What's The Point In Using FaceBook Fan Pages?
Maybe I am doing something wrong and someone can explain this to me as to what I am doing wrong, but I don’t see a huge point in FaceBook Fan pages.
A few days ago I took the plunge and set up a personal FB fan page (as a public figure/expert).
I invited a handful of my existing FB friends (about 400 people) to like my page. I had to be careful as to who I invite as I don’t want most of my professional contacts from other businesses to see this as spamming.
I also set up a separate personal account so that not to commingle my real family and friends with my 'fake' friends and befriended about 70 to 80 people; some of my old contacts and some new.
As of right now, which is three days later I have a fan base of about 70 to 80 fans, of which about 50 fans appear to be automated bots, 2 are musicians marketing on FB to get publicity, about 4 are my real life friends who felt sorry for me, and the rest are men located in remote from me parts of the world who tell me that I am hot and they want to "start a relation" with me and invite me to chat on MSN or yahoo messenger.
I also have become a fan of a site promoting hotels in Russia, a company selling vacation packages in Turkey, installed a few applications, and took several quizzes in exchange for their owners becoming my fans.
I’ve read about people selling friend invites for $5. So, if I buy a package they will invite another 5,000 bots to my page, out of which maybe 100 are real people (who are also trying to promote their own online or offline services of some sort), and who will become my fans, what is really the point in all of this?
Of course I could just send an e-mail to my lists and get a bunch of fans that way – quick and easy, BUT from what I understand FB fan pages are supposed to drive people from FaceBook page into your list, and not the other way around.
Can someone explain to me how this works?
I have read about 10 e-books about FaceBook marketing; yes, they mention CPA ads, but I don’t do CPA, just not my cup of tea.
A few days ago I took the plunge and set up a personal FB fan page (as a public figure/expert).
I invited a handful of my existing FB friends (about 400 people) to like my page. I had to be careful as to who I invite as I don’t want most of my professional contacts from other businesses to see this as spamming.
I also set up a separate personal account so that not to commingle my real family and friends with my 'fake' friends and befriended about 70 to 80 people; some of my old contacts and some new.
As of right now, which is three days later I have a fan base of about 70 to 80 fans, of which about 50 fans appear to be automated bots, 2 are musicians marketing on FB to get publicity, about 4 are my real life friends who felt sorry for me, and the rest are men located in remote from me parts of the world who tell me that I am hot and they want to "start a relation" with me and invite me to chat on MSN or yahoo messenger.
I also have become a fan of a site promoting hotels in Russia, a company selling vacation packages in Turkey, installed a few applications, and took several quizzes in exchange for their owners becoming my fans.
I’ve read about people selling friend invites for $5. So, if I buy a package they will invite another 5,000 bots to my page, out of which maybe 100 are real people (who are also trying to promote their own online or offline services of some sort), and who will become my fans, what is really the point in all of this?
Of course I could just send an e-mail to my lists and get a bunch of fans that way – quick and easy, BUT from what I understand FB fan pages are supposed to drive people from FaceBook page into your list, and not the other way around.
Can someone explain to me how this works?
I have read about 10 e-books about FaceBook marketing; yes, they mention CPA ads, but I don’t do CPA, just not my cup of tea.
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