: From now on this site will be found under http://CreativeWebBiz.com. This is not an easy step to take and it involves lots of organizational work, but I think it will be worth it. It will take a while to change all the internal and external links and get Google to understand what’s going on. For now the site can be reached via the old http://kabai33.com and the new http://creativewebbiz. com

Here is how you can help:

If you linked to Kabai33 on your own blog or anywhere else, please change the link to http://creativewebbiz.com and if you find any dead links while reading the blog, please let me know, so I can fix it!

The Future of CreativeWebBiz.com

So, what does all this mean for the future of this site?

Well, there will be a much clearer focus, namely tips, tools and resources for creative entrepreneurs! There will be more info, more services and more products to help you build and grow your own creative web biz. You will be updated on all this as soon as possible.

What about the art and the jewelry?

They will be taken off the site and moved to my Etsy store (which is still empty for now). As soon as this is done, you will be updated about this too.

Soooo excited…

I’m really excited about the change and I hope you are too. Let me know what you think about the new name in the comments.

have a great week

Yamile

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Calling All Creative Entrepreneurs [my first ever video!]

Yemoonyah — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:14:13 +0000

How I became a Creative Entrepreneur

When in my final high school years people started asking me what I was gonna do for a living, I never knew what to answer. None of the available options (that I knew of) sounded attractive to me. So I opted for going to college because it was the choice with the most freedom involved…or so I thought. My college years ended with me dropping out and my parents having nightmares about my now surely somber future. I can’t blame them, I actually had the same nightmares but started concentrating on my art because that was what I really wanted to do.

In 2007 I set up Kabai33 using WordPress. I wanted to sell my art online. A year later I attended a WordPress meet-up here in Berlin, Germany. Matt Mullenweg, the founder and developer of WordPress was there as well as Janetti Chon of Web 2.0 Expo and Jody Church, the then community manager of Lifestream.fm as well as lots of other people. For me it was the first time meeting people who made a living through and with the internet, blogging and social media. At the end of the night we set with maybe 7 people on a tiny balcony in Friedrichshain and discovered that almost all of us were college drop-outs. I looked around at all those bright, inspiring people and I knew I was in good company and I never thought leaving college was a bad idea anymore.

Helping Others

Back then I decided to do more than just sell my art online. I wanted to teach other artists how to use wordpress, how to blog and how to eventually make money with it. So I started writing some blog posts for fellow artists and other creative souls: blogs to follow if you want to sell art online, how to create a Facebook fan page and some other stuff I had learned while building my own blog. These posts got a lot of attention because there seems to be a real need for this kind of information.

Creative Web Biz Kit

So I decided to take it a step further and actually help creative people set up a blog and start their own online biz and set up the Creative Web Biz Kit for Artists and other Creative Entrepreneurs. It includes instructions on how to get a web host + the actual site set-up (by me) + 10 preinstalled themes (all designed with artists in mind) + 10 preinstalled plugins which extend the functionality of your blog so you can sell your creations directly from your site and do other cool stuff. And because I really want you to succeed you will also get a 3 week email course that will teach you how to start and grow your own creative web biz! Sounds good right? Head on over and check it out!

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How To Make Gmail Your Business Email

Yemoonyah — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 19:32:52 +0000

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Almost three years ago I decided to start selling my art online. I knew I had to get a professional blog and my own business email address. So I signed up with BlueHost to get both.

I did have a Gmail account which worked fine but I wanted something more professional looking. No more myname@gmail.com for me. I wanted myname@mydomain.com and that is what I got. But when I sent my first email I discovered that the email clients my web host uses are not at all as sophisticated as Gmail is.

I was disappointed and didn’t know how to solve my problem until I found the solution using Gmail’s Mail Fetcher. It can download messages from up to five other email accounts, centralizing all your email in Gmail. Once you’ve set up Mail Fetcher, Google will check your other accounts on a regular basis, and new mail will appear automatically in Gmail. But the best part is that the recipients of the mail you sent from Gmail will only get to see your other, more professional business email address!

Here is how it works:

Go to your domain registrar control panel and create an email forwarding account for your domain (most registrars offer this feature for free with your domain registration).

