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The Basics of Using Facebook to Promote Your Business

The Basics of Using Facebook for Business

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Page 1: The Basics of Using Facebook for Business

The Basics of Using Facebook to Promote Your

Business

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some facebook facts

• Over 500 million active users, HALF log on every day

• 61% of users are over 35• 62% earn at least $60,000• Second most popular website in U.S.• People have Profiles; Businesses have

Pages

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commonly used tools

Facebook

Twitter

LinkedIn

Blogs

YouTube/video

Social bookmarking

Forums

Geolocation

Groupon/coupons

MySpace

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%

92%

84%

71%

68%

56%

26%

24%

17%

6%

6%

2011 Social Media Marketing Industry ReportSocial Media Examiner

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benefits

generated exposure for my business

increased traffic/subscribers

improved search rankings

resulted in new business partnerships

generated qualified leads

reduced overall marketing expenses

improved sales

0% 10%20%

30%40%

50%60%

70%80%

90%100%

88%

72%

62%

56%

51%

49%

43%

2011 Social Media Marketing Industry ReportSocial Media Examiner

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profile

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page

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adding tabs/links

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examples

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advertising

• Can promote website or Facebook pages, events, applications and groups

• Daily budget• Schedule• Target audience

Location DemographicsLikes and interestsConnections

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example

• Demographics Over 18 years old, within 25 miles of Denver, NOT

fan of my Page• $10 daily budget• 404,229 impressions• 75 clicks throughs• $1.31 cost per click• $98.61 spent

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tips & techniques

Be a resource AND ask questions70/30 ruleDon’t be one-dimensional

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tips & techniques

Don’t let people forget youGrammar, spelling and punctuation DO

count!Be responsive AND

say Thank You!

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tips & techniques

Do not ever lie, swear, tell bad jokes and so on

Do not ever post something you don’t want “someone” else to see

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it’s all about…

Relationships,

Relationships,

Relationships!

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questions?

Connect with me!www.facebook.com/deb.krier

www.facebook.com/DebKrierTheSociaLightwww.linkedin.com/in/deborahkrier

www.twitter.com/debkrierwww.debkrier.com/my-blog

www.youtube.com/dkrierthesocialight

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