Tuesday, 26 May 2015

Some Tips for Effective Facebook Marketing.






Are you or your company 
lagging behind the competition? 
Are they using social media to its fullest extent? 
Do you need to catch up and overtake them? 

If so, this article will help you with tips 
on the many strategies you can implement 
and use for your Facebook marketing 
to make you and your company come out on top.

Photos

When you use Facebook for marketing purposes, 
you must have a page that stands apart from the crowd. 

Put up clear visuals and add some colour. 
People are much more drawn to decorative 
pages than plain ones.

When thinking of information to share 
with your followers on Facebook, 
try to keep them relevant to what is 
going on with your business. 

If your company sells auto parts, 
you should make posts about auto parts. 
Posting photos of cats or other irrelevant topics 
is the quickest way to get people unfollow your page!

Videos


If you have nothing valuable to say 
to your audience, do not say anything! 

People do not want to visit your page 
and be treated to information that 
is useless and/or dated. 

If you do not have anything relevant 
and unique to talk about, 
try sharing links or videos that are relevant 
to what you do.

Use Facebook to share links to your site. 
You should try writing weekly articles 
or launching a video blog 
so you can create more content 
on a regular basis. 

Your audience will subscribe to your 
updates on Facebook if you create 
quality content. 

Make sure you mention your 
Facebook campaign in your articles or videos.




Audience


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.

Consider using Facebook advertising. 
By paying for Facebook ads, 
you can reach a larger audience 
by targeting specific demographics. 
This can get your Facebook page 
a lot of attention, and that's important. 
Try it out for a while and then cancel 
it if it does not seem to be working.

Success


Facebook marketing works best with a defined purpose. 
Figure out the purpose of your business's 
Facebook page, and develop a strategy 
which is built around that purpose, 
and design goals that are in line with that purpose. 

Aligning your Facebook marketing tactics 
to a single defined goal makes success 
easier to reach and easier to measure.

Make your Facebook page consistent 
with your other media. 

As with any kind of marketing, 
individual efforts rarely pay off. 
Try to integrate your marketing as much 
as you can. 
Try to make the look and feel, 
the messaging, etc. consistent 
across all platforms that you use. 
For instance, your email newsletters, 
Twitter feed, website, and Facebook page 
should all be similar to each other. 
This can boost the success of your campaign.

When it comes to business, 
you always have to stay above those 
you compete against. 

You have to work hard to figure out 
what you can do to better their strategies.

I trust this article has given you a start, 
so keep learning and reading 
to ensure you stay at the front 
of the pack for good.



                                                              Images courtesy of: http://www.freedigitalphotos.net/ 



As always I wish you success in all you do.


Malcolm


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1 comment:

  1. Great blog post Malcolm thanks for sharing :) Facebook marketing can be a very powerful way to share your interesting content 👍

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