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Avoiding the Wrath of Zuckerburg: Is Your Business Violating Facebook Contest Rules?

To my knowledge, no one has landed in the slammer due to a violation of Facebook's Promotion Rules, but that doesn't mean that there can't be grave consequences for throwing the rulebook to the wind. Despite the fact that Facebook has outlined clear rules of engagement for businesses to follow when running promotions on Facebook, it seems as though many small to medium-sized businesses continue to violate Facebook Promotion Rules. Rogue hooligans who blatantly disregard Zuckerberg's commandments? Meh. Although these violations are careless, businesses are most likely unaware that there are rules regarding Facebook promotions.

Most of the ignorance surrounding Facebook's rules about contests, sweepstakes, and other competitions is likely due to the fact that A) Facebook doesn't notify businesses when they are breaking the rules, B) they've changed the rules overtime, and C) some small to medium-sized businesses run their own social media and simply do not have a budget for expensive applications or for an expert on board to steer them clear of the Fail Whales (Wait, that's Twitter, let's not get side-tracked.).

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LAUNCHED Ignites Lansing-area's Entrepreneurial Spirit

On December 15th, more than 200 business and community leaders from the Greater Lansing region and beyond gathered in East Lansing’s Dublin Square Irish Pub for LAUNCHED 2011, the region’s premier celebration of local and regional business innovation. Nicholas Creative was a Gigabyte sponsor and assisted in organization of the third annual event.

LAUNCHED 2011 once again honored emerging business innovators and student entrepreneurs by presenting the Innovator of the Year awards. This year's award went to Jeff Siarto and Allie Osmar of LoudPixel, a social media monitoring company located in East Lansing’s Technology Innovation Center. The event also acknowledged the success of efforts to foster small business development in the area like East Lansing’s Technology Innovation Center, MSU Technologies and Lansing’s recently inaugurated NEO Center.

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Founder and Chief Creative Officer of Nicholas Creative, Nick Chilenko, made the list of six Michigan entrepreneurs that would "make Obama proud" as he visited last week by MLIVE.

Last month's issue of Greater Lansing Business Monthly highlighted the success of Nicholas Creative in "Young Owners Find Success."

Nick Chilenko will guest speak at the 2012 Michigan Bankers Association Conference on April 12th in Traverse City, Mich. Chilenko will host a session regarding email marketing best practices. More on the event here.

The Fountain of Truth Church

Nicholas Creative just recently developed and launched a fresh website for The Fountain of Truth Church. Developed with Drupal, the site is rich with an event calendar, store, multimedia, login functionality and online church. A new, clean design makes participating in the church’s online space easier than ever.

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Nicholas Creative is a boutique creative agency serving small- and medium-sized businesses to design and develop websites, deploy email marketing communications and optimize for search engines.

Nicholas Creative empowers you to:

• Create a consistent brand
• Generate sales leads
• Improve customer relationships
• Increase your return on investment

To learn more about our services, visit www.nicholascreative.com  or call
(888) 950-9955.