Monday, October 11, 2010

New Facebook Marketing Posts

I've been blogging a lot about Facebook marketing and advertising on AllFacebook and Search Engine Journal. Here are some of my latest posts.


Do you know how to use a Facebook Page to get sales and new business? We’ve seen (and helped) a number of Fortune 1000 companies use a process that works. We’ve proven it also works for medium sized businesses. The same model also could be used for small businesses as well.

There are two basic steps...

You may be running Facebook ad campaigns, but are you getting the most out of every dollar you spend? Our research says you probably aren’t, and here’s why.

GOALS: I wanted to prove some basic relationships amongst the Facebook ad metrics, and see how else the data can guide us in creating more effective Facebook ads. It’s not only about the algorithm(s), but also how the metrics answer questions like “Does my prospect seeing an endorsement from one of their friends always improve my ad results?”

DATA: 172 ads across 10 client campaigns from August 1 – Sept 10, 2010 (roughly 40 recent days).


To see at the happy crowd at Bistro 17 (facebook|website) on Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, you’d never think that just 3 months ago, they were close to shutting down for good. Owner Anna Buckingham says,

“Business was so slow at that point, even during the tourist season, that we were wondering if we should call it quits.”

But now this French-themed restaurant with mouth watering brie and an obsession with containers and dogs is a word-of-mouth sensation and always busy. In fact, they’re one of the few restaurants doing really well in the off-season.


Combine AdWords’ copywriting and analytics with image-oriented linkbait, and you’ve got Facebook ads.

And it’s a new system to figure out how to compete in. To that end, I’ve combined my own experience with creating and optimizing Facebook ads for myself and clients with a survey of the existing literature out there, and created a free whitepaper and video training



I was asked to speak about “Capitalizing on the Twitter Revolution” at Pubcon. So I talked about Facebook.

Why?

I said: “Twitter revolution? Didn’t that happen in 2008?


My major focus the last three months has been Facebook advertising. I’ve been trying to figure out how to get awesome results with Facebook ads. It’s been a personal challenge, because I have more or less mastered Google AdWords and SEO, so I thought: I should be able to figure this out

The average price per fan we’re seeing in the industry is $1.50 – 2.00. But expect this to go up over time, because Facebook ads will become more expensive, just as AdWords costs have steadily increased. And Facebook users may become more fickle about what and how much they “like”.

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