Great idea!! Changing time of day later might be interesting also! =)

sounds interesting…i would probably   try for   much  better pictures and put hard  thought on   choosing  the  subject… ….not  sure i would have the time to do it  right tho…i settle  for inferior pictures a lot..becasue of time…..and  small skills.

I’m going to record my stats here now so I can keep track LOLI’m going to use Grandma Mary’s Page http://www.facebook.com/GrandmaMaryShowCurrently I’m posting 3 times/day to that on average.  I’m going to up it to 5 times per day with a minimum of 2 humorous posts.  Likes:  3520Talking About This:  363  (10.3%)Feel free to start your recording or just report back with the results!

Great topic, @andrea-vahl

I will admit, when I first starting adding posts to my two business pages, I was afraid.  Now, I can see that it has made a HUGE difference.  The numbers of fans who now see the posts are much higher.  Considering that now we are lucky if 16% of our fans see our posts, this is a good thing.

I now post 6 times a day on one page.  3 of the posts are light.  Such as photos or quotes.  The other 3 are more serious with advice and so on.

The other business page was pretty much dead.  While I focused on the first one, I was posting sometimes once a week.  All I shared were my Youtube videos.  I started posting there 3 times a day and am now doing 4 because of the results. Again, half the posts are lighter.

It is really the lighter posts that are going out on the newsfeeds the most by being shared.  Since the name of the page is “tagged/hyper linked” with the photo, it follows where it goes and people who I would never have access to can see the pages and decide if they want to click on those magic blue words to find out more.

I am also using the Facebook Post Schedule Feature which makes life so much easier.  How to Schedule Facebook Posts  I start my posting at 8 am EST to 11 PM Est so that I cover both sides of the USA.

I have tried both the Facebook Ads, and the Promoted Posts and have never had the response that I am having with adding more posts.  Who would have thought?

Has anyone else tried this yet?

Randi

Great idea!  I have noticed that “funny” posts drive engagement – so I’m going to try and find more of those.  Anything that gets them to or keeps them on the page is great.  Maybe this will discipline me.  :)

@andrea-vahl, I’m in! For one account I will try to increase the weekly status updates. For another account I will try to increase the daily updates (also checking what effect the different hours of the day will have).

It is strange how people seem to prefer the photos/quotes or funny posts.  Now that I have been doing this a few weeks I am finding that little by little, more people are starting to comment on the posts.  I add a question to any photo that I add that ties back to the page I am sharing it on.  For example, with the the business page, I add something about business, for the horse page, something about how it relates to the training of horses and riders. I think that this makes those photo more productive.  Without adding our own special message, they are just photos.

It is fun seeing how this is working for everyone!

I do not believe the numbers most of the time @andrea-vahl as they change so much.  I also had a big drop last week, than a few days later, with the same activity, it went up a bit.

I think the Facebugs are running around behind our screens!  

I am still keeping up with the scheduled posts (video link on how to do them) and find they make this easier. 

I have also started adding marketing tips to my non business page and was surprised that people take an interest in them. 

My counts this week are way off because we had a contest.  Now that it is over, I can go back to keeping track of what is going on in real time.

Randi

Strange enough, I noticed a decrease in interactions (likes and comments) during the last days but it could be due to the fact that the school summer holidays just started and the weather was incredibly hot. So many people left on vacation with their kids. And in general people move slowly (or not at all), hang out outside for cool drinks or at the pool if time permits. We’ll see how this continues…

Funny pictures work.  This from  a page with 1896 likes.
Learn to Decorate Cakes with BreeNew LikesTalking About ThisWeekly Total Reach8810 +11,471.4%14,697 +2,798.8% http://www.flickr.com/photos/ndonelly/7504787316/in/photostream

Here’s the picture – I think…https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=320496458040134&set=a.158631780893270.36750.158602144229567&type=1&theater

Of course now I’m worried about copyright infringement after reading another post somewhere…..

Checking in.  The numbers continue to rise!  

Since June 17th we have had one contest and one post go viral.  The contest did not include a fan gate on the app as I only want “targeted fans” people who are using Facebook for promoting their business.  The contest was fun, it was for photos. 

I have been keeping up with the posts, especially the Scheduled Posts. They make life much easier. I did all my posts for the week in two hours yesterday for two business pages. 5 a day for HTMYHB and 4 a day for Horse and Rider Awareness. 

HTMYHB (had a contest)  Since June 17th I have picked up 213 new fans.
My people talking about this went up 1298. The contest lasted 11 days and the amount of fans did not pick up anymore than the week before or after. I think the difference is in the posting I have added.

Horse and Rider Awareness. Since June 17th. (this page was pretty much dead and before I started this, was down to 35 people talking about this.) 97 new fans. People talking about this up 42. There are 1612 fans so a reach of 1155 is pretty good!  

It has been interesting to see what is happening with a page that was active, HTMYHB and my other business page Horse and Rider Awareness (HARA)  The HARA page had basically been sitting there for months as I was focused on HTMYHB.  Now that it has picked up I need to start adding apps and update the Cover Image.  It is in a much smaller niche than HTMYHB but the results are pretty amazing for such a little page.

How is everyone else doing?

Randi 

@andrea-vahl @randithompson I have a question for you regarding Facebook’s scheduled posts…specifically when scheduling a post with a photo. I’ve noticed that Facebook puts the photos of any scheduled post in an album called “Photos”. This is a problem for me and I assume for all of you as well. For example, if my client has a new flyer for a promo and I schedule a post which explains the promo and has the flyer (image) attached, the post doesn’t show as an individual post on fan feeds. It shows as if I’ve added a new picture to the “Photo” album, therefore not showing fans the text that goes along with the image. 

