Ten Steps to Leverage Your Blog Posts With Facebook Notes
If you’re an active blogger (and I recommend online marketers for sure have a blog), here’s a ten-step process to create valuable exposure, build rapport, nurture relationships and advance your credibility:
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- Make sure you’re importing your primary blog using the Facebook Notes app.
- Check that you’re already friends with certain prominent people in your industry. If not, send them a friend request (always with a personal message).
- Write a thought-provoking blog post and mention these specific people in your industry that you respect.
- When Facebook imports your blog post into the Notes app, TAG the specific people you mentioned in your post. (You can only tag your friends). They will all receive a Notification in their list of Notifications that you tagged them, and the story will publish in their Mini Feed, and the story will push into their friends’ News Feed… thus bringing more traffic back to your Note.
- When people comment on your Note it also goes into their Mini Feed and their friends’ News Feed. You might also send a private email directly asking certain people to comment. Always include a link to your Note and/or blog post.
- Add to the Comments yourself from time to time to also push out a notification in your Mini Feed and your own friends’ News Feed.
- For particular commenters, you could also acknowledge them publicly on their Wall… again creating valuable exposure and viral visibility for both parties.
- If you follow these same people on Twitter, that you aspire to and have blogged about, (which I recommend you do - look at their Facebook profile and/or search on http://summize.com to find their Twitter username), send them a tweet or direct message letting them know you included them in your blog post.
- When people comment on your blog post, send them an @ Twitter message to acknowledge them in public.
- After a certain period, use the Share feature on your Note (imported blog post) to post out the Note on your profile. e.g. say 3-5 days goes by and your Note has many comments - you could post to your profile (use the Share button) and include a comment to the effect there’s a great discussion going on and you’d welcome more input. And/or you can also use the Share button to send the Note directly to specific friends via email.
As you can see - that’s a LOT of mileage out of ONE blog post!! I wouldn’t recommend this strategy for every blog post, necessarily. But certainly, give it a shot now and then - and do let me know your results.
To see an example in effect, check out my last blog post: Not All Internet Marketers Are Created Equal and the imported Facebook Note currently with 23 comments. (If we’re not yet Facebook friends, send me a request in order to see the Note).
You’re welcome to comment directly on my blog (I use CommentLuv so your latest post URL pulls in) and/or on my Facebook Note. I’ll do my best to also acknowledge you publicly for added valuable visibility!
UPDATE: Be sure to also add in your prominent people as Technorati tags!
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30 Responses to “Ten Steps to Leverage Your Blog Posts With Facebook Notes”
Lissa Boles
June 9th, 2008
Excellent information! I did not realize all of that! Thank you!
Joan Adams
June 9th, 2008
Hey, Mari, that’s a heap of good information!
One suggest on your links. If you use: target=new”_blank”
that will take us to th e page in a new window and much easier to get back to your site.
Stan Dubin
June 10th, 2008
Very good point, Stan. I write my posts using Windows Live Writer and there’s a button to check for opening links in a new window. Pieca cake! 
Mari Smith
June 10th, 2008
Mari,
This was an awesome blog post. I found it when I followed you on Twitter. I have not used the notes application, but plan to add this tonight. Thanks for the great content!
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Carla Clayton
June 10th, 2008
Valuable advice for somebody that has wasted a huge opportunity with Facebook and let it decline into a slayer chopping, pie throwing, juvenile hugging waste of time. I need to clean it up and make it work for me rather than seeing it a source of embarrassment.
Thanks for the tips!
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Tim Brownson
June 10th, 2008
Wow, this is some pretty good advice..haven’t come across one on maximizing facebook before
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Susan
June 10th, 2008
I’ve been using a Yahoo Pipe to write a note whenever my blog is updated. It just creates a short note with a link to the original post but a few people do click through.
Details are here: http://www.mmmeeja.com/blog/social-networking/facebook-traffic-blog.html
andymurd
June 19th, 2008
Mari, thanks so much for this very important FB tip - you are simply amazing and every time I read one of your posts I learn something new! Please keep sharing these great business-building tips!
Happy Netweaving,
Carol Deckert
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Carol Deckert
June 23rd, 2008
Hi Mari,
Thanks for these tips. I have the notes application and found this article via Ian Chapman but I don’t understand how to set up Notes so that it imports my blog posts.
Your advice on this would be most welcome.
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Nickolove Lovemore
July 26th, 2008
Thank you Mari for sending the link to the post. I thought I read it before but couldn’t remember where to find it. I’m going to give this feature a try. I don’t think I did all the steps you outlined before. Thank you again!
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Patty
August 4th, 2008
Hi Mari, I’ve been following closely your email e-course which has been very helpful thanks.
Could you please say why you advise using Facebook’s blog import tool and a 3rd part app ?
Also, I have around 17 posts on my blog and I read on facebook that my account could be disabled if I upload too many posts in one day…will everything in my blog go automatically into my Facebook notes and look spammy to FB…
and finally doI put my url in to import or my feedburner link ?
Thanks for all your help
Glen
Glen Crosier
August 6th, 2008
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August 6th, 2008
You know, if it wasn’t for Facebook’s broken behavior, I bet this would be really cool.
P. S. Mari, you have the greatest smile. You brought one to my face just by coming here. Thanks.
Doug C.
August 8th, 2008
Awesome post! Thanks Mari! You’ve done it again - great content!
Matthew Hunt
August 11th, 2008
such fabulous advice, as always! I first heard you “speak” on the Coaching Tele-summit that Milana put on years ago. I think it was the first one. It’s neat to see how your biz has evolved since then.
Wow. There sure is a lot to learn about all this social networking for use in business!
Thanks for sharing such valuable advice!
Michelle
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August 13th, 2008
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September 9th, 2008
this video very usefull ;), thanks admin
videoay
October 8th, 2008
What helpful tips Mari. Glad I found you through Twitter (and at the suggestion of Alyssa Gregory!) I’m going to have to work on implementing these. Is it better to import blog through notes or is through Simply RSS into newsfeed ok?
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Laurie
October 18th, 2008
great blogging tips
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Steve
December 19th, 2008
Thank you for putting the post in point form, it always makes it easier. I just recently found out about Facebook Notes, but I had no idea there was so much more to Facebook. Thank you for this information.
Yvette
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January 13th, 2009
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February 3rd, 2009
I have imported my Rss feed of my wordpress blog in my facebook profile, unfortunately the title of each post are linked to the facebook articles pages instead to the url of my post on my website.
Do you know how I can modify this ?
Thanks
binbin
February 8th, 2009
Great tips! I’m going to use this immediately. This gives me an incentive to keep my blog going.
Peace and Success!
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Makena Hayes-Gargonnu
April 16th, 2009
Thank you for sharing good
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May 12th, 2009
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izle
June 10th, 2009
Wow, this is some pretty good advice
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June 11th, 2009
Mari you are great! always post excellent and help topics. This post is very helpful for new bloggers. Thanks
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September 15th, 2009
Dear Obi Wan of Universe Facebook,
Great information! I will put your wisdom to good use very soon. Enjoy Alaska!
Lissa