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Design Woop Blog Might Be For Sale!

Stu Greenham — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 22:51:11 +0000

So tonight I’ve been thinking, thinking about selling my blog! Bit out the blue, but to be honest, I haven’t really had the time for my blog that its needed and the growth of the site has started to hinder because of it.

In less then a year I have gone from no followers / subscribers etc to over 600 on average and constantly growing, which might not sound amazing but for a blog that I have been posting mainly community links with the odd guest post thrown in or tutorial. If I gave it my full attention I know the subscribers would continue to rise and my page views would too.

In the 6 months I have had Mint installed I have had over a 140k page views and over 90k uniques, as well as several thousands of incoming links from some really great sites and an established page rank 4! Its easy to see that when I start to post regularly I see an instant increase in page views as a result, hence me considering passing over the torch to someone who is willing to give it time and effort that I can’t!

This is not a final decision, as I love my site and am extremly proud of where I have got it too, but if your after a blog, or fancy a chat about possible taking over, let me know at hello@designwoop.com.

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Nifty Fifty: The Benefits of a Fixed 50mm Lens

Stu Greenham — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 12:42:52 +0000

Great article looking into the benefits of having a 50mm lens! Helped me in deciding to buy one myself.

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Guest Post: Top 10 Effective Facebook Pages

Michael Vreeken — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 12:26:15 +0000

I felt it’s necessary to recognize that Facebook gain a key role in Internet activity. So I decided to make a small detour through the possessions of a big F. Today its influence on the Internet is huge and simply stunning. You can just imagine how BIG it is outdoing Google on Alexa.

Facebook reached 550 millions accounts this summer. It’s 80mlns bigger then European Union population.

Anyhow Facebook provides many tools to maximizing your presence on the social network. You can not only stay in contact with your friends abroad but you can also do business and make some statistics calculations. With use of Facebook Apps and their API you can create stunning business and fan pages for your needs. Some simple and most popular method is FBML application with help of with you can create your own Facebook FBML pages.

So here are some examples on how to develop successful Facebook landing page. This is not a tutorial but if you would like to read some FBML tutorials you sould rather visit this page.
The main object on any Facebook FBML page is “call-to-action” or if we are trying to be more specific the “Like” button. Its critical to get as much Likes as you can on Facebook. More Likes you have better your business goes. So lets see how some populars companies converting Facebook traffic.

Facebook Call-to-Actions

Escape to Shape

Escape to Shape fanpage meets all requirements of Facebook marketing. You can see “Click to become a fan” action. Twitter, video and Feed call-to-actions. In general, they are good if you do not take into account the small holes in the design.

RodeoHouston

Fantastic Facebook landing page for fans and 1st visitors. You can see here attractive Become a Fan button, a BIG call-to-action sign forcing you to click and awesome designed page. Well-done Rodeo-Houston.

AllFacebook

You might know this Facebook insiders and one of the most popular website on FB news and releases. You can see here alot of tips where to click and what to do. You dont have to think on “Where am I?”. Click the Like button, become a fan, load the video and then subscribe to RSS or proceed to our website.

Sprout

Awesome “Like this page!” reminder. Everything is quite simple and usable. I’d just suggest to Sprout not to use Flash on their fanpage. It’s not a good practice for now.

Mashable

Magnificent landing page! “Join ME! You MUST join me Gendalf!” :) No comments.

New England Patriots

These New England Patriots made a good work with adding Live Radio app, poll, video podcast and some call-to-actions. Really good work to start your Facebook marketing campaign.

Online Stores

The 2d way to convert your fans and visitors is to integrate your online store directly into Facebook. It is difficult but worth the costs.

Adidas

Adidas is one of the 1st companies start using Facebook as their marketing tool. So they have a huge expirience in this niche. I think we should take some inspiration while making own personal fan page.

Jones Soda

Not so famous but still deserve to be listed. Integrated video, dynamic news, twitter feed (which is a big problem on Facebook), social media icons and iPhone app. All this with a good design makes popular Facebook FBML page.

DogPatch

Dogpatch developed by Sprout drives you all information need to meet this company and their services. The one page that gives you maximum information to make your choice.

Victoria’s Sicret

You should probably know that Vitoria’s Sicret according to Hitwise considered one of the best presented internet brands. They are doing a great job here at Facebook aswell.

Well, I hope that I’ve inspired you as to what successfully companies are doing within Facebook and gives you some ideas on how to start your Facebook campaign. Anyhow if you decided to create your own Facebook fan page you might try to use these FBML Templates or read some tips and tricks listed at the FBML blog