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How to schedule and backdate Facebook posts

Do you need to backdate Facebook posts on your Facebook Page to fill in your companies history?

Are you going to be at a conference and need to schedule Facebook Page posts ahead of time?

This article will show you how to schedule and backdate Facebook posts on your Facebook Page.

Why backdate Facebook posts?

One of the most overlooked features on a Facebook Page is the ability to backdate Facebook posts.

Backdating Facebook posts can help fans share in your companies rich history. Here’s how to do it!

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With the backdating posts feature, this allows companies with a deep history to be able to share it on their Facebook Page.

For example, do you know the history of McDonald’s and how they got started?

You can also check out Time Magazine on Facebook. They have done a great job filling in the history of their magazine by adding in past covers and articles from old magazines.

Benefits of backdating Facebook Page posts

One thing I like about Facebook Pages that backdate their Facebook posts is that it gets them to focus on their true content.  Too many times do I see pages posting quotes and photos that are unrelated to their business.

In most cases, their current content is getting little engagement with fans, so they’re moving away from focusing on their business and filling up their page with content that won’t add much value in the long run.

The importance of scheduling Facebook posts

Besides backdating Facebook Page content, you can also schedule content to go out.

For example, you can’t be speaking at a week-long conference and expect to keep your Facebook fans updated.

In this situation, you may want to schedule a few Facebook posts ahead of time when you know you will be out.

This way there is some engagement happening on your Facebook Page.

To schedule and backdate posts on Facebook, follow these instructions.

How to backdate Facebook posts

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Gaining followers with the Facebook follow button

Do you have content you want to share with people you are not friends with on Facebook? Instead of adding people you don’t know, you can add the Facebook follow button.

Why add the Facebook follow button?

The Facebook follow button is a great tool to use when you want to let people you don’t know see your updates without being Facebook friends.

This protects your Facebook Profile so that people who follow you cannot see your email address, date of birth, etc.

When you follow someone on Facebook, this also adds their status updates to your news feed.

According to Facebook, here’s why you should add the Facebook follow button,

You should only add someone as a friend when you know them personally. If you don’t know someone personally but want to hear what they have to say, following them is a good option. When you follow someone, you’ll only be able to see their public updates.

For people you are already friends with, you will see a Friends button. Use this button to unfollow their posts without unfriending them.

To turn on the Facebook follow button on your Facebook Profile, follow the instructions below.

How to add the Facebook follow button

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How to Delete a Facebook Page

Delete a Facebook Page

Do you want to delete a Facebook Page permanently?

We’re going to show you how to permanently delete a Facebook Page you no longer want or need in just four steps.

To delete a Facebook Page, simply follow the instructions below.

Remember, when you delete a Facebook Page, not only are you permanently deleting it from Facebook, but you’re also going to lose any photos or status updates that you’ve posted (which probably isn’t a big deal if you’re planning to delete a Facebook Page).

 

How to delete a Facebook Page

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Pay to Send Out of Network Facebook Messages – Is It Worth It?

Pay to send a Facebook Message to a user

Back in December, Facebook was testing out a new feature that would let you pay to send out of network Facebook Messages. For most users, they thought paying to send Facebook Messages was a hoax.

Over the weekend, I was going to send a Facebook Message to a user who was outside of my network and was immediately prompted with the following message. If I wanted to send a Facebook message to someone outside of my network, I would need to pay.  Seriously? Yes, you may have to pay to send a Facebook Message to someone outside of your network.

For those of you who don’t know about paying to send out of network Facebook Messages, here’s how they work.

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How to Delete Facebook Graph Search History [video]


How to delete Facebook Graph Search History

Today, Facebook rolled out Facebook Graph Search. For those of you who don’t know about Facebook Graph Search, it a very powerful graphing tool that let’s you search anything you want on Facebook. One important thing about Facebook Graph Search – it stores your search history.  If you don’t like Facebook storing your graph search history, you can delete it.  Here’s how to delete Facebook Graph Search History in just three easy steps.

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Make 2013 Your Best-Ever Year: A 12-Month Plan For Social Media Success [INFOGRAPHIC]

2012 was the year of social media.  Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram and Pinterest all experienced tremendous growth in social media.

So how can you as a business, capitalize on the success of these growing social networks in 2013? First, you need a social media plan.

No, you don’t have to get your calendar out and start feverishly writing. Instead, there’s a handy infographic that can help you figure out what you need to be doing each month to reach social media success in 2013.

A few of the key steps include:

  1. Assessing your social fitness
  2. Revisiting your social goals
  3. Becoming a better listener
  4. Integrating all of your social platforms, and
  5. Planning for the future
  6. ….

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Facebook Graph Search, the Next Big Thing In Social Media?

Facebook Graph Search

Today, Facebook unveiled Facebook Graph Search, a new way to search through your Facebook connections and to help make them more useful (outside of just providing updates). What this means is that instead of searching through your Facebook news feed, you can use Facebook Graph Search to help you get more granular within your existing connections and make new connections in the process.

What is Facebook Graph Search?

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Facebook Groups – The Definitive guide to privacy settings

When it comes to creating Facebook Groups, it is important to know about the different privacy settings that are available.

This way, when you’re setting up your Facebook group, you’ll know exactly what type of privacy settings to use.

Knowing the right privacy settings on Facebook Groups is important because this is how you’ll control who can see your group, who can join your Facebook Groups, and which members can see updates from your Facebook Groups.

The key thing to remember is that there are three types of privacy settings for Facebook Groups; open, closed, and secret. Here’s a breakdown on the privacy settings that you can use for Facebook Groups.

3 Types of Facebook Groups

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Everything I Need to Know About Social Media, I Learned From Football

Blue 42, hut hut, hike.  Who’s ready for some Football? With the NFL Playoffs set, I put together this fun (and handy) infographic to help explain social media in terms of Football.

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The State of Social Media in 2012

2012 was a HUGE year for social media – especially for mobile.  Twitter revamped their mobile app, Facebook followed suit and overhauled Facebook for iOS (which was sorely needed). Then, not to be outdone, Pinterest launched business pages for Pinterest, which allowed businesses to create their own accounts that didn’t require a complex way to squeeze your business into the first name and last name fields (finally).

Besides mobile, 2012 was also big for investors as well, as Facebook went public – and who can forget about Facebook Timeline, which also launched in 2012 – I know, it’s hard to remember all the way back to January 2012.

So what else happened with social media in 2012? Take a look at this infographic on everything that happened in social media in 2012.

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