The creation of an acronym for the word F.A.C.E.B.O.O.K. was developed to help you look at it through new eyes as a good way to be transparent and successful on Facebook. Share in this article are a few tips to help you in your journey of learning how to use Facebook to grow your business.

One way that you can think of Facebook is as a business component that is an extension of your business. As an extension of your business, Facebook can help you reach others online that you may not have had the opportunity to reach.

Below is the acronym to help you remember how you can use F.A.C.E.B.O.O.K. in unique ways:

• F: Friendly should always be the way you choose to be positive with others via Facebook. Even if someone doesn’t treat you respectably, you shouldn’t respond negatively. As a business owner, your online presence is very important and how you treat others need to reflect this.
• A: Access to you is something you clients and business partners like to have when doing business with you. Using some of the communication applications that Facebook provides is a way to build in accessibility. Doing a search in the Application of Facebook will render many helpful application such as Social RSS or Clobby.
• C: Connecting with your mentors, clients and business partner via Facebook means that you are able to have an open dialog or communication stream with them. This could allow you to attract new clients or business associates.
• E: Encouraging others is another way to grow your circle of influence on Facebook because being positive draws others to you. As you encourage others in a positive way then you too will receive encourage from those you are connected to via Facebook.
• B: Building your reputation online in your industry is another good example of how you can use Facebook. As you connect with others and share your information, your reputation with grow.
• O: Opportunity to network is one of the main reason to use Facebook. As you network, keep in mind that being pushy can be seen as negative. Show respect to others and get their permission before you blast them with information about you and your products.
• O: Overflowing goodwill is a great thing because you will be given the opportunity to give to others through your overage. Such as giving away freebies to those who “like” your fanpage on Facebook.
• K: Knowledge-sharing is important to growing your circle of influence online. By sharing your knowledge with others, you can become known as a subject-matter-expert which can help you cultivate a speaking career.

Hopefully, these tips will encourage you to implement Facebook in your business if you haven’t already. If you have implemented it in your business, maybe you learned something new that you can do to use Facebook to grow your business.

Growing your business online using Facebook is an important step for business owners. With the growth and changes of the Facebook environment, it can be confusing at times. Well, I want to provide you with a few tips to help you navigate the waters of Facebook.

These tips can help you grow your website traffic along with encouraging people to connect with you Facebook account as a friend or a fan on your Fanpage. As a business owner you can then communicate about your products or services to those you are connected with via Facebook.

Below are a few tips that will help you implement Facebook to grow your business:

• Connect Facebook Fanpage to Twitter. Allows you to have your fanpage automatically update your Twitter account when it is updated.
• Add a Like button to your website. The Like button lets a user share your content with friends on Facebook. When the user clicks the Like button on your site, a story appears in the user’s friends’ News Feed with a link back to your website.
• Add recommend option to website. The Recommendations plugin shows personalized recommendations to your users. Since the content is hosted by Facebook, the plugin can display personalized recommendations whether or not the user has logged into your site.
• Add Like Box to your website. The Like Box is a social plugin that enables Facebook Page owners to attract and gain Likes from their own website.
• Share Live Stream to your website. The Live Stream plugin lets users visiting your site or application share activity and comments in real time. The Live Stream Box works best when you are running a real-time event, like live streaming video for concerts, speeches, or webcasts, live Web chats, webinars, massively multiplayer games.

These are just a few of the ways you can integrate Facebook into your website. Did I miss any? If you know of any other ways to integrate Facebook into a website, please feel free to share.

With the release of the early Beta version of WordPress 3.0, there are a few new things that will help you continue to take advantage of the functionality that WordPress gives its users. One of the new things that you will be able to do is Create a Network.

When you create a network, it means that you will be able to turn the single version of WordPress into a multi-site version just by changing a few things:

• Changing one line in the “wp-config.php” file
• Changing settings on the backend of the WordPress installation. If you are not technical, I would suggest that you leave this up to someone who understands the core files of WordPress. Otherwise, if you make a mistake, you could cause the entire install to stop working.
• Additionally, your server will need to be capable of handling DNS Wildcard

This is just a simple overview regarding the new feature of “creating a network”. To get more details, visit the WordPress Codex: Create a Network.

Being able to connect to potential clients and to business associates is one of the goals for business owners. A strategic plan that has been put in place by Jerrilynn Thomas is a “business scavenger hunt” via Facebook. This hunt will allow me and other business owners to connect with website visitors who are participating in the “business scavenger hunt“.

As part of the hunt, participants will be required to complete forms or answer questions. Each business owner will be giving away an item via his or her website, such as the ebook I’m giving away entitled, “Implementing a Membership Website” to all those who complete the following steps:

• Join “Marketing to Women” fan page on Facebook
• Join “the WordPress Lady” fan page on Facebook
• Follow “WordPressLady” on Twitter
• Complete the “Business Scavenger Hunt” form on this website

Make sure you visit all of the websites of the business owners who are participating in the scavenger hunt so that you have an opportunity to earn or win give-a-ways. Here’s to your success!

Business Owners who want to use WordPress as their content management system for their websites have sometimes found it hard to determine which WordPress theme to use. There are thousands of themes for you to choose from, so picking one can be a daunting task.

When selecting a WordPress Theme for your blog, there are several things that you should keep in mind that will help with your selection.

• Layout: pertains to the number of columns you want on your website, whether you will have a header section or footer section and the number of sidebar sections. Also take into account whether you will have a “feature” section for blog posts.
• Color scheme: you will need to research to find out what colors work best with attracting your target clients to purchase your services or product.
• Functionality/Options: themes that include an option page can give you added functionality or bells and whistles so that you can make changes to your theme without having to edit the theme files.
• Ease of use: should be just plug-n-play which means that the theme shouldn’t “break” your blog or make it look weird once you apply it. It should be easy to add the theme.

As you consider each of these things, please keep in mind that some themes may clash with the plugins that you have installed on your WordPress website. If this is the case, you should deactivate the new theme and then reactivate a previously working theme. I would even suggest that you delete the theme that didn’t work with your website.