With Facebook forcing everyone one including business fan pages to go to the new timeline, there are some advantages.

One of these advantages is that you customize several of the images on the timeline.

I am often looking this information up, so I thought it would be helpful to me (as well as others) to do a post with the dimensions of the images that are used on the new Facebook Timeline.

• Cover Image: 851 X 315
• Profile Picture: 180 X 180
• Custom Thumbnails: 111 X 74

Yes, I agree.. .there are over 8 million people on Facebook… true… but this traffic should be considered to be short term and here is why… ready?  listen closely…

PEOPLE DO NOT GO ONTO FACEBOOK TO BUY YOUR PRODUCTS OR SERVICES!

No, they go on Facebook to engage in a digital conversation with their friends and family.

So, as the smart business owner that you are, how can you tap into that to get your name in from of those 8 million people?

Here are some suggestions, some of which I have found on the Internet and others that I have successfully used myself:

1. Keep your content updated.  Post to your page on a regular basis.  Content that is updated on a regular basis will get your name in front of your clients on a regular basis.
2. Take advantage of the new Timeline.  Add milestones for your business.
3. Share news that is relevant to your industry.  Do a little research on the Internet, if you find something that is important relating to your industry, share it.
4. Post pictures of your store, vehicle, work space (or work).  People like to feel like that are involved, if you are manufacturing a product post pictures of you working.
5. Introduce members of your team.  This is a great way for your clients to get to know your staff.
6. Post pictures of your clients in your store and ask them to go onto your Facebook and tag themselves.  Again, people love to be involved.
7. Once you start getting interactivity on your Facebook page, start posting questions either about your business or industry.  Ask for feedback.

No matter what you do with your page, it is a wonderful tool to get your name out there and in the minds of your clients.  Just don’t give up, you will be happy you did it later.

1. Create a personal account.
2. Create a page for your business that you can administer from your personal account.

When I first created my Facebook account, the only purpose I had to be on Facebook was for business reasons. Well, according to my way of thinking, but my probably was I had several different businesses. I did not want to have to create a separate account for each one of my businesses so I delved into the barrage of Facebook tips. The one I picked is the one I promote… have a personal account and create a business page. On some of my business pages, I also grant other accounts administrative rights so that they can post updates as the page as well. Works very well and they way it should work.

Should you have an account that is under your business name? No, and here is why:

1. You will have to confirm the like of every new person.
2. You will not be able to add any applications to your business page.
3. You will not be able to separate business from your personal friends.
4. You will not be able to change your landing page if you ever get into any type of promotions or customization of your business page.
5. You will limit yourself in the ways of social network marketing if you do not have a business page.

There may be those who disagree with me, but this is the way I do it and what I recommend to others about how to do it.

With this website, you can upload an image, and the site will generate an odd number of colors (five) that can be used as the color palette for your web design and layout.

This is a great site too to give to clients to help them determine what they are looking for with the design. We sometimes save these swatches and e-mail them to the client as well.

This site has been added to our Utilities and resources page too. GREAT TOOL!

The page is: http://www.google.com/webmasters/+1/button/index.html

Once you add this to your site, your visitors can then click on the Google +1 icon to share the information within Google + (and within the search results for your page).

Again, as mentioned before, we will have more information on this later.

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The following tool is an excellent resource to help you with this task:

http://www.wmtips.com/tools/keyword-density-analyzer/

You are able to enter any URL and the tool will strip out all HTML/CSS/Javascript and provide you with the actual text that you can review to determine if a change to your data needs to be made.

With the report that this utility generates, you can then see the keyword phrases that are within the text, the percentage of the keyword density, and the Word Statistics that will tell you where the words or phrases appear within the tags.