i  put a promoted  post on our store page last night  …  with a 10$ budget…..  and a post i thought  was   pretty  good…

..  out of  2800  fans….i  got  1013 organic…… 324 viral…..and  265 paid…..right now im at 36%  engaged….ive only spent  $2.80… my  average percent for  engagements  with my posts is  about  30%….

so  here are some  questions…..its  time to put  tonights post on….will that   dilute   the paid post?

should i stop the  paid post?  will facebook  penalize me  for doing that?  

at the  base of the post it  says its paid….can i my  fans  see that?  

so what  do you  think???

im  looking   forward to  some  convos on this when  you start  using  these posts or   guide your  clients into them……there are a lot of issues and ways to   look at it….  ….  it  seems pretty  good  to me….  i really have  reservations about having my  fans   names on    my ads, …i wouldnt like it  myself…and i like this  better  …  

im happy with theis i  guess  and  not sure of the value of  spending the  rest of the 10$$. maybe  better to do it   4  different   times….  

All good questions, @annfurnivall.  I don’t know all the answers because I don’t think we really know the inner workings of Facebook and how they post what.  But I do know that no one can see that you have paid for a post – no one sees those percentages at the bottom of the post but Admins.  Hope that helps a little!  
I think if you still think you are getting value out of the paid posting then it makes sense to keep it.  I don’t know if you are getting 30% engagement I think that’s pretty incredible just on your organic posting without paying!

heres m y   promoted post..   http://www.facebook.com/greenoakantiques    its  pinned to the top…the junk  garden sign…….  its at  39%  now….but it  should have  been a pretty  good post [over 30 at least] imho  anyway…. about  360  paid….1500  reached…… another  question…. it only  used  about  4$  of  the  10 authorized…wonder why they didnt   use it all?…

so  far my  conclusions are…i like it….and might   go for  1  a week on  my  best idea of a post for  the  day    and put it on   in  an early evening….and  maybe  just   see if i  can  go  for  3$$ instead of  10…..

thi couldnt copy and paste  the  facebook image????