How to use Facebook Video Cards to say thanks

Did you receive a gift?

Did a client do great work?

Would you like to say thanks?

This article is going to teach you how to use Facebook Video Cards to send someone a thank you.

What are Facebook Video Cards?

Facebook Video Cards are a way to create a personalized video on Facebook to send to your friends.

To date, 200 million video cards have been sent.

Instead of sending someone a private email or handwritten thank you note which only reaches the recipient.

You can send a personalized thank you also called Facebook Videos Cards or a “Say thanks” video in just a few steps.

How to use Facebook Video Cards

 

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3 Ways to make your Instagram community explode using Facebook

Do you wish your business could grow its presence on Instagram?

It takes a lot of time and energy to create a successful Instagram strategy for your business.

To be successful on using Instagram for business, it requires developing a following and continuously creating and sharing new and exciting photos and videos with your audience to get them excited about products and services.

As your content gets shared, more people will see it and engage with it and help grow your network.

While this process will help you grow your Instagram following, you could be missing out on adding more followers when you don’t integrate Instagram with Facebook.

Here are three ways you can integrate Instagram with Facebook to help to get more exposure for your photos and videos and grow your presence on Instagram.

3 Ways to integrate Instagram with Facebook

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How to edit Facebook look back videos

In celebration of Facebook’s 10th Anniversary, they launched Facebook Look back videos.

Facebook Look back videos are a personalized way to see how your life evolved on Facebook since you first joined.

While Look back videos seem like a great idea, some users didn’t like that Facebook didn’t let you edit your look back video.

If you didn’t like your Facebook look back video, don’t worry.

Facebook will let you edit Facebook look back videos.

To edit your Facebook look back video, follow these instructions.

How to edit Facebook Look back videos

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Digging up past posts from Facebook profiles and pages with the help of Google search

How to search Facebook posts using Google

Are you tired of waiting for Facebook to let you use Facebook Graph search to search Facebook posts? They say it is coming, but that was four months ago.

Instead of sitting around waiting at your keyboard to search Facebook posts, here is a nifty trick using Google to search through posts from a Facebook Profile or Facebook Page.

Google + Facebook search strategy

I have been using this Google search trick for a while and it is very handy for a number of reasons:

  • Search competitor Facebook Pages
  • Search your friends posts
  • Search posts for people you are not friends with
  • Save time and quickly locate past posts

To use Google to search Facebook posts, follow these instructions.

How to search Facebook posts using Google Search

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Getting more organized with Facebook photo albums

Are your Facebook photo albums a mess? Do you wish you could rearrange Facebook albums?

For those of you who plan to get more organized in 2014, a good place to start is with the Facebook photo albums. Not only is it relatively easy to create an album, but this action of getting organized can spillover into your personal life as well.

Here is a handy shortcut to help get your Facebook photo albums more organized on Facebook Profiles and Facebook Pages.

Rearrange Facebook albums
Rearranging Facebook photo albums can be time-consuming. Source: Joyoflife.

To rearrange Facebook albums, follow these steps.

How to rearrange Facebook albums

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The one Facebook privacy setting you need to check

Are you concerned that you might not have the right privacy settings marked when posting a status update on Facebook? Learn how to quickly check your Facebook privacy settings using the Facebook view as tool.

While it is very easy to use the Facebook view as tool, for one reason or another, we forget to use it.

By not using it, this can put us into an embarrassing situation if someone we didn’t intend to share our updates with see’s them. For example, if you didn’t intend to share that holiday party photo with your co-workers.

To use the view as tool to see what someone can and cannot view on your Facebook profile, follow these instructions.

How to use the Facebook view as tool

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Facebook video ads coming to a news feed near you

Since September, Facebook has been testing an easier way to watch videos. After months of testing and seeing higher levels of engagement in people liking, commenting, and watching videos, they announced a premium ad called Facebook video ads.

What are Facebook video ads?

Facebook video ads
Example of Facebook video ads in the news feed.

Facebook video ads are a way for advertisers to display video content in a users’ news feed.

When a user is viewing their news feed and a video ad appears, the video will begin to autoplay without sound.

Before you get mad and delete your Facebook account, don’t worry. They’re not that bad.

That’s because in order to play a video with sound, users will need to click on the video to play it with sound.

What they’re not

I am surprised at how many people are already complaining about Facebook video ads. They’re not live, so you really have nothing to compare them to yet.

For those of you trying to figure out what they look like, forget about seeing a Facebook news feed with lots of videos playing at one time.

Facebook knows what they are doing. Video ads will autoplay (without sound).

One additional thing if you want to watch the video ad with sound, users will need to click the ad. If you want to skip the video ad, you can scroll right past them.

Why you don’t need to worry about Facebook video ads

While Facebook is currently testing video ads with select partners like Summit Entertainment, most users won’t need to worry about seeing an abundance of video ads in their news feed.

As I mentioned, they’re a premium feature and because they will cost $2 million per 15 second spot (source), you’ll mostly only see video ads from companies with deep pockets, which means the ads should be pretty good.

This doesn’t mean you should avoid Facebook video ads. They are coming to a news feed near you at some point so get ready.

How do Facebook video ads work?

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How to customize your Facebook video thumbnail

If you share a lot of videos on your Facebook Page, one thing you want to do is to be sure to customize your Facebook video thumbnail images.

Why use a custom image?

When you customize your image, this gives you the opportunity to determine what your fans see in their news feed. Doing this can influence their decision to click on your video.

For example, how many of you would click on a video that had this image in your news feed?

Facebook video without a thumbnail
Facebook video without a custom thumbnail.

How about this one instead?

Facebook video with a thumbnail
Facebook video with a custom thumbnail.

So how do you go about setting a custom Facebook video thumbnail image? Follow the instructions below.

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How to fix errors using the edit Facebook posts feature

One of the missing features on Facebook was the ability to edit Facebook posts.

While sites like Google Plus have had the ability to edit posts when they first launched, Facebook is finally rolling out the ability to edit posts to pages and profiles.

The BBC reported concerns over the misuse of Facebook edited posts. While some people might see editing posts as a concern, I consider this good news.

This is because you can now go and fix any spelling or grammar errors in your posts!

To edit Facebook posts on your Facebook Page or Profile, follow these instructions.

How to edit Facebook posts

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