Irish Greeting Card Company (and client) P & G Cards are currently using Facebook to carry out an interesting survey. Titled “Which do you prefer to receive on your birthday?“, P & G Cards would like to know if people would rather receive a birthday card and so far the answer is yes.

You can vote using the Facebook App here, we would love to know which you prefer?

Leitrim County Enterprise Board are hosting a Breakfast Workshop on Friday August 19th

Topic: Social Media for Business Owners – Have your questions answered.

Facilitator: Johnny Beirne

Date: Friday 19th August.

Time: 8am to 10am.

Location: The Landmark Hotel, Carrick on Shannon.

Cost: €10 payable on the morning. Light breakfast included.

Number of places available: 35 (these workshops have booked out in the past).

To book your place please click here. Your ticket will be emailed to you when you register.

Topics will include but not limited to:

1. Facebook

2. Twitter

3. LinkedIn

4. Blogging

5. YouTube and online video platforms

To make the most of this event you should consider your questions in advance.

Facebook for Business - How it works

Facebook have just launched an excellent resource to help businesses get more from their social network.

Click here for Facebook for Business – How it works

Here goes. I use Google Reader to read them all and/or Feeddler on iPhone/iPad

http://www.allfacebook.com

http://www.digitalbuzzblog.com/

http://www.digitaltimes.ie/

http://ennclick.com/

http://www.insidefacebook.com/

http://www.krishnade.com/blog

http://www.mrlukeabbott.com/

http://mashable.com/

http://blog.neworld.com/

http://www.simplyzesty.com/

http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/

http://socialmediatoday.com/rss

http://www.socialmedia.biz/

http://www.socialnomics.net/

http://socialtimes.com/

I also follow a bunch of people on Twitter and will make a list soon.

I am sure there are tonnes more so if you have any suggestions I would love to hear them.

Please get in touch if you require more details. Email info@johnnybeirne.com or call 086.2242154.

Last week I delivered a Facebook for Business Course with Roscommon County Enterprise Board. One of the course participants Pat Smyth of Smyths Wedding Car Hire Roscommon and Galway set up 4 Facebook ads.

Wedding car hire in Galway is a key market for Pat and Facebook Ads allows him to target the Galway market specifically. Not only that but Facebook allows targetting based on martial status, in this case ‘Engaged‘.

The 4 ads collectively had a total number of impressions of 270,060 which cost €54. The total number of clicks was 110 which is a standard click through rate (CTR) of 0.04%.

For one ad Pat choose Females aged between 24 and 38, lived in a 10 mile radius of Galway and engaged. Pat received a number of enquiries from the ad but more importantly confirmed 2 bookings.

Pat also received a booking  from another ad where he changed the location to market to a different area that he services.

What do you think of these numbers in terms of success and value for money?  Have you tried Facebook ads for your business and did they work?

A course participant would like me to prove that blogs are search engine friendly and he would like to be found for Artificial Grass Ireland.