What is an Expert, Facebook Pages & Blog Re-Designs!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EC0VPViuoLk

Welcome to the first ever ‘Ask Chris’ post!

I’m really excited about this new series of posts… My plan is to do them every Tuesday – but, if I have a lack of questions (can’t see that happening, to be honest!), or I’m just feeling lazy, or traveling or something, they will at least pop up a couple of times each month.

I am looking at answering 2-3 questions in each post, too. This first one is a little longer than they will probably be, going forward, because of the intro to the new series – but, I see them basically running around 4-5mins from next week onwards.

The thing is, I get so many great questions every week via email, Twitter and on our Facebook Page – or even just the comment section here at the blog – that it’s sometimes a waste to get back to the person directly (even though I do most of the time, anyway!), and leave out everyone else in the VBL Community that might learn, or gain something from the answers I give out. Hence this new idea…

I should also mention that these posts will all be in video format, too. I’ve chosen this medium because a) I wanted to do more video this year, anyway, and b) because answering verbally / visually allows me to give a more ‘personal’ reply, instead of a more canned, or edited one – via text. Hope you see my point.

This Week, I Answer…

Today I discuss a question I had from someone asking, in my opinion, when can someone truly be called an ‘expert’, as well as another from a new blogger that is wanting to grow his Facebook community fast. And lastly, I get a little more involved, following a few questions on the same subject last week – on how I got the re-design of the blog done so quickly, and to such high quality.

So, enjoy the first ever ‘Ask Chris’ post, and remember to ask your questions below in the comment section, for inclusion in next week’s post – I look forward to hearing from you all.

Facebook Fan Pages—Blogger’s Friend or Foe? My First “Rant ‘n’ Rave” Post! (Was Bound to Happen Sooner or Later!)

FACEBOOK SUCKS

Location: Starbucks, Cebu – Reading Time 3mins

UPDATE: So, I went live with this post literally about 8 hours ago, and as I wake up and start to enjoy my breakfast looking at the ocean here in Boracay, I figure I’ll check out the old Fan Page to see if it’s still gone. And would you believe it – it’s BACK! They re-enabled the Profile and the Fan Page. Was it because of the rant ‘n’ rave post that you will now probably not even bother reading—probably not. Do I care? Nope. Guess it was just my lucky day…

All links on the site have been switched back to the original Fan Page now.

Okay, so I’d like to welcome you to the first ever Virtual Business Lifestyle Rant ‘n’ Rave blog post…! Enjoy…

Just over a week ago the popular social networking website, Facebook, brought it on themselves to disable my business networking profile, and along with it (as it was attached to the profile) the original VBL Fan Page, which at the time had been up and running for about 7 weeks and had 715 members. Which, I believe is pretty good going. We now have new fan page – please click here to join us, again, immediately.

We were all, including you loyal readers/viewers out there, doing a great job of spreading the word and increasing the VBL’s following on the biggest social networking website online today, and then it was literally ripped away from us all, without even a ‘real’ explanation. My question is – WHY?

Why was my account disabled…? I ask because I have no idea. Facebook doesn’t tell you why. They simply stop you from signing in, giving you an email address to send an ‘appeal’ to (which I did straightaway, obviously), and then after you have crafted the email and sent it to them, you get a bog-standard bunch of BS auto-reply back from them saying they will look into it. And then… Nothing.

Here’s the thing – if it wasn’t for people like me – and you – the Facebook users of the world, and the bloggers that want to create fan pages to promote their brands and websites, they wouldn’t be as big and as successful as they are today, would they!?!…

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