After 1 month and 4 days, only 130 likes. Biggest social media fail ?

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Hello dear warriors, I am from morocco, and I would like to ask you about something.
I recently created a travel company approximately one month ago, I organize trips every weekend, So far I managed to take two trips, but only with mouth to mouth marketing, all of the clients are from my school. Obviously I can't just rely on my school to get clients because if someone go in a trip, 95% of the time he won't go for another month or so.
The first thing that poped in my head was Facebook so I created a Facebook page and started to post events "Trips" on there with the complete program, and I posted images and video from our first trips, plus polls asking them what are the best places to go, and images and videos from nice places in morocco. So far after a month and 4 days the page is still only at 130 likes My main competition has more than 160,000 likes. And I offer lower prices and better quality than him.
I post events in a lot of groups that I join, right now I'm in 150 groups and I post in most of them even so nothing happens, my posts reach maximum 49/60 without me posting in groups, if I post in groups it reaches 250/400. Maybe you can advise me of what I can do or something that I'am doing that I shouldn't.
One more thing, I thought of creating a website to sell tickets online, but my company's name is already taken and a slightly changed one that I can use with no prob is also taken. The problem is that it's taken but not in use. What should I do ? Will using a domain name different from my name affect me in anyway ? If so what should I do ?

p.s: Morocco is not much of a technology aware country as the US so keep that in mind.
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  • Profile picture of the author angelap999
    Thanks for sharing this. I felt similarly to you when I started out. Likes are great, but ultimately the sales are what you are looking for. There are fanpages that don't have as many likes as their competitors but are making a lot of money and have active fanpages, whereas some pages with 500K likes are like ghost towns. Strange I know...In short, there are a lot of variables and success ultimately depends on what you're trying to do, which is in your case land more clients.

    160 likes starting out (with no paid advertisement) is not as bad as you think. A great starting place would be to observe your competitor with the 160K likes. What does this company do to engage their audience? This doesn't mean you copy them, but read between the lines. What keeps people coming back to the page or sharing their content?
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  • Profile picture of the author FGS Technologies
    Originally Posted by Milwoooki View Post

    Hello dear warriors, I am from morocco, and I would like to ask you about something.
    I recently created a travel company approximately one month ago, I organize trips every weekend, So far I managed to take two trips, but only with mouth to mouth marketing, all of the clients are from my school. Obviously I can't just rely on my school to get clients because if someone go in a trip, 95% of the time he won't go for another month or so.
    The first thing that poped in my head was Facebook so I created a Facebook page and started to post events "Trips" on there with the complete program, and I posted images and video from our first trips, plus polls asking them what are the best places to go, and images and videos from nice places in morocco. So far after a month and 4 days the page is still only at 130 likes My main competition has more than 160,000 likes. And I offer lower prices and better quality than him.
    I post events in a lot of groups that I join, right now I'm in 150 groups and I post in most of them even so nothing happens, my posts reach maximum 49/60 without me posting in groups, if I post in groups it reaches 250/400. Maybe you can advise me of what I can do or something that I'am doing that I shouldn't.
    One more thing, I thought of creating a website to sell tickets online, but my company's name is already taken and a slightly changed one that I can use with no prob is also taken. The problem is that it's taken but not in use. What should I do ? Will using a domain name different from my name affect me in anyway ? If so what should I do ?

    p.s: Morocco is not much of a technology aware country as the US so keep that in mind.

    how much time u r spending on facebook page pr day ? if its less then 12 hours.. then arrange an admin who will work in your absence...
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    • Profile picture of the author Milwoooki
      Originally Posted by FGS Technologies View Post

      how much time u r spending on facebook page pr day ? if its less then 12 hours.. then arrange an admin who will work in your absence...
      Actually no more than 2 hours max. I can't find what to do. Should I post every hour ? or what ?
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  • Profile picture of the author abdullah osama
    never think u failed failing is when u reach certain point then stop but when u reach that point and think try and ask like what u r doing this is not failing at all
    good luck bro
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