25 Creative Ways to Build Fans on Facebook
Starting a Facebook Page from scratch for your brand or business can be a tricky ordeal at first. Just like creating a website or blog it can take months before you start building a fan base and presence within Facebook. Here are some tips and tricks on and off page that you can do to get a head start with your Facebook campaign:
On Page:
- Create a custom URL for your page that fans can remember
- Post regularly with exciting information
- Ask questions in the newsfeed
- Tag other pages or people in the newsfeed
- Offer deals and discounts
- Create contests with prizes to build interaction
- Bring in a guest speaker to post about your product or answer questions
- Create either online or offline public events that your fans can attend
- Send out updates
- Create custom tabs within Facebook to build interaction along with a call to action to like the page
- Create a Facebook applicaton
- It’s okay to ask your fans to like the page every now and then
- Ask for fans to post reviews, pictures, or videos
- Ask fans to subscribe via SMS or RSS
- Combine your Facebook Places page with your Fan Page
Off Page:
- Do a search in Facebook and make sure there are no other pages or place pages with your brand or company name in it. If so report it to Facebook.
- Contact other related Facebook Pages to see about helping each other out mutually. This includes sponsored posts, tagging each other, events, etc.
- A bit spammy, but as the Facebook Page make posts on other pages
- Promote you Facebook Page in store, on your business card, in your email signature, and anywhere else you can get the name out.
- Create a Facebook Ads Campaign to build traffic to the fan page
- Add Facebook widgets to your website
- Add Facebook social plugins likes, send, and share button to your website and blog
- Connect your page to Twitter
- Turn your customers into fans
- Send out an email to notify them your brand is on Facebook
- Word of Mouth Marketing
If you have any more ideas or questions on ways to build fans on Facebook please list them at the bottom.
Thank you for these suggestions! I’ve been wondering about the best direction to take my fbook page & how to increase interaction with my followers. Thanks, again!
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