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Getting Started Using Facebook For Business
1. Getting Started U i
G tti St t d Using
Facebook For Business
Mid Peninsula Professional Alliance
9/21/10
Rachel Melia
Online Marketing Consultant
2. Background
14 years online marketing experience
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Mostly at SF ad agencies on clients including
Kodak Mobile (part of Kodak Gallery),
Macromedia, Microsoft, Palm, Tivo, Electronic
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Arts, Veronica Mars
4 years as marketing consultant
Women In Consulting Online Marketing
Director
Current emphasis on Facebook
marketing
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3. Today s
Today’s Objectives
Explain why you should consider using
Facebook
How you can use Facebook to meet your
business objectives
Examples
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How to get started
How t measure
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4. Why Facebook?
HUGE
More than 500 million users (Facebook)
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Approx. 150 million US – 53% of US
50% log in every day
Average user has 130 friends
#2 most trafficked website in world (Alexa)
Google - 149.6 million visitors May
Facebook - 123 7 million visitors May
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Facebook #1 by time on site
48% over 35 years old (iStrategyLabs)
F t t growing group
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HIGHLY ENGAGED
Average user connected to 80 p g , community
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pages, groups, events FREE
Average user creates 90 pieces content a month
5. Facebook Is New Start Page & Preferred
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Was - AOL, Yahoo,
Google, Email
Now - Facebook
6. Types of Facebook Accounts
Personal Profile Business Page
Group
•People have to request to be
•Anyone can “Like” a page
Anyone Like
your “F i d”
“Friend”
•Posts display on wall of people that
•Posts display on “Friends” walls
“Like”
•Possible to mix business and
•Can post from page ex. “Whole Foods”
pleasure
•Many applications available
•People have to request to “Join”
•Posts do not display on member walls
•Can send emails to members
•Posts come from personal profiles
7. Objectives You Can Achieve Using
Facebook
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Facebook can help y meet these business
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objectives
Brand awareness
Thought leadership/display of expertise
Customer affinity
Customer service
Product feedback
Networking
Lead generation
Drive traffic t
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Sales
… and a benefit – increased SEO
8. Companies Doing Facebook Right
Incredible level of customer affinity..
104k Likes
Almost every post is person saying how much
they love Lilly
Almost 14 million Likes
Majority of posts from people
about their favorite coffee, etc.
9. Companies Doing Facebook Right
Increasing thought leadership or showcasing expertise
Fitness and
nutrition tips
24k Likes
Leading FB expert
Expertise and passion
apparent
10. Companies Doing Facebook Right
Selling products online
Regularly post discounts
Buy flowers within
Facebook
11. Companies Doing Facebook Right
Drive traffic to a store or event
Regularly post
Post fresh coupons
bakery items that
look amazing
Post special
events
12. How To Get Started
Develop Facebook objectives based on overall
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objectives
Develop content strategy
Post highly valuable content
Tips, blog articles, relevant information, discounts, OPC (other
people’s content), pictures/videos
Include images whenever possible
Aim to elicit comments/Likes for inclusion in “Top News”
and in order to go viral
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Promote
15. Beyond The Basics – Application
YouTube I t
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Integration
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Foursquare Integration
Slideshare Integration
16. Promotion – Non-Paid
Non Paid
Add Facebook icon/URL everywhere – website, newsletters,
business cards, email address, LinkedIn, Twitter, print collateral/ads,
signage
Send email/s to list
Use Facebook social plugins
Like Box Like Button
Opportunity to Like page from Message displays on person’s
blog/website feed when click Like
18. Measuring Success
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Measure based on objectives
Ask new clients how heard about
Include social media in registration forms
Unique URLs or bit.ly links
Surveys
19. Key Takeaways
Develop Facebook objectives and a strategy
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Compelling content is critical… Give people a reason to
consume your content and share
People do not usually search for a page… Promotion is
necessary
Measure
Have fun!
20. Thank you!
Questions?
rmelia@gmail.com
rmelia@gmail com
More Information:
http://www.linkedin.com/in/rachelmelia
http://rachelmelia.com/
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