Facebook Tutorial

Step-by-step Facebook Tutorial

Many of you are looking for a step-by-step getting started guide on Facebook.  So I’ve taken my tutorials and organized them in a better fashion.  Go through and see what you are looking for, you may need some things and not others.  Take a look at these to get started and then if you really want to go in-depth, you may want to get my book How to Use Facebook to Grow Your Business.

Step 1 – Getting started with a Facebook Fan Page

This is a good overview of why you need a Facebook Fan Page versus a group or individual user account.  It also shows you how to sign up and get started.

Step 2 – How to get back to your Facebook Fan Page

This is a good video to show you the easiest way to get back to your fan page – you may have created it through some other link.

BUT….Facebook changed again – so they don’t have that Application menu. Here is the new way to create your Fan Page and get back to it.

Facebook keeps changing things around and that really burns my bunions. They used to have a little application menu in the lower left corner and that’s how you would create a Fan Page. Now it’s on the left and the Ads and Pages link may or may not be there. It’s a pain in the patookus.

In this video, I show you how to get your Fan Page started and how to add the “Ads and Pages” link into your side bar if it’s not there. You can also just go straight to the link to create your page at www.Facebook.com/pages/create.php. Sure, take the easy way out.

Step 3 – How to Join Facebook Groups

Here’s a video on how to find Facebook Groups to join, which you are going to want to do to participate in conversations and direct people back to your site.

Step 4 – Facebook Fan Page Limitations

Facebook Fan Pages are different than the user pages – find out some of the limitations and some work arounds

Step 5 – Facebook Fan Page Wall Setting

Here’s a setting you want to make sure you change so that you are seeing all your fan’s wall postings.

Step 6 – How to Import your RSS feed into your Facebook Wall
Here’s a nice little Facebook tutorial on how you can import your Blog RSS feed directly into your Facebook Wall. Whenever you have a new Blog post, it will automatically appear on your wall and on the walls of your Fans. So handy. I used to recommend the Facebook Notes Feature to do this but that got buggy and annoying.

So now I recommend using the Networked Blogs application. You can either import your RSS feed into your Fan Page or your User account. You can go directly to the application here: Networked Blogs. Post a comment if you have trouble, I had some issues getting it set up also.

General Facebook Tips and Tricks

Here are a few videos on tips and tricks in Facebook that will help you use it.

Facebook Hide Feature:

Facebook Privacy Settings:

Facebook Faux Pas with the Wall – what can people see on your wall?

Facebook News Feed vs. Live Feed
Facebook has done it again. Don’t they know we don’t like change? It’s very upsetting. But since they have gone ahead and done it, here are the details on what has changed in my handy video. You need to know the difference between the Live Feed and the News Feed. If you are looking at the News Feed all the time, you may be missing updates! Friend lists are much more important now that they have added the Live Feed and News feed. I will show you how to create friend lists in this video. Watch it quickly before Facebook changes again!