You can use Facebook to promote your business, start conversations with customers, build brand recognition, and solicit user feedback. It is a growing trend. WOW! Facebook is incredible!

In order to proceed, you must have a personal Facebook page, and we strongly recommend that you are familiar with some of the basic features of the application.  That was the purpose of yesterday.  Now, let’s get started with a business page. We want to make this effort as easy and effective as possible.

154689-facebook_main_originalYou have two free options on Facebook. You can create a Group or a Page for your business. We recommend building a Page, and here’s why. Pages were designed to accommodate viral marketing. Viral marketing is a method of spreading word of your product or service rapidly from one person to another. For business, this is a good thing.

Pages slowly (or quickly in some cases) acquire Fans.  Aretha Franklins’ Hat page acquired [Read more...]

Facebook gives people the power to share and makes the world more open and connected.   Millions of people use Facebook everyday to keep up with friends, upload an unlimited number of photos, share links and videos, and learn more about the people they meet.

Why be on Facebook?

facebook-friendsFacebook is the 4th most popular website in the United States.  As a business owner, you need to understand it.  There are more than 175 million active users on Facebook – and it is not just for kids anymore.  In fact more than 1/2 of Facebooks users are outside of college, with the fastest growing demographic being those over 30 years of age.  What do those big numbers mean?  [Read more...]