Buy Facebook fans
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Chr.is
You can find people selling likes and fans on fiverr.com or on freelancer.com if you cant find someone just post an ad on the sitesand you will find some one easily within a day. I can get you US fans pretty cheap as that is my niche but not UK.
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Merchant UK
Whats the point in buying facebook fans???
Theres not logic in it at all, you'd be better off discounting your products and aiming to get genuine UK customers.
If you have a business Facebook Page, Buying Fans is a bit sad as your kidding no one apart from yourself.
or am i missing something here
Theres not logic in it at all, you'd be better off discounting your products and aiming to get genuine UK customers.
If you have a business Facebook Page, Buying Fans is a bit sad as your kidding no one apart from yourself.
or am i missing something here
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- Original Poster
- #5
It's just another form of marketing IMO. Ok so it's not precisely targetted, but its relatively cheap and far better than posting flyers through doors in my eyes.
So I get a guaranteed 1000 new fans on my Coolfans FB site, and if you believe the blurb on some of the sites like SocialKik, they will target down to location, age & interest.
All of my 1000 new fans has pressed 'Like Coolfans Ltd' and broadcast that fact to everyone of their friends - who are likely, I'd imagine, to still be within a similar demographic.
Now I believe people on average have 100 FB friends, so theoretically 100,000 new people are now aware of Coolfans. Out of interest they may follow the link and click through to the Coolfans FB site (because it has been recommended by a friend) and hopefully from there onto my commerce site and purchase one.
So I get a guaranteed 1000 new fans on my Coolfans FB site, and if you believe the blurb on some of the sites like SocialKik, they will target down to location, age & interest.
All of my 1000 new fans has pressed 'Like Coolfans Ltd' and broadcast that fact to everyone of their friends - who are likely, I'd imagine, to still be within a similar demographic.
Now I believe people on average have 100 FB friends, so theoretically 100,000 new people are now aware of Coolfans. Out of interest they may follow the link and click through to the Coolfans FB site (because it has been recommended by a friend) and hopefully from there onto my commerce site and purchase one.
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If their prices are reasonable and you can afford to test it, by all means go ahead.
I'd like to give my thoughts on your 100k new people who may become aware of Coolfans.
In theory 100.000 new people would become aware of Coolfans, if every friend of your fan sees their 'like'. I think in real life this may not be so realistic because of many factors.
A more realistic number of people who may become aware of your website, compared to the 100k, would be 6.250. Lets have an example breakdown:
Just like everywhere. People are bombarded with advertisements and new businesses. I'm being very generous with the 50% on each level. I think in real life this percentage would be much lower, perhaps closer to 10%.
I think an important question is: how many people will still be aware of your product in eg a weeks or even a month's time?
Imagine having 100 friends yourself of who perhaps 50 are very active. The activities of your friends are not limited to liking a page. They do all kinds of things like posting messages to each others walls, post pictures, video's, post notes etc etc. Facebook shows the latest activities of all your friends with the newest activities on top and old activities disappear to the bottom.
Whether I see any activity of my friends depends on how often I check my Facebook. If I login every half hour (example) then I'm very likely to see all activities of my active 50 friends. However, If I only login 2 times a day, I may never see what my friends 'liked' or even said a few hours ago unless I go through the whole history of my friends. You can imagine going through their history is not something a person would usually do when having many friends.
Assuming your target audience are parents (mothers) with kids.. it could be argued that the use of flyers is more effective. Are these mothers very likely to check their Facebook often enough to see their friends liking your page? How likely are Facebook users to purchase products they find through Facebook? How likely is it that a user buys something just because a Facebook friend "likes" it? How likely it is that their kids see your product too?
Flyers are not expensive. Why not print a bunch and spread them in an area with many mothers and kids to test the results against Facebook? It isn't expensive if you spread it yourself or let some kids do it for some pocket money. It takes at most half a day in the weekend.
I'm not trying to discourage you from trying the Facebook fan marketing method. I'm just trying to make sure you are aware that 100k new people becoming aware of your product may not be as realistic as you might think.. and that perhaps spreading flyers may not be such a bad idea as part of your marketing strategy.
