12 Tips When Using Facebook Promoted Posts
Are you thinking of using Facebook Promoted Posts?
The feature officially rolled out in late May.
Many people are wondering where this new advertising option fits into their marketing mix or if it even fits at all.
What are Promoted Posts?
Facebook has enabled you to pay for an individual post to be seen in more of your fans’ news feeds. You have probably noticed the new metric Facebook has on the bottom of every post showing how many people it reached.
Each post shows your percentage of people reached and the exact number.
4 Unique Ways to Use Facebook for Your Business
Are you wondering how to best use Facebook for your business?
Should you open your personal profile with a Facebook Subscribe button? Would a Facebook Group work well for your business?
The simple truth is that Facebook Pages are not being seen as often in the news feed.
Facebook reported that on average, brands reach about 16% of their fans in a typical week through posts. This news has many people wondering if Pages are still a worthwhile endeavor.
Find out how to choose the best marketing strategy that fits your business by answering these simple questions.
#1: Have multiple employees?
If so, I still recommend having a Facebook Page despite the visibility issues. Let’s face it; every marketing channel has visibility issues. You will never reach 100% of your customers all of the time. Facebook Pages have advantages for your business that Groups and the Subscribe button don’t.
6 Tips to Improve Your Facebook Advertising Results
Would you like Facebook ads to be a regular part of your marketing strategy?
Wondering what you can do to tweak your ad strategy to get better results?
This article will give you six tips to help improve your return on your Facebook ad investment.
#1: Do Your Research
Watch other Facebook ads and take a look at their techniques.
You won’t be able to see a list of all of the ads that are out there right now, but you can watch the ones that are being served to your demographic. You can see all of the current ads that would target your profile by going to Facebook’s Adboard.
Look at just the Sponsored Stories by clicking on the blue Sponsored stories link.
Check out the Adboard to see what other ads could be served to your profile.
You won’t be able to gauge whether these ads are working, but note the ones that would encourage you to click.
5 Ways Businesses Are Using Facebook Timelines
Are you wondering how businesses are creatively using Facebook’s Timeline features?
Business timelines are blooming all over Facebook.
You may have read our recent post about all of the changes.
Take a look at these examples of how businesses are creatively using Timeline.
#1: Adding Interesting Milestones
Interesting Milestones may work better if your company has some history. Coca-Cola, founded in 1886, has the benefit of a long and interesting history, so they can show their products from 1916 and how they have since evolved.
But you still may be able to get creative with product releases and things that you have accomplished.
9 Social Media Marketing Tips From the Pros
Are you looking for some new ideas to simplify your social media marketing?
Do you wonder how others use social media to attract customers?
We asked the pros for their hottest social media tips. Here’s their advice to help you power up your social media marketing.
#1: Draw Attention to Your Custom Tabs in the New Facebook Timelines
Andrea Vahl @AndreaVahl
If you have a special offer on your website, why not use Facebook to showcase your freebie?
With the new Facebook Timelines fan pages, you can no longer have a custom tab as a default landing tab, so now you will have to draw attention to your freebie with the custom tab photo and the custom tab name.
HubSpot has done a great job of that with their custom tab photo advertising their free ebook and the Customer Case Studies title on one of their other apps.
Businesses to Fully Embrace Social Media In 2012
The vast majority of Americans are actively using social media. Has your business acted on this fact?
Are you looking for a way to keep pace with the quickly evolving field of social media marketing?
If so, Social Media Examiner has some exciting news…
But first, consider this story.
Imagine your business competing for your state’s “Best Brand” title against huge names such as Target, Dairy Queen and Wheaties.
Now imagine simply leveraging the power of social media and taking the grand prize! Wouldn’t that just blow your mind?
7 New Facebook Changes Impacting Businesses
Facebook pages are changing. And that means your business strategy will need to change.
In fact, Facebook has made many new changes that will impact anyone with a Facebook page.
These changes emerged from Facebook’s fMC 2012 Conference.
The overall message was that Facebook is looking at pages as a “mission control” point (which is where the MC comes from in the conference title).
Here is an overview of the changes and how brands can take advantage of some of the new features.
