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When Helen Havlak, engagement editor at The Verge, looks to the future, she sees video — and Facebook. Last year, the Verge’s video views overtook its pageviews. This year, she expects the tech site to more than double the number of videos it produces this year. “Video right now is the only way to build a Facebook page,” she said. “The audience there is huge.” Publishers are all trying to become video producers, tantalized by the prospect of lucrative video ad rates and exposure on Facebook, where publishers have a better chance of getting their content seen by posting video than they do photos and text links. Media companies uploaded 931,000 social videos to Facebook in the first quarter of 2017, an increase of 109 percent year over year, according to Tubular Labs (measuring across 2,000 media companies). But producing video is time-consuming and expensive, which is why, for better or for worse, they’re turning to various hacks. Here’s a guide to some of the most common tactics. We’ll let you decide if they’re brilliant or despicable....
According to AmeriCommerce, Facebook accounts for 60% of all social traffic driven to retail sites; however people don't really log on to Facebook to make purchases. People go on Facebook to connect with others, so the real trick is figuring out how to connect those people with your content, and consequently your products.
Did you know that you can sell your e-commerce products directly on Facebook? The world's largest social media network offers a simple and effective platform for online sales. And with its massive user base of 1.7 billion monthly users, it's incredibly effective.
To get started, you'll first need to create your Facebook Page. Unlike personal profiles, Pages are intended specifically for commercial purposes, with the ability for users to “like” them. To create a Facebook Page, simply visit https://www.facebook.com/pages/create/ and follow the on-screen instructions.
After setting up your Facebook Page, you can sell your e-commerce products by using a compatible app. There are more than a dozen different e-commerce store apps for Facebook that are designed for this purpose. Once installed, they'll automatically pull product listings from your e-commerce site, posting them directly on your Facebook Page. This means you'll only need to update your website anytime a product is added, removed or otherwise changed, as the app automatically mirrors what happens on your site....
How is it going with getting your posts seen by your fans on Facebook these days?
Let me guess. You have great stuff that think your fans are going to love.
You post it and wait anxiously for all of the Reactions (used to be Likes), Comments and Shares you are bound to get (WOW! what a Facebook community-building genius your are!) and then…
…CRICKETS! and a big UUUGGGHHH, what happened, right?
Low Facebook Reach is NOT Your Fault
I will say it again…it’s NOT your fault. The truth is that Facebook has stacked the cards against you.
With the roll-out of our new Facebook contest category and the growing importance of social media design overall, we thought it was about time to focus on the different elements that make up Facebook design.In this article, we’ll break down the different elements of Facebook to ensure that you’re creating a well-branded and clickable web presence for your client....
Are you looking for ways to enhance your Facebook marketing? Do you want to capture the attention of more prospects and customers? The right Facebook tools can make the job easier by saving you time and optimizing your Facebook marketing efforts.
The amount of people marketing directly to consumers on social media has gone up exponentially over the past year, and rightfully so. Over 1.3 billion people log into Facebook alone every month, according to Facebook’s last earnings call. That’s a whopping 14% of the earth’s population – so why not market to them on social?
Below, I have put together a list of the top 10 campaigns launched in 2014 with the help of some designers and other analysts according to specifically picked categories to best benefit you....
According to John McDermott at Digiday, Instagram is conducting a test (yes, for now it’s just a test) with Mercedes-Benz that allows them to target Facebook users who previously saw one of its Instagram ads. While this development is eye-opening in and of itself, as it gives hints into Facebook plans on returning their $1B investment, it also shows Facebook’s commitment to transforming how advertising not only can coexist with social media, but thrive and break into new levels of adoption.
What stands out the most to me is how inherent behavioral characteristics seen on both Facebook and Instagram are being aligned with their natural fit in the conversion funnel. As noted by McDermott, Instagram’s product naturally promotes behavior more conducive to the top of the funnel, where brand awareness comes into play. If Instagram is committed to preserving the user experience that allowed them to break 200 million users, it behooves them to preserve this characteristic of their product and not to “forcefully” incorporate more direct-response elements like call-to-action buttons, etc....
