Facebook Resources
Facebook Resources
32 Ways To Use Facebook for Business :: Source – Web Worker Daily
Discusses Facebook’s usefulness for marketing your products, landing gigs, and connecting with your customers.
Facebook for Business: Opportunities and limitations :: Source – Inside Facebook
Lists ways that Facebook can help bolster your business and place yourself in the forefront of customer’s minds.
How To Use Facebook for Business (video) :: Source – Hub Spot
A marketing “webinar” on Facebook’s usefulness for businesses.
Using Facebook for Business :: Source – Spartan Online Marketing
Facebook is a free marketing tool that helps your business develop an identity and strengthen your brand.
Facebook Advertising Tips :: Source – Facebook.com
Offers tips on how to get started advertising on Facebook.
Using Facebook to Promote Your Graphic Design Business :: Source – About.com
Instructs Facebook users on how to get started advertising with Facebook.
Does Your Facebook Profile Reveal Too Much? :: Source – About.com
The “do’s” and “don’ts” of Facebook.
Facebook Tips
- Facebook is huge for advertising.
- You can also make groups for your company and make your page private to only people you want to see it.
- Your page com promote what you want people to see.
- You can have a business and a personal Facebook.
- There is also tons of different applications that you can get on Facebook that may help you.
- Do not put anything on your profile that you wouldn’t want your potential employers to see.
- Give proper contact info, Web site/blog/portfolio links, and professional descriptions.
- To separate business facebook with personal facebook pages, make a business page for yourself and market your work through that.
- Try to find people who you want to look at your business page and ask them to become a fan.
- For creatives, make photo albums of your work so people won’t have to look around on your profile for links to your online portfolio.
- First and foremost establish a business account.
- Add your Facebook URL to your email signature.
- Post business updates on your wall.
- Find mutual connections through your friends lists.
- Post upcoming events.
- Create a completely different Facebook account (apart from personal) and Fan Page for your business.
- On your fan page there are tabs, and each one has its own url. This way you can direct certain audiences to whichever content of your fan page you’d like them to see. Also, using Facebook Mark-up Language (FBML), you can create custom boxes of HTML content, like newsletter sign-up pages, blog RSS feeds, and white paper downloads just like you might on your web site.
- Upload images from your PowerPoint presentations, articles from the local publication you contribute to, or on the fly videos created using the Facebook video application.
- Use Facebook business applications! CircleUp, Facebook Video, and Testimonials are only a few of the many excellent business apps you can find to help with things like promote business’s activities/events, upload or record video, or to share your work experience.
- Take us of Facebook Ads. You can target ads to Facebook members on all kinds of criteria at low cost.