How to Use Facebook Places and Facebook Deals for Local Business

Welcome to Social Media Examiner TV with your host Mari Smith. In this episode, Mari examines Facebook marketing for local businesses.

Mari explains how Facebook Places and Deals work, why you should pay attention to them and how you can use them to grow your local business.

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Facebook Marketing for Local Businesses

As more customers become smartphone-savvy, local businesses can leverage the opportunities offered by Facebook Places and Facebook Deals to get new customers to come to their location and to reward current customers.  Mari shares what you need to know.

Facebook Places

You'll learn how to claim your business on Facebook and take advantage of your Facebook Place page so you can make offers through Facebook Deals.

Facebook Deals

Find out about the four different kinds of deals and how your business can use them.

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1. Individual deals: For one-time offers
2. Loyalty deals: To reward repeat business
3. Friend deals: To incite up to 8 people to check in at once
4. Charity deals: To get people to donate to a charity

And Mari shares how some brands are using deals to grow their business.

Be sure to listen for Mari's hot marketing tip to find out how you can also include Twitter to leverage your Facebook marketing with Places and Deals.

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