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Facebook Competition Rules

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Post date 10 March 2021
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Facebook Competition Rules

There still seems to be confusion from Companies as to the Facebook Competition Rules, so I though I would write you a quick blog to remind you of the do’s and dont’s!

Facebook Competition Rules – Like and Share

Like and Share competitions are, and have always been, contrary to Facebook’s terms and Conditions. If you run Like and Share competitions you run the risk of having your page taken down! I have seen this happen to so many pages! I don’t know of any who have been warned about breaking the terms and conditions, their pages have just been deleted.

But Everyone Else Does it

This is the argument I hear day in and day out. People think that they can get away with it ….. you may for a period of time, until Facebook purge, and then, hey presto your page will be gone

So what are the rules?

This is the offical wording from Facebook:-

Communicating a promotion

If you use Facebook to communicate or administer a promotion (e.g. a contest or sweepstakes), you are responsible for the lawful operation of that promotion, including:

the official rules;
offer terms and eligibility requirements (e.g. age and residency restrictions); and
Compliance with applicable rules and regulations governing the promotion and all prizes offered (e.g. registration and obtaining necessary regulatory approvals).

Required content

Promotions on Facebook must include the following:

A complete release of Facebook by each entrant or participant; and
Acknowledgement that the promotion is in no way sponsored, endorsed, administered by or associated with Facebook.

Administration of a promotion

Promotions may be administered on Pages, groups, events or within apps on Facebook. Personal timelines and friend connections must not be used to administer promotions (e.g. “share on your timeline to enter” or “share on your friend’s timeline to get additional entries” and “tag your friends in this post to enter” are not permitted).

Facebook Competition – Assisting promotions

Facebook will not assist you in the administration of your promotion, and if you use our service, you agree to administer your promotion at your own risk. So what this actually means to you …. DO NOT ASK PEOPLE TO SHARE TO ENTER A COMPETITION – DO NOT ASK PEOPLE TO TAG YOUR FRIENDS TO ENTER You can however ask people to like your post. Why not suggest to them that they share with their friends, because if they win, they might share with you! Try running a competition for a meal for 2 and say to enter simply like this post and tell us who would you bring with you? You’re not asking people to tag their friends, just say who they would bring if they won. Therefore, not a requirement of entry to tag! (yet people will still do so).

Facebook Competition Rules – How should I word it?

You can get people to tag and share you know, without making it a condition of entry.

Start by giving away something for 2 people.

To enter the competiton simply like our page and tell us who you would give the second one to. (Note tell us not tag).

Then … feel free to share with your friends. You never know, if they win you might get their second prize.

Subtle, right?

LinkedIn Training North East

Post author By PMGD
Post date 15 February 2021

LinkedIn Training with North East Social Media

LinkedIn Training with North East Social Media. So, it may be a while since your last LinkedIn Training session. You may be happily using LinkedIn. Perhaps you are needing a refresher? But I wonder …… have you checked your settings on LinkedIn recently?

A contact on LinkedIn sent me a very out of character sales type message with a link recently. The following day he messaged me to say that his account had been hacked. I have responded to his message to tell him how to claim his account back and thought I would share this with you.

LinkedIn Training – Removing Permitted Services

Whether your LinkedIn account has been hacked or not it is still worth visiting your Permitted Services. In other words, this will ensure that you recongise all the apps you have given permission to. Permission to access your LinkedIn account.

What I mean by this is, if you have, for example, downloaded the LinkedIn App for IOS that is absolutely fine. You will see this in your permissions. But sometimes, you will have clicked other links, quite often unknowingly or unwittingly. These will be accessing your accounts too.

My LinkedIn Account has been Hacked

So has your LinkedIn Account has been hacked? Do you just want to check it? Keep your account nice and tidy. Here’s how you do it.

From your personal profile click on settings.

LinkedIn Training with North East Social Media, Settings and Privicay on Linkedin

This will bring you to your settings page, where you are going to chose partners and services – I like the bit where it tells me I’m the boss of my account.

LinkedIn Training with North East Social Media, LinkedIn Partners and Services

You are now going to click on the Permitted Services area and your list of permitted apps and services will appear.

Simply click on the remove button to unlink them from your account. If you are doing this because you have been hacked, go back to the settings and change your password.

I hope you have found this information useful – do let me know on Facebook or Twitter and feel free to sign up on my website to receive your free social media tips and updates.

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Facebook

Hashtags on Facebook -Yes or No?

Post author By PMGD
Post date 17 August 2020
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Should I be using hashtags on Facebook?

This is a question I am often asked. Are they functional? What is their purpose? Do they really work?

