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This information is valuable to me as I have been expanding and have been studying cost efficient ways to expand on marketing.
Thank You for this info.
Great post...we're looking forward to doing more with Facebook. Even bringing more of a utility app to manage your finances right within Facebook.
Groups on FB have been great but having a more formal presence is going to be a nice complement to extending the reach of Geezeo to the college market.
Pete Glyman
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=8379140812
Convince me with a reference that the 53 million are qualified and present.
Love to chat about ways to promote my Talk Fusion Business
great tips. I'm going to have to look more into this. I have known a bit about the ads but now that the user base is expanding beyond college students the market is huge.
Why are numbers displayed in different colors on:
http://www.websitegrader.com/? Some are red, and some green? Is there a meaning? Also the Google PageRank of some of my pages has changed, and I still see reported old page rank figure - after I retest that site (URL). Check
http://www.employireland.ie - your tool shows PR 5 while google toobar displays 6? Different datacenters perhaps?
Ohh, and BTW - great tools! :) Andthe design (visual) is really easy on the eye! Well done!
Businesses on facebook, sounds familiar why i don't use myspace anymore. I can not be the only one who likes to keep social and business life separate ..... Why don't they invent a site purely for business networking?
Emily... a site purely for business networking has been invented. Check out
www.xing.com for example. A lot huge companies encourage their employees to sign up there and use it for networking (me too ^^)
Have a great day, Jens
Right now im trying to create an institutional image of Buyandwalk.com. Im trying to introduce the company to the social media, including Squidoo , Facebook, Myspace, Newsvine, Furl , Digg , del.icio.us, etc. Thanks for the tips and Dharmesh and great site Jens.
Great article, I have just posted my new website
www.sportingconnections.com on facebook as I am looking for free ways to promote the site at the moment. If anyone has any other ideas or articles for me to read that would be great
Thanks. I had no idea facebook could be a valuable tool for my business. I had heard about it but thought it was just another my space.
I'm still quite a bit peeved by Facebook's reasoning as to why businesses should setup Pages when they've already established a Group. I feel they should allow Group's to have the chance to convert to Pages, so I could take the 200 some-odd members of my group over to my page. More on this here:
http://tetromino.com/2007/11/8/why-i-won-t-adopt-facebook-s-pages-model
I'm a developer, of databases and applications, so I know it's not impossible. My question to Facebook: would it really be such a difficult feature to offer?
Thanks for that - I added a page as per your instructions (
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=6087998330 if anyone is interested).
Am I right in thinking though that these pages are still only visible as links via current friends, and not as part of the general search?
Cheers.
Chuck: I agree with you totally. They should provide a way to convert a "group" to a business page. I have a group with 500+ members as well that I'd love to switch to a page.
Paul: The business pages do seem to show up as part of a search (on the company name at least). I tried searching on "HubSpot" and now there's a special tab in the results for "Pages" and the first hit I get is the new HubSpot product page.
Hi,
Great article thanks alot.
For some reason I cant add my company information just the website parking and public transit info.
Its extremely frustrating as I cant add my company info LOL
Any ideas???
Sincerely Virgil
Ahh, yes - thanks for the clarification on the search. Seems as if the simple search only looks at the name, not any of the related details so a number of keywords didn't show the page: searching just on the name did.
Cheers.
I hope the execs at Facebook realize that they achieved a $15B market value for their company WITHOUT using businesses while myspace sold out for less than 1/50th that value. I stated using Facebook because I wasn't inundated with ads and porn. I hope they have a way to filter accounts and black overactive users like they already do with spam.
Wow... i feel like I have just stumbled upon a new and exciting business promotion venue.. Social bookmarketing. Who knew?
This is great news to know that Facebook allows individual businesses to promote themselves on the platform. How is it different from the groups/communities feature that currently exists.I am currently looking at ways to promote
www.Qiu-inc.com on social media sites. Any tips and advice will be very much appreciated.
This looks like it could be very useful, many thanks for the tip.
However I do have one question: after creating my page, the only information I am able to enter into the "Information" panel is an address/phone number/hours on the Basic Info tab, and Website, Parking and Public Transit on the Detailed Info tab.
Yet I can see on the HubSpot page that you have entries for Company Overview, Mission and Products. How can I get these last three items to appear on my page?
Many thanks!
I, too, would like to know more about the 34% of the 53 million Facebook subscribers that are said to be professionals (not kids). How receptive are they to interacting with a brand? Leave me a comment here or on my blog, purethinking.typepad.com THANKS --Ken
Very nice, thank you. And when building a business facebook page, have purpose, passion, don't be boring and mediocre, be remarkable. Do something that'll get people talking about you. I once paid a publicist $7k/month to do this.
Following on from my question above about how to select which fields appear in the information panel... I now have the information I want. It appears that the "create page" page doesn't work properly in Firefox. When I eventually tried in IE7, I found that selecting the "brand" radiobutton caused a new drop-down-list to appear, allowing me to select my brand type. In Firefox, no such list appears, and so the page wasn't created as I expected. Just thought I'd post a warning in case it affects anyone else.
