{"id":1095,"date":"2016-08-29T07:59:03","date_gmt":"2016-08-29T07:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.icantinternet.org\/?p=1095"},"modified":"2016-08-29T18:32:10","modified_gmt":"2016-08-29T18:32:10","slug":"your-facebook-fanpage-really-helping-your-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beheydt.be\/en\/your-facebook-fanpage-really-helping-your-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Your Facebook Fanpage Really Helping Your Business?"},"content":{"rendered":"

More businesses are scrambling to get Facebook pages as they hear about the great benefits of social media and \u201cfree\u201d advertising.\u00a0 But how helpful are these pages really?\u00a0 Do they really help businesses to make more money, and is it really free advertising?<\/p>\n

\"Make<\/a>If you talk to some social media fanatics, having a fanpage is almost as important as having a phone number for your business, or having a sign out front.\u00a0 There are millions of businesses that have started their own fanpages, but have you checked any of them out lately.\u00a0 I have seen more companies advertising online for the sole purpose of getting \u201clikes\u201d to their pages as well.\u00a0 Ever since Google said that they are taking social media factors into play with their search engine algorithm, these \u201clikes\u201d have become like gold, and the gold-rush is on.<\/p>\n

But in order to really understand if this is an effective marketing tool, you really have to consider what people do on Facebook.\u00a0 Why are they there?\u00a0 What are they looking for?\u00a0 Today, people will \u201clike\u201d a page or company just because they can.\u00a0 It\u2019s just a simple click of a button and businesses really shouldn\u2019t be flattered too much if they are able to garner a lot of likes.\u00a0 The question is: Do these fans really help them make money?<\/p>\n

I have seen that businesses will waste more time moderating comments on the walls of their fanpages than should really be necessary.\u00a0 The only way to get a fan BACK to that fanpage is to offer them something for free.\u00a0 But then it ceases to be free advertising.<\/p>\n

Marketing on social media sites like Facebook and Myspace is tricky.\u00a0 People aren\u2019t there to buy anything.\u00a0 They just want to get caught up with friends, watch a few funny videos, and post a few snide comments about their friend\u2019s pictures.\u00a0 With this frame a mind you really have to grab someone\u2019s attention in order to sell anything to them, but then you just come off as rude and obnoxious and then your fan list will slowly dwindle.<\/p>\n

Businesses that hire 5 employees to manage their facebook fanpages may be wasting their money.\u00a0 They may be catering to a crowd that simply wants to be entertained or be given free stuff.\u00a0 The best way to use a fanpage is to simply look at what people are saying so you can better improve your company.\u00a0 It\u2019s a great way to gauge how your consumers are liking or disliking your products and services and you can make the proper adjustments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

More businesses are scrambling to get Facebook pages as they hear about the great benefits of social media and \u201cfree\u201d advertising.\u00a0 But how helpful are these pages really?\u00a0 Do they really help businesses to make more money, and is it really free advertising? If you talk to some social media fanatics, having a fanpage is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3558,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[935],"tags":[1012,1011,1010,753,754],"class_list":["post-1095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-social-media-icantinternet-en","tag-facebook-fanpage","tag-facebook-page","tag-smm","tag-social-media-2","tag-social-media-marketing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/beheydt.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/410xfH2zjuL.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbkKxJ-hF","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beheydt.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beheydt.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beheydt.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beheydt.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beheydt.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/beheydt.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beheydt.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beheydt.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beheydt.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beheydt.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}