Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight

During the past couple of months, I’ve had several people tell me of a trick they found to increase Facebook Reach using multiple images in a post. I don’t chase Reach, so I found the concept somewhat interesting, but I was skeptical.

The messages I’ve received regarding this have skyrocketed of late, so I figured it was time to pay more attention to it. So with this post I plan to do the following:

- Explain “the trick”

- Provide some success stories

- Share my test and the results

- Some explanations for the results

- My recommendations...

...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...

A lot of content comes across your News Feed. Here's how to curate what you see, and maximize the news that your Facebook friends are sharing.

Mashable sat down with Greg Marra, Facebook's product manager for News Feed, to discuss how users can best curate the content that they see in News Feed. The easiest way to change what you see? Engage with content, says Marra.

"The basic interactions of News Feed are some of the most important signals that we get," he explains. "Unfortunately, those interactions aren't able to capture everything that we want to know, so we also give people additional controls to tell us things we can't figure out just from normal usage of News Feed."Here's what we learned...