Follow the lead of top brands who use a variety of Facebook status updates to increase engagement, build email lists and showcase fan content.Does your business have aFacebook marketing plan?Do you need inspiration for Facebook updates that excite your fans?Do you treat each and every update as an opportunity for engagement?In this article we’ll take a look at 26 brands, an A-Z guide, that use Facebook status updates that combine visual content and brand messages to create buzz, excitement and interaction....
The first thing you need to understand before you think of marketing on Facebook is the unique opportunities it offers and the basic difference between this and other media. Like you would never use a radio commercial for a TV ad, you cannot market on Facebook, the way you use other media for advertising.
Facebook is not a platform for ‘hard sell’People perceive Facebook as a platform when they share their stories, jokes, videos and generally relax. Therefore to appeal to this group you too have to join in their conversations rather than act like an outsider who has come to sell something aggressively...
...It is the world’s largest unfiltered focus group for brands to listen to, and it’s arguably the richest CRM database for marketers to take advantage of.
Consumers provide large amounts of data through their Facebook activities, enabling marketers to access far more information about who they are than a survey or poll might reveal. And, thanks to the high-frequency of consumer activity on Facebook, all of this wonderfully rich data is consistently kept up to date.
Best of all, the accessibility of consumer data on Facebook means that marketers can utilize it without interfering in their consumers’ lives...
Should you use Facebook for your B2B marketing strategy? The facts tell us that it's not the best use of your resources.
Question. Should I use Facebook as a tactic for my B2B marketing campaigns?
Answer. Sgt. Joe Friday from Dragnet used to say “All we know are the facts, ma’am.” And the facts tell us that Facebook is a bad place to execute your B2B marketing strategy. Facebook is a great social media platform to the message and engage fans. However, mostly for B2C brands. Many B2B brands and their marketing managers are getting a very low ROFI – Return On Facebook Investment because they do not know all the facts!...
Facebook’s efforts to simplify marketing and advertising on the social network took a giant leap forward with Thursday’s launch of the Facebook for Business page, a single destination for all of the information brands need to tap into Facebook’s...
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Facebook Live has been a huge success thus far, with incredible data coming out of various studies and research into the tool. Turns out, people love live video. With over 1.71 billion monthly users on Facebook, your audience is practically endless. Today we’re going to look at five incredible stories of how brands and businesses are using Facebook Live. You’ll find the inspiration you need to pursue your own success story right here, right now. What’s So Great About Facebook Live? Video in general is a very hot topic right now. In 2015, Facebook was able to double its daily video views in just six months, which brought them from 4 billion daily views to a whopping 8 billion! Even Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg believes Facebook will be mostly composed of videos by 2020. Considering that, check out these incredible Facebook Live statistics:...
Facebook offers great opportunities to attract, engage and convert would-be customers, but building a high-converting Facebook page has been elusive for many organizations.
It's important to know the elements of a successful Facebook page; it's even more crucial to recognize the reasons your Facebook page is failing.
If you want your ideal customers to "like" your page and follow you, you have to continually reward them with great content and build an engaged community. This means employing a content strategy that works for your business both culturally and operationally.
You also have to incorporate Facebook ads to promote your content, increase clicks to your website and turn fans into customers.
Is achieving consistent engagement and conversions on Facebook a struggle for your company? Here's a list of 10 reasons why your Facebook page is failing, along with tips to make it work for you rather than against you:
An announcement late last week by the Facebook media team may have been overlooked by many marketers, but it has intriguing ramifications. Facebook announced that it would effectively allow any organization with a verified page to publish brand-sponsored content without asking Facebook for explicit permission first, provided that content was tagged to the brand. They said: "Today we're updating our branded content policy to enable verified Pages to share branded content on Facebook. Along with changes to our branded content policy and ads policy, we're offering a new tool that makes it easy for publishers and influencers to tag a marketer when they publish branded content. Publishers and influencers must use this tag for all branded content shared on Facebook." What does it mean?...
Your brand has most likely spent a considerable amount of time and money building your Facebook presence. With all the changes that Facebook has made, it’s become more challenging to do well on Facebook but it’s not impossible to stay in front of this group.
