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Facebook for Business at Cornerhouse
http://prandsocial.com @katiemoffat
About me….
@katiemoffat
Tonight • Why bother? • Making the page as visually impact as possible • Edgerank & why it’s vital you understand it • Using Facebook Insights & other analytics tools
to help you better monitor & manage your page • Looking after your community • Running competitions on Facebook • Other ways to grow & market your page • Questions
It’s big
Diverse • Average age of
Facebook user is 33 • All ages represented • Average user has 130
friends • 48% male, 52%
female • Average user spends
15 hrs 33 mins per month on FB
Source: Econsultancy.com and socialbakers.com
Benefits to business 1. It’s cheap (but resource intensive) 2. Keep up with the competition 3. Instant feedback 4. Build brand loyalty & convey USP 5. Increased sales – f-commerce 6. Increased engagement -> word of mouth 7. Insight into your customer base 8. Traffic driver to your website 9. Fish where the fish are 10. Extend the reach of other marketing activity
BUILDING A PAGE
Setting up
Facebook Page – http://www.facebook.com/pages
• Choose your admins (different roles available) • Custom Facebook URL – http://www.facebook.com/username/
• Post initial updates to give the page some personality
• Considerations of time – resource to maintain and update
Set up & timeline
h"p://bit.ly/TO7jte (inspired cover photos) h"p://bit.ly/RX7qQS (brand cover photos)
Facebook Apps
http://www.facebook.com/about/timeline/apps
What shall I post on our page? 1. Post a variety of content & avoid automated updates 2. Don’t just broadcast – add value 3. Photos, videos, links (to your own assets but also other
interesting things you come across) Facebook notes, ask questions/run polls
4. Ensure you engage/reply to comments 5. Have a simple guidelines document for any admins
(how to deal with negative comments etc) 6. Update regularly (at least once/twice a day) 7. Show that you’re human! 8. Try to plan ahead – how will you ensure a regular flow
of interesting content?
Newer Admin Tools Scheduled Updates & Promoted Posts
Highlighting & Pinning Posts
EDGERANK
Bigger not always better
Edgerank
http://edgerankchecker.com/blog/2012/04/what-is-edgerank/
Focusing on the right numbers
Insights
Google Analytics
Other analytics tools
COMMUNITY MANAGEMENT
Take care of your community • Be clear about how you are using. • Interaction – ask questions, respond to comments. • Exclusive content for Facebook. • Be supportive of your biggest fans. • Never delete negative comments. • Remember: they can ‘unlike’ as
quickly as they liked.
h"p://www.allfacebook.com/why-‐2-‐in-‐5-‐facebook-‐users-‐click-‐unlike-‐2011-‐09
Community • It’s about them, not
you. People share content that triggers emotions & content that connects with them e.g. Virgin trains ‘first time’ campaign.
Dealing with negative comments • Four different types of negative comment. • Have guidelines in place so staff know how to
respond. • Respond quickly, transparently, authentically. • Deal with it publically at first then privately if
necessary. • Accept that you’re never going to win every
battle.
COMPETITIONS
Competitions What you can’t do • Run competition on the
wall/timeline • Run a comp where people
have to LIKE to enter • Ask people to check in at
your location or upload content (photos/video) to your wall, to enter
• Notify winner via FB
What you can do • Run a comp using a third
party app • Ask people to LIKE you
before entering via a 3rd party app
• Collect data if running through 3rd party app
• Run comp through your website and promote on your FB page
Some creaLve examples
MARKETING THE PAGE
Facebook Connect & Social plugins
Facebook Marketing – starters • Telling friends and family • Suggesting to people that they like the page • Commenting on other pages as your page
(sparingly!) • Like other pages (when using FB as your page) • Updates that reference other pages (using the
@sign)
Cross promotion • Add Facebook URL to all offline & online
marketing material • Include in customer newsletters • Advertise it in your venue
More simple marketing ideas…
• If you host live events, take lots of photos, upload to your page – and encourage people to tag themselves.
• Periodically share key content from your page onto your profile page.
• Mention your page if being interviewed.
It’ll keep changing…
5 steps for tomorrow 1. Spend half an hour getting more familiar with
Insights 2. Check key metrics and benchmark 3. Sort your last 10 posts by ‘virality’ and come up
with a plan for the next week’s posts based on the post popularity (benchmark)
4. Look at google analytics to see what traffic Facebook is currently sending to your site, how engaged they are (bounce rate, dwell time)
5. Sign up for free trial on one of the more in-depth tools
Thank you – Questions?
10/18/12
http://prandsocial.com @katiemoffat