You just branded yourself as someone who:
1) cannot spell
2) DOES NOT PROOFREAD
3) missed “email etiquette for business” completely
4) I would NEVER do business with for the reasons mentioned above.

Further down in the email it reads:
” This program is valued at $4,112.
Your cost is only $169.00 per person!!!! ”

Proper usage of spellchecker apparently is not included in the price.

Well.. Uhm…

Maybe they should have APPLYD a little more diligence.

Or finished High School.
Or hired a proofreader.

Or all of the abve.

*Company name redacted to protect the illiterate.

Why you should always pay someone to proof-read everything.
Especially the stuff on your homepage.
Or stuff that’s on every single page.
Or the widget that tells people to take out their wallet and/or credit card.

I sang. All day long. Still no account.

I bets they offers copyrighting service, too Enjoy.

++++ original email ++++
We are a leading Link Building SEO Company, offers complete SEO services.

Many US, UK and Australia based Internet Marketing and web designing companies outsource link building service from us. Our submission service like, Manual Directory Submission, Article Submission, Social Bookmarking are very demanded for outsourcing at affordable reseller rate. Service can be pre-packaged or customized to suit specific front end needs. We would be happy to know if you are willing to outsource your link building need to us.

We Offers Following Link building Services:

Manual Directory Submission (Demanded outsourcing service)
Article Submission (Demanded outsourcing service)
Social Bookmarking (Demanded outsourcing service)
Contextual Link Building (Blog Review)
Press release writing & Distribution
One Way Link building (high PR Link)
Other Complete SEO Solution

Why We:

- All submissions are manual
- We are in SEO business since 2008
- Many companies are regularly outsource from us
- Single Stop Complete SEO Solution
- Affordable rate without compromise in quality
- 100% Satisfaction Guarantee
- Generally, we will reply within a day. (except holiday)
- On time reporting

We have reliably achieved great result for many companies; Let us know if you are interested and we would be happy to share our past work samples for any services you are interested.
++++ end email ++++

Sure, you can have your Facebook fans hunt for a way to contact your business by assuming they will go to your website and hope they find the contact option (if there is one), a phone number (if there is one), you can make them read through the Info tab (did you put a contact email address there?), or hope they will make an educated guess and send an email to support@, webmaster@ or info@.

"Oh, if they really want to get in touch with us, they will find a way." (A true quote from a client)

What happened to convenience? What happened to making it easy for customers, clients and visitors to get in touch with you?

If you had a real brick-and-mortar store, would you board up the front door and instead send your customers on a wild goose chase around the building, to the back alley, up a ramp and still assume they will shop with you?
Yes, we’re open, but we’re not going to tell you how to get to our store.

Just because it’s Facebook doesn’t mean that everything that applies to actual storefronts and *regular* websites suddenly doesn’t matter anymore or that the rules simply don’t apply.

As Facebook becomes more and more of a business tool, businesses slowly realize it is becoming a quasi-necessity to be present on Facebook.
But almost like 15 years ago, when the web first became popular and a website became a must-have — most of them rush in, create a Facebook page because someone told them they had to, and then they don’t care about it anymore.

Sure, Facebook is (still) a new medium (yes, I dare call Facebook a medium here), and there are no real guidelines on how to do it right, there are a couple of things every business should consider when deciding to Go Facebook:

- Branding: Make your Facebook Page look somewhat like your website. At least upload your Company Logo & edit the Info tab. Tell users what they can expect, what business you are in, tell them about the services you provide, your products, etc.
- Interactivity: Facebook has the administrative interface built in. Post updates on your Wall! You do not have to call your web designer to do it. Nobody wants to see a stale Facebook Page (e.g. last update 10 months ago).
- Customization: Default settings are just that. Not changing them is like buying a new house and never furnishing it. Remove unnecessary items from your Page’s navigation, re-order the tabs, add new ones by installing Apps that add value to your Page.

