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How To Get More Fans On Facebook – Part Seven

Written by Matt | Posted in Social Media

In my final part of this guide on how to get more fans on Facebook, we look at why changing your identity on Facebook can help you to get more fans.

Method Seven – Change Your Identity

Before you ask, no, I don’t mean change your real identity. Nor do I mean create fake accounts on Facebook. I don’t like that way of doing things.

This method is a simple one that is easy-to-do, free and proven to work. It’s proven, not just by me, but because it is almost identical to a strategy that virtually every blogger to ever use the internet has utilised: Commenting.

To be specific, I’m talking about commenting on other fan pages. But there’s a key thing you need to do first, so that every comment you make leads back to your fan page and creates another potential stream (or at least trickle) of new traffic.

On your fan page, there is a series of options in the top right of the page that only you can see. I’ve taken a screenshot from one of my pages (right) to illustrate it.

As you can see, the top option (beneath the list of admins) allows you to change your identity and to use Facebook not as yourself, but as the page itself.

This means you can now go to pages related to your market or your readers’ interests and comment on them. Leave comments that are interesting and that contribute to the other person’s page. Perhaps start a conversation with people on those other pages. For example, for my page about the Channel 4 series ‘Campus’, I could go and find pages about British Comedy, or Green Wing, or Fawlty Towers or any other TV shows. I could also comment on the fan pages for the cast members, or any pages that were set up for the characters.

All of these comments open up another avenue, down which new visitors can come and like your page. Simple but effective, especially if you comment on photos and posts from a page that is still active (rather than one that has very little activity on it). As you may have noticed, it works in the same way as blog commenting.

Incidentally, while I think of it, there is one blindingly obvious way of getting more fans to your page that I haven’t mentioned yet, partly because I assumed everyone would do it automatically:

You can, of course, invite your friends to like the page via the ‘Suggest to friends’ link at the bottom of that admin panel in the top right of the fan page. This is another simple way of getting a few fans to get you on your way to the first 25 fans when you get started with a new page.

So, there you have it – How To Get More Fans On Facebook!

I realised when I started writing this that I could easily turn this into an e-book and give it away that way, but I decided to share it here as I think this way it will benefit more people (and it won’t do my traffic any harm either!).

If you’ve got something from this article or this series, simply let me know what it was in the comments section below. Similarly, if you’d like more posts like this one, comment below telling me what you’d like me to cover.

Finally, if you’re looking for an in-depth course on Facebook marketing, I recommend Mark Anastasi’s FB Cash. I have a copy of the course PDF and that alone is worth your laptop’s weight in gold with the strategies it will teach you. You can get your copy by clicking the banner below.

This short article is actually an extract from my full article on how to get more fans on Facebook. In the full version, you’ll discover 7 ways to increase facebook fans that you can start applying right now to your Facebook pages.

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How To Get More Fans On Facebook – Part Six

Written by Matt | Posted in Social Media

In this, the sixth part of my series on how to get more fans on Facebook, we look at a simple site that allows you to get Facebook fans (as well as YouTube views and Twitter followers) for free.

Method Six – Make Some Twiends

I’ve talked about Twiends a fair bit on my blog in the past few weeks as it’s a relatively new discovery for me but one that is working well already and on relative auto-pilot.

There’s rarely any such thing as complete automation – you have to at least keep an eye on it.

Twiends is a site that allows you to get credits (called ‘seeds’) by viewing people’s YouTube videos, following them on Twitter and liking their Facebook pages. As you accumulate credits, you can spend them by ‘paying’ other people with them to view your videos, follow you on Twitter and like your Facebook pages.

Better still, there is also a paid option where you can buy credits and then have lots more people like your page.

The best way to start using Twiends is to sign up and then add your Facebook profile to the ‘Settings’ area under the Facebook part of that section. Once you’ve done that you can choose which pages you want to promote using Twiends. Once you’ve selected them, you can either start viewing other people’s videos and liking other people’s pages, or you can buy some credits (‘seeds’) with which to get more likes.

The downside to this method is that the likes can be untargeted, so it’s good for building an initial groundswell of interest but not great for a targeted following (which is ultimately what you need to aim for).

The upside is that you can get a lot of likes quickly, especially if you only use Twiends for Facebook likes and not for any of the other services it offers. The more services you use, the more each service gets diluted by the other services taking up your credits.

My strategy for Twiends is to add my new Facebook pages that I created the week before to the site then purchase 1200 credits. This gives the pages a quick boost of fans, some of whom will be targeted, some of whom won’t. Either way it will trigger a certain amount of viral interest on Facebook which will add more targeted fans to the page.

The following Monday, I do the same again, only with the new pages I’ve created. Meanwhile, I use the other strategies I’ve talked about in this series to continue building the first set of pages. And so on, building pages, boosting their numbers then allowing them to go viral or by applying my Fiverr startegy.

Hope that all makes sense.

