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5 Ways to Get More Facebook Likes

You have to be everywhere your customers are, including Facebook. Here are some easy ways to rack up those "likes."

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If you don't already know by now, I'm a big believer that social media can help grow a business. But I often still get some pushback from people and customers who are hesitant to jump in.
Here are two of my favorite excuses.

"I'm afraid I'm going to overexpose my business to my customers. Won't that happen?"

Here's how I answer that:

• If you communicate with your customers through email marketing, 20% to 30% of your email recipients will open your message--if you're lucky.
• Probably only a few percent of your customers have liked your Facebook page.
• If your "likers" have a lot of friends or are following a lot of Facebook pages, your message in their news feed may have passed them by.

My point? It's not overexposure. You have to be everywhere your customers are as much as you can!

"Getting people to 'like' me sounds pathetic."

In reality, it's not that much different from asking people to give you their email address or asking for their business card. And the more people that you've got exposed to your message where they want to see it, the better.
Why do you want more Facebook likes?

• When someone likes your business, that action will show up in his or her news feed.
• When you post something, it could show up in your liker's news feed (depending on how engaging your content is and how they have their feed set up).
• It could show up in the ad to your liker's friends when you use Facebook ads.

How do you get more Facebook likes? Here are a few ideas:

1. Facebook Ads

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2. "Like-gate" With a Coupon

Send an email campaign offering a link to a killer coupon with a "like-gate." What's a like-gate? It's when the customers click on the link to the coupon and they're brought to a screen on Facebook that simply asks them to "like us" to get the coupon. (I recommend using VerticalResponse Social or Sprout Social for this.)

3. Like-gate With a Contest

Do the same as above, but with a contest for customers to win something they'll really value. (I recommend using North Social or Wildfire by Google for this.)

4. Email

Send an email message to your email list asking them to like your page.

5. Message Your Personal Facebook Friends

Send a Facebook message to your Facebook friends (within Facebook) asking them to like your page (be strategic, because you can only send one request).
Getting more likes for your Facebook page should just be a part of your overall social media marketing mix!
For more tips and ideas, download this free marketing guide, "Why Facebook Is Important for Small Business."

Sensor Technolgy that identifies Person's Veins.

 Passwords for online banking, social networks and email could be replaced with the wave of a hand if prototype technology developed by Intel makes it to tablets and laptops.
Aiming to do away with the need to remember passwords for growing numbers of online services, Intel researchers have put together a tablet with new software and a biometric sensor that recognizes the unique patterns of veins on a person's palm.
"The problem with passwords -- we use too many of them, their rules are complex, and they differ for different websites," Sridhar Iyengar, director of security research at Intel Labs, said at the annual Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco on Thursday. "There is a way out of it, and biometrics is an option."
Iyengar demonstrated the technology, qu
ckly waving his hand in front of a tablet but not touching it. Once the tablet recognizes a user, it can securely communicate that person's identity to banks, social networks and other services where the person has accounts, he said.
Making laptops, tablets and smartphones responsible for identifying users would take that requirement away from individual websites and do away with the need to individually enter passwords into each of them, Iyengar said.
"We plan to work with service providers to take full advantage of this," he said.
A device using the technology would use built-in accelerometers to detect when a user puts it down, and would then log its owner off to keep unauthorized people from getting in.

Pay Roll Software from SoFTEASY

The Software manages the salary and wages of your workers and staff along with its advanced features.
The Software automatically takes care of its functionality which one has to undergo manually otherwise like counting of OT salary as per the attendance lists and calclating the number of days presentas per his salary defined in the master of employees.

The whole software stands on the attendance slip where you can plug in the third party hardwares like flash machines for the attendance, swapping of the cards etc. The software updates the information and gives the clear and brief reports from those machines, means to say it can get synchronized from any external output devices.