media marketing with facebook facebook is extremely popular more than 60 percent
of americans have a facebook account it's one of the fastest and easiest ways for you to build a
fan base of people who know like and trust you you'll be able to create fan pages with unlimited
numbers of fans it's very viral what you post in one moment can be on the pages of thousands
of other users facebook pages in minutes you're able to create updates that
appear on thousands of pages at once and it's extremely personal so what is a profile and fan page how can you set
one up well a profile or a fan page would contain a detailed description of who you are what
you have to offer and how it can help people it's the starting point in building
relationship with other facebook users it's important therefore to be personal
trustworthy interesting and likable to do this you can put up lots of personal
pictures and videos of your holidays of your friends of your family mix those in with
your business related pictures and videos remember to be real and transparent and honest
this is what other users are looking for when they have interaction with you via
facebook so how do you get friends and fans the best way is to join related facebook groups related because they're in your niche or related
because they match your interests and hobbies or it could be that they're related to
products and companies that you like when you join those groups get
involved in the group discussions make sure that you leave lots of comments
try to be as interactive as possible take note of and add the active users in
your niche especially those who have lots of friends this will help your messages to
be viral to appear on their friends pages it's important therefore to get involved follow
your news feed it's one way of being able to check out what you're up to and what other people are up
to then comment on the status of other users make sure your comments are interesting and opinionated
make sure at times they're also controversial it's important to comment and
post on other people's walls to comment and post on photos and
videos tag anyone that you can make sure that you make good
use of your status updates and post links to things
that you found interesting all of this attracts more and more people
to your profile page or your fan page you'll want to do this at least
three to five times every day building your fan base start off with your
personal profile page and build at least 900 to 1000 friends then you're
ready to create a fan page after creating your fan page you'll want to
suggest it to your friends and then you'll want to send your friends a message asking
them to suggest your fan page to their friends building your brand on facebook use facebook ads to advertise your fan page or to
advertise your own products or affiliate products when selecting pictures use those that
are interesting and grab the attention you can also interlink your other social media
accounts twitter myspace youtube and so forth remember that to build your brand you
want to first build relationships with friends and fans before you start to sell to
them don't sell too soon and don't hard sell
