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How to Make Friends on Facebook
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Article Overview: Discover how to make friends on Facebook and grow your following. Learn how to use Facebook to network with others.
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How to Make Friends on Facebook
You may already have a few people from high school as your friends. This will not be good enough if you are trying to run a business and generate sales. Learning how to make friends on Facebook will guarantee you the right leads and quality traffic for your business.
Search through Facebook groups that relate to the type of people you are looking for. Example: You could search for a group based on boats if you are selling boat products. Add about 10-20 people per day.
If someone has a great picture and profile, add them as a friend. Do not pick people with silly pictures or no pictures at all. Once they have accepted a friendship, send them a welcome message. Do not send them your website right away or they might ignore you or delete you. Treat these messages like you are meeting someone for the first time. Look at their profile and try to pull ideas from it. Example: "I see you love spending your time outdoors and fishing, what kind of boat do you have? I also enjoy the outdoors and would be lost without my speedboat! Talk to you soon." Do not go for the sale right away. You won't get it.
The idea is to get to know someone and let them know you. Build it up and take your time, the business talk and sales will come if you are patient.
Once you have made initial contact with a new friend. Check your profile and delete your "new friend add" post on your wall. The reason for this is that If someone sees that you have added 10 friends every day, they might get the idea that you are just out to market to them and they will not add you back as a friend. Once you know how to make friends on Facebook, your sales will improve dramatically.
Have a productive day
- Lark Miller
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Re: Facebook -- personal vs. business?
- [quote="DaveGilbert":p04ea6ji]Facebook use to be a good resource however they have clouded the sites usefulness by allowing too many games on there, these days it is more of a gamers forum than a social site or a business venue[/quote:p04ea6ji]
Dave,
I think it may depend on who your Facebook Friends are. I have plenty of friends who seem to game...but they don't post it on their profile (or at least it doesn't appear in my newsfeed). However they do generate useful business discussions on Facebook that I participate in. Not advertising or even as formal as a blog (which are already quite informal, in my opinion, compared to articles for instance), but business mixed with the personal discussion that I, as a solopreneur, find useful.
[quote="Mal Tindle":p04ea6ji]If I could go back to Facebook and register separately I would do it but as you say I don't think that is possible.[/quote:p04ea6ji]
Mal,
You *can* create a fan page for your business, separately from your personal profile. I know many folks who have both and direct business folks to their page, myself included. They also have had success driving traffic to their fan page with Facebook Page Ads; and from there driving fans to their blog, etc. No formal study, just my anecdotal observations...
Re: pitching
- Friendliness is closely related to the concept of "permission marketing" as articulated by Seth Godin. The subtitle of his book says it all:
"Permission Marketing: Turning Strangers into Friends and Friends into Customers."
The old method was "interruption marketing" where you suddenly get an ad in your face whether you want it or not...
Re: Social media question
- Rachel,
I recommend creating a fan page for Facebook you can link your twitter account to your fan page so your tweets show up on Facebook. In addition you can add a welcome page to your Facebook page where your fans can opt in for a free report, newsletter or CD. This will help you build your customer list. I find Facebook to be more interactive than twitter, but they are both powerful social media sites. (Make sure your branding matches on both sites.)
As far as your tweets or content you should post - I recommend whatever is relevant for your business. For example - our business is women supporting women in business, relationships and vitality. We post topics that focus on women's issues. Today we posted the question "If your partner wants you to stop pursuing your dreams of being an entrepreneur because they feel it will hurt your relationship, should you?" As a result we've received a lot of feedback which is what you are looking for - interaction with your fans (clients). I hope this helps
Kristi
Executive Housewives
Re: Quote of the Day - "The only people witho
- Thanks for sharing this Evan, there are some very powerful quotes in there, I particularly like this one:-
You are now at a crossroads. This is your opportunity to make the most important decision you will ever make. Forget your past. Who are you now? Who have you decided you really are now? Don't think about who you have been. Who are you now? Who have you decided to become? Make this decision consciously. Make it carefully. Make it powerfully.
regards,
Mal.
Re: Social media question
- Facebook is where I get all my traffic. Facebook is great, because you can create fan pages and your customers come to you. Twitter is good, but I just don't see the same results. I think Facebook is the most popular and it's easier for people to find what they're looking for.
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