Mari Smith, the Queen of Facebook, was my guest on this week's Social Media Pubcast, sponsored by TabSite (http://tabsite.com/podcast) . Here are some of the topics we covered:


• How she went from start in 2008 to 100,000 Fans now on Facebook

• Facebook hashtags and dispelling the myths of hashtag privacy (https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151446964570009&set=a.208729010008.138466.42328360008&type=1)

• The conflicts between the removal of the 20% text rule and good design for cover photos

• Mari's Facebook advertising strategy (and how Jon promotes posts (https://www.jonloomer.com/2013/04/01/facebook-promoted-posts-power-editor/) )

• The exciting news about changes to the Facebook ads manager reports

• Facebook changes in general -- are they for the better?

• If Facebook blew up tomorrow (https://www.jonloomer.com/2012/11/13/if-facebook-blows-up-tomorrow-3-investments-your-business-must-make/) , what would she or Jon do?

Here are a couple other things we mentioned related to Mari's business:


• Mari's Business and Beyond Club (https://marismith.infusionsoft.com/go/bbc/jonloomer/)

• Get an autographed copy of The New Relationship Marketing (http://marismith.com/books) for half off

Here's where you can find Mari:


MariSmith.com (http://www.marismith.com)

Facebook.com/MariSmith (https://www.facebook.com/marismith)

Twitter.com/MariSmith (http://twitter.com/MariSmith)

P.S. Tabsite (http://tabsite.com/podcast) sponsored this episode, which means you can get 33% off of one year of any membership for their product to create contests and deal apps to increase engagement on your Facebook page. Just go to TabSite.com/podcast (http://tabsite.com/podcast) and use the promo code PODCAST!