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Facebook Techniques
1. Facebook Techniques
How to Utilize Facebook for Business
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Joel Wolfgang
@joel_wolfgang
Social Media Consultant
November 9, 2010
9. Facebook Strategy
Develop a Facebook Page for your business
Develop a Posting Strategy
Engage on a Regular basis
“Like” Community Pages
Editor's Notes
Started at Harvard in 2004
Put the college experience on the Internet
Primarily geared towards college students
It was 18 months after it opened that it opened to everyone
EdgeRank
Is the algorithm that Facebook uses to float information to the top of your screen
Facebook Main Page
Facebook Profile Page
Profiles
Everyone gets one profile
If you happen to get more than one profile and Facebook finds out about it they will drop both of them.
Private in nature
You must share a connection between two parties
New Facebook Groups
Are designed to be connections between several individuals around a topic or common connection.
These have been completely revamped recently
New group chat
Email notification
Email Posting
Documents
Many features disappear after 250 group members
Friendship Page
Shows you the connection links between two individuals
Facebook Community Pages
These are intended to be hubs to see communication.
You can suggest a Wikipedia page
You can suggest an official Facebook page
Facebook Pages are the main technique used for businesses
Post regularly on the wall
Whole point is to ignite conversations
Connect your blog to the page so new posts show up as a link
I would not recommend connecting your twitter to the page
Its possible, but I wouldn’t
If you post frequently people will not want to read your posts on Facebook, and might "unlike"
Your posts might not float to the top as well
Spend time on your profile picture
Consider using all the space for your profile picture
And Make sure that you have something to crop to for your square picture
Custom
Have a custom tabs as the first page makes a new visitor your page 50% more likely to click the "Like" button
Having something that asks a person to click the "Like" button also adds an additional 25% likelihood of clicking the "Like" button.
Engage in conversations
Make sure to check back in on your Facebook page for comments at least daily.
Strategy
Develop a Facebook page
Consider adding a custom tab (Ryan will talk about this soon)
Develop a posting strategy
What types of things will you post here?
How often will you post?
Engage on a very regular basis
"Like" community pages so that you will see when some talks about your business across Facebook
Suggest a Wikipedia article for your community pages
Suggest your Official Facebook page for your community page