8 Ways to Discover Valuable Social Media Content
Do you struggle to find good content to post on LinkedIn, Twitter or your Facebook page?
Would you like to find reliable sources of content your fans and followers love?
This article contains eight tips to help you quickly find great content.
Why Share Other People’s Content?
It’s all about becoming a valuable resource. When you can dig up great articles your audience is interested in–regardless of the source–you’ll become more respected and your content will be widely shared.
And when you have some of your own content to share, people will be more likely to help spread the word.
Here’s where to find valuable content:
#1: Watch Large News Sites
Depending on your industry, you may find topical and interesting articles on large news sites such as USA Today, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. If you have a news site or magazine for your niche that provides industry news, make sure you have that bookmarked as part of your content.
The Huffington Post has a lot of different categories to draw your content from.
Dive into the different categories and subcategories available on the Huffington Post to watch for content.
How to Analyze Your Email Newsletter List With Facebook
Do you want to gain quick insight into your email list?
Do your subscribers use Facebook?
If so, you can gain powerful insights and target Facebook Ads to your subscription base.
You do this using the Facebook Power Editor and Custom Audiences.
In the marketing strategy outlined below, you’ll learn more about the customers on your email list and you’ll be able to better tailor your Facebook marketing to your customers.
How It Works
If you’re an experienced Facebook Ads user, this is a great way to take your Facebook advertising to the next level.
If you’re just getting started with Facebook advertising or if your email list is fewer than 500 people, you may want to focus first on some of the other Facebook advertising strategies.
Facebook introduced the Custom Audiences feature to use email addresses or phone numbers to match the target audience, instead of the traditional Facebook ad targeting features such as demographics and interests.
5 Facebook Ad Tips to Maximize Your Facebook Campaigns
Have you tried the new Facebook Ads interface?
Are you interested in getting more bang for your buck when it comes to advertising?
This article will show you five ways to enhance your Facebook Ads.
What Changed Within Facebook Ads?
If you’ve been running Facebook Ads over the past year, you may be confused by some of the new options and the new layout of the Ads area. You may have felt like you had a good handle on everything if you read our previous post about Facebook Ads.
But of course, this is Facebook, and the only constant with Facebook is change. Let’s dive into some of the new changes with the Facebook Ads platform so that you can fully maximize your next Facebook Ad campaign.
The first step is to choose what you want to advertise. You can choose an external URL or a Facebook Page, App or Event. This step has not changed much from the previous iterations of the Facebook Ads interface.
First decide what to advertise.
You’ll notice your first difference if you choose to advertise your Facebook Page, Event or App.
Purpose: How Facebook Built an Empire
Does your business have a purpose?
Are you wondering how having a purpose can help drive the success of your business?
To learn how Mark Zuckerburg has grown his empire, I interview Ekaterina Walter for this episode of the Social Media Marketing podcast.
More About This Show
The Social Media Marketing podcast is a show from Social Media Examiner.
It’s designed to help busy marketers and business owners discover what works with social media marketing.
The show format is on-demand talk radio (also known as podcasting).
In this episode, I interview Ekaterina Walter, a global social innovation strategist at Intel and member of the board of directors for Word of Mouth Marketing Association. She is also the author of the new book, Think Like Zuck: The Five Business Secrets of Facebook’s Improbably Brilliant CEO Mark Zuckerburg.
Ekaterina shares her knowledge about Facebook’s purpose and how it helped them build an empire. You’ll learn why Facebook has been so successful and what it means to have a purpose.
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4 Ways to Boost Your Facebook Engagement With Promotions
Do you want to boost your Facebook engagement?
Are you wondering if promotions will help?
79% of Facebook fans are more likely to purchase from a brand they have liked, so pursuing more fans and deeper engagement with existing fans is a huge priority!
While there are many core methods for increasing engagement such as creating highly shareable content, posting images and videos and posting succinctly at key times—a powerful method is to run promotions.
Promotions have the ability to draw visitors to a Facebook Page, and when used correctly, can be a very valuable tool to accomplish your business’s engagement objectives.
Selecting the Right Type of Promotion for Your Page
A key question when thinking about running a promotion on a Facebook Page is, “Which type of promotion will work best for my goals?”
The answer: It varies. Certain promotion types lend themselves to different objectives. In addition, certain promotions may work better for certain industries.
Below you’ll find an outline of 4 types of Facebook Page promotions and keys for selecting the right type to run on your Facebook Page.
All of the types of promotions mentioned below must use third-party apps displayed on a Facebook Page tab. This is necessary to comply with Facebook’s promotion policy.
9 Fun Facebook Page Examples to Spark Your Creativity
Are you looking for creative ways to engage your Facebook fans?
Do you need some fresh ways to infuse fun into the Facebook experience?
This article will examine nine Facebook pages that bring excitement to their Facebook pages.
My hope is you’ll find inspiration for your own page.
NOTE: Many of these Facebook apps are developed by a third party and have a standard look and functionality. Other Facebook apps can be used to create a custom tab, but can have some limitations on how the tab looks.
#1: Seasons 52: “Mini Indulgence” Quiz
Seasons 52 is a restaurant chain with signature desserts called the “Mini Indulgence.” The restaurant has developed an interactive quiz that asks you questions to determine “which Mini Indulgence dessert is you?”
The reason this works is because it asks personal questions about things you like to do and “matches” those things with the type of dessert. Yes it’s kind of silly, but people love quizzes about themselves.
Take the quiz to find out which dessert matches you.
How B2B Marketers Are Successfully Using Facebook
Are you wondering what the secret ingredient is to business-to-business (B2B) marketing on Facebook?
The answer may surprise you.
Facebook, by its nature, is a more compelling consumer communications channel than it is for business-to-business.
Let’s not forget that behind every business are consumers. With 900 million active users, you can bet that your target customer is on Facebook.
Data indicates that B2B marketers are still using Facebook at a lower rate than B2C marketers. No matter what type of business you run, think about Facebook as a complement to, and extension of, your existing communications channels. After all, the more channels you use to reach your audience, the better!
Page Insights illustrate the effectiveness of your Facebook marketing beyond the Like.
Likes Still Matter, but They Are the Beginning, Not the End
Many marketers have been obsessed with Likes to the exclusion of other important considerations. Looking at the number of Likes on your Facebook Page without analyzing other engagement and conversion metrics is not going to win you more business.
