ASM User Guide.docx

Project Overview StatementExecutive Summary

Advanced Social Marketer Executive Summary

Project Name:Advanced Social MarketerLast Updated:Oct-16-2013Author:Advanced Social Marketer Team

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Account Management Overview

For Managing the accounts in Advanced Social Marketer an Account Management form is created. Here you can Insert/Update/Delete Accounts for your social network. Account TypeIs either Linkedin or Facebook. User Name Password

Account Management Description

The User Name and password used in Advanced Social Marketer must be for either LinkedIn or Facebook. Note - Deletion of any account will remove all records related to that account from the database.

Account Groups

Account Groups Overview and Description

For updating Groups, select an account and click on update groups button. This will open your selected account and update groups from that account with the ASM software. Every time new groups are added you must update to be able to Post messages to those groups.

Projects

Projects Overview and Description

For posting any message or post we first have to create a project. That project contains the posts you will use.Here we can Insert/Update/Delete a Project. Deletion of any project will remove all of its related posts and replies.

Project Posts

Project Post Overview and Description

Here you can Insert/Update/Delete posts. These posts can be used for Posting on either Facebook Or LinkedIn via Project Selection. Deletion of any Post will remove all related replies and tracks.

Post Reply

Post Reply

Post Reply is for adding replies to our posts comments. So when any comment is made to our post then ASM will automatically reply from Post Reply messages. Here You can Insert/Update/Delete reply messages.

Auto Reply

Auto Reply

This process is same as Post reply but here you have no requirement to select any account and this process will work until stopped by the user. Settings for this form can be set from the Settings form that we will discuss later.

Facebook And LinkedIn : These types of buttons are used in many places in the project. They always have the same function. They label which social network is to be engaged for that process. If you click on the Facebook and LinkedIn button than it will work for both social networks.Facebook : If you click on the Facebook button than the process will work only for Facebook.LinkedIn : If you will click on the LinkedIn button than the process will work only for LinkedIn.

Start Posting

Start Posting

Start Posting Form is for Posting on Groups. From here you can select the Project, then select related Posts that you want to send to specific groups within selected accounts.This form contains 3 main controls. The first form is for selecting the project. The second form is for selecting Posts and Last form is for selecting groups within a specific account. If there is a group that belongs to two accounts and you want to send the message from both accounts than you have to select both groups. Pending Post : Pending Post is for tracking posts, Posts are approved or not. So, from this form we can track posts. For getting the latest status on a post, we have to click on the Update Pending Post button. That will check with each account as to whether the posts have been approved or not.Post On Group history : Post on group history form is for managing all posts in our database. Here you can search for posts by User Name, Group Name and Post Text. If you do not select any criteria than all records will be shown.

Post Targeted

Post Targeted Overview and Description

Post Targeted is for posting comments on other peoples posts by searching them via a keyword or phrase. Here you can search for posts within all groups you have joined within Facebook and/or LinkedIn. Then you can post comments to those posts from the list. First, you set a search limit by entering how many posts you want to search in the Search Limit box. You have to select a reply from the Select Reply Combo Box. Then, click on the Post Reply button. ASM will send your selected reply to all selected posts with your groups. You can track them by their status. The Clear History button will remove all data from the search.

Join Groups

Join Groups Overview and Description

The Join Group form is for searching groups and then sending a join request to those groups. Here you can search from a specific keyword or you can use a text file with links for Facebook or LinkedIn groups. Then, click on the Search Group button. This will give you groups in the Search Result List that match your keyword. Next, select the groups that you want to send a group join request to. Then click on Join Selected. This will send your request to the selected groups one by one from each account. There will be a pause between each request and account switch. This is managed from the Settings form, that we will discuss later. The Clear History button will clear the search history. The Save selection button will keep your selection of the groups so when you come back to this form selections they will be available.

Post To Fan Page

Post To Fan Page & Post on Page History Overview and Description

Post to fan page allows the user post to a fan page on Facebook. Like searching groups, you can also search for fan pages by key word. Enter your desired keyword(s) in the search box and the number of pages you would like to search in the Page Search Limit box and then select Search Page. This will give you the results related to those keyword(s).Post Search limit : Maximum limit of pages to search.Search Result : This will show the pages searched and their number of fans on Facebook.Select Account Group : If selected ASM will post to these groups at the same time as it posts to the fans pages you have selected. Select Project : Select Project for selecting Posts.Select Post: You have to select a post for posting to a fan page and/or group.This form works for the following two processes.1. Search Fan Pages and Post to them2. Post to a Selected Group.For better result its good to post on both fan pages and groups.

3. Here on Post on Page History you can search previously made posts on pages according to the search criteria entered.

Settings

Settings

Duration Between Post Replies When switching between one reply to another the process will pause for those seconds. Duration Between Each Account When switching between one account to another the process will pause for those seconds. Duration Between Group Join When switching between one group join request to another the process will pause for those seconds. Duration Between Post On Fan Page When switching between one page post to another the process will pause for those seconds.

Message on Liked Post

Message On Liked Post

Message on Liked Post will send a personal message to users who like our post that was posted from ASM. This Auto Message Send Process will check all posts from your latest to your first one. If any new likes are found, then it will automatically send a message to that user from Post Reply messages. If there is no message set up for that post then no message will be sent. So it is important for the auto message send that replies/messages from the Post Reply form be available. If there is more than one message available for a post then ASM will rotate through those messages. Multiple messages can provide better results.1. Message will send for only posts that were sent from application.1. Message will send for only posts that have reply for those posts.1. This will check in order from latest post to first post.

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