I’ve tried to go into thie “Photo” album and edit it so that I can move the picture to the “wall photos” album but facebook does not allow you to do this. Have any of you noticed this?

Thanks.

@randithompson sounds  great  randi!!!  2  questions,  what   was  your  contest?    and   where  do  you  get  quality pictures  and what are  your  vews on   posting  pictures  from other places?   

im at  3059 fans  rignt now  …it was  3016  about  a week ago  so thats about    40  new  fans last week….  i think i usually  get  40 to 50  new ones a week…i cant  keep  track of all this…too busy and not that  easy  for me to keep  track…….im working on a  pretty  good group of pictures and  will be  doing a  promoted post soon…. having   trouble  finding  fun posts  with  only  my own pictures…..  they seem to relate to the product posts more anyway…im thinking  about   trying   randis idea  of ..  like if  you can see this…loved  your  picture  on that idea  randi!!   it.    feels  a little   forward  to me tho…..

@jamesalonso @lorithueme Definitely frustrating since the photos with a post get the most interaction but we can’t schedule them!  

@ndonelly wow….great numbers….

That is really incredible @ndonelly!

@jamesalonso  I have noticed that.  All you can do is not schedule those posts…. of course, there may be another way but I do not know.  Maybe someone else here does?

Randi 

@andrea-vahl  I scheduled all of my posts this week. People are able to share my photos.  Maybe you have a Facebug?   

Randi 

Update from my side – increased number of status updates per week:

Page 1: Despite the fact that I mainly posted text only (only 2x with images), I could increase the ‘people talking about this’ number by 47% during the course of last week. I have stable engagment through likes and comments. Yipeeh! I must admit that I also changed my content to something more generic and I also shared posts from related pages. This seems to work well.

Page 2 - The one I was struggling with since I started my experiment: I noticed an abrupt decrease of ‘people talking about this’ as of the day the school holidays started (-67%). Some posts did not get any reaction at all. The profile of the customers seem to relate very well to the profile of our fans, ie mothers of young children, who are now gone for holidays. Interaction increased a little during the last few days but we are still far off the initial level. Now, I’m wondering: the shop will be closed during August. Should I keep posting during that month or should I just save my energy and start in September again, when the shop’s open and school starts again…?

Thanks for your advise, @dedimason. You are right, I might not post through the whole month but I will start earlier to ‘warm our fans up’ again

@ndonelly i  want  to use those funny  things  that   float around   facebook….but   feel the  worry  too…that  baby  oil  joke  is  great…….

@ndonelly wow  on the increase!!!   i could  find alot  of  the right humor  if i  ignored  the  copyright   fears…lol  

 this week i have had  great  response  from  just   product  pictures….

@ndonelly thats how i look at it.

..but on your facebook  page  i see  things  maybe  you  didnt  create…….the  batman joke and a sign   i have seen lots of places etc……..and  more…so  how  do you   decide its  safe to use those…?   i love the   baby  one….

i hear  this  copyright  talk  then see the  jokes on   lots of  business pages   being  used   ….can  we  just not worry about  the  funny  stuff  floating around facebook?  i see  you  use  ecards  too   , is  that a good option for a business?   also   you have sesame  street w ith  their  .com….does  that  alleviate   copyright   worry?  

p.s.  back to the  thread….my  numbers  were huge this week,  but im posting lots of pictures about our  big  sale  coming up…and  getting   so much  response  so its not  typical… yesterdays post got  2100  reach  out of  3100  fans…. 

@ndonelly thanks naureen  i really  appreciate  your  details………im  seeing  enough   of  you  all in the   media industry  doing it  that i  think i will loosen up a bit  too…..i need  some fun stuff too….. i hear  you on the artist  warning…. i wouldnt   go   for the artists  or  photographers   at all….when i do  put a funny one on   its  great….

when i  hit  share  it  just  goes to my   personal page  so i need to work on that….

our reach  has been   really  good  for the last  couple of weeks, but we  almost always hit  30%…im   ready  for  a better  camera…..we are so different  being local /regional  and  actually  knowing  most of our  fans in a face to face way….  or   a  cyber  buddy way….im on   a couple of   industry  boards too…..

Hi, everyone.  I have been so busy since adding posts.  (and this past weekend lost all my power with the storms…)

Anyway, I should start sharing the weekly numbers instead of from the beginning of this “Great Experiment”

Today is Aug 7, 2012 

Since June 12 I have been recording both of my business pages.

HTMYHB  5 posts a day. 
Started with
5979 fans
953 reach

Aug 7
6393 fans
1266 reach

414 New fans!

HARA 4 posts a day

June 12
1552 Fans

Reach  This page was almost dead.  The reach when I started was about 30.  I was posting there about once a month. Maybe…  as I focused more on HTMYHB.  I started adding posts and am now up to 4 a day.

Aug 7
1748 fans

1514 reach

196 New fans

The big surprise is HARA.  I have had weeks where posts have gone viral.  Even now I have several that have been shared 300 times!  The highest Reach was 4,364.  (WOW)  Now I have to keep up with both pages.  I have not made any changes yet to this page, it is exactly how it looked before I started adding posts.  Waiting for my designer to re do everything at the scale that HTMYHB is.  Interesting that the design does not seem to matter! 

I have used FB ads and promoted posts and never had the results that I have been getting with more posts. 

Most of my posts are now photos with quotes and a message that I add that relates to the page.  I add at least one serious post a day. 

How is everyone else doing?