- Must-Haves: As already mentioned above; Facebook Pages do not provide an option to contact the owner or admin directly. Users can only post on your Wall and hope that you are actively monitoring the newsfeed. Give them the opportunity to contact you!
To accomplish this (and to create other Tabs on your Page), you have to use a Facebook App – one like the Contact Form for Facebook by inlineVision.

Their App not only allows you to add a Contact Form to your Facebook Page in 2 simple steps, the Premium Version also allows you to customize and brand the App to your liking — for a one-time-payment of $49 — via a very easy to use Admin Panel (comparable Apps usually come with a subscription fee of around $10/month).

You can upload your Company Logo, customize the colors, add your business address, the phone number, customize the headline and the tagline and specify the recipient of the submitted data. The Premium version also gives you the opportunity to download the submissions in *.csv format so you can import them into your CMS or your mailing list software.

There are no hidden fees and there is no subscription necessary for the service – once your payment has been processed and you have been upgraded, all the Premium Options are immediately available.

$49 is very small price for an App that might prove invaluable for all Facebook Page owners.

Get the Free Version of the Contact Form here.
Upgrade or buy the Premium Version here.

If you ever wanted to insert a (random) thumbnail of another post or a gallery of thumbnails anywhere in your post(s), page(s) or even in your sidebar or footer without the use of a bulky gallery plugin that might not be compatible with your theme or another plugin you installed, thumbnails anywhere is for you.
Download from the Official WordPress Plugin Repository

Quick Overview

Thumbnails anywhere can display post or page thumbnails (Featured Images) OR an image referenced in a post or page via a custom field.

Thumbnails anywhere can be inserted literally anywhere in your content without having to edit the code. And because it uses shortcodes, no PHP code plugin is necessary either.

We packaged it with timthumb (http://code.google.com/p/timthumb/) to give you utmost control over the output.

Prerequisites

WordPress (obvious)
A theme with thumbnail support and shortcode support in sidebar and footer
If your theme does not support thumbnails or if your theme displays the plugin’s source code in the sidebar or the footer, add the following lines of code to your theme’s functions.php file:

For thumbnail support add:

if ( function_exists( 'add_theme_support' ) ) {
  add_theme_support( 'post-thumbnails' );
}

For shortcode support in sidebar and footer add:

add_filter('widget_text', 'do_shortcode');

Usage

If you want to use an image referenced via a custom field, simply create a field named full_image_value and enter the RELATIVE URL to your image into the value field e.g. /path/to/you-image-file.jpg.

Absolute URLs can cause issues especially on WordPress installations hosted on hostgator.

Note: If you are using a WordPress MU (Network installation), you must use the custom field option as mod_rewrite will not translate the path to your post thumbnail at that stage.

Thumbnails anywhere works by interpreting WordPress shortcodes and shortcode attributes.

[randomimg] – triggers execution of the plugin
If not other arguments are given, thumbnails anywhere will display 2 thumbnails from randomly selected posts.
Default output size of the images (if no argument are given) is 100×100 px.
PrettyPhoto argument already built-in, requires PrettyPhoto to work properly.

Arguments:
w (in pixels) – the desired width of the image
h (in pixels) – the desired height of the image
cat (ID of the category(ies); e.g. cat=”3″ or cat=”3,5,7″) – one more categories to select thumbnails from
post (ID of the post to extract the image from; e.g. post=”70″) – select image from one particular post
css (e.g. “padding:5px; border:1px solid #efefef”) – add your personal styles to the output
showlink (e.g. showlink=”1″ to show the link) – show the title of the post and create a link to the post underneath the thumbnail image.
num (e.g. num=”5″) – the number of images to display

Examples:
[randomimg post="70" w="250" h="170" showlink="1" css="padding:10px; border:1px solid #efefef"]
Shows 1 image taken from the post with the ID 70, 250×170 pixels with a link to the post and a style of “padding:10px; border:1px solid #efefef” applied.

[randomimg cat="18,20,24" num="6" w="50" h="50" showlink="1"]
Shows 6 images from categories 18,20 and 24, 50×50 pixels and a link to each post the images belong to.

