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by Kristen Haley | Social Blog
First of all, you’re going to need to have a Facebook Page (personal or business) and/or Twitter account… but preferably both. Rather than walking you through setting up those social mediums, I’m just going to delve right into the syndication 🙂
Sign up for a Twitterfeed account and add your new feed by pasting the link from the originating site/aggregate. Don’t forget to test your RSS to make sure the feed parses before continuing!
Do you have a proper RSS link? If you notice that it doesn’t seem to work, then you can always create a Feedburner account and burn it (get a proper RSS link that works) using that service.
Click to Advanced Settings. I prefer it checking for new posts every 30 minutes to an hour, and I usually post 1 or two updates each time it checks. Depending on the feed, you can include title, description or both. I also prefer to shorten links using bit.ly so I may monitor another level of analytics which will also notify me if a ton of people are clicking on one of my shortened links.
There are a lot of other advanced options here, such as posting to LinkedIn and their corresponding thumbnail images, post sorting, optional prefixes and suffixes as well as a keyword filter. I’ll be skipping on by these for this project (that’s up to your need!). Click the button that says “Continue to Step 2.“
Step 2 is where you link your services. If you are already publishing from your Facebook Page to your Twitter, then you don’t need to double up on your mediums.. Here you can choose from Twitter, Facebook (pages, personal), LinkedIn (personal only), and app.net.
Authenticate your account and find the page that you’d like to publish to.
There are a couple more UTM Tag options here, but for all intents and purposes, let’s skip that and click “Create Service.”
Now the feed should show up in your Twitterfeed Dashboard! If you know that the next posts are going to be coming out shortly, make sure you keep an eye on your feed over the next few hours to make sure it’s parsing properly.
Protip: Keep an eye on your feed on a daily basis if you don’t know where it’s coming from. You could be accidentally sharing some spammy posts. and that’s not good for your Kred nor your Klout o.O
Any questions or need me to help you set it up? Message me! -kris10
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by Kristen Haley | Social Blog
So you’ve been invited by your friend/employer to become an affiliate of an event to make some money promoting it. Supercool. First of all, I suggest you sign up for PayPal and opt to get a debit card so your cash can be liquid sooner than later when the affiliate money from each event has processed into your account.
You should have received an email by now that gives you a link to click in order to sign up for the program. Click “Join this program” to get started.
This will bring you to your affiliate page, where it will give you your own personal referral link which you must share in order to get credit. If you direct your friends to the original link, you will not get paid.
Take this link to Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, Twitter, your blog.. wherever you can post it to in order to make the most $ off of each event. If you keep an eye on your Referrals/Attendees page on Eventbrite, it will tell you how many people are clicking your link, how many tickets you’ve sold, your total sales, your share, and after the event, that which has been paid and that money which is still due.
Now rock it.
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by Kristen Haley | Social Blog
So you’ve got your event published through Eventbrite.. and you’ve created an affiliate program for your employees or random affiliates.
Here’s how you go about showing your own internal promotional program:
First of all log into your Eventbrite Management Dashboard, which should be available when you log in if you’ve created an event. You should have these options to the left. Click on the “Affiliate Programs” link and click the green button that says “Create a new affiliate program.”
It should bring up a screen that allows you to input a code as well as add a referral fee or % of ticket price. You can make it public if you’d like your event to possibly be picked up by local promoters and add a few notes that the affiliate will see. Save it.
If you click on the link of your affiliate name, you should be able to see a link. Copy that link and forward it to your employees in an email that sounds something like this…
“You’re invited to become an affiliate of our event and receive 20% of all of your ticket sales when people use your link to view and pay for this event. Please sign up for PayPal to get paid. To accept this invitation to become an affiliate, please visit this link and sign up to receive your customized web address. Your referrals MUST use your individualized link in order for you to be paid, so please post everywhere, such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+, your blog, etc.”
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Now let’s look at it from the standpoint of your future affiliate.
by Kristen Haley | Social Blog
Admin and Staff:
Admin:
- Create a paid event using Eventbrite
- Publish it to Facebook using the “Manage” tab
- Add a public affiliate program and offer 10-20% of ticket sales
Admin & Staff:
- Find the event on your company’s fan page
- When you join an “Invite Friends” button will show up, so click it
- Click the “Search by Name” button and scroll down to “Newport, RI”
- Scroll all the way to the bottom of the list. Facebook will take it’s time populating all of your friends
- Click the black and white checkbox located on the chrome toolbar
- Then press “Save.” You may have to enter a “Capcha” to prove you’re a human
Admin:
- Give certain staff “Content Creator” privileges on your fan page
Admin & Staff with privileges:
- Download Facebook’s Pages Manager for iPhone and Android
- Take photos and video and upload them using the Pages Manager in real time
- Pre-event, find videos and photos of the band and post them to the event page
- If you have Twitter, tweet to @OnePelhamEast when you’re at the event
After the event:
- Export your email addresses into MailChimp
- Send weekly emails to past attendees or email signups with the weekly bands
- Work to grow your mailing list by making it easy for visitors
- fill out a short form by visiting a link
- or by scanning a QR code
Is this too much? Would you like to have x10industries share your event with up to 3,000 New England locals? For only $99 an event, we will set up your event on Eventbrite and Facebook and invite our masses! Contact us using the form below.
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by Kristen Haley | Social Blog
So it’s a good thing I had the internet on my side on this one. Apparently, if you send someone an invoice from PayPal, they WILL pay, you send the goods and give them tracking information.. even when they DO receive the goods, they have a chance to revoke payment.
I mentioned that I was selling a camera on Facebook Marketplace, because I figured it would reach friends and friends of friends. Apparently, it reached some hacked or bogus users. (more…)