I'd like to give my thoughts on your 100k new people who may become aware of Coolfans.
In theory 100.000 new people would become aware of Coolfans, if every friend of your fan sees their 'like'. I think in real life this may not be so realistic because of many factors.
A more realistic number of people who may become aware of your website, compared to the 100k, would be 6.250. Lets have an example breakdown:
- 50% of the 100.000 may see the 'like' in their friends activities list and the other 50% won't even notice it
- 50% of these 50.000 people may look a bit longer at this 'like' and the other 50% ignore or forget about it
- 50% of these 25.000 people may check out the page to see what it is about
- 50% of these 12.500 people may follow the link to your site
- 50% of these 6.250 people may browse your site
- 50% of these 3.125 visitors may have interest in your product but not now
Just like everywhere. People are bombarded with advertisements and new businesses. I'm being very generous with the 50% on each level. I think in real life this percentage would be much lower, perhaps closer to 10%.
I think an important question is: how many people will still be aware of your product in eg a weeks or even a month's time?
Imagine having 100 friends yourself of who perhaps 50 are very active. The activities of your friends are not limited to liking a page. They do all kinds of things like posting messages to each others walls, post pictures, video's, post notes etc etc. Facebook shows the latest activities of all your friends with the newest activities on top and old activities disappear to the bottom.
Whether I see any activity of my friends depends on how often I check my Facebook. If I login every half hour (example) then I'm very likely to see all activities of my active 50 friends. However, If I only login 2 times a day, I may never see what my friends 'liked' or even said a few hours ago unless I go through the whole history of my friends. You can imagine going through their history is not something a person would usually do when having many friends.
Assuming your target audience are parents (mothers) with kids.. it could be argued that the use of flyers is more effective. Are these mothers very likely to check their Facebook often enough to see their friends liking your page? How likely are Facebook users to purchase products they find through Facebook? How likely is it that a user buys something just because a Facebook friend "likes" it? How likely it is that their kids see your product too?
Flyers are not expensive. Why not print a bunch and spread them in an area with many mothers and kids to test the results against Facebook? It isn't expensive if you spread it yourself or let some kids do it for some pocket money. It takes at most half a day in the weekend.
I'm not trying to discourage you from trying the Facebook fan marketing method. I'm just trying to make sure you are aware that 100k new people becoming aware of your product may not be as realistic as you might think.. and that perhaps spreading flyers may not be such a bad idea as part of your marketing strategy.
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Chr.is
If you allready have a fanpage setup, why not just use Facebook advertising to promote your fanpage, get fans and market your product?
If your lucky you may have a low cpc price or just set it to the lowest
Plus you get to choose all the demographics and what people like, it is a very good advertising platform.
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- Original Poster
- #10
Thanks for replies guys.
Don't get me wrong FB is just one of the many ways I hope to market and considering your calculations I think getting 3000 people to your site for only £50 is actually good value compared to other methods.
I also believe having a reasonable number of fans gives your product a certain amount of credibility. Rather than looking like a start-up it seems more established, boosting the worth of the product and giving the buyer more confidence.
I've had 10,000 flyers printed and been displaying these mostly in softplay centres, babyshows, kiddy friendly cafes etc and I think I have about 8,000 left
There is a lot of leg work involved. Flyers are cheap but petrol isn't.
I think just walking around my housing estate posting them through doors would be a big waste of time. I'll probably get more visits to my site through this thread
I'll certainly have a look at the FB advertising - thanks guys.
Don't get me wrong FB is just one of the many ways I hope to market and considering your calculations I think getting 3000 people to your site for only £50 is actually good value compared to other methods.
I also believe having a reasonable number of fans gives your product a certain amount of credibility. Rather than looking like a start-up it seems more established, boosting the worth of the product and giving the buyer more confidence.
