Facebook Marketing

Crawdad

OK, so it seems that the business page IS the "fan page."
Thanks, I'll get on it when I have some spare time.

Quality Counts

I am unable to find where it says that I am not allowed to create a page for my business. Please show me.
Also, if it does state that, there are numerous friends and companies that have a biz page and it clearly states that in their name. Besides, I can change the name on either of my profiles to whatever name I choose. On my personal profile, I do not have my last name displayed. Everything else is true and visible/ up to date, for anyone who is my friend to see. There are thousands of people who use an alias throughout every social network that I am a member. Some of these people are titled (royal) and choose not to go by HRH, etc, ad nauseum and for good reason. They are not, however, marketing themselves. I am, but only to the people who choose to accept my connection request and even so, I would never go on their profiles and start spamming them. If, for some reason, they feel uncomfortable with the thought that that might happen, they are free to not only disconnect, but to block.
So, with that aside, I hope that all businesses use a social media platform to market themselves. It's free to join, you may get a hit, and if nothing else, you make a lot of new connections that you can ask questions

angus242

http://www.facebook.com/help/?page=721#/help/?faq=12840

I didn't make the rules so don't shoot the messenger.

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Quality Counts

I couldn't find that in the general TOS.
Never shoot the messenger, because I may have to send a reply!

MagicPoolSvcs

Facebook is a great way to instantly connect with your customers.
We can also share updates such as " Freeze Warning In Central Florida "


It works really well.


http://www.facebook.com/pages/Orland...s/116121093133

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Alyssa Gagen

Hey Facebook Gurus!

Wow this thread is growing by the minute! Maybe we can get it in the Guinness Book of World Records...

Just a little supplemental information on getting your Facebook page noticed...Blog post I wrote today:

http://www.gennextmedia.com/facebook...ar-visibility/

If you want to leave your comments, questions, etc. on the blog. I will get to them ASAP!

leadarrows

When I first set my FB up I was worried about using my real name so I just split up my user name Lead Arrows like that and had no problem using it. Then later I changed it to my real name.
I like the idea of using FB for my business more that for friends. Maybe they need to set up one just for business's. If I knew how I think I would do it myself. If any of you use this idea, after you become a billionaire, if you would just throw a couple of million my way I would appreciate it.....lol

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leadarrows

I know a country music artist that uses the fan page to promote his new songs and it seems to work very well for him. That's his business ..a business is a business. I don't see where it say's you can't use a fan page from your personal account for your business. Seems to me it would be easier than using multiple accounts anyway....but I am still new to all of this....

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Quality Counts

When setting up a Facebook page, it's asks you whether it's a personal or business page. I think the rules are pretty loose as long as you're not harassing, stalking, spamming, or doing anything else that is illegal.
There are thousands of business pages on FB all over the world. I highly doubt that FB is going to delete them, because the advertisers that are on the right side of your screen and are marketing to them specifically and it'd take gosh knows how many hours deleting all those profiles.

Everybody is doing it

THINKPAINTING

I took my account down and closed it, way to many people trying to contact me and other sales type people calling etc.....

For me just don't see the marketing benifit but if it works for you great..

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Quality Counts

I could see that being a problem. Sorry to hear that.
Well, if ever you need a ... JUST KIDDING!

MagicPoolSvcs

Great post Alyssa, read the blog- very useful tips
We may starting using Facebook ads to go to our page.

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Alyssa Gagen

Thank you so much my friend!

Yeah, we actually just put out an advertisement for our page and we got 20 new members in like 15 hours. Try it and see if it works for you...your status updates on your Facebook page are really interesting too. I liked the "clean pool" and "green pool"

MagicPoolSvcs

Yep, we try to keep our page and blog full of humor too

I almost uploaded a pic of snake in skimmer basket today, but Im afraid that would gross people out. There is a lot of " creatures " here in Florida.

Definately going to use Facebook Advertising (PPC) to drive traffic to the FB, Website, and Blog. Thanks again for the blog post.


http://www.facebook.com/pages/Orland...s/116121093133

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Alyssa Gagen

Yes! Put that up there! That would be so funny!

By the way, if you haven't already...give your fb page a customized URL.

You can do that when you have over 25 members. go to facebook.com/username and change your page name. I couldn't tell if you had already

MagicPoolSvcs

I have to figure out how to customize the URL.

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MagicPoolSvcs

I was also thinking about adding a " swimming pool background " to the page.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Orland...s/116121093133


Does anyone know how to do this ?

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bob-contractor

HAHA is useless for industrial sector

MagicPoolSvcs

We just downloaded 2 free apps from Involver.com which allows us to merger our Blog, Twitter and YouTube tabs to our Facebook page.


Real cool stuff as we are working on an awesome landing page.

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devro334

I have had a Facbook fan page to promote my business for almost a year now, but I don't have a formal business website. Facebook has become so popular so quickly do you think it is necessary to build a separate website?