Log into your gmail account

Go to Settings in the upper right corner of your Gmail screen

Open the Accounts and Imports tab

Find the Check mail using POP3 section and click on Add Pop3 Email Account. Type in the email address of the account you want to access, click Next Step

Check if the sample settings are correct and enter your password

Now you can choose if you want the retrieved emails to be deleted in your other account or if you want to leave a copy on the server.

Click Add Account

Create custom From address. This allows you to compose messages in Gmail, but have them appear to be sent from your other email account.

Done!

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13 WordPress Plugins for Creative Entrepreneurs

Yemoonyah — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 17:56:13 +0000

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Standard Plugins:

WordPress Database Backup

by Austin Matzko

No matter what kind of blog you have, you will definitely need this plugin! It will help you backup your blog so you are always on the safe side if something should ever happen to your blog (which I hope will never occur of course).

I set it up to create daily backups that go straight to the trash of my gmail account (you can do this by going to settings and creating a filter). If I ever need it, I just go there and download the latest version.

WP Super Cache

by Donncha O Caoimh

WP Super Cache is a static caching plugin for WordPress. What does that mean? Well, by using this plugin you will speed up your WordPress blog significantly. The faster, the better. Your readers will like it and Google will like it too!

FD Feedburner Plugin

by John Watson

If you have a FeedBurner account (and you should!), this plugin will help you make sure that all your subscribers get redirected to your Feedburner feed and therefore will appear in your stats.

Search Engine Optimization:

All in One SEO Pack

by Michael Torbert

Out-of-the-box SEO for your WordPress blog. If you ever googled your own blog, you will know that the listing consits of the title, two lines of text and your url (web address). This plugin makes it easier for you to control what exactly will be shown.

Google XML Sitemaps

by Arne Brachhold

A sitemap is a list of pages of a web site accessible to search engine crawlers or users. This plugin will generate a special XML sitemap which will help search engines like Google, Yahoo, Bing and Ask.com to better index your blog.

SEO FriendlyImages

by Vladimir Prelovac

As creative entrepreneurs, most of you will have lots of visuals on your blogs. This plugin automatically adds alt and title attributes to all your images which helps to improve traffic from search results, especially from Google images.

Comments:

CommentLuv

by Andy Bailey

Plugin to show a link to the last post from the commenters blog (if they have one) when they leave a comment. Rewards your readers and encourages more comments.

Subscribe to Comments

by Mark Jaquith

When someone comments on one of your posts, they are usually interested in your reply or other comments on that same post. This plugin allows readers to receive notifications of new comments that are posted to an entry through email.

Engaging Readers:

Social Homes

by Elie Zananiri

Adds a sidebar widget containing a subtle list of all your social homes as linked favicons (see my sidebar). Current services include anything and everything! Just add the full URL to the list of services and Social Homes will figure out what the icon is automatically.

LinkWithin

by linkwithin.com

LinkWithin is a blog widget that appears under each post, linking to related stories from your blog archive. The widget links to stories that are relevant and interesting to readers of a particular post, keeping them engaged with your blog, and increasing your traffic. It is minimally styled and blends in with your site design (see example below this post)

Sexy Bookmarks

by Josh Jones, Jamie Carter, Gautum Gupta, Norman Yung

SexyBookmarks adds a list of social bookmarking icons to each of your posts so your readers can share tese posts on their favorite social networks.

Post Footer Library

by Atlantic Dominion Solutions

This plugin allows you to create a library of code snippets and easily include them at the bottom of Blog Posts on your WordPress powered blog. Add any text or even html. You can use it to remind your readers to subscribe to your blog or to follow you on Twitter or whatever else you wan them to do

Visuals:

Shadowbox JS

by Matt Martz

A blog only allows for a certain width of an image due to it’s design. To allow people to view your images in a bigger version, they could click through to the original file. Shadowbox offers a more elegant solution. Clicking on the image will now darken your screen and overlay it with your image. Don’t know what I’m talking about? See an example.

