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Sams Teach Yourself Facebook® for Business in 10 Minutes gives you straightforward, practical answers when you need fast results. By working through its 10-minute lessons, you’ll learn how to profit from Facebook’s powerful new business tools: Facebook Pages, Places, Deals, Ads, and more! Tips point out shortcuts and solutions; Cautions help you avoid common pitfalls; Notes provide additional information. 10 minutes is all you need to learn how to... Define your Facebook-centric online business strategy Plan and create your “business-friendly” personal Facebook page Create a Facebook Page, also known as a “fan page,” for your business Build your Wall with customer-focused status updates Create more effective Info, Photos, and Discussions tabs Find and install Apps that can help your business Claim and edit your Facebook Places page, and get customers to “check in” Plan, target, write, and design low-cost Facebook Ads that work Promote your Facebook presence and track its impact Offer Facebook Deals that attract new customers Avoid common Facebook business mistakes

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Vine is a new mobile app and video-sharing service from Twitter. Vine enables users to shoot short (six-second max) looping videos on their mobile phones and then share those videos with online friends. Vine videos (called vines) can be viewed from a user's Vine or Twitter feed, shared via Facebook, or embedded in web pages and blogs. This makes Vine like a video version of Instagram, enabling users to share life in motion via social networking. There is no user manual for Vine, nor much in the way of online help files. Anyone wanting to get on the Vine bandwagon can use some help not just learning the basic shooting and sharing features, but also figuring out how to create more sophisticated types of vines. This is a one-stop shop for everything associated with Vine, from shooting basic videos to sharing those videos socially to creating more sophisticated and artistic videos. In short, it is a source of inspiration to aspiring Vine users in an easy step-by-step format. It is accompanied by a series of Vine videos, available for viewing from Que's website and YouTube channel.