The shortcode can be used anywhere, even in a simple text widget for your sidebar or footer.

Installation

Download the plugin
Extract the files into the thumbnails-anywhere directory
Upload the directory into your WordPress /wp-content/plugins/ directory
Activate the Plugin in your WordPress Plugins menu
Make sure you included the cache folder inside the zip archive in your upload and that the cache folder is writable by the web server.

Configuration

None required

Live Examples

inlineVision is using it to display thumbnails of the various designs.
They also use a slightly modified custom version to create a random gallery of images to display users of their Facebook Apps on their Homepage and their Apps pages.

Please let us know your comments – we appreciate your feedback!

Their newest release of Internet Explorer, IE9, does not render Cufón at all.
Meaning: Everything on your site that you so carefully crafted – probably your menus and headers – simply don’t show up. Not even in ugly Times (New Roman).

Your otherwise beautiful website might look like this:

All menus and H-Tag are missing, which makes the page almost useless.

To check how your site looks in various versions of Internet Explorer, try the netrenderer by GeoTek Datentechnik.

Why I use them: Unlike other sites that offer a similar service, the preview on theirs is almost instantaneous.

When using their service, please don’t forget to add /index.php if you are trying to generate a preview for a WordPress site and are using mod_rewrite to generate Search-Engine-Friendly Permalinks.

E.g. – if your site’s address is http://yoursite.com enter http://yoursite.com/index.php in the box.

How to resolve?

First: Download the new version of cufon-yui.js (current version is 1.09i).
Updated Version! (Thanks to mike)

Second: Add the following conditional statement into your site’s header, before all Cufon.replace() calls. When this happens depends on your site’s code, so please check your code.

Third: Make Internet Explorer 9 behave like IE8 by adding this to the header (just before the closing tag should do the trick):

<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=8" />

To be on the safe side I am combining 1) and 2) – simply because I noticed that by only using one IE sometimes still refuses to render Cufón properly.

When done, the result looks like this — all menus and headers are now visible:

Links:
Download cufon-yui.js
netrenderer by Geotek Datentechnik
Official Cufón Site

Quick Overview

It lists all your posts (sorted by date), including post title, link to the individual post, facebook Like, Share, Comment, Total & Click Counts and provides a link to your facebook’s “secret Admin Page” (if available).

Prerequisites

WordPress (obvious)
Facebook’s Like button, facebook’s Share button, either manually or via a plugin.
The following HTML tags in your WordPress theme’s header file:

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
        xmlns:og="http://opengraphprotocol.org/schema/"
        xmlns:fb="http://www.facebook.com/2008/fbml" <?php language_attributes(); ?>>

The following minimum of facebook’s Open Graph tags in your WordPress theme’s header file:

<meta property="fb:admins" content="YOUR_FACEBOOK_USER_ID"/>
<meta property="og:title" content="<?php the_title_attribute( $args ); ?>" />
<meta property="og:type" content="blog" />
<meta property="og:url" content="<?php echo get_permalink($post->ID); ?> "/>
<meta property="og:image" content="LINK_TO_AN_IMAGE_ON_YOUR_SERVER" />

By facebook userID we mean your numerical userID, not your screen name.

Make sure you use the correct facebook user ID, because you cannot change it once people started liking your post you can only append it, but you cannot change it.

Don’t forget to Like your own post/page (when logged into facebook as the same user), only then will facebook create the actual facebook page from your post.

You can tell the page is available because next to your Like button you will see a link to the Admin Page (only of you chose “standard” in the button layout).

As soon as this (Admin) Page is available, a link to its Insight location is available via the plugin, right next to the Like and Share counts, from which you get to the actual page (by clicking on the logo).


<sarcasm>Besides the fact that facebook obviously cannot spell “administrator”, this page is a fully functional facebook page. And the people who clicked the Like button are still called Fans </sarcasm off>

Installation

Download the plugin
Extract the files into the fb-socialstats directory
Upload the directory into your WordPress /wp-content/plugins/ directory
Activate the Plugin in your WordPress Plugins menu
Go to FB Social Stats in your Dashboard.

