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5 Tips to Better Facebook Pages

Posted on 23 February 2011. Tags: facebook marketing, facebook page marketing, facebook pages, the social media chef

It is not a surprise that so many have been asking for more quick and easy tips to building and promoting your Facebook Pages – they are more popular than ever at the moment!

For example, on my radio show, The Social Media Chef, a few weeks back we focused on Facebook Pages and the comments were through the roof. The next week I continued on the topic of Facebook Pages with yet another mountain of comments.

As this seems to be one of the hottest topics right now, I wanted to share some more tips that you can easily apply to your Facebook Page to make it even better, more attractive and full of “Likes.”

Here are my top 5 Tips to Better Facebook Pages:

1. Get Your Custom Facebook Page URL: If you haven’t done this yet, it is free and wonderful. Simply go to facebook.com/usernameand follow the instructions. Make sure to choose a URL that is catchy, easy to remember and fits your brand!

2. Get Your Friends Behind You: This enables you to get a diverse bunch of “Likes” to your page. Find your key supporters in your Facebook network and either send them a personal message or call them to request that they invite all of their friends to connect with your page. If you are timid don’t be shy, this is done everyday by brands large and small.

3. Ask for the “Like”: What I mean by this is anywhere that you can supply content to your Facebook page, you should be asking for the reader to “Like” your page. For example on your Info tab within your page, there should be plenty of requests to “Like” the page built into your copy. Also, post a link to the group on your own profile and ask your friends to “Like” it.

4. Make Sure Your Web Address is Visible: Not only should you add EVERY website you own in your Info tab (including your social media links), but also add it to the main picture you have associated with the group. Remember, this is one of the first places people look – and it is easy to see and visit!

5. Add a Free Facebook Application to Enhance Your Page: There are many of these out there, with some of my favorites being Social RSS, Clobby and Poll Daddy. Simply search through these on the Applications section and try them out!

And there you have it – another 5 tips to create better Facebook Pages!

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10 Suggestions to Making a Killer Facebook Page

Posted on 25 February 2011. Tags: Chris Tompkins, facebook page marketing, facebook pages, go media

So…do you need Facebook pages? Here are some reasons why:

*Branding: These pages are a wonderful way to develop your professional brand on Facebook without taking away from your own PERSONAL profile. This allows you to have the best of both worlds without hurting your brand positioning.

*Target Market Communications: You are able to connect and speak directly with your target consumers right on your page!

*Feedback: It is a wonderful place to post items that you want to receive feedback on, survey or just have your audience kick around an idea to see if it would work.

*Newsfeed Visibility: Again, this is a main reason why these are powerful. Anyone who connects to (or “likes”) your page, when they log into Facebook on the main screen they will see your updates. This is very powerful!

*Professional Promotions Hub: This creates a main hub where you can direct people that are interested in your product/service. It is also great to put on your email signature, email blast, suggest to friends and much more.

And that is just the beginning! But instead of persuading you to jump in….how about I just give you some ideas of how to do it yourself.

Here is my list of the 10 things that you can do to launch your page effectively:

1. When you are asked for a picture, make sure to use your logo or you logo incorporated with your product or service. Make sure that your web address is visible!

2. Have videos? Upload them and promote them DIRECTLY on your page.

3. Fill out the “Info” tab to the full extent, packing it with information, keywords and website links.

4. If you have a range of products, in the “Photo” tab, create photo albums around your product ranges and in the caption portion give links to click and purchase.

5. Make sure that your blog feed is connected to your page so that all new entries will be automatically sent there. If you don’t want to automate that, everytime you update your blog, post a link on your Facebook Page wall.

6. Do not link it with Twitter! Not all of your “tweets” will be suitable for your Facebook Page wall, and sometimes you will forget they are linked. I suggest staying away from this. Also, it can look lazy.

7. When you are posting to the page, don’t constantly “sell” or “push” things are your audience. Make sure your posts contain something that is either educational, engaging or entertaining.

8. When you are happy with how the page looks (and all of the information is COMPLETELY filled out) suggest it to ALL of your Facebook connections. Even ask your friends to suggest it to their network.

9. Consistently monitor and update the page. A good solid page should have at least one update per day and all comments responded to.

10. Use the “Discussions” tab to create questions that you want your target consumer to answer. This is good for customer feedback, development of new products and much more.

But remember…this is just the beginning. There are lots of wonderful applications, custom Facebook Pages (created using FBML) and much more! Hopefully this will help you get started on your way to being a Facebook Page success story!

To see how I have used Facebook to brand my firm, “Like” our page here.

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