21 Creative Ways To Increase Your Facebook Fanbase

By Mari Smith
Published April 27, 2010

social media how toIf you build a Facebook Page, will fans come? This is the great hope for many businesses. However, fans do not magically appear from the Facebook mist.

People must be lured to your fan page. And there are some good and bad ways to go about doing this. In this article, I’ll share a big myth and 21 ways to drive more fans to your Facebook fan page. (Though Facebook recently changed the “Become A Fan” button to the new, omnipresent “Like” button – and a fan page is called a “Business Page” or “Facebook Page” – we can still call them fan pages and people who join are fans!)

The Big Myth

There’s a great myth that once you create a Facebook fan page for your business, the first thing you should do to get fans is invite ALL your friends from your personal profile using the “Suggest to Friends” feature.

 
 

How MarketingProfs Manages Its Brand on Twitter (an Ann Handley Interview)

By Michael Stelzner
Published January 27, 2010

social media expert interviewIn this video I interview Ann Handley, Chief Content Officer for the 358,000 member organization MarketingProfs.

Ann talks about how she manages being the public face on Twitter for her organization. She also shares how her own Twitter strategy has evolved over the last 2 years.

In this video Ann also discusses the challenges of having employees represent your brands on social media and how to approach social media policies.

 
 

How Best Buy Manages 2100 Employees on Twitter (video)

By Michael Stelzner
Published December 10, 2009

social media expert interviewIn this video I interview John Bernier, Social Media Manager at Best Buy. John is best known as one of the brains behind Best Buy’s Twelpforce, an online customer service initiative on Twitter.

Watch this video to find out how Twelpforce manages 2,100 Best Buy employees as they answer thousands of customer questions on Twitter.

After you watch the video, be sure to read the takeaways below.