Growing Facebook Fan Pages - Tips and Tricks

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As many of you Social Media Marketers know. Facebook has changed the way you can grow your Fan Page Likes. It looks like Facebook is more and more forcing you to buy Facebook Ads to grow page.

I have seen Twiends to grow page but they are very untargeted Fans and not likely going to do business with the owner of the Page.

Here are several of my strategies and hope to hear others.

1. Since you can now use Facebook as a Fan Page. I tend to like other high traffic Fan Pages and comment it write on wall. Try to be interesting, almost the way all of us should be using this Forum.

2. Get others to become Admin of your Page and they can suggest to their Friends.

3. You can also encourage people to post pictures on your Wall. This then helps the Page get in the News Feed.

4. If you are a Brick/Mortar business, you can use print media to encourage Likes for a discount or special deal

5. If you have a large email list. You can suggest to your list or even to your Twitter Following to Like the Fan Page.

What other strategies do you use?
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  • Profile picture of the author sidmister86
    If you a small biz cafe or restaurant owner, think you should look into Wavespot wireless. They sell a router that links with your business fan page, so everyone that uses your WiFi becomes your facebook fan, furthermore the "like" is viral in that the visitor's FB network knows that they came to your location...its a great way to build a strong following online. After that its all consistently maintaining an online relationship with you customer
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  • Profile picture of the author Coby
    I started a fan page yesterday (finally) and I used Twiends to get my first 350 likes. I just sent an email to my list so I'm sure that will increase even more.

    Thanks for the tips
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  • Profile picture of the author Nisip
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    The number 2 tip is a sure way to lose your fanpage very quick...
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    • Profile picture of the author Aussie_Al
      On one of my fan pages I have already had a temporary ban for sending to many invites out to people I did not know... :confused::confused:
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  • Profile picture of the author garyv
    Upload videos about your niche to your fanpage. Especially videos that people will want to share. And then make a call to action right in the video for people to "share" the video. If you upload the video to your fanpage, then facebook automatically puts a "like" link into the video - that is connected to your fanpage. I've noticed that videos uploaded to my facebook fanpage go viral much easier than videos uploaded to youtube.
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    • Profile picture of the author SocialMediaOwls
      Originally Posted by garyv View Post

      Upload videos about your niche to your fanpage. Especially videos that people will want to share. And then make a call to action right in the video for people to "share" the video. If you upload the video to your fanpage, then facebook automatically puts a "like" link into the video. I've noticed that videos uploaded to my facebook fanpage go viral much easier than videos uploaded to youtube.

      Wow, now that is some good insight, Gary....seriously, that is some good stuff. I'm going to try that
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  • Profile picture of the author sdentrepreneur
    Great idea Gary !!! We have been using Powerfully Simple Facebook Applications | North Social and Interactive Promotions for Brand Marketing by Wildfire Promotion Builder | Wildfire Interactive, Inc. to create contests, surveys and group discounts. This helps grow Pages.
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    • Profile picture of the author JamesMcCabe
      I've tried all these tricks short of the black hat stuff which I will not do. What the heck does to take to get "liked" on a fan page? Geesh. I and Like others as well.
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  • Profile picture of the author tim413
    sdentrepreneur,

    Thanks for starting this thread!!!!

    My wife and I have tried many things to get people to like our fan page. Here are my thoughts:
    1. If your fan page topic is something people don't want your fan page content to come across their feed, they will not like you.
    2. People don't know that to keep in touch with your fan page they need to like it.
    3. Working with Facebook is frustrating because they always change how they want you to do things.
    4. The new group format is the easiest way to get something started because when you start a group you auto add your friends to the group.

    Tim
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  • Profile picture of the author SocialMediaOwls
    The only option you have is this:

    Setup the page (title) with the correct keywords. Join Twiends. Wait for our TwiendsBot that we will be rolling out in a few days (or sit there for hours clicking every day)

    Since facebook hasn't used its billions to make a search algorithm, whatever keyword is in the title that has the most likes, wins.
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  • Profile picture of the author tankeroo
    you can use Twiends, which can be free OR paid, but free is time consuming. Go to Fiverr.com, and search Facebook Fan Pages. There's many that will give you between 100 and 2000 "likes" to get your page visible, and others will "suggest" to their 30k followers to "like" your page... hope that helps!
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    • Profile picture of the author Trieu
      Originally Posted by tankeroo View Post

      you can use Twiends, which can be free OR paid, but free is time consuming. Go to Fiverr.com, and search Facebook Fan Pages. There's many that will give you between 100 and 2000 "likes" to get your page visible, and others will "suggest" to their 30k followers to "like" your page... hope that helps!
      The followers you get from Twiends. Are they targeted?
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  • Profile picture of the author lacraiger
    fake likes wont do any good...
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  • Profile picture of the author Semuel
    Thanks a million for the tips, it really really really useful for us

    Best Wishes
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  • Profile picture of the author FiveMe
    Something you can also do is go to your friends list and see what person you have on there that is a chronic "liker" and they often have the most friends. This has worked for me, anytime I have a new page that I want to get a lot of likes. It does it's own thing after that.

    Also another thing is that most people are looking for controversy or something that is not in the "norm" I find it difficult to ask my peers to "like" marketing ideas, projects or whatever is not familiar to them.
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  • Profile picture of the author SocialMediaOwls
    No, they are not, but now there is a new "rush" to get as many likes (at least 10k) to fill your cofer....as you need 10k to change your default landing to a squeeze page. So get 10k junk from twiends, change your landing and then go get quality
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  • Profile picture of the author TeamTCW
    But they are very less targeted..
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