How do i post an email to my facebook page


How-To: Share Emails on Facebook: A 5-Step Tutorial

Categories: Coding emails, Social media

One of Facebook’s many methods of sharing ideas to your network is through “links.” This function, much like Digg, Reddit, and Twitter, lets users share links to interesting Web pages, Flash content, videos, audio files, and more.

Much like the aisles near the front of Bed Bath & Beyond, we’ll actually be focusing the rest of this post on the aforementioned “more” (or “beyond,” if you will): emails!

Sharing Your Emails on Facebook
The idea here is to encourage people to share your email on Facebook so that more people can be exposed to your content. Also, you’ll want to be able to control what Facebook shows, so you’re sure relevant content is displayed with the link to your email. Unlike any content hosted on the Internet, however, emails don’t have URLs for people to copy into Facebook. That means you have to provide a method for the user to link to your email.

Here are five steps to help you effectively share your emails on Facebook:

  1. Create a web version of your email.
    Usually, when sending an HTML email, creating an accompanying “Web version” for those users whose email clients mangle their emails beyond comprehension is standard. If you haven’t created a Web version for your emails, you’ll need to do this to make the “share to Facebook” functionality work. Once you have your HTML email hosted on the Internet, you should have the URL for your email’s Web version.
  2. Encode the URL of the web version.
    Take the URL from step 1 and enter it into a URL encoder, such as URL Decoder/Encoder. This basically converts each special character into its ASCII equivalent, which is explained further in the next step.For example, this is the URL to the latest web version of our newsletter:
    https://fulcrumtech.net/email/5_tips_for_writing_winning_subject_lines/The encoded version of that URL is:
    http%3A%2F%2Fwww. fulcrumtech.net%2Femail%2F5_tips_for_writing_winning_
    subject_lines%2F
  3. Build the URL to share the link on Facebook.
    Now place your encoded URL at the end of the following string: http://www.facebook.com/share.php?u=You’ll end up with something long and ugly like this:
    http://www.facebook.com/share.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.fulcrumtech.net%2F
    email%2F5_tips_for_writing_winning_subject_lines%2F
    What we’re basically doing here is putting your URL in a format that Facebook will understand, but your Web browser won’t. Click here for a full explanation of why this is necessary.
  4. Add the “Share on Facebook” link to your email.
    Next, create a link to the complete URL from Step 3 in your HTML email. You can also link a graphic to this URL – such as a Facebook logo – or simply suggest to your readers to click on a link.
  5. Customize the information that Facebook will display.
    Now for the fun part – you’ll want to control what content Facebook displays with the link including:

    To control these things, you’ll use some tags in the header of your email. The header of an HTML email is the code between the <head> and </head> tags in your HTML.

    You can place the above codes anywhere inside the header of your email. But be careful not to place them inside of another tag. If you are unsure, you should place them after any tag that starts with “</” (as these are closing tags) or any tag that ends with “/>” (as these tags close themselves).

    If you don’t see a header in your HTML (i.e., the tag <head> is missing), you can add it yourself. Just type <head></head> right before the tag that starts with “<body” at the top of the email and include the previously discussed codes in between <head> and </head>.

Test it out for yourself – click here to share our latest newsletter on Facebook, and see the above steps in action.

Have fun and enjoy your extra traffic!

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How to Turn Your Email into A Facebook Post

You put a lot of time and effort into your email. It’s time to make that email do double duty by turning it into Facebook posts. That’s right: Write once, share twice.

Why you should turn your email into Facebook posts

You’re a busy person.You’re running a business and maybe working a day job, going to school, or taking care of your family. You have little time to do the same work twice, so let your email do it for you.

When you turn an email into a Facebook post, you’re saving precious time that you can spend working on new products, brainstorming business ideas, or eating ice cream (we support all of these choices).

Also, it’s just plain smart to share your email on Facebook because you can show your content to a whole new audience –– an audience that isn’t necessarily on your email list. And maybe some of your customers who do receive your email don’t check their email religiously, but are on Facebook daily.

With 2 billion daily active users (yes, that’s billion with a b) spending an average of 43 minutes per day, Facebook is a great place to reshare your email as posts. Because, let’s face it, with that many people spending that much time on Facebook, you have an audience just waiting for new content –– your content.

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How to turn your email into Facebook posts

Create and design an email campaign in your your Square Marketing tab. On the Audience page, ensure that the Facebook setting is enabled to share on your Facebook page by selecting Share on Facebook.

At this point, take a moment to preview your post. It might help to consider the design and length of the email to ensure it’s appropriate for a Facebook post. If you have an image or coupon in the email, it will be transferred to the post. Once you’ve confirmed and set the campaign live, your email is pulling double duty. If you have to make a change to the post later on, you can make edits directly in Facebook.

How to boost your post

If you’re interested in sharing the post with a larger audience, you can do so with Square Marketing. Boosting a post allows more of your current followers and fans to see said post. All the money you put toward boosting your post goes directly to Facebook. If you decide you want to boost the post and want to target a specific audience, you can do so directly through Facebook. You can learn more about boosting posts with Square Marketing here.

Tracking post success

It’s also important to know that once you have linked your Facebook account with Square Marketing and you’ve shared an email as a post, you can see how well that post does in your Square Dashboard.

Simply go to the Marketing tab, where you’ll find an overview of your campaign. You’ll see a detailed report of how many people clicked on your post, shared it, and commented on it, and whether anyone who viewed the post then purchased something offline from you.

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