They were first introduced on Facebook in June 2013 when they annouced

“Starting today, hashtags will be clickable on Facebook. Similar to other services like Instagram, Twitter, Tumblr, or Pinterest, hashtags on Facebook allow you to add context to a post or indicate that it is part of a larger discussion.” – Greg Lindley

But the use of them really didn’t take off. There was a further update in March 2016 when Facebook stated …

Hashtags turn topics and phrases into clickable links in posts on your profile or Page. When people click a hashtag or search for a hashtag, they’ll see a results that contain the hashtag so they can learn more about topics that interest them. – Facebook

And they offered suggestions on how hashtags should be created and used. Still not many, in the large scheme of things, used them.

Some people started to feed their Instagram posts to Facebook with 30 hashtags in, but it didn’t and still doesn’t look right. However you are going to see yet another push from Facebook on hashtag use because ….

Facebook want you to use Hashtags

Therefore you are going to start seeing prompts on your posts. And guess what? By using hashtags you are going to start seeing an increase in your reach.

What’s the purpose of them?

In other words you are simply going to increase the potential reach of your post, raise your audience, reach a new audience. Why wouldn’t you want that?

It’s time to start using hashtags on Facebook

Using a hashtag groups a conversation together. So you can imagine Facebook’s next step right? They will start to encourage users to follow hashtags – don’t miss out!

Top Tips

Try using some popular hashtags (you can research them for now on Instagram
In addition use Trending hashtags – find them on Twitter – Twitter provides the most recent trending topics being talked about right now
Don’t use too many hashtags – you don’t want your followers forming negative feelings subliminally towards you! 2 or 3 will do
No space – the minute you put a space when typing a word after the # sign it will “break” the hashtag
No Punctuation – as above

In conclusion, if you would like any help with your Social Media Marketing, please do make sure you sign up to receive our emails, with dates of our upcoming online Social Media Training workshops.

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Facebook

What are Facebook Followers?

Post author By PMGD
Post date 13 January 2020
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Have you noticed people who you have not accepted as friends on Facebook can actually be your Facebook Followers?

I was asked the other day about how to find out who these followers are. There really is a very simple way.

Facebook Followers – who are they?

To find out who your Facebook Followers are go to your profile. You will see in your Intro Section the amount of Followers you have.

Click on the number of people and your Facebook Followers list will appear.

How do I stop people from following me?

To stop someone from being a Facebook Follower go to their profile and block them. Simples. After that click on the three dots to the right of their cover photo and choose the option to block. You won’t be able to see their information any more and they wont be able to see yours.

What do Facebook Followers see?

Your Facebook Followers will only be able to see those posts that you choose to share publicly.

If you have something that you are sharing that is more private, chose the option, for instance, to be seen by Friends only.

Are you aware that you can actually create your own “lists” on Facebook? This enables you to share posts from your personal profile to a specific group of people?

Simply click on the more button under “Friends except…” and you’ll see what I mean.

Where are my Facebook Followers settings

On your personal profile click on settings and then you will see an option on the left hand side which says public posts. Click here and you’ll see right at the top “who can follow me”. It’s here that you can change your settings if you would like to.

If you would like to block more than 1 of your Facebook Followers you can. Go to your settings and click on blocking. Type “All Followers” in to the Block Users Bars. As a result your list, although not as details as above, will appear.

I do hope you’ve found that useful. Furthermore, if you have any Social Media questions please feel free to send them to me via the contact form on my contact page

If you would prefer you could email me directly amanda@northeastsocialmedia.co.uk or come and ask on my Facebook Page

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Facebook

Removing a Review on Facebook

Post author By PMGD
Post date 3 January 2020
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People often ask me about removing a review on Facebook. Basically my answer up until now has been – quite simply you can’t.

Facebook have listened and thankfully you are now able to report malicious reviews left on your business page. Facebook will remove the review if it doesn’t reach their guidelines.

Just the other day, my first day back working after the Christmas break I received a notification saying “You have received a new recommendation”. Oooh how lovely I thought. Until I saw the recommendation.

“I do not recommend North East Social Media, I don’t want to see her posts” – is what was written. By someone I had never heard of in British Columbia. Why she would be seeing my posts without liking my page I will never know!

I’ve worked hard to build up a reputation and have enjoyed my 5/5 Reviews on Facebook. So this one review, from someone who has never used my services, reduced me to a 4.6/5 rating and I was not amused!

Removing a Review on Facebook – Reporting

Thankfully I was able to click on the three dots next to the review where I was given the option to report a recommendation.

(Not that I would be reporting this review, Chris is lovely)

What really impressed me is that within an hour of reporting this, Facebook Support Responded to me with this…..

Facebook remove reviews

In conclusion, if you have a bad recommendation or review on Facebook you can now do something. For instance, if it is unwarranted and has nothing to do with your product or service. When the review isn’t based on real personal experience, Facebook will remove it.

Obviously Facebook won’t remove the recommendation or review if it is talking about your product or service. However, if blank, or totally inappropriate like mine was, they will. A step in the right direction!

Do let me know if this information has helped you and in addition make sure you sign up to hear about our upcoming Workshops for 2020.

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