Facebook!

[jamieclick]

Is this the end? Seems to have been down for a long long time now.

Would this effect your business?

 

[gemd89]

Not at all, but it does affect my spying time! How can i find out about what friends etc are upto when i cant log on!! lol.

Oh well gives me no distractions from my link building/new site products etc!

Gemma

 

[LongNeck]

It's back up now.

 

[owas]

said it before, to many companies rely on the likes of facebook, google, and twitter, one day it will end.........

 

[Big Pete]

I hope so facebook is mind blowingly stupid ..

 

[Jason_Fisher]

What do people consider to be the best for a business on facebook? A group or a fan page? Can you incorporate both? What are peoples views?

 

[matt.chatterley]

What do people consider to be the best for a business on facebook? A group or a fan page? Can you incorporate both? What are peoples views?

Having both would be a bit confusing, I suspect. I tend to lean towards pages (they're "meant" for businesses), but under some circumstances you may find a group more suitable.

It depends on what you want to do on behalf of the business, really - drive discussion? Post links? Share photos?

 

[wecandobiz]

What do people consider to be the best for a business on facebook? A group or a fan page? Can you incorporate both? What are peoples views?

I;d advise having a Business Page for your business, but it's only worth putting in the effort if you are a B2C/retail kind of business. People use Facebook without a sut on, by and large, having ben dragged on because of friends and family. They#'re not going to be poking their watercooler supplier or wanting to sport a mention of their accountant on their profile page.

Groups can be about anyti=hing so you may want to start a group around a business interest that appeals to your customers. For example, if you are a car leasing company start a group for Ex Company Car Drivers.

Groups that are some how business related are probably best done on LinkedIn however.

If you want more tips on using the Social Web for business check out our 5 Minute Guides on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Ecademy and WeCanDo.BIZ here.

IH

 

[Andrew @ PLA]

said it before, to many companies rely on the likes of facebook, google, and twitter, one day it will end.........

They would never let the internet fail, a bit like the banks in this country. You might not like it but there you go.

 

[J_A_M_E_S]

An interesting article by Mark Ritson here on the usefulness of Brands using social networking sites:

http://www.marketingritson.com/documents/ritson010910525.pdf

I'm not saying I agree, but it's a good read (I've said this before - he usually is)!

 

[tomderrig]

Hi All,

just a quickie....social media advertising is here for the long term, in Q2 2010 it was the the best performing small business advertising channel, why? because minus manpower and time its free - my advice is make yourselfs social media heavyweights and test, measure and learn with pay per click in order to compete.

All the best,
Tom