The Benefits Of Using Facebook As Your New Marketing Strategy

By James Steele


If you're active on the Internet, you probably are on Facebook. People these days ask about Facebook like they used to ask for each other's phone numbers. Facebook is now the most popular social networking site available, far out doing all of the similiar competing sites. One's Facebook profile can be a window into interactions with other people. What does this mean to you as a marketer? Well, since there are so many people on Facebook, it means that there's a huge collected target audience that's just waiting to be tapped into.

There are millions of users on it that log in multiple times a day to keep in touch with their social circle, make new friends, play interactive games, etc. It's for these reasons that people love to use Facebook on the Internet. Imagine the potential traffic that you could bring to your website when you convert this large audience through advertisements on Facebook, ones that they all can see. This article will discuss how you can leverage Facebook for your business and what you should keep in mind.

Monetizing ads on Facebook is fairly new and did not begin until the users reached nearly 2 million. They launched a service called Social Ads that lets you display targeted ads on Facebook. Compared to other PPC services like Google Adwords, Facebook's Social Ads service is much more straightforward. Positive results are more common with these ads, because they can be tailored to a certain audience, by specifying gender, interest, age group, or other criteria of your choosing. With Facebooks target feature, you can make sure that your ads aren't being randomly served to people that don't care about your product. However, Facebooks Social Ads and their advanced targeting feature, makes sure that your ads are only displayed to the demographic of your choice. You will ensure higher traffic to your site, as you people viewing your ad will be inclined to click on it. You can even include a picture to your ad, something that can be really effective. When you include a picture in your ad, it looks more professional and it stands out more thus it increases the response you get.

Aside from the obvious Social Ads service, you can utilize other venues on Facebook to really maximize this social networking site. This would be through the Facebook groups and pages. You won't find a better way to use your network to the fullest potential, and utilize viral marketing. The first step, naturally, is to actually create the group/page that reflect on your business and informs users about it. Once you're through this step, next invite your friends and ask them to invite others to your group or ask them to become a fan of your business page. If you're working with a group, you must take the invitation route. But if you start your own fan page, you'll need to find ways to attract traffic by yourself. However, after your Facebook presence is strongly solidified, you'll start to get much better responses for less work.

All in all, Facebook can virally spread the word about your business and take it to the next level. Facebook is an especially good option for businesses that may not have money in their budget for marketing at this point in time, you can increase your traffic for free.




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  1. Social ads on facebook is a common and effective marketing technique. Have heard a lot about Facebook Ads Management to promote business. Now a days it’s becoming common and a most effective way to gain popularity. Will surely go for their renowned services to enhance my company products sale.

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