Social media lesson #233 for tattooers: Keeping your Facebook neat and tidy. It is a new year and might as well begin with some clean up. This meaning how you organize and label your FB photo albums, removing yourself from groups you never added yourself to, deleting unsubscribed event invites, unfriending deleted accounts, making sure your about me section is up-to-date and complete. This is a TON of information, but, its all part of marketing yourself properly in a professional manner. If you see something I wrote that you know a better way to complete, PLEASE SHARE!!! Im always keen to learning new and better ways to do things. ****ITS BEST AND EASIEST TO DO ALL OF THIS FROM A COMPUTER, not a phone or tablet**** ----Organize and label your photo albums---- 1) click your photos, click albums. Now if all of your tattoo photos are in one album you have some options. either create multiple albums for the year the tattoo was competed, or split them into styles of tattooing. 2) remove old work as you should always keep things to the current. 3) label your albums appropriately--tatz n shit is a no, seriously ive seen this more than once. esh. 4) go into your instagram/mobile upload/timeline albums and organize/delete photos from there as well. -----Removing yourself from groups and events------ One of the many seriously annoying aspects of facebook is people can add you to groups and invite you to events without your permission. Click your home button and look on the left side of the screen. Click more, above the groups list. see!!! how many groups you are apart of?!!! crazy right!! hover over the star icon on the right and remove yourself from the groups. I also click to not allow them to readd me. The events list isnt as annoying, but nonetheless, might as well clean that up too. ----unfriending deleted accounts----- When someone deletes their account they still stand as a number of friend you have until you unfriend them. IF you have 5000 friends and want to clean some out or just want to clean out in general. Click on your friend list and begin scrolling down. If the person listed has only the blue figure profile pic, they are a deleted account. Unfriend them. And open your friend option to others that are real to take their place. The really really annoying part of this is when you unfriend, facebook cycles through the WHOLE list again. I havent found a way around this. I sometimes will search by letter and this sorta helps the amount of cycling, but not really. Having the followers option open once youve hit 5,000 is nice and all but you cant interact with them. People like to know you are real and also, if someone isnt your friend any messages they send will go to the others folder. A folder you cant check unless you are on a computer, not mobile. ----Updating information about you----- 1) In your about section, look at the right side listed information. Hover over it and at the bottom will present the edit button. The things you should have displayed are: (a) your cell phone/business phone number (Some of the busiest well known shops/business owners I know have their cell phone number public---Ive had mine public on my business card for years. People do not bother me all hours of the night. They actually have quite a bit of respect to not do that, so yes, add your phone) (b) your email (c) your website if you have one, if you dont, then the shops website if they have one (d) link all of your other apps to this i.e. instagram, twitter, pinterest, etc (e) the physical address of the location of the shop you work in (f) your birthday----this is up to you to display or not. But as I have come to see, people like being able to wish you well, thus making you more personable. 2) also in the about section, make sure your place of employment is set up properly. What this means is a little bit complicated. If your shop has an actual active shop page, that is the one you want to make sure your place of employment is linked to. For Facebook to pull it up as an option, you must first LIKE that page. IF you just type in the name of your shop and it doesnt come up, Facebook will automatically create a plain knockoff page. This is annoying as now, when clients go to check in, the knockoff page is now an option. IF your shop does not have a legitimate facebook page, thats an entirely different issue. ---its up to you if you choose to update your schooling or current hometown. ---please resist including sarcastic locations, schools, or languages. Yes its funny, no it isnt professional. Sorry. 3) Lastly in your about section if you scroll down a bit you will have all of your likes listed. (This can also be accessed from clicking the home page and scrollling down the list section on the left side of the page) Go through these and make sure they are pages you actually do want to like. Facebook will use the pages you like to influence what ads show up on your page and/or what you are affiliated. If you dont want to be affiliated with a certain page(S), unlike. As I said earlier, I am not the know all be all and will never claim to be. If there is something you know that I dont, please please please share so I can learn as well!!! Hopefully at least one person found this information to be helpful. Thats all that matters to me! Have a wonderful rest of your New Years Day!!!
Posted on: Thu, 01 Jan 2015 20:40:50 +0000
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