I've had 10,000 flyers printed and been displaying these mostly in softplay centres, babyshows, kiddy friendly cafes etc and I think I have about 8,000 left
There is a lot of leg work involved. Flyers are cheap but petrol isn't.I think just walking around my housing estate posting them through doors would be a big waste of time. I'll probably get more visits to my site through this thread
I'll certainly have a look at the FB advertising - thanks guys.
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- Original Poster
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First attempt at setting up advertising on FB.
Based on your targeting options, Facebook suggests a bid of £1.60 per click. You may pay up to this much per click, but it is likely that you will pay less.
That can't be right can it? So everytime someone clicks on by advert I pay FB £1.60?
Based on your targeting options, Facebook suggests a bid of £1.60 per click. You may pay up to this much per click, but it is likely that you will pay less.
That can't be right can it? So everytime someone clicks on by advert I pay FB £1.60?
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Chr.is
First attempt at setting up advertising on FB.
Based on your targeting options, Facebook suggests a bid of £1.60 per click. You may pay up to this much per click, but it is likely that you will pay less.
That can't be right can it? So everytime someone clicks on by advert I pay FB £1.60?
It is Facebooks estimate for maximum exposure. Just change it to what you are willing to pay like 5p or 10p a click. You get less exposure but less costs.
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I'll go against what others have said here based on a friend of mine.
He created a new facebook fanpage but before sending it around, marketing it and posting to current clients he wanted to make it look like it already had some fans.
So he brought 500 of one of these providers, no specific other then UK based. Within two weeks he had the ammount of fans and then some (I think it was closer to 700/750) he also had a few enquiries & 1 of them converted to a sale which outweigh'd the cost of the fans in the first place.
I'm not saying it will work for you but it isn't always the 100% negative response that most will give.
He created a new facebook fanpage but before sending it around, marketing it and posting to current clients he wanted to make it look like it already had some fans.
So he brought 500 of one of these providers, no specific other then UK based. Within two weeks he had the ammount of fans and then some (I think it was closer to 700/750) he also had a few enquiries & 1 of them converted to a sale which outweigh'd the cost of the fans in the first place.
I'm not saying it will work for you but it isn't always the 100% negative response that most will give.
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I think the basics of the idea is that it gives you a 'platform'. If you have just a couple of friends people may be put off from becoming one. It's the 'Empty Shop' principle. If the shop is empty some people are put off going inside for the first time, where as if there are a few people already in there, they go in.
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Stay away from buying facebook fans!
I used to sell myspace adds years ago (when I was around 14-15 years old). The process consisted of using a program I acquired for $15 which collected user ID's from peoples friends lists and then mass added according to whatever persons account you are logged in at the time. It wasnt even very well targetted considering I could only assume most of the people were roughly in the UK as the persons profile I scanned for friend ID's was based in the UK and their age was a rough guess using the same method.
ITS NOT VERY EFFECTIVE FOR MARKETING PURPOSES.
Would you rather have 1000's of likes who don't care about your product or the 75 likes that actually do?
I used to sell myspace adds years ago (when I was around 14-15 years old). The process consisted of using a program I acquired for $15 which collected user ID's from peoples friends lists and then mass added according to whatever persons account you are logged in at the time. It wasnt even very well targetted considering I could only assume most of the people were roughly in the UK as the persons profile I scanned for friend ID's was based in the UK and their age was a rough guess using the same method.
ITS NOT VERY EFFECTIVE FOR MARKETING PURPOSES.
Would you rather have 1000's of likes who don't care about your product or the 75 likes that actually do?
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Gorillas
Buying Facebook fans is a good idea, and I'll let you know why...consider the red shoe story, as we have all heard it before.
A pair of red shoes sits alone in the centre of a busy women's shoe store with nobody paying any attention to it. Then all of a sudden as soon as one lady tries on the pair of shoes all the ladies in store begin to pay attention it.
At the end of the day, people are very attracted to popular people or merchandises, Brands. Buying facebook fans is a good idea to boost your numbers to make your personality, brand, product, etc. more marketable and popular in the market place.
check out these guys...I know they do custom orders like targeted fans, but you might have to e-mail them with your request.
