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9 Reasons Why You Need A Facebook Fan Page for Business

Posted on November 4, 2009 | 10 comments | Filed in Uncategorized 
 

Facebook.  If you aren’t on it, it’s time to jump on board.  Have you ever had a friend or family member post something cheesy or embarrasing that you WISH your clients and prospects didn’t see? I did.  And I quickly searched for a way to keep my business and personal communications separate. Having a separate Facebook Fan Page for your business can prevent that! Here are 10 reasons why having a separate Facebook Fan Page benefits your business.

1- EASE OF LINKING: You can link directly from your fan page to your website.  Placing a Fan Box on your page allows website visitors to instantly become a fan.

2 – FANS APPROVE THEMSELVES: People can become Facebook fans without you having to approve them first (like they would to become a friend of your personal profile page).  This saves you time and make it easy to build your fan base.

3- UNLIMITED FANS: You can have an unlimited amount of fans.  Right now you are limited to 5000 friends on Facebook.  But you can have an unlimited amount of fans.

4- COMMUNITY: Because fans can comment on your posts, it creates a sense of community where they can share their thoughts and views.

5- INSTANT MAILING LIST:  You can instantly send an update to all fans about special offers, events, new products.

6- DAILY OUTREACH: People check Facebook everyday.  Allows you daily interactions with your readers.  And unlike email updates, you never have to worry about your message being caught in spam filters.

7- RELEVANCY and CONTROL:  Lets you keep BUSINESS communications on your Fan Page and PERSONAL updates on your PERSONAL page.  That way you don’t annoy your mother with information about your 50% off sale.  And your customers don’t have to read updates about what your kids dressed up as for Halloween.

8- MORE EXPOSURE: Fan pages are public.  All search engines and people can see it.  This dramatically increases your potential for exposure.

9 – KEEPS YOU FROM BEING DROPPED FROM FACEBOOK: Facebook Terms of Service state that they will disable your personal account if you use it for business purposes.  “All personal site features, such as friending and messaging, are also for personal use only and may not be used for professional promotion. . . . Using personal site features for professional promotion, or creating unauthorized Pages, may result in your account being warned or disabled.”

Summary: That’s it in a wrap.  Loads of cool reasons why you should create a fan page for your business.

What other benefits you have found that you’d like to share? Share your tips here!


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10 Responses to “9 Reasons Why You Need A Facebook Fan Page for Business”

  1. Lynn on November 6th, 2009 11:46 am

    Thanks for the helpful information. I wish Facebook made it as easy to understand as you have. I ended up creating a completely different business account without realizing I could create it from my personal account. Now the email addresses associated with the pages are a mess. Wish I’d found your post first.

  2. Trish on November 7th, 2009 8:28 am

    I have one more! It’s viral! All of your fans have the ability to pass on your fan page to their friends and the your fan growth (and exposure) can become exponential.

  3. Peter on November 10th, 2009 10:05 pm

    I can’t think of anymore reasons why I would need a Facebook fan page for my business. The ones you point out here seems fine. I like the outline for this article. Keep up the good work.

  4. Nekiwa Smith on November 14th, 2009 11:00 am

    You’re so right! I have a FB regular page, but have yet to sign up for a fan, your article has inspired me to do that right NOW!, thanks for a great post!

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  5. Aaronsteere on November 18th, 2009 12:18 pm

    Facebook is indeed a killer way to expand your network. The viral effect is crazy when you work it right.

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  6. sp on November 29th, 2009 5:34 pm

    thanks for the tips. Everyone seems to have a facebook profile nowadays so it makes sense!

  7. Nash Xioh on December 6th, 2009 3:23 am

    I agree.One of the most effective ways to promote your business in facebook is to use viral marketing.!

  8. Shawn on December 26th, 2009 8:10 am

    Kristie,
    I think the number of fans allowed is definitely a big selling point for fan pages. The warning about using the personal site for business is, of course, a bit nebulous since plenty of people share information related to what they do and certainly carrying out direct sales or business on your site will probably backfire anyway with other users.

  9. Tishia Lee on January 6th, 2010 9:31 pm

    Thanks for passing the link to this post along to me on Facebook today. Great post and my mind is definitely made up! It’s time to set up a fan page.

  10. Loren Jaslyn on January 21st, 2010 12:14 pm

    I definitely didn’t know about tip #9. This is good to know. Even more of a reason for me to start a fan site. Thank you for the tips.

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