Is there any way to increase Facebook fans.

[daisy1]

Hello Friends

Is there any way to increase Facebook fans at zero cost??

 

[C.Rebecca]

- Post crisp, interesting wall posts frequently
- Autograph on related walls
- Participate in interacting with your audience (organizing contests etc)
- Connect your twitter profile with your Facebook page
- Distribute coupons
- Use 'send' button on your profile
- Add Facebook widget on your website
- Get people to join via SMS
- Promote your Facebook fan page as email signatures

The idea is to keep the ball rolling and plan moves to indulge your existing fans...

 

[fisicx]

As suggested, provide something I'd like to be a fan of. At the moment you don't have anything on your Facebook page.

 

[RedEvo]

Your facebook page looks like an e-commerce catalogue. Think about adding value and you'll be heading in the right direction IMHO.

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[daisy1]

- Post crisp, interesting wall posts frequently
- Autograph on related walls
- Participate in interacting with your audience (organizing contests etc)
- Connect your twitter profile with your Facebook page
- Distribute coupons
- Use 'send' button on your profile
- Add Facebook widget on your website
- Get people to join via SMS
- Promote your Facebook fan page as email signatures

The idea is to keep the ball rolling and plan moves to indulge your existing fans...

thanks for new ideas...

 

[Curious]

What do you want your fans for? What is the final outcome you want from increasing them?

Not to open the whole social media for business debate again, but, is Facebook where you will find new customers? You look like your targeting the commercial side of the industry and do they spend their working time on Facebook?

One thing that I have taken from my time in this forum is that you need to be where your customers are.

Now that may well be Facebook, I don't know your industry, but it's just something that occurred to me when I read your question.

 

[jimmyjimmerson]

What I have noticed recently is people giving users an incentive to like the page.

For example a page I saw the other day - http://www.facebook.com/PrintPrintLtd

They enter every new person who "likes" the page into a prize draw for an iPod shuffle.

The downside of this is that some people will like the page purely for the iPod. But you will get a lot of genuine potential customers liking the page, then you can promote your business through there.

 

[lapseo]

Write interesting and quality content and find people that are interested in this subject and encourage them to add you/like you.

 

[shpangle]

What I have noticed recently is people giving users an incentive to like the page.

For example a page I saw the other day - http://www.facebook.com/PrintPrintLtd

They enter every new person who "likes" the page into a prize draw for an iPod shuffle.

The downside of this is that some people will like the page purely for the iPod. But you will get a lot of genuine potential customers liking the page, then you can promote your business through there.

Isn't that wrong and against the Facebook terms and conditions? https://www.facebook.com/promotions_guidelines.php

 

[jimmyjimmerson]

Isn't that wrong and against the Facebook terms and conditions?

Not too sure to be honest. I have never tried it as my products aren't really made for facebook fans so I haven't searched too much into the legality of it all.

 

[shpangle]

Not too sure to be honest. I have never tried it as my products aren't really made for facebook fans so I haven't searched too much into the legality of it all.

I would be interested to know because I've seen quite a few people doing that recently.

 

[Johnnyzebra]

I've purchased a membership with fanpageinabox and using all it's tools I've increased my fanbase by over 38% in just a week, promotion had alot to do with it but still, looking professional and having everything in order is just as much key as promotion. Read about it at finest-review.com/fanpageinabox-review/

 

[gemd89]

I have been doing all that stuff for 6 months and its just starting to pay off and get the engagement and interaction now - It is hard work but worth it and I have over 750 fans now!

Gemma

 

[Alan]

Hello Friends

Is there any way to increase Facebook fans at zero cost??

At zero cost - no!
(assuming that your own time is worth at least 1p/hour)

 

[Alan]

I have been doing all that stuff for 6 months and its just starting to pay off and get the engagement and interaction now - It is hard work but worth it and I have over 750 fans now!

Gemma

6 month = 180 days, assume 1 hour a day at UK minimum wage (£6.08/hour) = £1,080 opportunity cost = £1.44 per fan

 

[Greg Black]

I would be interested to know because I've seen quite a few people doing that recently.

Offering incentives for Facebook likes is indeed against their terms of service.

 

[Alan]

Isn't that wrong and against the Facebook terms and conditions? https://www.facebook.com/promotions_guidelines.php

Interesting point. Some pretty big brands, in fact many people, (including us) do this as a matter of course.