Installation of all these listed plugins is included in the Creative Web Biz Kit for Artists and Other Creative Entrepreneurs, along with a self-hosted wordpress blog set-up, 10 preinstalled themes and a free ecourse!

Want more?

Find more plugins by opening the “plugin” drop down menu in the left sidebar of your WordPress dashboard. Select “Add New” and start searching by keyword, author or tag.

Your Turn:

what are your favorite plugins?

Leave a link to your blog so we can see them in action!

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4 Creative Ebooks That Help You Make Your Dreams Come True!

Yemoonyah — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 16:28:38 +0000

1. A Simple Guide to Creative Visioning

Creative visioning isn’t so much about making dreams come true, it’s about becoming the dream come true. So this map doesn’t lead you to a physical destination, it leads within – guiding you in aligning to the greatest aspects of yourself. When you are fully aligned with your creative genius, miracles happen and dreams come true. In creative visioning we discover that our dream already exists and is waiting for us to come true!

12$

A Simple Guide to Creative Visioning by Andrea Schroeder of ABC Creativity

Follow @ABCCreativity on Twitter

2. 2010: Creating My Goddess Year Workbook & Planner

The 2010: Creating My Goddess Year Workbook & Planner is is filled with 40 pages of worksheets to help you dream, manifest, set your intentions, plan & cultivate your amazing new year. It’s handwritten & illustrated… perfect for you to print out, soak up the rainbow colours of, and make 2010 your gorgeous goddess year.

9.95$

Want to share the fun? It’s also available in discounted packs of two (for yourself and a friend), of five (for all your best friends) and as a gift voucher.

2010: Creating My Goddess Year Workbook & Planner by Goddess Leonie of GoddessGuidebook

Follow @GoddessLeonie on Twitter

3. The Right Brain Business Plan Ebook

This colorful, out-of-the-box e-Book, guides you through the creative process of envisioning your business and crafting your unique and personal business plan. It’s like having your own creative cohort alongside you for inspiration and motivation! Takes you all the way from the vision through the action plan.

19.95$

Right Brain Business Plan Ebook by Jennifer Lee of RightBrainBusinessPlan

Follow @artizencoaching on Twitter

4. Multiple Streams of Income: A Guide to Creating Income for Artists and Crafters

10$

Multiple Streams of Income: A Guide to Creating Income for Artists and Crafters by Laura Bray of KatyDiddy

Follow @katydiddy on Twitter

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Win A Blog or Why 2010 Is Going To Be Our Year!

Yemoonyah — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 16:45:28 +0000

Yep, it’s finally 2010!

Now, if you follow me on Twitter or are a fan of Creative Web Biz on Facebook, then you already know that I am convinced that 2010 is going to be my year!

Yes, you heard it right, I am absolutely sure that this year is going to change my life. How do I know? Well, because I will take all my manifestation skills and create the life I want for myself. No excuses!

2009 has been hard on many of us and I too had to go through some very challenging times. But now, that we got rid of any unwanted energies, we are going to fly! We? Yes, we, because part of my plan is to help you do it too!

Last year I wrote some posts to help artists, designers, crafters, clowns, cooks and other creative entrepreneurs to start and grow their own creative web biz. The feedback was amazing and Google Analytics tells me that lots and lots of people have read them and still do. I guess I’m not the only one trying to create a sustainable and independent lifestyle using my talents and gifts

If you haven’t read them yet, here is your chance to do so:

- How to Set Up Your Own Creative Web Biz in 5 Steps

- 21 Blogs to Follow if You Want to Sell Art or Crafts Online

- 10 Facebook FanPage Tips for Creative Entrepreneurs

- 10 WordPress Themes for Creative Entrepreneurs

Win a Blog, Free Ecourse and other plans for this coming year:

While building my own online biz I have learned sooooo much and it would be a waste not to share this knowledge with all of you. And you know what? I am convinced that the more people can sustain and live their desired lifestyle, the better for Mother Earth cause happy people don’t go to war!

