Terence Chang Photography

Personal Branding With More Exposures

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What do you think about the above AboutMe banner? About.Me is a cool personal branding service that gives you a one landing page to show off your info and link to many services you already have. The services include YouTube. Flickr, WordPress.com, Facebook, Twitter and so many more. I’ve decided to just add my personal blog and photography blog, Facebook, Twitter and Google+.

Although the service is free, it is still really buggy. I have to update my profile page many times in order to get it right. There seem to have some cache issues in their system. As you can see, you can simply link to many of your online profile, social networks and upload your own background image, which I’ve post on my HDR Cozumel Beach.

My purpose of using this service is to basically gain extra exposures. You know how important exposure is to the website. So this is definitely a great place to so. The catch is that you will have to spread the word out, otherwise, no one will know the page exist. You can find the page at About.me/Terence.Chang.

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The secret of invisible Facebook fanpage : Part 2 : Open Graph

First of all, if you are not a fan of my blog, please click on the LIKE button below the big header banner. You will see the invisible Facebook fanpage in action.

If you haven’t read my post about Facebook Fanpage Secret – Part 1, you can read that here.

I have been getting messages on Facebook asking me about the reasons to use invisible Facebook fanpage after I post Part 1 of the secrets.

The short answer is:  Control.

The longer answer is:  Drive traffic to your website and covert your visitors from Facebook on your website.

In part 1, I showed two examples of using invisible Facebook fanpage. Once shows the Facebook social search result of my blog posts. The other one shoes how local businesses were found on Facebook social search. Both search result will lead the visitors to the website directly. In other words, it potentially generates organic search result from Facebook to your website.

Still not sure about invisible Facebook fanpage?

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The secret of invisible Facebook fanpage : Part 1 : Social Search

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The secret of invisible Facebook fanpage : Part 2 : Open Graph

Really? Is there a hidden or invisible fanpage on Facebook? Do they really exist? Why should we use invisible fanpage?

There is no doubt that Facebook is now the #1 most visited single domain website on the Internet. People not only have one or more personal profiles, they also have more than one fanpages.

I am currently conducting an experiment using the hidden/invisible fanpage to engage with fans and drive traffic from Facebook to my websites.

What?

Yes. You heard it right. The purpose of using invisible fanpage is to drive traffic to the external website. In theory, it is the greatest tool to monetize the traffic from the largest social network for affiliate marketing, company promotion, new blog post notification and engaging with your fans OUTSIDE of Facebook.

For example, when you like this blog (click on the LIKE button at top of the page below the huge banner), you will become a fan of my hidden/invisible fanpage. Regardless what fanpage you have on Facebook, the first thing you will do after creating your fanpage is to invite people to become your fan by Liking your page! There is no difference to the invisible fanpage. I call it invisible or hidden fanpage, because they are not visible to anyone on Facebook other than the admin of the page. In other words, you can’t see the fanpage’s wall, photos or discussion. All you see is the destination page on the external website. You do, however, see the fanpage update on your news stream on your wall.

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Prevent Facebook Social Plugin to load page twice – CodeIgniter

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Recently, I discovered one of my web project build on top of CodeIgniter is having issues with duplicate page views. It only happens to FireFox and Google Chrome browser. It looks just find on IE, Opera and Safari browser. So I keep researching and researching and finally found out that Facebook Social Plugin is hitting the page after the initial page load from the browser triggered by the end user.

I am not sure why it doesn’t happen to browsers other than FireFox and Google Chrome. There has to be a way to prevent this from screwing up my page view counter.
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Blog Contest – win 4000 entrecard points and free ad on the happiest blog in the world

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Image Source: Fast Approach To The Corkscrew by StuSeeger

Many people like blog contest! The happiest blog in the world is no exception. They will be giving away 4000 entrecards points and free ad space to the winner on July 5th 2008. The rules seem to be very simple. You can read more about that below. Personally, entrecard has been driving OK traffic to this blog in the past. With 4000 entrecard points, you can pretty much get on some of the high profile blogs.

Here are the detail of the blog contest.

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Socialpreneur – 10 things I do to get attention in the crowd

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Image Source: slayer live @ singapore by notsogoodphotography

Just few days ago, I post my third weekend confession about Weekend Confession – Enjoy life with pretty models. I decided to join the local event and to social with the local entrepreneurs and business owners. I was so amazed by the Twitter power that Darren at ProBlogger created. You can read my post at Twitter – The powerful social networking tool – Are you following me?

Are you a socialpreneur?

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Twitter – The powerful social networking tool – Are you following me?

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Image Source: conversations by b_d_solis

Are you following me on Twitter? If you have not tried Twitter, you are missing some great opportunities to communicate with your potential readers or even with some high profile bloggers such as Darren from ProBlogger.net and Maki from DoshDosh.com and many other great talented bloggers. I can’t list them all. So Darren has been very active on the Twitter. You can follow Darren here and Maki here.

Darren was very kind of asking his follower to send him their best blog post with the eye catching title. I have one of mine list on ProBlogger too. You can see the one in Red.

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Do you communicate with your viewers? Plugoo vs AIM WIMZI

aim_logo Last time, I talked about “Let your viewer talk to you live – Plugoo vs Meebo” for the choice of my communication tool. My pick was Plugoo. Few weeks after that, I now found my new tool to communicate with my viewers and my customers from my blog and online store.

Communication with my viewers and customer is very important to me. Especially for my online store customers. I use live chat tool to do services, answer their questions and communicate with friends on facebook now. Best of all, there is no cost to me! 100% FREE!

AIM WIMZI is the new winner!

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