Sunday, September 28, 2014

How To Use Facebook Marketing For Your Business

By Oberdan Thomas


Facebook marketing has a different appeal to varied audiences because everyone uses Facebook for different reasons. Whether maintaining relationships with old friends and family or playing games, people will notice the different pages offered on Facebook. Take advantage of this from a marketing sense and let Facebook benefit your business in a unique way.

The key to all marketing is to understand why you're doing it. What is your end goal? Once you have that figured out, you can more easily create a plan to bring in exactly who you want to turn from Facebook like into customer. So start brainstorming today - what are you marketing?

Create a contest on your Facebook page that only fans of your page can participate in. This will make them excited to come to your page. They may even tell family, friends, or co-workers, meaning you will have more visitors coming to your page. Of course, more visitors means more business!

If you're using tabs as part of your marketing campaign, make sure the most important tabs are at the front of the list. Under your tabs is a link marked "Edit", you can click that and then reorder the tabs, placing your most important tabs, such as Promotions, at the front.

Connect your Twitter account to your Facebook page. This will help you streamline your posts to both social media accounts. When you post on Twitter, your post is also posted simultaneously on your Facebook page as well. This saves you the time and effort of signing onto both sites to make one post.

A good way to convert visitors to your page into followers is to hide content from non-fans. The strolling visitor will sign up to be a follower if they really want to access the information. Only hide a little of your content, or you can risk ruining your SEO efforts.

It is important that your published online content is linked to your Facebook account. Link post summaries of blog entries from your site onto Facebook. You can even link your Twitter account to your Facebook page and have all tweets show up there as well.

Create a contest on your Facebook page that only fans of your page can participate in. This will make them excited to come to your page. They may even tell family, friends, or co-workers, meaning you will have more visitors coming to your page. Of course, more visitors means more business!

Don't be afraid to get personal. Even if you're a company, getting a little personal can really do a lot to build customer engagement and loyalty. But don't go too far! People don't need to know every single monotonous detail of your life. Find a happy balance that gets people interested in your brand.

You can have a place for people to sign up right on your Facebook. Offer them something of value when they register so that people will be more likely to do so. Consider holding a contest or sweepstakes.

Make sure that your Facebook page has professional photos. You want your followers to equate your business with professionalism, not amateur hour. If you want to take photos that are personal, you need to use a camera that's high in quality. Avoid posting something that makes people think negatively about your business.

Do not overspend on ads. Some businesses do well paying for ads that are placed on Facebook while others do not see any return from it at all. Run a few test ads before spending a lot of money on a full ad campaign. Pay attention to learn what works well for your niche and what doesn't.

If you want to use Facebook marketing to benefit your business, that is a great decision. Not only do so many people use Facebook on a daily basis, but they use it to share with friends and family. Allow people to spread your message by creating a Facebook page for a marketing avenue.




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