Fishbowling - The Art of Internet Marketing

Revised — May 25, 2008 

A quick post about replying on Facebook.

There are a couple of ways to reply when you want to send a “friend” a message on Facebook.

One of the ways is through the message system.  If you send a friend a message this way it is private one-on-one only and not available for public viewing.

This method is most commonly used.

However, if you want your message to be seen by the public — your “friend’s” friends, you need to post it on your friend’s wall.

Why would you want a message to be public? There are a number of resaons, but here is one I think you will like.

We all want more traffic to our web pages..Right?!

Well if you post on someone’s wall you can promote a website, a blog, etc where all your “friend’s” friends can see it when they visit your friend’s Facebook page.

Here is an example of what I mean.

You requested someone to be your friend (as I mentioned in my previous post) and they accepted.

Now you can send them a thank you for accepting, but post it on their wall instead of sending it throught the message system.

Like this:

** start example **

Hello <Name>,

Thank you for accepting me as your Facebook friend.

I look forward to getting to know you better and learning more about you.

To learn more about me please visit my website

http://www.chuckyockey.com/blog

Take care,

Chuck Yockey

** end example **

This way anyone can see your URL when they visit your “new friend’s” page.

Try it — you’ll like it! 

!!! Added May 25, 2008 !!!

A friend of mine Robert Agar-Hutton from the UK, brought to my attention something he is doing on FB when writing on walls.  It is a modification of what I suggested.  Here is Robert’s example:

** start example ** 

Hello XXXXX

Thank you for having me as your Facebook friend.

YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

If you would like to know more about me:
http://www.protectics.co.uk/content/pages/inform.html
and http://www.p-k-j.org/content/robert.html

If you are interested in your personal safety and health
then please join my mailing list for “Your Safety Matters”
at: http://www.protectics.co.uk/ma

All the best.

Robert.

Where obviously the XXX is their name and the YYYYYY is something about them or their Facebook profile that aids starting a dialogue

** end example **

Awesome suggestion Robert!

!!! end added !!!

To living your dreams,

Chuck Yockey

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