Marketing on Facebook, Part Deux

A couple of weeks ago, I mentioned that recent Facebook changes were getting some people all hot and bothered about the marketing possibilities. Well, check out the way Ben & Jerry’s is using Facebook Connect to let fans promote their favorite flavor. (BTW, have you ever tried Half Baked? Three words: HO LEE CRAP!). On [...]

Direct marketing on Facebook

Recent FB changes to brand Pages include the addition of status updates…allowing brands to broadcast short messages to fans who can then comment/respond. Any fan’s response is included in the news feeds of all their friends. With Pages behaving more like friends’ profiles, is FB becoming a legitimate direct channel? Gary Stein at ClickZ certainly [...]