There are dozens of facebook marketing gurus 'selling' get 10,000 likes using the 'giveaway' or 'competition' in exchange for a like (and e-mail address of course, a like isn't worth as much as an e-mail address)

If you read clause 3 & 4 carefully you will see
3. ... not automatically ... i.e. someone can like you but has the option not to be automatically in the promotion

4. You must not condition registration or entry upon the user taking any action using any Facebook features or functionality OTHER THAN liking a Page, checking in to a Place, or connecting to your app.

...they are actually giving permission to use a 'like' as a condition of entry.

So our competition here, for instance
http://www.facebook.com/roibot?sk=app_260841560603598
- requires you to 'like' to enter the competition (complies with clause 4)
- does not automatically create an entry if you 'like' as you have to enter further details to fully enter

So, along with the 'Facebook not involved' disclaimer (clause 2), and if is definately a Facebook app (clause 1) feel this complies with the F/B T&Cs.

 

[Alan]

Offering incentives for Facebook likes is indeed against their terms of service.

Is it? Which clause in their 'terms of service' contradicts their guidelines that they publish that say it is OK (even encouraged if you read clause 4) if you follow their guidelines here https://www.facebook.com/promotions_guidelines.php

 

[PIngels]

As some of the other people have said - Facebook works if you've got something to share that people are willing to follow you for.

On option is to consider getting a spokes-character developed for your brand (a character acting as a spokes person for your business). A brilliant example of a successful spokes character is the Compare the Market's Meerkats. I means, who would follow an insurance price comparison company on Facebook? The Compare the Meerkat website on the other hand receives more than 700,000 visitors a month, while Aleksandr the Meerkat has around 32,000 Twitter followers and 700,000 Facebook fans. That's because Aleksandr has something to offer that people want to follow - and in doing so Compare the Market has doubled their market share and has become the most recognised brand in the insurance price comparison sector. Then there's Churchill’s jetsetting bulldog, NPower using Wallace and Gromit and Lloyds TSB's lovely characters.

Needless to say campaigns like those I mentioned can be hugely expensive and it involved TV and other marketing and PR support to get to that point. But then you would probably not be trying to get 700 000 Facebook fans but one or two thousand. And you can grow your fan base over a longer period of time.

Just a thought ...

 

[popunder]

There's some interesting info here: http://get10000fans.com/

Haven't used it myself so not sure how much is realistic and how much is hype.

 

[Kerrib4]

Competitions are a great way to get likes, in my experience. I am currently running a competition on my business facebook page and on twitter. Because I am offering a good quality product as the prize, I have had a lot of people enter the competition. My likes shot up randomly about a week in to the competition, and I found out that the reason was people were posting links to my facebook page from other websites/forums. Great way to build links also.

 

[Printing Deals]

Well, I did the same thing for my client, they offered £100 worth of stuff, and within a days we were 700 likes from 180. But there is a thing, my client did provide me email database of his customers, which was around 5000, with open rate just around 45%.

This does created a stir on facebook page, and yes I will agree with above comments, our target market was exactly the same kind of people so it was quite successful.

 

[sreiki]

You can design your fan page to offer something of value if they like the page.

 

[bachi4u]

1.Use Interactive Youtube Annotations to Drive Likes
2.Encourage Likes in Your Employee’s E-mail Signatures
3.Go where the people are, and take your camera with you!
4.Work Towards a Cause
5.Gate Off Something Your visitors Will Want
6.Utilise the Power of Facebook Ads
7.Ask For Likes on Your Business Cards

 

[finejewellerys]

if you want to increase the facebook fans quickly,you should try to use youlikehits and addmefast.you can creat a account there and increase your facebook fans and twitter followers quickly and freely.

 

[shpangle]

Its not about quantity but quality...I would much rather have a few dozen followers who interact and have an interest in what you have to offer.

 

[PIngels]

Its not about quantity but quality...I would much rather have a few dozen followers who interact and have an interest in what you have to offer.

I agree. You want people that you can have a two way conversation with. You wan them to enjoy your Facebook posts, comment on them, link to them and generally spread the word.

 

[ZeekSuccess]

Great ideas here, i will get to work on my fan page today with confidence

 

[JD@fifty6]

Nice to come back to UKBF after a while (I really must get into the habit of adding this to my rounds) and seeing some really good advice and interaction about gaining Facebook likes.

There will always be the down and dirty ways of getting quantity, but I certainly would rather a shop had one interested customer in than having a queue of tyre kickers.

 

[patientlady]

I am an old fashioned girl. I knock on doors, and make phone calls for my sales.

