How to use Facebook for Business
Thursday, August 20, 2009
Facebook is no very popular as a social networking site as it helps people building networks, find and make new friends while stay in touch with old buddies. But facebook is not only good for personal use as you will find below that facebook is a very good and beneficial thing for your business.
Business or Product Profile
Facebook allows every user to create a "Page". A page is an online existance (on facebook) of a business, company, product, organization, or even a person. AS a profile, a page usually have a wall, info, photos, notes, events, and discussion board. Facebook individual users may then register themself as a fan of your page, post their comments or testimonials, fan photos, and may help to share and promote about your business page. A business or product profile page is the very simple way of promoting your business on facebook.
Facebook Groups
A group of your business user or employee can also be created on facebook as every facebook user may create groups easily. Groups are different from pages and more suitable for community building. Facebook individual user may voluntary register or invited to become a group member. Once registered, they can comment on the group wall, post picture, and some more.
Facebook Events
If you are about to conduct a business event, you can create it in facebook and let all your friends and more people being notified about the event. This is the simple use of free facebook events feature for your business.
Viral Marketing
Facebook is like twitter, a place to share anything with online buddies. Sharing things can be done by facebook individual user as a wall post, status update, or notes. Notes is like a blog and every facebook user may create post to share things. You can ask all your colleague and employee to share good things about your business and let others comment or give feedback on that. Facebook viral marketing method takes advantage of the common human behavior, to trust what our friends experience or comment about something, and to ask for friends recommendations before purchasing something. This is a very powerful feature of facebook since every facebook user are notified about what their friends are thinking about.
OK, that's all I can share now about Facebook for Business. Whatever your business type, a corporate or home business, you can take advantage of the vewry popular social networking service like facebook. So try it and do not forget to share it here.