For the last few days, I have been studying a lot about Facebook. And my main focus of this study is to find out various ways to increase Fans to our Facebook Pages. In this post, I’m going to share all way-out I came to know that would help us increase our Fan Base on Facebook. And if I missed some methods for growing our Fan page, you are welcome to share it in the comments section.
1. Creating your Fan Page and getting your First 25 Fans
First thing that you have to do is create a Fan page for yourself or your business and fill in all required information. You should include a image for yourself or your business in your Fan Page with other details. And keep fresh content coming on your Fan page on regular basis. Write engaging content so people actually show interest in being Fan of your Facebook Page. You will need to have minimum 25 Fans to get a SEO Friendly URL for your Fan Page. Now the question arise, how to get these 25 fans to your Facebook page. What I did is, share my Fan Page with some of friends and ask them to be Fan of my page on Facebook. Also I ask them to share it with their friends list. And once you reach the target of 25 fans, go to username page to get a customized URL for your Fan Page.
2. Create a Facebook Fan Box and Share it on your blog
Click Edit Page Link placed in the top left side of your Facebook page and then click Get Your Badge link placed in the lower right had side of the page. You can access the Badge Page directly by clicking this link when signed into your Facebook account. Now customize your badge as your choice and place it on your blog or website for additional exposure to your Fan page. I also have Fan Box (Facebook Badge) active on SFM blog sidebar. Let me know if you face any difficulty in placement of Fan box on your blog.
3. Suggest your Fan page to your Friends list
Next thing you can do to grow your Fan page is asking all of your Friends on Facebook to share your Fan Page with their friends. Suggest to Friends link is available in the top left hand side of page as shown in the image. From there, your friends will have the option to share your page with selected or all of their friends list. And you also can suggest your Fan page to your friends list.
4. Contact other Internet marketers and bloggers in your niche
Next thing you can do to increase your fan base numbers, is getting in touch with other internet marketers and bloggers in your niche and ask them if they will be interested in sharing our Fan Pages to each others friends list as we are working in the same niche and have the same kind readers. This way as well, you can get some targeted fans for your Fan page.
5. Export RSS Subscribers List
If you are using FeedBurner for managing your RSS Subscribers, you will have the option to export all of your E-mail subscribers. And if you are using Aweber or MailChimp kind of websites for managing your list, you surely will have the option to import your subscriber’s e-mail. Since your website subscribers like the kind of content you offer in your blog, which is the primary reason they subscribed to your blog. So there is every chance, they will like your Fan page on Facebook. So draft a polite e-mail and share it with all your subscribers list mentioning they are your website subscribers and invite them to be fan of your Facebook page.
6. Using the Share button
There is a Share button available on a Fan Page towards bottom left had side. You can use this button to send promotional message to your friends, friends of friends or some selected friends list. I like share button because it allows me to connect with friends or friends.
7. Send an Update option
When you click on edit page option on your Fan page, there is a Send an Update link under Promote your page towards bottom right side of page. You can use Send an update option to send textual, video, text with link to your Facebook Fans. You can target this update around Specific location, sex or age group.
8. Write on others Wall
It’s also a great idea to collect a list of popular Facebook pages created around your niche and being fan of them. Lots of Facebook pages allows their fans to write on its wall. And now its up to you to decide how you are going to use their wall. This way, you can introduce yourself to a targeted Fan page and there is every chance of them being clicking the Like button placed on your Fan Page if they like the content placed in by you on other popular Pages wall.
9. Joining groups in your niche
There may be lots of groups created around your niche on Facebook. And some of groups may carry even 1000′s of Fans. So what you can do is join those targeted groups and spread words about your Fan page and the kind of services you are expert in.
10. Some mixed ways to show your Fan page
This is a great idea to show your Facebook Fan page on as many places as you can like showing it in your email signatures, discussion forum signatures where you are active, business cards, ezine publishing websites, as part of your signature in your guest posts etc.
Additional Tip
Create a Welcome Landing Page for your Facebook page using FBML (Facebook Markup Language). I even have welcome landing page in place for SFM on Facebook. I always prefer showing Welcome Landing page to Facebook users who are not Fans of my Facebook Page. And my Fans will see the regular wall as landing page.
Soon I will be creating some quick posts around Facebook where I will be covering some basic tips around a fan Page about which I hinted at in today’s post like creating a Landing page for your Facebook Fan page using FBML. And if you like these tips, return me a favor by being a Fan of my Facebook Page and help me increase my Facebook Fan Base.
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I was considering running a similar promotion for invite a friend and recieve % off your next purchase.
Thanks for those tips.
These are great tips! And Facebook is an excellent way to draw traffic too. Thanks!
Hi Anil
You will have to let us know how this helps your bottom line business. Yes, I see the value in social networking, but I still have some reservations for the following reason. I have limited time as it is to comment on a few websites and I make sure I only spend an X amount of time at any one place.
I have a lot of work to get done and organize. I really can’t be spending my time on Facebook unless there is money to actually be made.
Look forward to more follow up information.
Cheers
Nice post that might help all the blogger’s to have there fans grabbed into the facebook. I could think it might help me a lot.
Great and excellent points, I would also like to add one more and that is a person should come across as a human and not just a extension of the website or blog he/she is promoting.
Great tips bro. I think you have mentioned all the methods of promoting our fan page. I use all of the tips except the landing page. I will certainly be designing one now
I looking For This Great Info Now I Gonna Apply This Tactics And My Fan Page Will Grow I Hope…..
These are great tactics. I am working on this right now for my personal site.
Personally I feel like one of the best ways is just to provide a reason for them to click the “like” button on your page, you want your page to be an active community from my experience that usually gets the best results.
Till then,
Jean
Basically it means that Facebook is doing the hardest part for you by creating the complex code that you can then simply copy and paste into your own website or blog.
Thanks for the tip. It makes me have more knowledge.
More tips buddy so I can increase my fans by ten folds.
So, basically it drills down to how you handle your account and better engagement really counts a lot.
Well still there are many ways to promote your fan page especially have link of your fan page in your profile page i.e personal page through which u can get many friends and visitors converted to fans. However your group joining is also good but let me know how many groups i can join. suppose if i want to join 10000 groups is it possible ? or it will be a spam ?
These are some great tips. Facebook is a great way to promote your blog/website/business. Increasing fan base gives us a big boost.
Thanks for sharing all this in your usual generous way. I’ll definitely be able to put some of these creative ideas into action almost immediately. Thank you. Hope using this tip I will cross 1000 fans landmark soon!
You can suggest to your friends more than once if they have not already become a fan. Those that are already fans are grayed out. http://www.facebook.com/masthideal
Requesting our friends to suggest our fanpage to their friends will surely increase lot of fans to your blog
– Sudharsan @ Technoskillonline