Configuration

We included a style sheet to make the output pretty. It automatically gets loaded when the plugin is called. Feel free to edit it any way you like it.

Known Issues

Occasional long loading times due to facebook API connectivity issues.

Please let us know your comments – we appreciate your feedback!

But eventually we gave in, after doing our research we integrated both buttons into our blog and waited. We waited to see if somebody was actually using the buttons, and what was going to happen when someone did.

While Sharing and Liking are two different concepts, we almost immediately noticed something very odd:

We like this

Of course we clicked our own Like button. Twice. And as expected the number of people who like this increased accordingly to Two people like this.
The Share counter didn’t show any change (expected: as you might know by now you need 3 Share actions for the counter to show). Or so we thought.

We didn’t share this

After the third click on the Like button (by a trusted friend) we found that 3 people like this (as expected), but after a page reload something else had happened as well: the Share counter notified us that our article had been shared 3 times.

Really? Within this short time 3 people had already thought our article was worth sharing 3 times? How come?

Ask the API

We needed to know for sure so we went ahead and queried the facebook API for the URL in question, and this is what we found:

0
3
0
3
0

Does this mean the Share counter is wrong? Does it count the wrong entry (like_count) instead of share_count?

So we shared the article, once by posting it to a facebook user’s profile, and once by sending it as a message and reloaded the page again.

Now the Like counter said: 5 people like this and the Share counter told us the article had been shared 5 times.

We queried the API again and found this:

2
3
0
5
0

To make sure we liked and shared different URLs as well, and after every Like, Unlike and Share action we ran another query to monitor the results.

Temporary conclusion

By now we feel it’s safe to say that the count you see next to the Like button and the count above (or next to) the Share button is the combined count of at least like_count and share_count. At this point we are unable to say if comments add to the displayed count as well (but it might be a fair assumption since total_count is being shown after comment_count).

But there still are 2 different options to express your appreciation for an (external) page: You can *share* it by clicking the *share* button or you can *like* it.

What’s the difference?

To *Like* an article, a page, or any kind of content on the web, all you have to do is click the *Like* button, and your profile will be updated with this information.

Similar to *liking* your friend’s status, link, video or anything else you can post/put on facebook. If there is a *Like* button, that is.

The *Like* button will turn dark blue, your *like* is added to the counter (if displayed), and (most likely) your facebook profile picture will show. Another click on the dark blue *Like* button let’s you "unlike" the item again, your *like* gets subtracted from the counter and your picture gets removed.

The *Share* button is a convenient way to take an article, a video, a picture, or anything else that can be accessed via a URL and post a link to that content on your wall.
It eliminates the steps of copying the URL, opening your facebook page and pasting the URL into the box labeled "What’s on your mind?".

It works in the exact same way as adding a post that contains a link to your wall, you can add a comment to it, select a thumbnail or send it as a message.

The shared URL then looks like any post on your wall that contains a link:

Interesting fact:
The *Share* counter needs a minimum of 3 *shares* until the counter is being displayed. *likes* show up immediately, even if only 1 person *likes* it.

The reason why we decided to display both of them is simple:
You can *like* something but don’t necessarily want to *share* it: maybe because *liking* is quick – click, done.
You can still *share* the article after *liking* it. And vice versa.
Too bad we all cannot *Unlike* the *Like* button.

There is already a variety of Wordpress plugins available for both buttons, and both facebook’s *like* documentation as well as facebook’s *share* wiki have wizards that let you create the button code.

We decided to plug the code into a nice little function and to call it manually, allowing for greater flexibility in choosing when, where and how to display the buttons:

You can see that at the top of the postings we don’t display the *Like* counter or the profile picture; simply because we wanted to keep the button lineup to the right of the article.

At the bottom of the posting however we do show the full *Like* button together with the counter and the profile picture.

Links:

http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/like
http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/Connect/Using_Facebook_Share
http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/Facebook_Share
http://www.facebook.com/facebook-widgets/share.php