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In this article you’ll discover four ways companies are using Facebook to increase leads: http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/use-facebook-to-increase-leads/

Facebook is running one of the largest auctions on the Internet and it enables anyone to buy advertising space on Facebook through the online auction. However, the auction doesn’t work like a traditional one: the highest bid is not always enough to win it. A well-performing ad – e.g. high click-through rate and positive ad engagement – with a combination of high enough bid will allow you to win the auction and get your ad shown on Facebook: http://www.insidefacebook.com/2014/07/29/optimize-your-facebook-advertising-performance-with-the-right-bidding/

How can you maximize Facebook for your business? Here are some articles that Small Business Trends has created on the topic. Hopefully, these will be resources for your small business while maximizing Facebook as a marketing and communications tool: http://smallbiztrends.com/2014/07/how-to-market-your-business-on-facebook.html

Sales guru John Jantsch provides essential advice to business owners who don't think that they they're also salespeople: http://www.inc.com/geoffrey-james/6-things-entrepreneurs-should-know-about-selling.html

Why go with a mobile-friendly website instead of an app? It’s much less expensive, you can use your existing content and/or code base (though it’s often recommended to rethink the UX to make it more mobile friendly) and it’s device agnostic. Read more: http://thenextweb.com/dd/2014/07/28/beginners-guide-organizing-content-mobile-friendly-designs/

10 awesome SlideShare presentations, all having to do with social media. You’ll find strategies, big-picture ideas, stats, research, and more: http://thenextweb.com/socialmedia/2014/08/08/10-best-slideshares-every-social-media-enthusiast-must-read/

The ability to stand out in a noisy world like Facebook is something everyone can easily learn to do. Read more at http://blog.canva.com/stand-out-on-facebook/

Facebook users are looking for signs and portents in the items that come down their News Feed. Something to make them feel good and smile. This symbiotic relationship seems to be working for many companies who have adopted the strategy, even adding the #motivation or #inspiration to their posts as a way of increasing that reach through aggregators and hashtag searches. Read more: http://www.insidefacebook.com/2014/08/15/new-currency-for-facebook-likes/

Inspiration is the new currency for Facebook likes

Camoji, which is a mash-up of “camera” and “emoji,” is a one-screen experience where you just tap and hold to create your GIF-like images, optionally add a caption, then swipe up to send it to a friend via iMessage. Read more: http://techcrunch.com/2014/08/14/camoji-lets-you-create-and-text-animated-gifs-via-imessage/

Why pay Facebook to reach and engage fans if we can achieve similar objectives mostly for free on other networks? The full story: http://www.marketingmagazine.co.uk/article/1307727/why-brands-un-friending-facebook-follow-twitter

Google's procedures for responding to "right-to-be-forgotten" requests are explained in a lengthy document that was made publicly available. Read the full document: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B8syaai6SSfiT0EwRUFyOENqR3M/preview?pli=1

Are you into marketing? Sure you are! Read this, it's awesome: http://www.slideshare.net/mobile/HubSpot/jumpstart-inboundmarketingv2

Jeff Bezos once told me that he tells everyone that if you email him, you’ll get an answer either within 10 minutes, or never. Read more: http://time.com/3108639/how-to-manage-your-email-like-a-ceo/

Here are five tips and tools to help you to grow your presence on Instagram: http://www.razorsocial.com/growing-instagram-followers/

Although everyone knows how to search for something, there are a few quick tips that can help you get the exact results you're looking for, faster. Google offers a "Power Searching" class and we took it so you don't have to: http://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-be-a-google-power-searcher-2014-7?op=1