How to Advertise on Facebook For Free
Posted: Thursday, April 08, 2010
by HyunSoung Kim
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Everybody knows that facebook is a hugely growing social networking site which in business views can be refereed to a huge possible customer growing site. Whoever tries to sell a product, make a website or blog, wants to try advertising on facebook. If it is a question of teens it is really beneficial to look for ways to advertise for free while the older ones can pay for real advertisements. Try these tips and look at your website on traffic grow for free.
Whoever has a account on facebook and looks at the news feed, we can see that the special groups which can be referred to " quote " groups are really popular especially among teens. If you still don't know what i am talking about, i will explain it more. There are thousands of such groups, for example " All of us who like to write articles " , after day or two, we can see that the majority of people who really like to write articles will join the group for the sake of being in the group and showing it to friends which will result in more people seeing the group and eventually joining them. There are many types of quote groups, from funny to real hobby ones.
OK, but how do i advertise with it? I think it should be logical. Just put your URL into the description in the group. There it is, free advertising which can be also targeted to special target groups with a simple step. Make a group with a quote everyone agrees in the special target group.
Tip 2 - Spam the news feed
This is really like the style of twitter. Add tons of friends or use other real ways to get more friends and just spam the feed with the sentences like tweeter just that you don't need to obey the word limit.
Tip 3 - Join real groups which have interest in your service
For example, look for the groups which are about self improvement if you want to sell a self improvement book than you can talk about it and also show off your site.
Tip 4 - Word of " mouth "
Majority of people like to read updates when they have nothing to do, or don't want to do anything. They are your target. Ask a friend to help you with this one. It is pretty simple, you just have to talk about the site or product publicly and other people will read it and eventually see it as a positive thing and eventually try it. This is cheating!!! xD
Tip 5 - Use your brain and imagination
I made these steps while writing the article, use your imagination which has no limits and come up with a idea that no one come upon.
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Top-level comments on this article: (3 total)HyunSoung Kim,Thank for the article, a lot of information, which many of us don't have any idea about Face book or twitter.Thank You for taking time to read and comment, hope it helped :)
this is good information - Thank you, I've seen results directly from facebook for my subscription newsletter. The key I found is to be interesting and engage in a genuine manner. Not just plainly advertise.Yeah, i guess when we plainly advertise, it is natural that they will block us (if they don't like our product or service) :DThank you for the comment!
Good article, well written, I can see you were going through the steps when writing, as then when much creativity comes out. giving away something free from your business in exchange for contact info is also good.
Thanks for the kind words.
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