This short article is actually an extract from my full article on how to get more fans on Facebook. In the full version, you’ll discover 7 ways to increase Facebook fans that you can start applying right now to your Facebook pages.

How To Get More Fans on Facebook – Part Five

Written by Matt | Posted in Social Media

In this fifth part of my guide on how to get more fans on facebook, we look at a way of getting lots of fans for very little cash.

Method Five – Get Fans For A Fiverr

If you’ve read my blog before you may have heard me mention Fiverr.com as a great source of traffic. However, like all sources of traffic it’s only good when it’s targeted and used properly. So here’s your guide to use it effectively.

I actually have two ways of using Fiverr to promote fan pages, so I’ll go through both.

Fiverr allows you to search for and find people who are willing to promote you to their fan page for $5. This sounds great at first but you need to know what their fan page is about. As I said in the previous methods, targeting and relevancy is important when it comes to content. The people who are fans of that page will have a specific interest and you need to cater to that. If you can’t you need to find another fan page owner.

Here’s what I do to find out what pages the providers have and if I can work with them:

Go to Fiverr.com and in the search bar in the top right type in ‘Fan Page’ or ‘Facebook Fan Page’. Amongst the results, look for those people who are willing to promote you to their fan page.
Contact the seller by clicking on their username and sending them a message via their profile on Fiverr. Ask them these questions about their fans/fan page:
1. How many fans do you have?
2. What is the page about?/What are the fans interested in?
3. What percentage of feedback do you get on your posts?
Once they get back to you with the information you can assess whether or not to proceed with paying them to post for you. You also need to make sure that they can provide proof of the service, ideally by directing you to the page after they’ve posted it so you can see your post.
When sending them what to post, see if you can write one line of text for them followed by the link. Make it reletively snappy and attractive. If not, just send them the link to post after you’ve paid for the service.
If they deliver and you get more fans, great! If they don’t deliver, no worries. You don’t have to pay them and you can reject the work as not being done.

Eventually you’ll find some suppliers you can work with regularly to promote your pages in different niches.

The other method I use for Fiverr is simply to find people on Fiverr who do social bookmarking services. They usually have the following kind of titles:With these suppliers, it’s far easier than those offering to promote via their fan pages. You just give them the link to your page along with your keywords and a brief description and they go to each of the sites and bookmark your page. This simply means that they submit your page to a place where others can see what they’ve bookmarked, just like when you bookmark a page in your web browser but more public.

What this does is gives you credibility on other networks and allows people within those networks to see your site and find their way to Facebook to like it.

It also helps your search rankings as some of these sites have a lot of kudos with the search engines as they’re full of user created and user bookmarked content.

So, that, in a nutshell is Fiverr and how to use it to get more fans on Facebook.

How To Get More Fans On Facebook – Part Four

Written by Matt | Posted in Social Media

Guess who? Ok, that sounded a bit creepy. Either way, here I am with another part to my guide on how to get more fans on facebook.

Method Four – Facebook Ads

This is another paid method of building fans that I’ve used and that has proven effective, especially when you’re starting out.

The good thing with this is that it is very targeted, relatively inexpensive and not necessarily a long-term solution, as the page will ‘go viral’ past a certain number of fans.

Using Facebook ads is pretty simple and this FB Ads fan page will actually give you a lot of good free information about how to go about using them.

The things to remember are the same things to remember if you’re using any kind of ad platform (like Google AdWords or the ads on other search engines):

Make sure your ads have an attractive photo. If it’s for a celebrity, use a sexy headshot of that celebrity. If it’s for a niche or business, use something that clearly illustrates the point of the page and what people can expect from being a member of that Fan Page. Oh and in terms of the pictures, it turns out that boobs sell! Who knew? ;) If you want proof then check out this awesome guide to Facebook Ads by Shoemoney.
You can ‘cheat’ a little (although not sure for how much longer) by using a picture with text in it. This increases the amount of text you can use in the ad and is good for extra info on the main USP (unique selling point) of your page/business.
In your text, include something that will capture people’s attention. Again, see what others are doing that works and try and improve on it. You don’t need to re-invent the wheel. You have limited space so be punchy and get to the point.
Obviously, don’t include anything that’s likely to get your ad disapproved like nude images or claims about income. Not only will you get rejected nine times out of ten, but it doesn’t really do you any favours on the credibility front.
Make sure you target your ads very specifically to the age group and demographics of your target market. If it’s aimed at Mum’s under 40 who like America’s Next Top Model, then target them.

Your budget doesn’t need to be huge to start out using Facebook advertising. The minimum daily spend at the time of writing is just £1 or $1.

It’s a great way of building your page quickly to get the URL you want and then to get the first few hundred followers. I currently set my targeted campaigns to run for one week and set the budget at just £2 per day. This means I only spend £14 total for a new page in that time and that gets me quickly to having a small community that I can now leverage and grow. Needless to say, the more my pages make me, the more I will increase this as I experiment more with FB Ads.

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