That is why from now on I will be writing weekly biz articles! But that’s not all. I will also create a free ecourse for artists, crafters, musicians, designers and other creative entrepreneurs. If you want to get notified of upcoming posts, the free ecourse and other goodies , just sign up to my bimonthly newletter below. Issue#1 will go out on Jan14th and one of the readers will win a free professional blog set-up! I will help the winner to sign up for a web host and then install the wordpress blogging software complete with ten themes and ten plugins that are handpicked and especially suited for blogs with highly visual content. I will even enable you to sell your creations directly from your very own blog. So sign up and start thinking about what your free domain name is going to be!

And don’t forget to follow me on Twitter for your daily dose of tips, tools and resources for Creative Entrepreneurs.
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Let’s rock!

p.s. the beautiful pic above was shot by 1suisse

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10 Facebook Fan Page Tips for Creative Entrepreneurs

Yemoonyah — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 13:36:27 +0000

About a month ago I finally created a Fan Page for Creative Web Biz on Facebook (if you aren’t a fan yet, head on over and check it out!). During the process I learned some things I would like to share, as I know that some of you will find this information useful.

1. Create a Fan Page:

First things first. If you don’t have a fan page yet, go and create one now! Fan pages are a great way to promote your Creative web Biz.

2. Set Your Username:

Facebook finally implemented urls based on usernames. Most of you will have set the url for their private profiles already, but you might not have done it for your fan- or business page yet. Both can be set here. Please note that you need to have 100 fans before you can get your url. If you don’t have that many fans yet, proceed to step three first.

3. Page Badge :

A simple Facebook badge can be found on your page admin screen at the end of the right sidebar . Click the badge link and you will get a snippet of code to copy and paste. You can see an example in the sidebar of my Facebook profile. A second badge and guidelines on how to and how not to promote your fan page can be found here.

4. FanBox:

A more interactive way to promote your page is the new Fan Box which can look as simple as the one you can see in the sidebar of my blog (under ‘join me’) but it can also include your latest updates (pictures, videos and all) and also display your fans (see below). To get one go to your page admin screen and find the link in your right sidebar under ‘promote your page’.

5. Facebook Marketing Solutions:

Facebook Marketing Solutions is fan page run by Facebook employees that ‘helps (brand) marketers share with users and create movements on Facebook’ . They provide news and info on how to market your brand on Facebook. Become a fan to get updates!

6. NetworkedBlogs:

NetworkedBlogs is a very useful application on Facebook. It will import your blog feed to your private profile as well as to your fan page and into the news streams of your friends and fans. In has it’s own tab which shows your latest blog posts and will let people follow your blog right inside Facebook. See it in action on the Kabai33 Fan Page.

7. Twitter for Pages:

Another app I use is ‘Twitter for Pages‘ by Involver. It adds a tab to my page which displays my last 20 tweets. However, it does not update your status (unless you pay), so if you want to do that you should also get the official Twitter app which will do just that.

8. Live Stream Box:

During the 2009 US Presidential Inauguration, Facebook tested a new feature that let people share Facebook status updates and comments side by side with real-time streaming video on CNN’s website. Now this feature is made public. The Facebook Live Stream Box is easy to install and takes just a minute to set up. You can include a Live Stream Box anywhere on the Web, or within your Facebook Page, or a Facebook application.

Both Justin.tv and UStream.tv have developed apps to help you do this. You will have to apply to use the one by UStream but Live (byJustin.tv) is ready and as easy to use as any other Facebook app. Check it out!

9. Find more apps for your page:

To find more apps that work on fan pages (not all do) go to the application directory, click on ‘all apps’ and then on ‘pages’.

10. Facebook Ads:

Promote your page with Facebook ads. To do so you only need to go to your page admin screen and click the green ‘promote your page’ button in the upper right hand corner. This will take take you to a screen where you can input a title, body text and an optional image (default is your page profile pic). For more info go to the Facebook Ads Help Ceter.

11. Don’t forget to become a fan of Creative Web Biz on Facebook

12. Get a custom tab for your page (updated August, 16th 2010)

Add advanced functionality to your page using the Facebook Static FBML application. This application will add a tab to your page in which you can render HTML or FBML (Facebook Markup Language) for enhanced page customization. This way you can add a newsletter sign up form or any other special info.

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