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20 pitfalls to avoid when using facebook for branding

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This is a part of the Social Media Training in Singapore. Presented by : Andrew Chow ([email protected])

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Indiscriminate Tagging

• Nothing is more

irritating than

finding ourselves

being tagged to

something that

doesn’t concern us!

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Excessive Routine

Group Broadcast

• It will be a disaster

for your brand if

you use Facebook

like just another

broadcasting

channel

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Posting your Product onto

Competitor’s Group or Fan Page

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• If the owner of the

page or group

reports to

Facebook, you

can be warned, or

eventually banned!

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Create a Fan Page with

No Fans and No Update

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• What’s the use of creating

a Page where the Fans

have nothing to cheer

about the page?

Remember the content is

imperative for good

conversation to happen

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Create a Personal Profile of your

Company & Adding others as Friends

• Facebook is for anyone who has a real “face”. If you are a person managing your brand, create a profile. Consequently create a Fan page for your company

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Forbidding Your Fans to Share

(Feedback) Anything on Page

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• The main activity on social media is conversation. Who wants to be your fans when only you can talk and they can’t? Your page will become just like any other mass media.

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Fan Page with No Twitter,

Youtube or Slideshare tabs

• Fan Page is your brand’s

homepage on Facebook.

Leveraging its huge base

to bring traffic to other

platform where your

brand has a presence is

important

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Over Crowding Your Pictures

with Only Your URL

www.pholan.com www.pholan.com www.pholan.com

www.pholan.com

www.pholan.comwww.pholan.comwww.pholan.com

www.pholan.com www.pholan.com

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Deleting (Censoring)

Negative Comments

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• Do not ever think people won’t

notice it! It will be

embarrassing if fans post the

comments a 2nd time. Use

every opportunity in finding a

bridge from handling negative

comments to communicate

your brand further

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Spamming by Sending

Group Private Messaging

• Though this may be

done on a personal

level, it may result in

bad personal

branding and affect

the image of your

brand which you

broadcasted

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Failure to Include Facebook

Forecast/Growth Metrics

• Forecasting and Charting growth in areas like Fan base, postings, content upload are key measurement of Social Media Branding. No measurement means no ROI!

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Failure to Plan for Posting

Schedule on Your Page

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• Forecasting and

Charting of Growth in

membership, postings

or content upload are

key measurement of

Social Media Branding.

No measurement

means no ROI

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Only 1 Administrator

• Designating only one person to manage a page may not be able to cope with the job scope of monitoring feedback, updating, event management, etc. Having more administrators will add more variety in the form of human voices within the page. Moreover, your page will risk being dormant if the administrator’s profile is disabled for some reasons.

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Bad Grammar

in Posts or Replies

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• Having social conversation

doesn’t necessarily means

bad grammar is cool.

Anyone who maintains a

page represent the brand.

No company wish to

associate bad English as

an attribute of their brand.

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Lack of Monitoring through Google

Analytics for Facebook link

• The success rate of converting of prospects to customers from Facebookdepends on analysis of web users’ behaviour on your web. Monitoring all new users from Facebook link contribute to the overall ROI of a Social Media marketing approach.

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No Integration

With Other Web Strategies

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• Having a Facebook’s page is just another channel of marketing and branding. All other web strategies must be aligned, implemented and integrated with Social Media channel eg. Customer Relationship Management system, etc

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Failure to use Targeting option in

FACEBOOK Advertising

• Though Facebook is almost reaching 500 million users, its unique advertising preposition lies in the Targeting Option where you can select your target audience anything from gender to location to interest to even educational level.

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Under Bidding in

Facebook Advertisement

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• Plan for a monthly budget,

decide how many clicks you

wish to get from Facebook

users, the higher the bidding

for Pay-per-Click (PPC), the

more occurrence your ad will

appear. Bidding the minimal

will never be effective for

obvious reason

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No Facebook Application to

Engage Your Fans

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• Facebook is a application on social media which gives opportunity to more than 50,000 other applications. Design and Develop an application on Facebookthrough API to build your brand. Be creative in forming new ways for fans and prospects to interact.

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No Facebook Connect

From your Website

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• Your main corporate site will not be deemed as ready for social media if you do not have Facebook Connect.

• It allows users to join your site as members by allowing their profiles to be connected.

• Open ID serves a similar purpose although not as effective in lead generation.

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Recap…1. Indiscriminate tagging

2. Excessive Routine Group broadcast

3. Posting your product onto your competitor’s group or fan page

4. Create a fan page with no fans and no update

5. Create a personal profile of your brand and adding others as friends

6. Forbidding Your Fans to Share (Feedback) Anything on Page

7. Fan page without twitter, youtube and slideshare tabs

8. Over crowding your pictures with only your URL

9. Deleting or censoring negative comments

10. Spamming by group private messaging

11. Failure to Include Facebook Forecast/Growth Metrics

12. Failure to Plan for Posting Schedule on Your Page

13. Only 1 administrator

14. Bad grammar in post or replies

15. Lack of Monitoring through Google Analytics for Facebook link

16. No integration to other web strategies

17. Failure to use Targeting option in FACEBOOK Advertising

18. Under bidding in FACEBOOK Advertisement

19. No Facebook Application to

Engage Your Fans

20. No Facebook Connect from your website

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