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02-22-2011 07:25 PM |
Mainstream: The Importance of Facebook Marketing
With the worldwide movement we know as Facebook, it is high time mainstream marketers see the immense benefits of taking advantage of the Facebook platform to carry their business up the ladder. There is no need to fall behind in the rat race of the internet business world. With a little research and some quality instruction, the use of Facebook as your method of mainstream marketing will generate results.
For starters, bringing a presence to the Facebook community will bare minimum drive traffic to your site. Qualified or not it will get you the exposure you need. With a little tweaking in your approach you can generate quite a lot of business for you and it will open up avenues to more sophisticated and direct strategies to capitalize on a FREE forum.
All that can be said about Facebook is VIRAL. No not the kind that gets you sick, but the kind that spreads like wildfire. If you remember the old way of Word of mouth then you?ll know where this is going. Unfortunately the possibilities brought about by word of mouth advertising can also succumb to ?Chinese whispers?. The beauty about the internet is that once written in stone there is a permanent record of what you list, and it is accessible by literally billions of people.
If you?re having a hard time establishing your company?s identity then look no further. Facebook is a FREE and highly active branding service. You can actually target a specific demographic based on the identity of your page, the groups you join and create, and the Fans you associate with. Albeit the drawback to such large exposure can be an overabundance of interest that has no intention of actually doing business, it will lead to the next best thing. Referrals. People that may not use your services will definitely tell someone about you if they took the time to add themselves to your fan list.
If for nothing else you should definitely add yourself to the Facebook rota simply because you need the ?cool factor? added to your business. I mean 80 year old Grandmothers use Facebook to communicate with their families. Why shouldn?t your company be on there? This phenomenon known as Facebook has become almost a trusted consumer reports for business. People trust the referrals they get from someone on Facebook and they tend to bring in a lot of business for you. If a mother tells a son that they should try your service and they have found you on Facebook, the widespread popularity alone can potentially bring in a lot of interest.
If you have any aspirations about riding the wave of promotion on the information superhighway, come prepared with all you need to get the job done right. A properly planned and laid marketing approach on Facebook will bring your business into the future of marketing. Millions of people are succeeding at it and the time is now for you to do the same.
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