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Understanding Facebook Timeline for Pages

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Facebook is in the process of unrolling out timeline for all of its pages. What are the new features and how do you take use and interact with them? We share them below.

Pin a Post to the Top

This new feature allows you to pin a post to the top of the timeline, meaning that post will be pinned and remain the top post visitors see when they visit a page. The pinned post will stay in this position for 7 days, and then will return to its place on the timeline based on the original date it was pinned.

Change Story Dates

Found in the top right hand corner of the post, under the “Edit or Delete” options, you can now change the date for which your post will show up in the timeline. This can be helpful for sorting posts or moving posts deeper into the timeline.

Highlight a Post

In timeline, posts and updates are shown across two separate columns. When you highlight a post, the post will expand across both columns and show in a larger font. This post will stay highlighted for 7 days and then will return to a normal post in the timeline. This is a great tool for ensuring important updates are front and center.

Timeline History

Timeline history can be seen on the right hand side of the page or accesses from the toolbar at the top of each page. Timeline history is sorted by years and allows you to go back and see posts from previous years and even company information from before Facebook was even around.

Timeline Milestone

Timeline milestones allow you to go back and add dates important to you or your company that will then show up in your timeline and timeline history. As you can see from our page, GDI has shared information from our history and important past events in our milestones.

Highlights

Clicking on Highlights allows you to sort posts in a way you would like to see them on the timeline. Highlights is the default was a page shares its posts, but you can sort by Posts by Others, Posts by Page and Friend Activity to ensure you’re getting the information you need.

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How to Build a Following on Twitter

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Affiliate and network marketers have a great presence on Twitter. Affiliate marketing is a great match for social media and Twitter is no exception. If you haven’t gotten started with Twitter just yet, sign up and get connected with other marketers. Once you’re on Twitter, it’s time to get in the conversation and start building up a following to share your ideas and business with. Build your following with our tips.

Retweet Great Posts

The first step is to follow people you find interesting, admire, or just want to learn more from and then retweet their posts! Retweeting is great because it shares great info, gives the original poster credit and creates a sort of introduction. If someone is using a listening software like Tweetdeck, or they take the time to look in their Twitter account under “You tweets retweeted” they will see you shared their post and most likely tweet back to you and then follow you.

Ask Questions

Ask your followers questions to get them to interact with you. You will get feedback and an added bonus of exposure. When someone tweets back to you, it will show up in their timeline, so that their followers see that they are in a conversation with you. With any luck, their followers may check you out and follow you too if they are inline with your ideas and message.

Tweet Trending Topics

Tweeting trending topics is another way to get in on the conversation. Trending topics are those words and phrases you see on the left hand side of your Twitter homepage “trending topics.” Find a way to work some of these phrases into your tweets, so whenever anyone clicks on the keyword or phrase in the trending topics list, there is a chance your tweets will come up, allowing for more exposure for your account.

Share Great Media

Don’t just share tweets, but share media. This means upload photos of your business, screenshots of things you are working on and video. Reward people following you on Twitter with an inside look. You want to offer people something a little more for taking the time to follow you, so photos and even short videos are a great way to do this.

Create and Share Content

Lastly, let the Twitterverse know every time you’ve shared a blog or updated your site. Having a link in a Twitter update is always a great idea and gives people a call to action.

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Getting Ahead as a New Affiliate Marketer

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In many industries, the most successful people have been around for quite some time and for good reason. When one finds success in a business, it’s smart to stay and keep growing that success, which in turn attracts more business. This can be discouraging for anyone just starting out. Luckily as a GDI affiliate you don’t have to be the most experienced or with GDI the longest to build Income for Life. Take advantage of what you do well, whether it’s building relationships or building websites, to develop your business quickly as a beginner.

You Don’t Have to Be an Expert

There are many things you will learn about network marketing just from experience, so don’t worry about being an expert on everything right away. Instead take the time to focus on the relationships you build. Invest just as much time into your team and potential team members as you do into learning about GDI. Building and investing in relationships as you build your network with help people to feel comfortable with you and trust you. People will be more likely to do business with someone they trust.

Build Your Site

If you’re not the best with building personal relationships, you can still succeed with GDI. A well designed, functional site can make up for any issues you have relating to people. Let your site do the talking for you when it comes to building your team.

Take the time to create the best site possible based on your skill level. If you’ve never created any sort of site before, try out the GDI SiteBuilder. It offers great looking templates and can help you get a site up in no time. If you want a more customizable look, try our WordPress plugin. Though WordPress is most often used for blog you can build out your WordPress site to be just about anything you want depending on the theme, widgets and layout you use. We also offer hosting, giving you the ultimate power over what kind of site you create.

Create a Community

Don’t make communication a one way street. Encourage your downline to reach out to you and to each other. Opening these lines of communication can help people feel like they belong to a community, making them less likely to just walk away. Establish relationships across your team by creating groups on Facebook, and Google+ or even having a weekly email conversation or team webinar with everyone. Creating a community keeps people involved and investing in building Income for Life for all involved.