Saturday, May 1, 2010

Facebook Fan Pages For Your Business

Facebook is a social networking site that has evolved into a bludgeoning marketing tool on the web; and since then, more companies are recognizing the viral effect the site has in regards to promoting a business or product. Other social networking sites like Twitter and Digg are also used for marketing, but Facebook continues to be the top dog as an online marketing tool because of its plethora of online tools that are readily accessible.

Today, Facebook has 35 million users, and its sphere of influence covers almost all types of demographics in terms of age, gender, geography and social status. If you're going to utilize internet network marketing, you would do well to utilize Facebook as a tool to promote your products and services.

The most employable tool in Facebook marketing is the Fan Page, which we are about to discuss.

A Fan Page is a service on Facebook that is relatively easy to use. In fact, even casual Facebook users can create one! During the fan page creation, you can fill up information regarding your company and its products. Be concise about it, but don't forget the key details, such as the brief history of your company, and the benefits your products can provide to the users. Once you've set up a fan page, its name can turn up in searches. The ability to choose a category your fan page is under also helps with its visibility on search engines. This helps with acquiring fans that might have an interest in your product since the search results are filtered to relevant results depending on the category the users choose. It is also imperative that you have an attention-grabbing logo that you can upload as the main photo. All of this will be seen and read by an interested user. If impressed, the knee-jerk reaction would be to click on the "Become a Fan" button, and voila - a new lead! Any update - a video, a link, a status message - can be seen by a user on his live feed. If the user happened to like a particular update you've posted and believes that some of his friends might want to see it, he is wont to "Share" it to his own network, which should eventually create more opportunities to gain your page more "Fans".

After you have created your initial fan base, remember that the work does not stop there. As an admin, you have the responsibility to maintain the page, answer questions posted by fans, and sometimes engage in small talk. Your team should continuously create videos and articles that can be uploaded on the Fan Page to keep the fans coming back, and in turn, have them posted on their live feed.

One of the most useful features about a Fan Page is "Insights", which can only be used by the administrator and selected officers. It's a reporting tool that helps you find out the various types of content your fans enjoy interacting with. Use this at your disposal in order to use trends to your advantage.




Brett Dunham is an expert internet marketer who shows network marketers how to use technology to profit in their businesses. Before you join an MLM and dive head first into a nightmare of failure, you might want to take a look into what it's actually going to take to prosper in the MLM industry. Visit: http://www.ActualWealthSystem.com

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