We are Derek and Monique Alvarez. We love our dog (Char­lie Parker), work­ing for our­selves, trav­el­ing the world, and help­ing peo­ple reach their dreams!

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How To Mass Invite On Facebook

I’m not sure if I’m unleash­ing the wolves on some inno­cent lit­tle lambs by reveal­ing this to Net­work Mar­keters or not…

But I just want to remind you that “With great power comes great responsibility.”

(Spider-Man’s Uncle Ben told him this.)

Why am I mak­ing such a big deal?

Because I am going to tell you how to mass invite peo­ple on Facebook.

This may not seem like quite a big deal if you only have 30 friends, but once you get into the thou­sands like Monique and I have, it becomes quite a pain to select all your friends to invite them to (fill in the blank)…

  • Become a fan of your page
  • Lis­ten to a phone call
  • Watch a webinar
  • Go to a Meetup
  • What­ever!

Monique has got­ten hun­dreds more lis­ten­ers to her train­ing calls since we started doing this.

We’ve also made thou­sands more peo­ple aware of our fan page and went from 419 fans to 620 fans in the span of 1 week.

Ready to see how to do this yet?

Well, I’ll show you. Just promise me not to abuse it ;) Con­tinue read­ing How To Mass Invite On Facebook

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Attraction Marketing makes more sense after a case of Amnesia

I’m sorry, do I know you…

Monique told me about a story some­one told her the other day that had me laugh­ing so hard that I would have spit milk out of my nose (that is, if I had been drink­ing milk).

The per­son who told her the story is Byron Smith, some­one we’ve come to know through Facebook.

But the best part is that Byron had an epiphany because of what hap­pened and it has set him on a course of action that will only lead to success.

Byron is going to start his own blog because he likes writ­ing so much (can you blame him ;), so I asked him to relay what he learned for all our loyal Dri­veThe­Line followers.

With­out fur­ther ado, I give you Mr. Byron Smith — take it away, Byron: Con­tinue read­ing Attrac­tion Mar­ket­ing makes more sense after a case of Amnesia

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Analyzing Your Facebook Fan Page

Warn­ing: Don’t Study the Face­book Fan Page Graphs and Ana­lyt­ics Too Hard or You’ll End Up Like the Guy to the Left

Now that we have that out of the way, I would like to show you some more rea­sons why I pre­fer Fan Pages over Groups on Face­book — all the Graphs and Analytics!

Why does this mat­ter, you may ask?

It mat­ters because it will give you a great idea of who you are attract­ing to you, so you can have laser focus when you are try­ing to meet their needs.

Plus, if you get some inter­ac­tion going with your fans, you will not only have a good idea of who they are and what they are like, you will also know what prob­lems they need solved.

But, like I said, this post is about look­ing at the graphs and analytics.

I wrote another post on some ways to inter­act with your fans and you can find that here: http://​dri​vethe​line​.com/​p​r​o​m​o​t​i​n​g​-​y​o​u​r​-​f​a​c​e​b​o​o​k​-​f​a​n​-​p​a​g​e​-​t​h​r​o​u​g​h​-​a​p​p​s​-​a​n​d​-​w​i​d​g​e​ts/ Con­tinue read­ing Ana­lyz­ing Your Face­book Fan Page

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Promoting Your Facebook Fan Page Through Apps and Widgets

In order to make it in this busi­ness, you need to be a “shame­less” self-​​promoter. You need to cre­ate a brand — that’s what Don King did — “Only in Amer­ica,” right?

And, as promised, that’s what we’ll be talk­ing about today — pro­mot­ing your Face­book Fan Page through Apps and Widgets.

We’ve already gone over how to use Face­book Ads, so today it’s all about the free meth­ods. Excit­ing, isn’t it?!

Now before we start, I’ve noticed that some peo­ple out there have no prob­lem pro­mot­ing them­selves on Face­book at all. (In fact, they could prob­a­bly do them­selves a favor by pro­mot­ing a lit­tle less.)

And on the other hand, you have the peo­ple who are using Face­book for busi­ness and you have a hard time telling what they even do.

But there is a happy medium and that’s where I live within the Social Media space.

