Archive for June, 2010

02 Jun 2010

A clever trick to automatically invite all your Facebook friends to be fans of your page

15 Comments facebook marketing and advertising

For folks that have a personal profile (a “standard” account), you can use a clever trick to invite all of these friends to fan the page.  There is no way to automatically import.  When you’re on the Facebook fan page that you want to invite all your friends to, you hit “suggest to friends” under your profile picture and then paste this code into the address bar to automatically select everyone:

javascript:elms=document.getElementById(‘friends’).getElementsByTagName(‘li’);for(var fid in elms){if(typeof elms[fid] === ‘object’){fs.click(elms[fid]);}}

If you have thousands of friends, like I do, then this will save you hours each time.

01 Jun 2010

GASP! Facebook’s like button is broken!

3 Comments facebook marketing and advertising

For those of you who are wondering why the “like” button isn’t working on your website any more, it’s not you.  Facebook developers are aware this is priority 1 in their bug tracking system.  We’ve been putting the like button on a number of sites.  And all of them are broken!  This is not the same as placing a share link, which is what most people do– it’s such that people who click “like” from your website can become fans of your business without having to do so within Facebook.  I predict this will either become enormous or be hit with massive privacy issues– or maybe both!

We’ve separately talked about the implications of placing the like button everywhere, plus changing “become a fan” to just liking.  Pretty soon couples say that they’re in LIKE with each other.