Facebook seems to be a right platform to promote your business. With more than 750 millions users worldwide, facebook is highly accessed and therefore it proves to be the best medium to publicize your business. Gone are the days, when Facebook was only meant for college students to share their information with peers. Now, Facebook has come a long way from a simple social media site to a business enhancing site.
Facebook offers a lot of applications which are mostly developed by companies engaged in mobile application development and software development, which can be used intelligently in the site page or business page to attract the valued customers. In simple terms the business page should be attractive and informative enough to engage your customer or a first time user.
Here are some of the best tips for business promotion on Facebook:
- Invite your friends and customers to let them know you have a Facebook page and ask for them to drop in and like your page. Invite friends to seed your page if you’re just starting up.
- Try and embed a facebook social plug-in in the business blog.
- Create a welcome page that should be attractive enough to encourage the visitors to like your page.
- Post blogs on other groups of your interest; that will direct a healthy traffic to your business page on Facebook.
- Import blogs from the blog page of the company and Give a link on facebook to subscribe to your blog via RSS.
- Always try and keep the content updated that adds value to your viewers and readers creates deep engagement.
- Run contest and polls using the standard ‘Question’ feature on Facebook to engage and capture the audience. One can also use third party tools, if they are more effective than the regular ‘questions’ feature on Facebook.
- Include Twitter, linked in and Google+ in the menu of the business page. This is a quick way to provide other channels for engagement.
- Publish a lot of interesting content on the page as per the interest and theme of the page. Latest events in the company such as upgrading software development services, news on topics of interest that are happening in the world or niche. The valued customers or friends, who are part of your page, will get notification about the latest and hottest news on the page.
- Connect to your dear customers and peers directly; respond to all the comments on site page in a timely fashion.
- Embed slideshare presentations and youtube videos in the business page.
- Photos are the most captivating thing in the world. Place memorable and attractive photos of events at the organization as this will drive a deeper engagement with your prospects and customers.
