Don’t just look at your local competitors . . . (25 posts)

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  • I picked up this link in a discussion somewhere (I think @andrea-vahl dropped it there), but I checked it out and used it to look up golf courses:  Facebook Instant.

    I’d already checked my local competition, but I looked at lots of other golf course pages . . . gave me some great ideas as to what works in our industry.  Every page that had great content got a “Like” from me . . . then I made them their own little list on my personal account.  Now, all I have to do is click on that list and see what some of them have been posting when I’m having a bit of “Facebook Posting Block” ~ and hopefully get my own creative skills moving forward again.

  • Great idea @dedimason. I checked it out and it looks great.

  • great idea…im  going  to try it too….i missed it  earlier…

  • Oooh, yes this is a great idea! :)

  • @dedimason Shh… don’t tell… I do this a lot when I am building websites. When I get a client in a new business, I look up at about 10 sites in another metro area that is demographically similar to ours but about 1,000 miles away. It is way less emotionally charges to benchmark when it is not your immediate competition.

  • p.s. And on FB… I will build a list of about 10 – 20 such pages (out of our geography, otherwise similar) and pull the list up to go through  it with the client… see how other people in their field are succeeding / failing. I encourage my clients to do the same so that they get a taste for what works in their industry.

  • @abigailgorton ~ LOL!  When I designed the last set of pages for our courses, I found websites and let Daniel pick things that he liked best about them . . . then used that to decide what to put in ours :)

    I like that you do the lists with customers.  It was really good to see what was working and what wasn’t when I did it last night :)

  • @abigailgorton   great info…i always learn  better  by seeing and   real world  examples…. and actually seeing  other places or  sites and  their  results   is always  a good  thing..

    .now to figure out  how  to  get   back to that  facebook instant app…????   duh….

  • @annfurnivall ~ LOL!  Click the link in the original post :)

  • oh  thanks dedi…….i  did  that yesterday  and  registered  for  the   app…and used it a bit…. but now i cant  find it on  my facebook page… @dedimason  

     i tried it with antiques and  saw  tons  of   pickers,  and  roadshow…so i need to   focus it in a bit!!!

  • Great tip @dedimason!

  • Technology never ceases to amaze me!  I’m going to check this out right NOW!  Thanks for the tip.  This should prove very insightful!!
    Katie Cavanaugh

  • :) it is great to know that the site is still being used after almost year and a half since i made it.

  • @dedimason I am in LOVE with this new research tool! Thanks bunches! You just cut my FB research time in half!

    Robin

  • @mohamadnour  ~ I’m so glad you made it!

    @atlantarobin ~ Thanks, but @mohamadnour made the site and Andrea’s the one who shared it recently for another reason someplace else.  I didn’t find it, just played with it and told people how it worked for me :)

  • suggestions on how to improve it are welcomed.

  • great idea, thank you!

  • @dedimason, when you grouped the pages you found into a list on your personal account, how exactly did you do that?  I’ve set up and use lists to follow groups of people, but when I tried to create a list for business pages, they weren’t coming in as options, and the text that appears at the top of the “Create New List” box says: ”Create a list of people …” :(

  • @hjelliott In the add box on the right side of the page, just begin typing the name of the page you want in that list.  You’ll get a drop down with suggestions and you can click the one you want.

  • @dedimason, when I go to Create a New List, I get a box that has two fill-in areas – one to give it a List Name and another to select Members for that list.  The text at the top of the box, above, the List Name area says “Create a list of people so you can easily share with them and see their updates in one place.”   The light gray text within the Members box says “Who would you like to add to this list?”  When I go to type any page name in the Members box, none of the true pages show up.  The only non-people identities that are an option appear to be those pages that have been set up as people.  

    I’m not yet on Timeline, so I don’t know if that might explain the differences…

  • @hjelliott  Create the list with no members in it.  Once you hit create, the page will change.  This is where you’ll see the box to the right where you can type in page names and have choices pop up :)

  • Aha! and Yippee!!!  Thanks,  @dedimason!!  I’m off to get the lists built.  :)

  • @hjelliott ~ that’s great!  I love that I can click a list and see what other pages are doing and what’s working for them :)

  • @mohamadnour Can’t remember if you have this on there, but a place to put negative keywords would be nice. I noticed sometimes that when I use a keyword that could mean several different things, I get more answers that don’t fit my needs than ones that do. A negative keyword filter would really help me.

    And thanks sooooo much for this great tool, Mohamad. And glad to know your here in the Networking Clubs, too.

    Robin Carlisle

  • WOW love that. What a great tool.


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