Who Is Linus Ruzicka?

It’s So Easy, A Network Marketer Could Do It

So this was a simple post – after my wife introduced me to it!  She’s the one that showed me how to connect your blog to your facebook fan page.

So I’m going to send her a shameless promo here and have you visit The Couponess.com to give her a little “traffic love.”

But really, this is a simple thing to do, as my tutorial video shows above here.  (If for some reason you can’t see the video, here is the direct link on Youtube – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMXikGO_RQM).


What I was Missing

I have a Facebook profile page that is already linked to my blog through my feed system so my blog posts show up there – but my friend count is already getting up into the 3000’s, so I knew I needed to start looking at building a fan page soon with the idea of building my contact list larger on Facebook.

I also have “The Official Linus Ruzicka” group page on Facebook as well, and have been using that as an accessory site to build a relationship with people, but the downside to a Facebook Group is that you have to manually insert your blog posts.

And I was not able to find an option to add your blog feed to your Facebook Group automatically as you create a post on your blog.

You can create discussions, add events, videos, and everything else that the Facebook fan page has – except – the “Notes” tab, which will allow your blog feed to auto-post into your facebook fan page.

If there was a way to automate things and make it easier, then I’m all for it.


My Dilema

What started all of this is that my wife was tired of having to copy and paste the content from her main Facebook profile page into her fan page.

She wanted to add her blog feed to her Facebook fan page.  So she started hunting around, and discovered the process I talked about in the video at the top of the page.

I have to admit, I was tired of doing the same thing between my profile and my Facebook group.

My first thought was to go and double check my Facebook Group – and sure enough, I couldn’t find any connection to add my blog feed to my facebook group.

Bummer!

I had already spent over a year building my Facebook Group, so I was torn if I wanted to go to the effort of building a fan page just so I could connect my blog to my facebook fan page.

So, to automate as much as I could, I decided it would be best to create a new Facebook Fan Page to allow my blog to connect to the Fan page.

The part I’m working on now is adding new friends and building my list on my Facebook Fan page.


The “List”

So it dawned on me, keep my Facebook group as it is, and use my new Facebook Fan page as a new “List” to build a relationship and contact with.

So I will be building my fan page with that design in mind.

When you look at my Facebook account – I now have my regular profile, my Facebook group, and now I have a Facebook fan page connected to my blog posts.

I think I’m pretty well maxed out for my account.

So, if you have any ideas of how to connect your blog to your Facebook account, I’d like you to leave a comment here so that others can learn from it as well.

P.S. Tweet MeMe Up – If you like this blog post then share it with your Twitter buddies too. It’s really easy to do, just look for the little green “retweet” button at the top of this post. It’s definitely appreciated.

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Leaving no network marketer behind…

I’m not quite sure my motivation in writing this post.  Is it to make a point?  Is it to explain that it’s “o.k.” to tag somone?  Is it to help provide some “tagging” etiquette?

Before I get into that, let me provide some background first.

One of my techniques to introduce myself to people in Facebook is to tag them in a Welcome video.  After 2-3 days I remove the tag from those new friends and tag the next set of new friends.  I learned this strategy here and already have it located on my blog:  Facebook Marketing Training

But, my welcome video is simply that.  I introduce myself, give them some background on who I am, and welcome them to leave me a comment on my profile.

I simply do this to introduce myself and set myself apart from the masses to always leave messages like “Hi welcome to my network, I look forward to networking with you.”  Blech!!  How many of those do you get in a day?  3? 5? 10? How is that separating you from the masses.

Come on people!!

Now, I know that for some people, this is a dicey subject.  Some people are DEADSET against tagging (as you’ll read in a bit).  But I find it as a very effective tool inside of Facebook.  As long as you are using the principles of attraction marketing, you will generally stay within safe limits of bringing attention to yourself.

Linus Ruzicka Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.  -Mark Twain

Linus, I realize you are running a business but I don’t appreciate you attaching video’s to my site. Remove immediately or I will report this incident. October 16 at 8:19am

Linus Ruzicka Did you even watch the video? It was simply a welcome video saying hello and introducing myself. Nothing more. I only tagged you with it as you and I have recently become connected here on FB and I wanted my introduction … Read More to be unique. I didn’t realize that saying “hello” to someone would ever upset them as it obviously did with you. It is sad that others have ruined this approach of saying hello by blatantly pitching their business in the video. Consider the welcome video removed. October 16 at 1:15pm

Linus, It is not nice to tag others in your video, whatever the reason. Some people like myself want to control what appears on their wall. I guess that they don’t teach this at Mike Dillard’s school. October 18 at 8:55pm

Linus Ruzicka Thomas…by what you’re saying here is that if I were to create a testimonial video talking about what a great attraction marketing mentor you are, it wouldn’t be proper to tag you in the video? That seems rather un-Dillard wouldn’t you say? October 18 at 9:18pm

Hey Linus, Love you come backs, other people should put more energy in the way they market their business rather than criticise how people brand them self’s in their business.You go Linus!! October 19 at 5:34am

Linus Ruzicka I think this is going to be one of my new blog posts. ” To tag or not to tag – that is the question.”But really though, I’m not here to knock one side or the other. I just tag my new friends in a video where I simply introduce myself and give a virtual handshake. People pay more attention to a video than a message that says “Hey, welcome to my network. I look forward to networking with you.” Do you know how many of those i get every single day? How is that separating yourself from everyone else that does the same thing?Maybe I’m in the minority on this issue, but my video comments directly to that video sure seem to support my point of view. October 19 at 5:55am

Might use that too for an article….something positive has come from all of this…!! October 19 at 6:08am

There is nothing wrong with a welcome tag, just make sure the video is just that, a “welcome tag” and doesn’t include promoting your business with links, etc. October 19 at 6:56am

Linus Ruzicka I have a little chuckle that all of this was started off of the quote was at the top of this thread. Funny! October 20 at 5:45am

Yes Linus, I agree, there must be a lot of people with nothing to do, they need to go to work and dump the negativity out of their heads. October 20 at 5:55am

So, as you can see how that transpired that it is a majority of people who tend to agree that tagging someone is fine, but as long as you do it in a non-spamming manner.

Creating a video about your next best opportunity and then tagging 1000 of your friends on Facebook isn’t cool – at all!

But, if you create a video giving someone a testimony, providing help to someone specific, or like me – creating a welcome video- you should be fine and good to go.

You need to be judicious in what you say and how you say it.  If you don’t, people in these social networks will certainly let you know.

Really though, if you have any doubts about what to do in a social aspect and provide a role model and leadership to others, just go back and read Mike Dillards Magnetic Sponsoring.   He provides the basics and ground work of what you should be doing in attraction marketing.