
Timeline profiles present many opportunities and challenges to brands on Facebook — here are just a few considerations.

Timeline profiles present many opportunities and challenges to brands on Facebook — here are just a few considerations.

Facebook users can quench their thirst and take advantage of a special offer without needing to print a coupon thanks to a loyalty promotion for Diet Pepsi and Pepsi Max, powered by the supermarket loyalty card service called SavingStar.

Page creation provider Votigo has come out with do-it-yourself tools for creating your own contests and promotions on Facebook.

Zazzle is dazzling Facebook users by giving away $100,000 worth of custom-wrapped canvas art, powered by Wildfire Interactive’s Social Marketing platform.

Sweepstakes are a very popular way to cultivate likes and repeat traffic to Facebook pages, and ShareAndTell Pro aims to make the process easier.
This morning we were forwarded an email from a Facebook sales representative which suggested that new Facebook Promotions guidelines will soon be released. In contrast to before, where promotions would need to be explicitly approved, promotions will no longer need prior written approval from Facebook.

First there was Black Friday for big retailers, and then Cyber Monday for online merchants. Now, small businesses are getting their own boost with Small Business Saturday, the Saturday after Thanksgiving. And to help push the new date, American Express is giving away money to left and right.

Over the past few years we have received countless inquiries from individuals and organizations looking for companies who can help them out with marketing, advertising, and general strategy on Facebook. Unfortunately we didn’t have a single resource to keep track of all the companies, however today that all changes.

In what is a new role at Facebook, Bret Taylor has been promoted to Chief Technology Officer (CTO). Bret will report directly to Mark Zuckerberg and will not manage anybody. The full details were provided in a letter from Mark Zuckerberg to the company’s staff, as published on Techcrunch.
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We seem to be getting more integrated Connect-powered marketing videos as of late with the latest promotion coming from CMT for their upcoming programming block “Adventure Country”. Developed by Campfire NYC, the promotion takes user profile data and integrates it into a 4 minute video clip honoring the individual for the brave acts they’ve committed. It’s a pretty creative video clip and we’ve embedded it below.
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