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I think every business knows, Social Media is changing the way we market our businesses. We went from newspaper ads, Television, Radio and all the other forms of traditional advertising to Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter and like 300 other social media platforms. There are so many social media sites I can’t keep up.

Facebook will be the focus of the article today. Facebook is one of the best social media outlets to market your business. I’m sure many of you who are reading this have a Facebook Fanpage for your business or for yourselves, I’ll also bet many of you started your fan page thinking all of your friends and customers would all become fans to help you spread the word about your company. You end up with 40 fans and knowone knows it exists and then you stop posting on the page! Let me explain how I’ve been able to build fan pages from 50 all the way up to 6800 fans and growing.

When most people create a fan page they think they are suppose to use it like they did a newspaper ad. What most people don’t realize is people on social media sites are sick of advertising; they are there to connect with their friends. So why would they want to see your ad on there news feed? Thats right, they would rather not and quite frankly you probably don’t either. You’re probably asking, then what are you suppose to post on your news feed? Take a look at how i’ve built my fan base so you can see for your industry.

I use this tool for several businesses, the first one i’ll explain is my largest one. One fan page I have is for a traveel business it is called Vacationing More and I have a Whopping 6800 fans, Instead of just posting vacation deals I post pictures of vacation destinations and polls. this gets people interacting with the site and then other people see that and add the fan page. When this happens people interact with your page and that is what will drive traffic to your site. When someone comments on your page it goes in their news feed for everyone of their friends to see, when this happens your going to grow? It posts on all their friends news feed for them to see, so now I’m marketing to all those new people. Because of this new people become fans of my pages.

My next biggest fan page is for Jersey’s Bar and Grill, my Restaurant / Bar. One of the cool things I do on this page is we take a lot of pictures at Jersey’s, we then watermark the photos with our logo. What ends up happening is people start tagging themselves in the photos and it becomes free advertising for us. We also use a lot of videos on this page, people Love videos. Youtube is a great platform for your videos because you can see how manyu times the video has been watched. Making your page fun and interactive is the best way to generate fans, we post specials also but we try not to burn out the fans.

The last page I’m going to talk about is my newest page, I’m a Professional Network Marketer so I created a Network Marketing fan page. I have around 850 fans in the last 3 months and I hardly promoted the site besides posting quality material. I try to post a few times a day, I also keep it relevant to what they want to here. I don’t promote my primary opportunity on this page but I do let other people promote their opportunity.

There is advertising through facebook on the right hand side bar. This will get your page a jumpstart to build some fans. If you spam facebook fans with things they dont want you will never succeed with this tool.

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Facebook is used by more than 200 million people everyday and is being used by many marketers all over the earth and yet no more than 1% of them actually do it appropriately. This article will show you an effective facebook marketing strategy that will avoid you becoming an annoying spammer.

So many online marketers have turned their attention to Facebook in preference over MySpace. With so many users from all over the place this social network has massive potential for anyone wanting to promote themselves there. Thousands of marketers are using Facebook for their marketing purposes but most are amateurish spammers. You know the sort of thing I mean, every time you log in you either see a news feed from them or there’s an email waiting for you in your inbox urging you to join their ‘fantastic, best thing since sliced bread, make a million bucks in 2 weeks’ business opportunity.

By learning what works and what not to do, I see no reason why you cannot have great success with Facebook as a promotion tool. Facebook is a social platform and therefore our first and foremost purpose is to develop relationships with people. The promotion of our opportunities can happen naturally at a later date when we have developed connections with folks.

We will take a quick overview of the Facebook marketing strategy that will work for your business,

1) Create your profile focused around you so that people can learn about you and relate to you, have lots of photos of your friends & family and you having a good time. The purpose of your profile is to let the world know about YOU, not just your opportunity

2) Start searching for groups relevant to your market and start adding friends. Vary things as much as you can, try not to be narrow minded and just go for the online marketing groups.

3) Try and seek out groups that are in your field of interest and become a member. FB groups all have a wall, you might want to consider putting some useful info on the wall for others to see and share. It’s a great way for me personally to get my content out there, I will post updates to group walls and I find that folks love the value that I give to them.

4) Create your own group that is relevant to the products that you market. You can invite your friends to join or you can even use Facebook’s paid advertising system to get new members. It’s just like building a subscriber list but on Facebook.

5) You can also post your videos and articles to your own wall and also to the walls of your friends. Lots more people will see your content if you do this and it’s a great way to get your content posted all over the internet. Just remember to always offer value and don’t just pitch your business, if you don’t heed this warning you will most probably end up with a lot less friends.

6) Produce a ‘friend welcome’ video that new friends will view. This is a VERY powerful Facebook marketing strategy and not many people are doing it.

Used properly a Facebook marketing strategy can be VERY effective and can generate highly qualified leads to your websites and sales-funnel.

To become a professional FB marketer you need to learn the facebook marketing strategy that the top producers use. You can learn the secrets today of marketing on facebook by watching this pre recorded webinar which will walk you through the whole strategy. Click the link for access or visit my online MLM secrets blog.