Comments on: When Facebook Marketing Fails

By: lanre - nigeria web designer

lanre - nigeria web designer — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 14:29:40 +0000

Marketing on facebook can be quite tricky. I think i’lld rather just have my 400 close friends and use facebook to connect with them on a friendship level. Alternatively, I am quite very impressed with the facebook paid advertisement scheme. Its quite inexpensive and I can target any demographic I want. By the way, I think i’m really loving this blog!

By: Digital camera battery

Digital camera battery — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 11:01:32 +0000

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By: Landscaping

Landscaping — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 16:20:14 +0000

I know we are ‘not ‘friends as such (but we could be!) – I am an artist by trade but my gf works for a UK landscaping company – see the link – it’s not very popular on the net but the company is rather big. My question is have you or anyone come across a popular gardening type of social network? I’ve tried one at Ning which is filled with competitors, I also tried Linkedin but so far no results? I know it’s an obscure question but I’m at the end of my tether over this – my gf asks everyday – have you found one yet? Have you? Sorry for dumping my troubles on you :/ Ah well a true sign of desperation I suppose! Thanks for your time anyway – Cheers Paul Baines

By: Digital Agency Manchester

Digital Agency Manchester — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 19:52:50 +0000

Marketing and selling to people on Facebook is always going to be tough. Social networking can be a route to successful marketing – only if done in the right way.

Although Facebook is a slightly different network and the only true successes will come from anything that is creatively and virally executed.

The WISPA example comes to mind – a brand brought back from the dead…a great piece of Viral marketing and PR.

By: Jordan

Jordan — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 17:26:33 +0000

I think that what marketers often forget about social media is that it is just that – social. People are in these spaces to contribute to relevant conversations they care about and issues, topics and items in which they are interested. If marketers throw out blatant sales pitches and calls to marketing action, they are finding that social media users don’t want anything to do with the applications and pages they build. The key is tapping into an interesting aspect of your product or idea that resonates with users beyond just the sales aspect.

By: Relationship Advice

Relationship Advice — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 19:06:54 +0000

I agree and disagree. First, to be true, I have used the Facebook marketing strategy. And ofcourse, not in a clean way as you would suggest. To be successful, you can never directly refer users to your sales. It has to be done in an indirect way. For example, I opened a Megan Fox fan group (which accumulated over 20 thou members), and just posted a link to my blog within the group. And to my surprise, I found about fifty to hundred unique visitors visiting my blog everyday. Now, the process was not about sending thousands of annoying invitation, rather an indirect approach. I am sure the more direct methods do not succeed.

However, these practices have gone tougher with the new facebook layout. Since the new layout does not support mass mailing and forwards, spams have decreased by a large extent.

But at the ed of the day, however, I would like Facebook to be more of a “friendly” place. I donot want to add up thousands of people, and I donot want to receive those invitations. But about business, you might have to think otherwise.

SadekJake

By: Counseling

Counseling — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 10:33:03 +0000

Wow, great article. Didn’t thought of social networking sites as a marketing tool.
But now, I guess its obvious, in a social networking site you are gifted with such a big user base, getting visitors just becomes easier -without spamming of course.

Rafaat

By: SEO Services

SEO Services — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 04:02:01 +0000

If you are entering Facebook marketing with the intention to sell, then naturally you will meet more people with the similar intention to sell to you too. Sharing with like-minded people or at least helping those who are unsure is a far better way to effectively market your products or services.
Rif Chia

By: Internet Marketing Basics

Internet Marketing Basics — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 03:42:56 +0000

Your post is so true. Many people will use social media as a means of spamming and then state that social media traffic is no good. Well of course it’s not going to be any good if people just spam it.

Connecting with your target audience on a personal level is the BEST way to sell any product, and social media, such as Facebook, allows you to do just that. So as you say, by creating informative, helpful groups and genuinely try and help your friends on there, you’re much more likely to establish a good quality brand that people will respect.

- Phillip

By: Diet

Diet — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 02:43:55 +0000

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Many thanks for the great SEO advice.

Dave Smith