How You Can Succeed With Facebook Marketing

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Do you wish for millions of people to see your business? Are you aware of how Facebook can let you do this? Millions of folks are users of Facebook, and you can turn them all into your customers if you do the right things.

Set some goals for your Facebook marketing campaign. You can launch your campaign on a trial basis if you are not sure how your audience will react to it. Once you get a better idea of how interested your customers are, you should set some reasonable goals for your campaign.

Consider surfing Facebook as your company instead of yourself. When you’re on your page, you have the opportunity to check out Facebook as the page itself. Do this and like pages which you think have a similar fan base, and then comment on those pages as well to get your name out to an expanded audience.

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 also link your Facebook page to your Twitter account so your tweets will show up there.

Add Facebook sharing buttons on your website. Most blog platforms will automatically integrate these elements but you can easily find the code needed to add these buttons by visiting your Facebook settings. These buttons are a great way to encourage your readers to share your content while reminding them about your Facebook campaign.

A great way to turn visitors into subscribers to to make some content available only to those who subscribe. A casual visitor just might be willing to start following you if that’s the only way to get access to a particularly interesting part of your page. Only hide a bit of your content or you will lose part of the impact of your SEO.

Once you create a Facebook account, it is very important for you to be quite active. If you never post any content, how can you expect people to remain interested. Videos, pictures and regular postings are just a part of what you will need if you want to do well on Facebook.

Remember to post on your Facebook page. When a business sets up a Facebook account, they will often release a flurry of posts, and then nothing for months. For this type of marketing to be successful, you need to post in a strategic manner. You do not need to post 15 times a day, but a few times a week is a great idea.

Make use of the provided analytics tool set, Insights. Insights shows you what parts of your page are drawing traffic and what just isn’t working for you. You can make use of the Insights data to adjust your page according to what your visitors want to see, which will draw more visitors to your page.

Do not try to use your personal Facebook page to attract fans. This is not a good idea because personal users have friend limits that business users don’t. You don’t want someone to try to join your page only to be told that you have reached your limit. They probably won’t come back to try another time.

It is always important to nurture your relationships with others that you interact with on Facebook. Social media interaction is just as important as face-to-face interaction. A good method of building strong relationships is to post new, straightforward content often. Remember to reward loyal customers with deals and promotions.

Try to respond to all of the communications you receive. Do this for all comments, whether they come from email or your main page. It is not always easy to do so, but it could pay off for you in the end.

Take advantage of the feature on Facebook that allows you to schedule your posts. It is important that you update regularly to keep up interest in your company. However, you might not have time to sit down each day and write a post. That is where scheduling comes in handy. You can take an hour or two one day to knock out a bunch of posts, and then schedule them throughout the upcoming week.

Learn about Facebook’s Update policies. This features allows you to message your followers. However, only use this for truly important news and events, such as times of emergency, etc. This is not something you should use to promote things, just use it to show your followers that you wish to keep them informed.

Use Facebook “likes” to your advantage on your profile page. Whatever incentive you have to offer to get them, the more “likes” you have, the better your business will be perceived by onlookers. This will increase your overall popularity on Facebook and make any campaign you hold that much more effective.

Add photos to all Facebook updates. Relating to your customer base is job number one in marketing, and nothing relates to customers like photographs. Use products, your employees, customers or any other appropriate image to get your point across.

Be more active on your Facebook marketing page on Fridays! The company has a happiness indicator that consistently shows people are in better moods as the weekend approaches and more apt to interact with you. Announce a sale or contest and ask them to tell their “friends” about it: you’ll see bigger results than on any other day of the week.

Find a great tool to measure the success your company sees by using Facebook for marketing. It isn’t just a popularity contest to see who has the most friends: Facebook is a highly effective marketing platform! Use the best tools to gauge your performance and see where improvements need to be made.

As is clear now, Facebook can be a wonderful way for you to market your company. Marketing through Facebook allows you to reach millions of potential customers. Use the tips you learned in this article and you can grow your business while you socialize with your audience. There are no limits as far as marketing with Facebook is concerned.

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Give ’em a Taste (and they’ll surely come back for action)

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I’m sure many of you are familiar with the original ice cream shop that offers you a taste of any flavor ice cream you want before you make your decision on which scoop you are going to enjoy. You getting hungry now…but keep reading..

Giving you a taste (or as many tastes of different flavors as you’d like) is a brilliant way to ensure that you not only order a cone at that moment, but it’s also a way to bring you back to try more flavors on another day.

You can use this brilliant marketing strategy in building your business, too. Offering your prospects a taste of what it is that you provide is a proven and easy way to get people to become part of your community, and part of your marketing/product funnel (the funnel is the “journey” (that builds a relationship over time) that your clients follow from the first visit to your website, where they enter by giving you their contact information, down through each level as they make their way through each purchasing step in the funnel). By offering them a sample, you’re giving them an opportunity to get to know you without risking anything more than perhaps a bit of time.

In your marketing/product funnel, the taste you are giving your potential clients is at the top of the funnel, the widest part. The taste is your freebie/complimentary/gift offering and is your first (and usually only!) opportunity to engage your prospect. Your taste needs to be something of value that you offer for free to people who visit your website in exchange for their contact information, usually their name and email address.

This is often one of the most overlooked steps in building an online business. A prospect needs to see your message many times (it ranges anywhere from 5-10) before they will feel confident enough to risk handing over their money to you. In order to build a relationship with people you need to be able to contact them again, which means your goal is to capture their email address before they click away from your website.

If they leave, it’s unlikely that they will come back, so don’t lose the opportunity to welcome them into your community, your funnel. They landed at your website because they were looking for something (usually a solution to a problem they are having, right? :)). Give them a taste of the solution you offer. And remember to make it easy for them: make your sign-up form or email so obvious that they’d have to trip over it not to notice it (yes, that includes pop-ups and the like, because even if they annoy you as much as they do me, they work!).

So, what can you offer of value in exchange for their email address? A newsletter, an ecourse, an audio clip, or a special report, are all good options.

Personally, check what you like to offer.You give them a taste of what your services are like with something wild, and then you keep in touch with them on a regular basis with another hot stuff. This all allows you to build a bond with your readers in a uniquely personal way, letting them get to know, like and trust you over time, with you having to build that bond one-on-one.

So, one caution is to not offer any one-on-one interaction with you at this level. You want to leverage your time, and offering free consultations or one-time meetings with you is not a good use of your time. Let them get to know you over the course of your freebie offering. When and if they become serious about you and your products or services, they will move further down the funnel (from free to fee) without you having to “sell” them on what you provide during a complimentary session (how nice is that?).

So what is your taste going to be? Here are some other ideas:

  • write a Top Ten article about the benefits of your products and services, convert it to a PDF file, and offer it as a special report/product/service guide.
  • record a short audio/video about the three key things your niche needs to know about X.
  • or create a quick-start guide that helps your market focus on how to get started.

Once you’ve given them a taste, they will likely come back for more, eventually turning from a prospect to a client. Creating a taste of what you provide is easy and it’s fun. Try it and watch what happens!

My dear friends/readers I know the above will trigger you all to ignite and explode.But there is more. So if you have more to share, feel free to run to the comments and let it flow.

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