Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Best Practices for your Facebook Fan Page

Some Best Practices to get you Started:


  • Talk to yourself at first, before you start sending out invites. No one wants to join a ghost town. Populate your page with posts and respond to your own questions.
  • Make sure you have a full page of posts you've made that are on-topic (for RunPee, we talk about movies, bathrooms, peeing, movie news, and top PeeTimes from each box office at HQ). After you've made that full page of posts, have your closest friends and family join the page and respond to your posts. This will model to other people that your page is active. They won't care if it's your mom all over the page. Simply having activity is attractive to everyone else.
  • Once your own close, personal peeps have helped you by posting, liking and commenting, then you can do the promotion part. Use the buttons offered to Invite everyone on your friend list and add a note asking them to support your endeavor (so they know this is something of yours). Have your friends and family invite THEIR friends and family to your page (ie - "Help support my daughter's new business by 'liking' her page!").
  • Add your Facebook fan page URL to your email signature and place it on your businesscard. Add a button to join it on your company website or blog. Print and hand out stickers all about your FB fan page. Spread the word whenever you think of it, to everyone you meet.
  • And most important - keep posting on your page. Everyday if you can. At least 3 times a week is the minimum. 4-5 times a week seems to be the sweet spot.
  • While posting, make sure you don't overdo it. Don't post multiple times in one day - you will quickly become a pest on their home pages. That will earn you a quick ticket to an unfollow, or at least will get you silently hid from their feed.
  • Don't make the whole page about you. Ask questions. Answer people's questions. Post quotes and comment on them. Post links to relevant news articles or Youtube videos. If your page consists only of links to your own works (services, products, or articles) then know you are turning people off. Social media is intended to be a dialog, a way to connect. Not for shameless self promotion, but for promotion with a heart - yours.
Article source: http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art70071.asp

2 comments:

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