4 Ways to Increase Your Facebook Page Visibility
Have you noticed less interaction on your Facebook page in the last few months?
Getting your updates to appear in the coveted news feed is more challenging than ever.
I don’t have answers as to how the elusive Facebook algorithm works.
What I do have are some suggestions on how to ensure that your page posts are being seen by your fans to give your page the maximum visibility.
#1: Train Your Audience to Watch for Your Content
You want to make sure you are delivering good content so that your audience won’t want to miss a thing. The best way to do this is to work toward building super fans. Use these Facebook marketing strategies. 
How AutoCAD Retooled Its Marketing With Facebook
Chris Hession has been a product and marketing manager for nearly 15 years. But recently, his job completely changed.
“Just in the last year and a half, social media has become not just a component of our product marketing plan, but really the core component,” said Hession, currently senior manager of Autodesk’s AutoCAD product marketing.
“Pretty much for everything we do, we’re looking at, ‘How can we make this work for social?’”
Millions of people worldwide use AutoCAD software to design everything from sunglasses to skyscrapers. If there’s any question that a B2B software company can market effectively with Facebook, look no further than the AutoCAD team.
Facebook Timeline and What Marketers Need to Know
Are you wondering how Facebook’s Timeline will impact your business and marketing?
Right now Timeline is currently limited to personal profiles and with no schedule set or promised for brand pages.
However, given Facebook’s history with design changes and how changes of this sort first get released to users and later on get applied to brands, it’s likely that Timeline is on the horizon for business pages as well.
This article will explore what the timeline means for marketers.
4 Ways the New Facebook Insights Can Grow Your Fans
Facebook recently rolled out some new metrics that give better insight into what your community wants from your page, enabling you to grow your fans and interactions.
You know it’s important to measure your social media marketing performance, and the new Facebook Insights will make this easier for you.
Locating Facebook Insights
First things first—where do you find these metrics? They are accessed on the left sidebar underneath your profile picture by clicking on the Insights link.
10 Ways to Add Facebook Functionality to Your Website
Integrating Facebook into your website is an easy and free way to include a social dimension with the rest of your website business activity.
Facebook provides a selection of free plugins.
By the time you’re finished reading this article, you’ll understand your options for turning your website into a social hub and how to get started.
Why Facebook on Your Website?
Facebook has a grand vision: to connect the entire Internet, and every website on it, with a layer of social integration. The social network behemoth has been developing tools to assist in the spread of this vision since the introduction of the Open Graph in 2009.
Now, with over 10 social plugins available to the public (and free of charge!), website owners need to decide how best to utilize the available tools for their businesses. The first question you’re probably asking is: Do they even work?
Let’s look at some of the stats from SearchEngineLand:
How to Connect With Local Customers Via Facebook
In this video I interview Dennis Yu, CEO of BlitzLocal, an agency that does Facebook advertising for businesses with a local presence.
Dennis shares tips on how to set up a successful Facebook strategy for local businesses.
Be sure to check out the takeaways below after you watch the video.
3 Ways to Boost Interaction With Your Facebook Fans
Are you looking for fresh ideas to engage your Facebook fans?
Do you have a pretty nice fan base, but you’re struggling to come up with ideas to engage them on a daily basis?
One proven approach is to help your fans.
Here are 3 techniques used by some of the most successful Facebook pages. Try them on your page to see how your fans respond!
#1: Become a resource
Despite the level of connection you think you have with your fans on Facebook, many still express pleasant surprise when you respond to them personally on the social network.
6 Ways Small Businesses Can Win With Facebook
Are you seeking a bigger Facebook presence, but have a small budget?
You may see your small business efforts on Facebook like David compared to the Goliath presence big businesses enjoy.
There’s a lot that small businesses can learn from the way big businesses approach Facebook, but the separation between your little company and international corporations isn’t as vast as it may sometimes appear.
In this article, I’ll show you six ways you can model your efforts after the successful campaigns run by big businesses, and some ways you can even get a leg up on the big guys.
#1: Have a plan and a strategy
Big businesses have plans for their Facebook endeavors. They’re focused on strategizing, plotting and forecasting. They have goals in mind and they know the hurdles they’re going to have to jump en route to achieving those goals.
How to Use Secret Facebook Groups to Enhance Your Business
One of the most underutilized features of Facebook for businesses is the Secret Group.
A Secret Group is easy to create and manage, and it is perfect for small-group interaction.
Keep reading to discover powerful ways these groups could help your business.
Facebook originally created Secret Groups for people to have small, intimate interactions with family and friends, but Secret Groups are also perfect for small businesses, coaches and professional development, like mastermind groups.
Why Secret Groups?
Most people think of Facebook Business pages when they think about Facebook, but businesses sometimes need private spaces for working, coordinating schedules and developing marketing and advertising ideas with a small group of people.
Does Facebook Fan-Gating Hurt Facebook Engagement?
Fan-gating or Like-gating is the practice of displaying certain content only to users who Like your Facebook page.
It’s an increasingly common practice and something I discuss with clients almost daily. But is it a good idea?
What is Fan-Gating?
Fan-gating is accomplished by creating two versions of a tab on your page—one that’s shown to users who already Like your page and one to those who have not Liked the page.
The non-fans are encouraged to Like in order to “unlock” the content behind the tab. Because information about whether a user has Liked your page is easily accessible through Facebook’s Graph API, it is relatively easy to implement a gate, or “reveal tab” as it is sometimes called. There are many companies that provide tools to do this and a list of some of them can be found here.