Very good.I'll try it right now.Thanks.Tommy
Thanks for the guide. It's not always obvious what can be done in facebook or what certain feature do. A lot of the time half the stuff seems like guess work!
Great tips, I just don't see this..."Finally, and this is important, from your new profile page, click "Add to my products". This way, you become the first "fan" of your business." Where is "add to my products"?
I'm not seeing the "Add to my products" either. Can anyone help explain why I need to set up a profile with a full name to complete my Business page. I like the concept here, but it seems Facebook has made it more complicated than it has to be. Maybe that's just me though.
Tara: If you picked the "services" category when you built the business page, the text of the link is actually "become a fan". This is usually in the right column.
I just checked, and the link is indeed their for your page (I tested this by becoming your first fan).
Great article and extreemly heloful to those of us that know so little. I will be watching for more great ideas from you. Thank you for being helpful.
This is a great tip, thank you. I am fairly new to blogging and marketing, but I am teachable and I will look into this. Kudus to you, and I wish you much success in all of your endeavors.
Really? I can have access to those 50 million users? Let me think...wait THAT'S RETARDED. That's right, you have access to massive multiples of that right here on the web where people can also become a "fan" of your site. Social networks are closed environments where you have less power, less control and less profit potential because you're on someone else's turf. Don't be a sucker.
popo - what planet are you on or are you on? seriously its 2007!
I've played around a lot with the pages option in facebook - but I'm having a lot of difficulty with my logo appearing. It seems if you select "Communications" your logo will appear on your "page" but if you select "Technology product / Service" the logo doesn't appear. Same jpeg, same size. Also, the mission, philosophy etc seems to be in some pre configured categories and not others. Any idea if this is a bug or a feature?
Great information. Thanks!
Thanks Dharmash. I just became a fan of HubSpot on Facebook. One tip you forgot to add is that organizations with a Facebook presence need to continually keep their information. For example, you should add blog posts and other information from your website on a regular basis to keep your page fresh!
Tom
I do wish that facebook stayed as a college social networking site. It is ashame that things become to commercialized, but that is the world we live in. We live in a world of ads thrown at us a mile a minute, facebook was nice, it was simple, now it is quite confusing and a hassle, if you ask me.
OK. I created a Facebook profile. . . I think. I am an entrepreneur and have designed a Dorm Room Privacy Screen for college students.
Now what? How will people see it?
Sorry to sound not so smart, but I've been reading this post and just followed the directions.
So, if anybody sees this, let me know.
Also, I sell this product on Ebay, and do not have a website - so I just posted the Ebay link.
Is that OK???
A really nice compilation!
So, how will people see my dorm room privacy screen??!!!
Peggy in Memphis - yes, Graceland!
i want a help from googles that is computer
Can i get Link back from websitegrader
I have a facebook social page and mention my business once in awhile on it. So Ken, I'm one of those 34%. But what I don't see in the article or these posts is that anyone has actually received business from using facebook. That's a statistic I'd like to hear. But I do agree that social media is growing in a huge way and to ignore it is akin to ignoring how expotentially the internet has grown since developed in 1989 -- not even 20 years ago.
I have created one for my company, lets see what it makes!
I've been evaluating Facebook's marketing potential from a distance (for us little guys). It seems to me that the social marketing experiment has yet to demonstrate effectiveness. Time will tell I guess. Based on this discussion, I have a feeling the abandon rate for these Company pages may follow the same pattern as blogs did a few years ago.
Great post. I've been thinking about doing this for my sites and business, but I've only just got into Facebook on a personal level, so I want to get to grips with that first. This article helps for my expansion though. <a href="
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=647949714">Check me out on Facebook</a> if you're looking to expand your network of friends.
Looking forward to see Facebook evolving
I can't do Instruction #6... I don't see an "Add to my Products" link... and the only way to add Fans that I see is to buy advertising.
Am I missing something here?
Thanks for free tips.
I get great tips here. comments are very helpful too. thanks guys!
Good info. No wonder FB is getting investment dollars every way they can now.
thanks dharmesh. somehow I could post jobs details here
contact me 9884262305
Does it matter that I have to create my page with my personal account? What if I don't want my business page to be associated with my personal account?
What is better for branding - a Group or a Page? it seems to me that a Page is better . . . can you convert a Group into a page?
Santiago: Currently, a Facebook page has more features/functionality than a group.
As it stands, there's no way that I know of to convert a group to a page (which is unfortunate).
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I don't see #6 either - add to my products??
got to step 6 but did not see "Add to my products"
new shop need load and loads of people to look and buy from our Waterford, Southern Ireland shop for all Celtic Jewellry and alternative clothing
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I've just created a fan page and its really doing well. Thanks for the tip.
any luck in getting that page to index under "hubspot" ... I didn't see on page #1
I'll definitely be listing my interactive advertising company -
http://influenzamedia.com on Facebook.
It would be a perfect way to demonstrate how young consumers like to interact with ads!
Appreciate the free tips
Thanks Dharmesh Shah. We just added
www.redappleapartments.com to Facebook and told all our friends about it. Within the first hour we got 10 fans already! I bet they are searching for short-term apartments on our site already!