commercial facebook page

[flatyre]

thanks for the replies guys, I used to think FB was just for people so full of self importance they felt the need to constantly inform everyone else (2000 friends, 3 they actually know) of what they're doing. But it seems FB has evolved into something more, certainly a lot of older people are using it too, and because it's free most businesses have a FB page. I recently had a chat with a local paper regarding running some advertising and the girl was adamant I need a FB page for the business, and she works in advertising! Does a commercial FB page cost and whats the benefits over a regular page?

[gdh]

There's no cost to set up a page, you just go to create page or something like that on your personal one. If you want to you can then pay for advertising which it keeps offering you.

 

For example it will show your post to 5-13k people for £24 and you can target it by gender, area and age groups. Personally though I just use ours as a gallery of what we get up to and we although we only have a hundred page likes because of likes and shares each post gets between 100 and 1500 views which you can see below the post.

[TRADITIONAL LOGGERS]

I don't have an FB page but it looks more useful than advertising in the Yellow Pages.

[wills-mill]

I don't have an FB page but it looks more useful than advertising in the Yellow Pages.

 

That's certainly true. It's good for seasonal prompts for different activities and products. The local targeting is useful too.

[Justme]

You can target your audience by age & other demographics.

[dan494]

You can target your audience by age & other demographics.

I've found paying for ads on facebook a massive waste of time and money. I've had a few jobs come in from sharing out page to local selling groups though and that's free

 

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[benedmonds]

This:thumbup1:

 

Facebook is for teenage status updates at the rate of 6 per day (omg, lol)

 

Spend it on a website

 

Wrong. Facebook is dominated by the middle-aged. not sure its much use for finding work but deffo not just the domain of teenagers anymore.. They probably have something else...

 

https://www.facebook.com/canopytrees/

[treequip]

Wrong. Facebook is dominated by the middle-aged. not sure its much use for finding work but deffo not just the domain of teenagers anymore.. They probably have something else...

 

https://www.facebook.com/canopytrees/

 

I am sure you are right, lost count of the middle aged people doing status updates on the bus or randomly wandering along staring at a mobile

[oldwoodcutter]

Mine is updated with bit and pieces of work every couple of weeks, and I get plenty of likes and offers of work come in on the back of it.

Many from middle aged as well as younger gen.

I'm in the process of getting a web page out there (better late than never)

[Suffolk-Matt]

Wrong. Facebook is dominated by the middle-aged. not sure its much use for finding work but deffo not just the domain of teenagers anymore.. They probably have something else...

 

https://www.facebook.com/canopytrees/

 

 

FB's user base is generally older than many think, younger generations tend to use other social platforms ( Twitter, snapchat etc) as the main outlet.

 

Having regularly updated social media is important, google will see every reaction with a post, every like, every comment, the page you went to before and after you did any of the above.

 

All of that will organically ( thats without paying) get you further up Google search results.

 

Its very quick and simple to set up a few social media accounts, most of all free, keep them active and updated.