A pair of red shoes sits alone in the centre of a busy women's shoe store with nobody paying any attention to it. Then all of a sudden as soon as one lady tries on the pair of shoes all the ladies in store begin to pay attention it.
At the end of the day, people are very attracted to popular people or merchandises, Brands. Buying facebook fans is a good idea to boost your numbers to make your personality, brand, product, etc. more marketable and popular in the market place.
check out these guys...I know they do custom orders like targeted fans, but you might have to e-mail them with your request.
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Gorillas
I forgot to mention that I have used the <link deleted by mod> guys and have been quite happy with the work. Once I had a good amount of numbers to make our pages look attractive we started maketing our pages for real fans and brand loyalist and they were more keen to press like because 50k other people already did the same thing.
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JamiePMortimer
Yea, Facebook have been on a mission for a little while to weed out any fake accounts. They have more of a need to do so than the likes of twitter because now they are a publicly traded company then need to show where revenue is going to come from & it isn't going to be fake accounts.
That being said, why is buying fake accounts going to benefit your business? The whole point of a social network it to be social, it's not going to happen if you're talking to 1000 fake people.
That being said, why is buying fake accounts going to benefit your business? The whole point of a social network it to be social, it's not going to happen if you're talking to 1000 fake people.
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JamiePMortimer
Interesting that you don't offer refunds to customers not happy with results as in not generating sales given you're selling fake accounts that aren't used by real people.
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As with all gaming techniques, from links to likes, you'll get caught out in the end.
I dunno, even the pop stars were using fake likes... naughty Rihanna and Lady Gaga
"Other top offenders included singers Rihanna who lost 28,000 Likes, Shakira who shed 26,000 and Lady Gaga who dropped 34,000."
http://mashable.com/2012/09/27/facebook-fake-likes/
I dunno, even the pop stars were using fake likes... naughty Rihanna and Lady Gaga
"Other top offenders included singers Rihanna who lost 28,000 Likes, Shakira who shed 26,000 and Lady Gaga who dropped 34,000."
http://mashable.com/2012/09/27/facebook-fake-likes/
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Building fans isn't that hard. Engage with your existing customers and ask them to like you. Make it worth their while. We run competitions, giveaways and respond quickly to customer interactions. This makes it worth their while to like you and keep liking you. They can also help you promote your brand.
On top of this, you can easily promote your page through Facebook ads. I've found sponsored stories to be particularly effective.
We're at just under 18k real fans now - https://www.facebook.com/WebHostingBuzz
On top of this, you can easily promote your page through Facebook ads. I've found sponsored stories to be particularly effective.
We're at just under 18k real fans now - https://www.facebook.com/WebHostingBuzz
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Everybody would like to purchase Facebook fans from the store where a lot of customers have been already served. No one would go to the empty one, no matter what good-quality goods it offers. The same can be said about the quantity of Facebook likes and Facebook fans on your fanpage or website. They indicate that your site is worth visiting, and this can attract still more users to look through it and leave their likes, too. So, if you want to promote your service or products, to become well-known and recognizable through the social networks, you should think about the sufficient enlargement in your Facebook likes and fans on the website.
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If you buy Facebook likes and fans from our online company, you will become a master of your sales, being armed with such a powerful tool as the social networking.
We are sure that your online company, your website or blog deserve real recognition. That is why we are here to help you and deliver as many Facebook fans and likes as you choose. We are a team of devoted professionals, and we always care about our reputation. That is why this delivery will be 100 % safe, because we work with true living people, but not with bots or fakes. So, don’t worry whether your site could withstand the pressures of the fierce marketing competition. It will really do, because, if you buy it from us, you will get your potential targeted and interested customers and followers.
You are sure to become popular on Facebook, and your online business will flourish with our likes for Facebook. We will do our best to help you both advertise your products and services and improve your site ranking in search engines. You are guaranteed 100 % of your cost return if we fail somehow to provide you with as many likes as you want. However, this is unlikely to happen, because we always try to meet one’s individual needs and requirements.
If you buy Facebook likes and fans from our online company, you will become a master of your sales, being armed with such a powerful tool as the social networking.
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