Explosive Facebook Presence

Hello,

I was reading Andrew Boon's post last night.

I noticed the below mentioned keywords.

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Friends, Like Button, Pages, Comments, Paid Ads, Facebook Login, Widgets

Foraging at Other's Pages.

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Well, I've been dealing in social media and promotions for the last 3 years and I think I've gained some knowledge about the trends the social media marketing follows.

I'll try to share my summarised piece of knowledge over this.

1: getting traffic to your sites by leveraging your friends' facebook reach doesnt work at all.

2: facebook pages work only when you have more than 5000-10000 members. because thats when your single post reaches thousands of people at a stretch.

3: if you think you can establish yourself as a social media brand with a mesmerizing facebook page, without investing, you might not get over it. Since everything on facebook is monetised. The pages were not, now even they are.

4: I work at Yoonix Media, and we sometimes use several "grey-hat facebook marketing strategies" to gain followers. For instance, a single post on a facebook page with more than 1 million fans usually costs $10-$40 depending upon the brand. Anyone who has a big pocket might try this. But this does not applies to international brands.

5: Another famous trend is the "continue reading trick". The page owner with more than 1 million members makes a post on his page and hyperlinks it to continue reading page (another page of his) and this way, the second page too gets a large number of hits.

6: Facebook Like box is yet another way to divert traffic from high density pages to individual websites and individual facebook pages.

7: Also, the facebook advertising that Andrew was speaking of, You need a thorough reaserch about that advertising which has to be on global scale. We usually prefer targeted advertising (on city or town basis) rather than country wide or worldwide marketing. You need to be aware of several factors. For eg: If you are marketing any product for working class women, you need to have a schedule in between 6-8 at evening to 10-12 in morning, because that is the only spare time with the working class women. Also, you need to focus more on public holidays.

8: Facebook Comments: When its social network, anyone can put you through constant harrassment by posting fake comments, reviews and posts. More than 30% of reputed company owners suffer from this problem. There are many IP tracking appplications available that can help you to combat this menace.

8: having a "like-dependent feed" method too works a lot. Just for eg: Anyone operating boonex facebook page might want to open up a discount only for people who like the boonex page. As long as the page is not liked by a user, he woould see a banner saying "like the page to get x% discount", and as soon as the page is liked, another banner would be displayed with the "promo/ discount code".

9: FBML/canvas apps/open graph etc also offer many attractive features like: playing music, videos, making payments for services (f-commerce), mobile messaging from facebook, making voicecalls from facebook (for customers who can call you through facebook), IVR applications on facebook etc. We are currently working on a facebook CMS application that would allow the company to create a mini-social network between its own users (fans/likes). This project is still under construction. I'll post more details when I have them ready.

10: Finally, there are many many more ways to get popular using facebook and facebook alone. You can today get thousands of fans per day, get a traffic of 10,000 visitors daily, and half a million followers in a month.

All it takes to have the booty is a strong acumen, average budget and management ability to maintain the fanbase.

We, at Yoonix Media (www.yoonixmedia.com) have many more ideas, experienced people, and a lot of success stories to share. Do pay us a visit and feel free to ask for any more info you want.

In my next post, I'll write on "how to earn guaranteed $1 per day from each of your facebook fan".

thanks for reading,

mike