I’m not on Don King’s level, but I don’t exactly tip-​​toe through the tulips, either.

It’s a good place to be and it’s been working.

So, with­out fur­ther ado, I’ll get to the good stuff, a con­tin­u­a­tion of yesterday’s post, http://​dri​vethe​line​.com/​s​e​t​t​i​n​g​-​y​o​u​r​-​f​a​c​e​b​o​o​k​-​f​a​n​-​p​a​g​e​-​u​p​-​f​o​r​-​s​u​c​c​e​ss/.

Remem­ber, I said I’d tell you about the “Pro­mo­tional Apps” and how to use them to get more fans to your Fan Page? Well, here they are: Con­tinue read­ing Pro­mot­ing Your Face­book Fan Page Through Apps and Widgets

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Setting Your Facebook Fan Page Up For Success

Today, I’d Like to Show You Around My Face­book Fan Page and Let You In On Some Ways I Opti­mize It For “Much Success”

If you’re won­der­ing what I’m talk­ing about, start here: http://​dri​vethe​line​.com/​b​u​i​l​d​i​n​g​-​r​e​l​a​t​i​o​n​s​h​i​p​s​-​t​h​r​o​u​g​h​-​f​a​c​e​b​o​o​k​-​p​a​r​t​-​o​n​e​-​f​a​n​-​p​a​g​es/

Now that you’re back, I’ll show you how to edit your Fan Page and it’s applications.

So go to your Fan Page.

Once there, look toward the upper left of the page and click>‘Edit Page’

You will see sev­eral options to choose from. Con­tinue read­ing Set­ting Your Face­book Fan Page Up For Success

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Building Relationships Through Facebook (Part Two - Facebook Ads)

OK, right off the bat, you’re prob­a­bly think­ing, “Derek, what’s up with the Kanye West pic­ture on the left?”

And the answer is that this was the ad I used to kick-​​start my Dri­veThe­Line Fan Page on Facebook.

I obvi­ously had some fun with it and I sug­gest you do the same.

Take a look at vir­tu­ally any com­mer­cial on T.V. and you will see that they never sell the actual product!

They sell happiness.

They sell being cool.

They sell hang­ing out with bikini-​​clad girls at the beach (at least in the case of beer commercials ;)

But they hardly ever say, “Join ABC Fan Page because it will do this, this, and that for you.” (Except for drug com­mer­cials and all their scary side effects — YEESH!)

B — O — R — I — N — G

(As a side note, you prob­a­bly DON’T want to use this method for Google Adwords — make sure they know exactly what they will be get­ting when you use Adwords, or you’ll make the “Google Saurus Rex” very angry) Con­tinue read­ing Build­ing Rela­tion­ships Through Face­book (Part Two - Face­book Ads)

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Building Relationships Through Facebook (Part One - Fan Pages)

The key to Social Media (and to Net­work­ing in gen­eral) is build­ing rela­tion­ships with poten­tial cus­tomers and prospects.

One way to do this is to use a Face­book Fan Page.

Now, you’re going to run into dif­fer­ent the­o­ries as to what is bet­ter to use — a Fan Page or a Group.

After doing some exper­i­ment­ing with both, Monique and I pre­fer to use Fan Pages.

But, depend­ing on your needs and pref­er­ences, you might have more suc­cess using a Group.

Try both and see which one works for you.

They are very dif­fer­ent, and there are advan­tages to each. Con­tinue read­ing Build­ing Rela­tion­ships Through Face­book (Part One  —  Fan Pages)

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Are you hiding on Facebook?

hidingOnFacebookOr Twit­ter? Or LinkedIn? Or any Social Media site, for that matter?

I wanted to call my friend today, but I lost his number.

“Oh well,” I thought to myself, “I’ll go to his Face­book pro­file and find his phone num­ber there.”

But, to my sur­prise, no num­ber to be found!

So I went to his website.

Well, if his num­ber IS there, it is extremely dif­fi­cult to find.

I would even wager that his num­ber is so dif­fi­cult to find that most cus­tomers look­ing for his ser­vices would have given up long before I did.

This is a prob­lem. Con­tinue read­ing Are you hid­ing on Facebook?

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