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50 Fantabulous Facebook Status Updates

Guest post by: Jessica Swanson

Article Overview: Learn 50 Ways to Update Your Facebook Status.

50 Fantabulous Facebook Status Updates

Small business owners everywhere struggle with various ways to update their Facebook status.

Obviously, you want to offer your friends juicy tidbits, interesting information and creative content. But, what happens when you’ve run out of new ideas and are facing “Facebook status update block?”

Here are 50 fresh ideas to update your Facebook status:

1) Update your status frequently (3 times a day); but, don’t get spammy (15 times a day).

2) Share a relevant quote from your industry.

3) Post a link to your latest blog post.

4) Share a link to someone else’s blog post.

5) Reveal your insider industry tips.

6) Ask questions.

7) Answer questions promptly – (not 15 days later).

8) Share a cool, new tool that you just discovered.

9) Start a new discussion through your “discussion” tab.

10) Host a contest using the Wildfire application.

11) Upload a photo (a picture’s worth a thousand words).

12) Share a link to a video (a video’s worth ten thousand words).

13) Link to one of your published articles.

14) Link to someone else’s published article.

15) Share a link to one of your recent press releases.

16) Post updates and photos while attending a conference.

17) Share a link to your podcast.

18) Let your friends know about an upcoming interview.

19) Brag about your favorite clients and customers.

20) Share something personal once in a while (but, not too personal and not too often).

21) Ask for input in the creation of a new product or program.

22) Share a link to your online radio show.

23) Generate quick polls at Vizu.

24) Give away free stuff (ebooks, reports, audios, etc.).

25) Evaluate a product pertinent to your industry.

26) Review a book relevant to your industry.

27) Offer great customer service right through Facebook.

28) Find joint venture partners.

29) Highlight a job well done by another company or individual.

30) Provide your expert opinion.

31) Post a link to your eZine.

32) Compliment your competition on a great article, video or product.

33) Promote your live or virtual event.

34) Showcase your work.

35) Promote your new product or eBook.

36) Build relationships with bloggers.

37) Build relationships with PR people.

38) Share a link to your Hubpage.

39) Share a link to your Squidoo lens.

40) Announce the upcoming launch of a new product or service.

41) Redistribute content.

42) Wish your friends a Happy Birthday.

43) Share a link to a Powerpoint presentation on SlideShare.

44) Tell an industry joke. (Everyone likes to laugh!)

45) Rant about something not done well in your industry. (Everyone likes a good rant!)

46) Solve a problem that your target market is facing.

47) Open up a debate about a hot topic within your industry.

48) Invite your friends to take a relevant quiz using Quibblo.

49) Put together a fun matrix of your top Facebook friends and share it using Friendmatrix.

50) Play mafia war less and engage more.

Hopefully, this list will get your creative juices flowing and help keep your Facebook status updates fresh, relevant and interesting to your Facebook friends.

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