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How to: Add a Facebook ‘Like’ Button to Your Page

Mark — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 10:31:08 +0000

You don’t need to have Facebook page to make use of the Facebook ‘Like’ button, you can add one to any page of your website, allowing your users to share the content with their friends on Facebook. Here’s how.

Go to http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/like
Enter the URL of the page you want to promote
Select how you want the button to appear on your page
Click ‘get code’ then copy and paste it into your web page

Tip: Make the title of your page enticing and descriptive of the content that you want users to share as this will form the link displayed in their friend’s Facebook newsfeed.

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Incentive Propelled Marketing on Facebook

Mark — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 09:11:56 +0000

We took the principle of our incentive propelled Twitter marketing solution Twoodlebug and applied it to Facebook. By utilising a Facebook application that allows access to fans only, along with a call to action – to ‘Like’ your page – you can effectively force users to promote your Facebook page to their friends in return for something that’s accessible only via your ‘Fans’ tab… It’s another example of how you can harness the viral potential of social media websites, and maximise the reach of your campaigns, through incentive propelled social media marketing.

Click here to see it in action on our Facebook page.

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Working Word PR Adopt a Twoodlebug

Mark — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 14:17:55 +0000

Cardiff based PR company Working Word are the latest adopters of Bright New Media’s Twitter application, Twoodlebug – using it to promote their new website and a Christmas prize draw – £200 of Amazon or iTunes vouchers are up for grabs, you can enter now by clicking here.

Twoodlebug is an incentive propelled Twitter marketing solution. It simply sits between the user and a reward sending a pre-scripted message or ‘tweet’ to their followers informing them of the offer, and so on and so on, capitalising on the viral potential of Twitter as a marketing tool.

Any online promotion offering something of value can make use of a Twoodlebug to maximise reach by making all interested parties promote the offer to their peers. Examples include; prize draws, free mp3 downloads, retail discount vouchers, white papers and reports.

To find out more about Twoodlebug or to add one to your website contact us today or visit www.Twoodlebug.com

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Another iPod Up For Grabs!

Mark — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 17:04:28 +0000

Well summers over by the looks of things but to ease the autumnal gloom Bright New Media will be giving away iTunes vouchers each and every month in our Twoodlebug prize draw and there’s another iPod up for grabs in the grand prize draw at Christmas! Click here to enter.

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Back in Blighty

Mark — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:09:05 +0000

We’re back at our desks this month after an epic Spanish roadtrip. A two thousand mile round trek to the south coast, only to discover the north coast is much nicer !! we’ll defo go there again. Northern Spain has it all, nice beaches, surf, mountains, and a newly tarmaced, quiet coastal road… I keep a longboard in the back of the truck for just such an occasion.

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Have you Entered our iPod Prize Draw yet? There’s Still Time!

Mark — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 17:05:48 +0000

If you haven’t entered our iPod prize draw yet – there’s still time! Click here to enter now. Simply click the ‘update’ button to tweet the preset message to your followers and then enter your email address – that’s it!

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Cardiff Fashion Blog Launch

Mark — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 18:10:44 +0000

From humble beginnings it looks suspiciously like the Cardiff Fashion blog is going to be a blinding success, having already amassed huge interest ahead of it’s launch party this Friday at Ten Feet Tall in Cardiff. Click here to read the full story in the Guardian.

Brainchild of digital PR and social media evangelist Gwyneth Moore, Cardiff Fashion is a celebration of emerging talent in and around the Fashion Department at the University of Glamorgan. Check it out at www.cardifffashion.com

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Creating a Link Wheel

Mark — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 16:05:55 +0000

A link wheel is a way of leveraging web 2.0 websites to increase the trust and authority of your own site. Basically it involves submitting a number of related articles, each containing two links, one pointing to the next article and the other pointing at your site.

No longer the simple and effective SEO ‘trick’ it once was, the principle remains valid and setting up a more sophisticated link wheel or a legitimate and well maintained link wheel, could still work wonders for your website.

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Get an Instant Quote

Mark — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 18:12:31 +0000

You can now get an instant quote on your website design, graphic design, email marketing, Flash animation, viral marketing or SEO project by completing the short form on the relevant services page. Simples!

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Rachel Featured in the Glossies! (Well, nearly)

Mark — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 09:31:01 +0000

Our serial blogger and Felt fanatic Rachel Drewett caught the eye of one Country Homes & Interiors Magazine editor Rhoda Parry with her FeltPlum blog, who featured it here; http://countrydays.wordpress.com/

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