Last week Facebook announced changes to their news feed.  If you are a Facebook page admin, these changes will be relevant to you and how you should publish updates on your Timeline.

Here is a great article by Diana Urban about optimising your Facebook content.

New Facebook News Feed: How To Optimize Your Facebook Page Content

Diana also has an informative book called Stand Out On Facebook – The 4 Week Success Formula.  By the end of four weeks, you will:

• Optimise the Timeline functionality to create a beautiful Facebook page
• Create a like-gated tab that entices new visitors to “like” your page
• Develop a content schedule that keeps your fans engaged
• Build relationships with your fan base so they keep coming back
• Promote your fan page to expand its growth

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• WordPress for iOS
• WordPress for Android
• WordPress for BlackBerry
• WordPress for Windows Phone
• WordPress for Nokia
• WordPress for WebOS

Learn More About These Apps

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It is important that you take control of your online presence. The only way to do this is to have control over your own website. Sites such as Facebook provide you with the technology to quickly and easily build an online presence, but the big problem with this is that you don’t own your Facebook page. What happens if Facebook changes its rules, or makes you pay for services that were previously free? You have no option but to conform to these rules. If you want a Facebook page, you have to agree to their rules.

Don’t get me wrong, there is nothing wrong with having a Facebook page, it increases your online presence and also allows you to engage with visitors whom you may never have crossed paths with, but what happens if Facebook suddenly disappears or decides that your Facebook page does not conform to their terms and conditions and it is taken down?

Your only peace of mind is to take control of your online presence and build your own website. You decide what features and information you want on your website. The best scenario is to link all of your social media accounts such as Facebook and Twitter to your website so that you can connect and build your online presence. If for some unforeseen reason Facebook no longer exists or your Facebook page has been taken down, it doesn’t matter, you have not invested all of your eggs in one basket, you simply continue building your online presence through your website.

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Have you been looking for information on the web and come across a website with the information you need, but it hasn’t been updated for a number of months or even years.  You want to know the information you are reading is current and can help you.  Is this the experience you want to give your visitors (or potential customers)?

Keeping you website content up to date may seem like an overwhelming task.  Where am I possibly going to find new information not once, but regularly?  First of all, you will need a plan for your website so you know what has to be updated and when.  Updating your website with fresh content can be simple.  Some ideas that may help include:

• Is you product seasonal?  If so, focus on updating your website with information that directly relates to your product.
• Are there complimentary products that you could write about that can help you promote your product.
• How about adding instructions on how to use your product.
• Write a review about your product focusing on the benefits of using it.

Depending on the type of website you have, updating your content may be simple or not.  If you have a static html web page, it can be difficult to find your way through all of the website code to update some text in your page.  If you need to create a new page, you may have to employ the services of your web designer to create one.  This can be timely and expensive.

You can install the WordPress framework and build a website that allows you to create new pages and posts and best of all, you can schedule your new pages and posts to be published in the future.  This can save you a lot of time.  By using WordPress, you can publish new information on your website that will allow visitors to comment and share through social media what you have to say.

If you are planning on building a website or would like to convert your existing website to WordPress, contact us now and we can work on a plan to help you improve your online presence.

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Buyers do not need a PayPal account to purchase your products or services online. When directed to PayPal to pay for their purchases, your customer has the choice of signing in and  using their account or entering their personal details and credit card details to complete the purchase. It does not require any special software or technology, which has boosted its popularity amongst all levels of buyers and sellers globally.

PayPal provides a number of account types that you can choose from, depending on your business. Here is a link to the PayPal Australia account types:

Account Types

When you sign up for a business account with PayPal, the transaction fees are simple and easy to understand. The fees charged by PayPal are dependant upon your revenue each month. To understand this a little more, here is a link to the PayPal Australia fee structure for business accounts:

Transaction Fees

PayPal earns its revenue by charging a percentage of the transaction that has taken place. There are many sellers whose revenue may only be a few hundred dollars a month to sellers who are earning tens of thousands of dollars each month, both can easily calculate the cost of a transaction and absorb this cost into the price of their product or service.

When choosing to offer PayPal as your payment method, you will need to complete a few settings to properly configure PayPal so it integrates smoothly with your website/shopping cart.

If you are considering using PayPal as a payment option for your website, here are a few resources that should help you set up and configure your account.

Account Setup – Step 1
Account Setup – Step 2
Account Setup – Step 3

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 Most of us have had the experience of losing our data on our computer, whether from a virus or a hardware failure. How many of us can say that we diligently backed up our important files on a regular basis just in case something like this happened? Take this scenario and apply it to a website.

A website contains content about your business and services. If you sell your products or services online, you will have a shopping cart that contains all of your content relating to your customers, orders, sales and stock. Losing any or all of this content could be disastrous to your business and livelihood. Think about this, if you have a bricks and mortar business, the first thing you would do is insure for anything that could potentially affect your business. Your insurance for your website is regular backups of your website content.

If you don’t know what level of support you are being offered by your web hosting provider, talk to them and ask what would happen if your website was hacked or you unexpectedly lost all of your content. Your website is one of the most important assets of your business, if you don’t pay it the attention it deserves, you may be risking the success of your business, especially if you own an online business.

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The option is now available for you to design your own website. Technology has come a long way over the years and now just about anyone can become “IT savvy” with a little help. It is not difficult to build a professional website with features that previously would have been too expensive to implement. There are now free website frameworks available that build the basics of your website for you and allow you to customise the basic website into something you can be proud of.

The most popular free website framework currently available is WordPress. WordPress is a free blogging framework that is now more commonly being utilised as a content management system (CMS). A CMS allows you to easily manage your website content without the need for a web designer to update your website. The advantages of using WordPress include:

• Scheduling and updating your own website content
• Easily connect to your social media accounts such as Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn
• Engaging visitors with the ability to comment on your website content
• Selling your products and services online
• Allowing your visitors to register on your website to receive updates and information

These are only a few of the features available to you when you build your own website. It is also important to remember that once you have your website online you will also need to maintain it. Maintaining your website includes:

• Keeping your content fresh and up to date
• Updating features
• Keeping your website secure
• Backing up your website

If you want to take control of your business and build and manage your own website, register for our Build Your Own Website workshop and you will be well on your way. Also keep an eye out for our Managing Your Website Content workshop that will teach you step by step how to manage and maintain your website.

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