There’s nothing worse than logging into your FaceBook account, clicking on your pals list, and seeing the words ‘you have no good friends.’ That’s an assault to ones sense of self confidence and self worth! You’ve got to start adding close friends as easily as feasible.

Commence with the people for you to already know. You want to get that friends list populated fast. It is possible to use the FaceBook feature that will search your email accounts at Gmail (http://www.gmail.com), Hotmail (http://www.msn.com), and AOL (http://www.aol.com).

If it discovers some of one’s contacts are Facebook users, it will give you the choice to send those people a good friends request.

From there, look at other social networking websites which you belong to and also the close friends that you simply have there – even if they aren’t in your email address book. Check to see if they have an account on FaceBook. Write a message in NotePad so that you can copy and paste. It should be incredibly short and to the point.

You may perhaps need a couple of different messages. One may well say “I know you from such and such forum or social networking website and I would like to add you to my friends list here at FaceBook.” An additional may well say “I realize that you just don’t know me personally, but I see that we have XYZ in common, so I would like to add you to my circle of close friends.”

Look for individuals that you simply know from other social networking websites, social bookmarking sites, microblogging (Twitter, at http://www.twitter.com), forums, and even blogs that you simply commonly read, too as persons who read your blog. Also contemplate adding other Internet Marketers, including marketers who are within the same niche for you to are in.

From there, it is possible to use the search features to discover persons inside your general area as well as persons who have interests that are in common to yours. Just add them even if you’ve never had any contact with those men and women in any other on the net or offline venue. Look at the good friends of the close friends. This is an exceptional method to grow your network too – the thing that you simply have in widespread is the original friend.

Just remember that every person you add to your network is really a potential customer, a client, or a business associate, and you absolutely want your network to grow as big as possible, as quickly as doable to acquire the most benefit from FaceBook.

Since you’re are now signed up as well as confirmed as a FaceBook user, you have to build up the profile. This isn’t very difficult to do however it does call for some thoughts. Since you are using FaceBook to increase business as well as to connect with customers as well as business associates, it is crucial that you apply great business sense when creating the FaceBook account.

Of course, while filling in the blanks, you complete carefully. For the screen name, as a small business individual, the best thing you’ll be able to do is use your own personal name. Many men and women use their small business name and in case you wish to do this, you may need to contemplate setting up a second account with your business name, then connect it to your personal FaceBook account where you are utilizing your real name.

Individuals generally really do not desire to see ‘the company.’ Instead, they would like to see the face behind the small business – you.

With every single blank that you fill in, remember that potential buyers, current buyers, and business associates will be reading what you’ve written. It cannot be said enough – write with caution. You would like to sound human and friendly but you really do not want to go overboard here. If anything else, answer questions in a way that gives you more credibility within your market.

While you might not see the extra applications which you can add to your FaceBook profile within the beginning, it won’t take long prior to individuals begin sending you applications for you to add. Again, use caution.

Since you’re making use of your FaceBook account for enterprise purposes, you do not desire to clutter your page up with a bunch of silly applications that have no connection with your business. Furthermore, every application you add slows down the load time of your page and too numerous can also cost your credibility to decrease, which is something you undoubtedly really don’t want.

When it comes to adding pictures, make positive you upload your professional photo. You may add photos that are additional ‘casual’ too, to ensure that readers can see that you just really are human and that you definitely do possess a life.

Finally, make guaranteed that you just include the website addresses for your company. But for your primary URL, use the one that links to a page on your web site where men and women can get a lot more data about you, your experience, and other facts that makes you an expert inside your field.

When you are completed, have a relatively handful of other individuals review your profile to suit your needs. Examine it for spelling and grammar errors. You may well even take into account comparing it for the profiles of other successful Internet Marketers just to be confident which you are on target – at exactly the same time, on the other hand, make sure that it’s distinctive.

Looking for some good Free FBML Templates? Well, you’re in luck today.

Today we are a very simple, yet effective template ready for you.

Sorry, but this isn’t a huge list of free templates … that will come later.

Below you’ll find the complete code used, and explanation, for creating the landing page on the PLR – Private Label Rights fanpage.

The code is CSS complaint and doesn’t use tables. We here at Quantum Fanpages hate tables. Below is your free FBML template to help you create a quick and effective opt-in page.

First is the Free FBML template code, and afterwards we’ll explain it:

<div id=”whole_box” style=”width=800px;”>

<img title=”becomeafan” src=”http://www.piotrkrzyzek.com/plr_files/plr.jpg” height=”71″ width=”760″>

<div id=”inner_box_container” style=”text-align: center;”>

<span id=”inner_box_title_tex” style=”font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18pt; font-family: Verdana; “>

Welcome to our PLR Fan Page. <br />We’re glad to have you be part of our family.</span>

<div id=”inner_box”  style=”margin-top: 15px; border: 4px dashed red; height: 400px; width: 600px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align:left; padding: 10px;”>

<div id=”inner_box_top_title_tag” style=”text-align: center;”><span style=”font-size: 18pt; line-height: 18pt; font-family: Verdana; font-weight: bold;”>Grab your <span style=”color: red”>FREE</span> copy of our latest E-Book, “Blogging For Profit”, by entering your name and e-mail below.</span></div>

<br />

<div style=”margin-top: 25px; margin-left:auto; margin-right: auto; width: 300px;”>

OPTIN CODE GOES HERE

</div>

</div>

</div>

</div>

Hopefully that can be transfered easily to your code.

As you can see the code is completely comprised of CSS complaint code.

There are several very important things to note about this code which will be different for your code. This fanpage is a bit older, so it still uses the old width.

Your new fanpage might have a max width of around 760px. Be sure to not make anything wider than that. That is what this code does:

<div id=”whole_box” style=”width=800px;”>

It create a whole container which I can control. Everything else is within that outer ‘whole_box’ element.

The next tag, the image tag (<img>) is, well … the image. This displays an image, and in this case, it displays a header image.

The image is followed by a div tag. The first one sets up a box container which allows me to center align everything below.

Then there is the ‘inner_box’ which has the red dashed border.

To add a border, simply add this style to any element (any element that can have a border):

style=”border: 1px dashed red”

The 1px is the size. You can set it to anything. 2px, 10px or even 100px. Though I don’t think you’ll want anything that big. Usually a size between 1px and 5px is perfect.

Everything else is just more of the same. Creating div elements to hold stuff. Pretty simple, yet very effective!

Let us know in the comments below what you think. Also be sure to sign up for our newsletter to get tips, tricks and tactics that we don’t share publicly.

There are many ‘sytles’ for FBML. A style nothing special; it’s not some secret template, code or magic plugin. A FBML Style is nothing more the CSS styling. CSS Stands for Cascading Style Sheets and is the basis for 99% of all design on the internet.

Practically every single you visit will have some form of CSS on it. CSS is the stuff that looks like:

body {

background: white;

padding: 5px;

}

And stuff like that. What’s great is that you can add styling to your FBML code! The bad news is that not all of it works exactly like you would like and, as usual, Internet Explorer (all versions) have problems with it. Fixing it for Internet Explorer is another article which I’ll eventually write on PiotrKrzyzek.com.

Today I want to tell you how to add CSS to your FBML tab and some basics for using it.

This article isn’t about advanced styling or a full blown tutorial. It’s a starter guide. More on advanced FBML styles in a later post.

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