Facebook fans are a loyal group that consistently like, comment, and share their favorite pages content. Don’t give up on this targeted group of people interested in your brand, instead power up your Facebook presence to maximize your social media marketing efforts....
Is your Facebook engagement dropping?
Need some inspiration to pump up your Facebook marketing?
As the Facebook news feed continues to change, it’s important to figure out how to make the platform work for you.
In this article I’ll share Facebook pages from both large and small brands, and tips to incorporate their tactics into your Facebook marketing plan.
I have to admit that the inspiration for this post came from something one of my clients reported their Facebook rep told them --- that Facebook is not a platform for driving sales. It's all about buying impressions for your brand but it's not a place where users want to engage with brand or consume their content so it shouldn't be considered as a sales driver.
My reaction was along the lines of: Wait…WHAT? Is that how they're selling ads these days? And people are actually buying them?
Shouldn't the ultimate goal of any marketing campaign be to drive the business's bottom line -- otherwise, why invest a dime? Sure, tracking direct, measureable sales from social channels is much more difficult than from other digital platforms like banner ads that drive to an e-commerce site or emails that include a unique and trackable coupon code that consumers have access to when they're in the checkout line. But if Facebook doesn't ultimately impact your business's bottom line, why are brands still investing on the platform?...
As Facebook rolls out its newest version of Timeline to businesses, it wouldn’t hurt to make these changes to your page.
If this Applebee's could talk, it might say, "Hello, friend!"
Chip Zdarsky is a comic book artist and journalist. He is also a devoted pen pal ... of an Applebee's. For the past several months, Zdarsky has taken to Facebook to befriend one of the fast-casual chain's Canadian franchises. And the franchise has, fortunately, returned his overtures. The results of the unlikely duo's interaction — you can read the whole thing at Buzzfeed — are hilarious and delightful and wonderfully weird. And maybe, in their way, literary. The Chip/Applebee's exchanges, played out on Applebee's Facebook page, are like Waiting for Godot ... if God were an Applebee's. They're like Her ... if ScarJo were a riblet....
As 2014 quickly approaches, many are just now creating their Facebook pages and thinking about using the social network to build their brand and market their services. Others who may already be established are also looking to start anew in '14, using a revitalized approach of what's trending in the latest incarnation of social media.
Whether you're part of the old guard or a rookie ready to paint the 'net red, a good gauge to use for 2014 is understanding what's currently trending in 2013. Only a couple of months away, this year's biggest trends will experience carryover for at least another year, if not longer.
Online Facebook marketing relies heavily on trends, and any proper marketing guide for the upcoming year will point out what's hot now while showing you how to implement it in the months to come. So, let's have a look at five solid marketing methods you can use for the coming year....
So last night, minutes after the Boston Red Sox had handily defeated the St. Louis Cardinals, my husband went on Facebook, and saw a status update from our son – the kid whose profile picture is of him sitting on a couch (in real life!) with World Series MVP David Ortiz. And it proclaimed, “2013 WORLD CHAMPION BOSTON RED SOX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.”
My husband then turned to me and asked the central question concerning modern-day Facebook usage: “Should I ‘Like’ it?”
I advised him not to. Nothing spoils a teenager’s World Series ecstasy faster than a father “Liking” his post about it. And that, friends – Facebook or not – helps explain why Facebook stock rode highs and lows yesterday upon release of its third quarter earnings.
Now with over 750 million members, there's no doubt that Facebook should be a part of your business' social media marketing strategy. At this point, it's almost insane to think that your own prospects and customers aren't on Facebook, which is why many businesses are realizing they need to create an engaging and valuable Facebook presence for their fans that also serves as a viable channel for generating traffic and leads for their business.
But for every business that understands it needs a Facebook strategy, there are just as many businesses that are executing their strategy incorrectly. To make sure you're not falling into bad Facebook marketing practices, below is our definitive list of things businesses should delete from their Facebook strategy...immediately....
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Facebook wants video, but it's time-consuming and expensive, which is why, for better or for worse, publishers are turning to various hacks. Smart thinking!