If you already use Twitter, Ecademy and LinkedIn you might be interested in using Facebook to set up a fan page. It works in a similar way to your own profile page as you have a wall to write on and most of the other tabs: info, photos, notes and events. Instead of friends you instead ask your friends to become fans of the page you create. We have set up several photo albums to display images of our graphic design portfolio, our website design and our logo design archive. All our fans can see these images and invite their friends to become fans of our page too.

Create Design Studio Facebook Page

We have begun to publish ‘notes’: these can be the length of a status update or as long as a blog post and are great for publishing news of projects, testimonials from clients and for making special offers that are available to fans as the notes appear on their news feed when they log-in.

The events tool allows you to create events on a calendar and invite fans to RSVP. This could be useful for attending or organising networking events or open days that are open to fans. This tool could also be used for promoting special offers that are time limited or open only to fans. Giving any organisation the opportunity to thank their fans for following them and promoting their fan page as a place to get special offers. Creating this exclusive ‘club’ atmosphere can encourage customers to sign up and allow you to carefully target special offers at an audience who are likely to be interested in them.

The information tab is the place to post contact telephone numbers, email addresses and your organisation’s opening hours. Encourage your fans to get in touch using this information.

If you would like to have a look at our fan page on Facebook simply search (top right-hand side of the page) when you log-in for ‘Create Design Studio’ and we should appear in the results. If you like what you see why not become a fan and write us a note on our wall?

Create Design Studio are specialists in using online marketing to help your business sell more to your customers. Call David woodroofe on 01962 737989 to find out how we could help you.

It may be November, and it may be raining but we have been thinking about the great British summer beach holiday while we designed and built a website for Weymouth-based company Charm Properties.

Charm Properties New Website

Charm Properties let holiday homes in Weymouth and Portland to customers seeking a break in the UK. They wanted a website to reflect the sights of the local area and to promote the fact that Weymouth is a great area to take part in watersports like windsurfing and sailing.

Overall the site has a relaxing blue colourscheme and postcard style images illustrating local sights. We helped them by searching photo libraries to find appropriate images for the website. Plenty of information and images from their Holiday properties can fit on every page, enabling visitors to get a good look at each property before they choose where they would like to go on holiday.

Visit the Charm Properties website by clicking here.

We are Create Design Studio and we specialise in using the web to benefit our clients businesses. If you would like to speak to the the new media experts at Create Design Studio call David Woodroofe on 01962 737989 today.