Why would you need facebook likes? What do you gain from this? I am very curious. :|

 

[Andrew Baker]

I am an old fashioned girl. I knock on doors, and make phone calls for my sales.

Why would you need facebook likes? What do you gain from this? I am very curious. :|

In a nutshell, there are over 30 million UK Facebook user profiles, almost half the UK population, the majority of these use Facebook everyday and a large proportion of these use it for over an hour a day... with massive growth accessing FB via mobile (incl tablet)... just compare your m.facebook.com referrals in Google Analytics July 11 to Jan 12. Scary!

Therefore you have massive reach, now within that reach there will be a niche of users who are your target customer, the trick is finding creative and interesting ways to connect with these users, users who will want to converse with your business and share your content.

I echo the sentiments above, it's all about quality, a handful of "super" brand supporters are worth far more than a 1,000 "bought" likes any day of the week.

Don't focus on the like though, it's about getting users to talk about your business, engage with your content, make recommendations and of course referring high intent traffic to your conversion landing pages on your business website.

Another tip... aah, no actually I'll save this one for after I've run some tests on our client FB pages and analyse the results.

Not sure that all fits in a nutshell

 

[JD@fifty6]

In a nutshell, there are over 30 million UK

So true, that's a street of 30 million doors that you can knock on in 5 minutes. More than that, it's 30 million doors and a proportion of those hang a sign on the door saying 'I WOULD LIKE TO DO BUSINESS WITH YOU (or help you champion your business to others)'.

I'm sure you love mouth to mouth marketing right? Social networks just allow that word of mouth recommendation to travel as fast and far as you'd like - with work of course.

 

[WardrobeDesign]

Interesting point. Some pretty big brands, in fact many people, (including us) do this as a matter of course.

There are dozens of facebook marketing gurus 'selling' get 10,000 likes using the 'giveaway' or 'competition' in exchange for a like (and e-mail address of course, a like isn't worth as much as an e-mail address)

If you read clause 3 & 4 carefully you will see
3. ... not automatically ... i.e. someone can like you but has the option not to be automatically in the promotion

4. You must not condition registration or entry upon the user taking any action using any Facebook features or functionality OTHER THAN liking a Page, checking in to a Place, or connecting to your app.

...they are actually giving permission to use a 'like' as a condition of entry.

So our competition here, for instance
http://www.facebook.com/roibot?sk=app_260841560603598
- requires you to 'like' to enter the competition (complies with clause 4)
- does not automatically create an entry if you 'like' as you have to enter further details to fully enter

So, along with the 'Facebook not involved' disclaimer (clause 2), and if is definately a Facebook app (clause 1) feel this complies with the F/B T&Cs.

I've just come across this post, I started a competition yesterday in all good faith, and it's creating a lot of interest, now I think it may be against the facebook guidelines. Can you take alook and see if this is the case please? http://www.wardrobe-design-online.com/win-50-vouchers.html

 

[johncraig]

There are many ways to make your Facebook page attractive for people.

1. Post interesting stuff on your page wall regarding to users interest.

2. Use Facebook link buttons on your website.

3. Connecting your Twitter and Facebook together.

4. Analytics tools should be used to survey the progress report like SocialDon.com

5. Make your page more advertised through posting links on other pages.

6. Wall post, Videos , Photos should posted on regular basis.

7. There should be certain restriction on wall so not everyone can post on your page wall.

 

[gilchrist]

Informative content .....Regular Posts...Specify your Facebook URL in your Email and Business card.....

 

[printnstyle]

Post engaging contents that your current fans will find interesting enough to be shared with their friends. It may sound ironic but try not to post anything directly related to your business. Focus more on adding value to your content.

 

[Jenny.seo]

Facebook fans can be increased by ensuring that you post informative and interesting content that manages to grab attention. It is all about creating enough curiosity or interest in what your FB page has to offer. This 'creation of interest' will definitely help you organically improve your page LIKES.

 

[mphonesdeals]

Thanks, It's all about to increase fans of facebook but can we apply these things(approx not exactly 100%) to also increase followers in twitter. If no, then what should i do ?

actually, I regualary add the following(10-20) in our twitter account but too less increment in followers(0 or 1).

 

[Jenny.seo]

Import all contacts from your email accounts into Facebook and send them invitations to become fans. Deliver unique, creative and targeted content. Conduct simple contests and invite all your contacts encouraging them in turn to invite theirs

 

[redrob]

just wanted to say theres some good info on here got me thinking and by the way i find adding a joke now and then can help the page keeps people looking.