How to promote your business using Facebook
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It would be difficult not to notice the astonishing growth of Facebook over the last few months. Facebook now has 31 million members across the world and its growth has been so large that several people are talking of it as the new Microsoft.
Where there are members there is the potential to get customers, promote your business and drive traffic to your site or eBay listings. After playing around with Facebook over the last few months, I have come up with a list of ways in which it can be used to your business.
Connect with your business contacts
It is possible that your colleagues and business contacts are on Facebook already. Invite them to become your friends and join your company’s professional network (if you have one – see below). Facebook is a lot more friendly and interactive environment than other social networks like Linkedin and can be used to form closer bonds with your contacts.
Build a profile for your company
To create a grip on Facebook, create a profile for your company and a company network. This will let you to do the following things:
- Ask your business colleagues, and customers to become your friends, creating a facebook network around your business.
- Make postings which will appear in your facebook friend’s newsfeeds. These can be about special offers and company news such as job postings.
- List your items in the facebook marketplace (see below)
Promote your Blog
If you have a company or personal blog, this can be imported into your facebook notes. Your posting will then appear in your newsfeed and that of your friends.
Facebooks notes settings can be accessed from the applications menu in the LHS of your profile page.
List your items in the marketplace
Facebook has a marketplace where items can be listed for sale. This is free and could be used promote items for sale on your website or eBay. Products such as Ztail, make listing items on facebook marketplace easy.
Write an Facebook application
Finally, if you think that there is a real opportunity for your business on Facebook, you should look into developing an application. Applications can help you develop friends and drive traffic to your website. Last.fm were one of the first companies to boost their business through a facebook application.
The sign the Facebook is a force to be reckoned with is that there are facebook only businesses developing. An example of a business which uses facebook is Social flowers, which enables facebook members to send each other flowers.
Billy Cox
December 4th, 2009 at 9:10 pm
I couldn’t agree more, Great info. I appreciate the post. BC
Annette Aaron
December 6th, 2009 at 11:26 pm
How much time do you spend on twitter/linkedin/facebook and blogging each day or week?
David Gasser
December 8th, 2009 at 4:09 pm
This article is great. I would also like to add that a lot of friends like to spen thier liesure time playing the games that are associated with FaceBook and is a great way to get them involved with your mission. I like to play farmville and communicate often with my groups via FaceBooks IM.
I am also curious as to how much of this type of networking should someone invest thier time on? Every Day or once a week?
Do you have any numbers for conversion rates as far as advertising on FaceBook verses Goolge?
shelly
December 9th, 2009 at 6:39 am
Very nice article i must appreciate the effort you had made!
Thanks!
shelly
December 9th, 2009 at 6:40 am
very nice effort its very helpful!
Thanks a lot!