RE Twitter & Facebook

[New Boy]

Thanks for your good advice will give it all a go soon!!

[Big T]

Thanks all so far,

 

So when those 3 enquiries came to you via Facebook, was that as they did a Facebook search, i.e. like you would on Google or did they already have some association with you or your customer?

 

New Boy

 

I posted the pics in a local "for sale" group page that allows business to advertise. Like they say, a pic is worth a thousand words!

[New Boy]

Hi

 

Could anyone please tell me, do you have to pay to have a business Facebook account or is it free?

 

Regards

 

New Boy

[Big T]

I set mine up for free, I think you can pay for a snazzy one if you like that kinda thing!

[morten]

Hi

 

Could anyone please tell me, do you have to pay to have a business Facebook account or is it free?

 

Regards

 

New Boy

 

Just use your personal account to set up a Page for your business. You can then administer that page, and people can "Like" it. If you want, you can set up the page to allow other people to also administer, and for everyone to post and ask questions etc.

 

All free. Or rather, you pay by letting Facebook know even more about you, your company, and who you are dealing with, but that is the way things are going, now. Facebook and Google knows so much about you, that it's really scary, and they are making loads of money using that knowledge to target ads at you and the people you deal with.

 

Use this link to create a page https://www.facebook.com/pages/create.php

[kentjames]

By using a personal account, a profile, for a company you can only accept friends invitations from potential leads and not allow them to like the page. This limits the number of viral page likes you can receive.

 

Facebook is FREE as a business or profile! the only bit that costs money is to do advertising which is similar to google adwords in how it works, pay per click kinda thing.

 

If you wish to find local business then you are also better off with a page, incorporating the maps and information within the business details. You cannot do this with a profile.

 

The back office of a page is hugely better, there is no back office to a profile (the personal account). With the back office you can manage your traffic and see how many viral leads and likes you have had from individual posts and track your meta data. With a profile you cannot.

 

I strongly advise you have a page.

[New Boy]

Thanks all, James is this what you use on your Facebook, which looks very good!

 

New Boy

[kentjames]

Yes the facebook link in my strap below is my Page.

 

For personal use I have a profile, but there is an app for android / iphone which is called pages manager. With this app and facebook app you can run both at the same time on the same device without logging in and out of each one, handy!

 

I update mine, with the interesting stuff, each evening - its so easy it takes minutes.

[New Boy]

Thanks James

[mdvaden]

Having strong ties between your website and social networks increases your websites quality scores and often results in higher 'organic' search results on google (the ones you don't have to pay for)

 

It also doesn't hurt to add other local business' and raise local awareness of your service/brand!

 

Some people say that.

 

Have not seen convincing evidence though. Not enough that I would feel confident to say the same.

 

Never really hurts to social network though. Except maybe paying for ad space if it does not pay back generously.

 

But there's lots of free avenues.