16 Powerful Facebook Marketing Tips For Any Small Business

Social media marketing is indeed a very important aspect of digital marketing, and with the world increasingly moving towards being online; one cannot simply ignore the importance of social media marketing. And while we talk about social media, the first name that mostly pops in our mind is Facebook. Facebook was, in fact, The social networking site, one of the first ones in its league. Although since then, many social media sites have come up, few compare to giants like Facebook. Hence Facebook was and continues to be one of the major platforms suitable for endorsing your business. So here are 16 powerful Facebook marketing tips that will work to grow your small business

Choose the right type of business page

If you have just started your Facebook page then it is essential that you let the world know that you have a Facebook page. Promote this on your other social media handles like Instagram, Pinterest and so on, let your clients know via email, ask your friends to like your page and so on.

Let the world know

If you have just started your Facebook page then it is essential that you let the world know that you have a Facebook page. Promote this on your other social media handles like instagram, Pinterest and so on  , let your clients know via email , ask your friends to like your page and so on.

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Optimize you Facebook page 

Don’t ignore the importance of a high definition profile picture and cover picture. Work on your page. Optimize your page description, tags and feed it with all the other relevant details that it needs. Make it look complete and professional.

Understand trends

Before you start posting content on your Facebook page, take a look at the pages of your competitors and other big brands in your business.  Look at what they are posting, what kind of content is getting most user engagement and fashion your content strategy accordingly..

Post regularly and at the right time

It is important that you are active on your Facebook page. Make sure that you post content at least once a day. Further, also decide on the time when to post. Use analytics to understand when people use Facebook the most and post accordingly

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Post with intent

Never forget that this is not your Facebook profile, this is a page meant for your business. Hence everything that you post here should be posted with the intent of increasing user engagement, creating leads and so on.

Don’t over advertise

Yes, your Facebook page is meant to increase your business, however, that doesn’t mean that all you will do is advertise about product or service on your page. Instead, try to increase your user engagement via your Facebook page. Encourage them to visit your website, give them an opportunity to know you as a brand. Post quality content like memes, videos which will entertain or educate your audience. Ideally, only about 25% of your posts should be directly promotional. One of the pro tips is to make as much as video content as possible. It has been seen that videos capture more audience engagement.

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Engage with your audience

Whenever you post, encourage your audience to like, comment and share. Actively engage with your audience , ask them for their reviews, and respond to their comments. If they have a negative feedback try to understand what their issues are. This is the best way to convey to your audience and customers that you care.

Giveaways

There is no denying that everybody loves freebies. Facebook is a great platform to announce promotional giveaways. This is a great way to drive people to your website and also increase audience engagement. And just to stand out of the crowd, put on your thinking hats and try to come up with some fun contest ideas. 

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Use Facebook plugins

You are not using Facebook fully of you are not using Facebook plugins. Integrate Facebook plugins on your website and blogs. This small tip can go a long way increasing brand awareness.

Facebook ads

You may like the, you may hate them, but you definitely cannot ignore them.  Facebook ads can be quite effective in promoting your business. While creating your Facebook ad, you need to decide your objective for the ad. Facebook will give you options like website conversion; app installs Facebook page engagement and so on. Hence you need to know what your ad aims at.

Use boosted posts

If you want your ads to have wider reach, use boosted ads. With a relatively small investment, this feature seems to have delivered quite impressive results.

Audience

 Facebook also needs you to know who your target audience are and set the metrics accordingly. Further use appropriate metrics and pixels to know who all have interacted with your posts or visited your website via your Facebook page. They are your warm audience; remarket to them as they are expected to be more receptive.

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Split test

Facebook ads are not a one shot way to success. It is all about trial and error. Don’t be afraid to experiment. Experiment with different content, different audience, and different places even till you know what works for you and what doesn’t

Facebook stories

Use this feature of Facebook to provide various sneak peeks to your customers and audiences about the behind the scenes of your business. Create polls, ask fun questions. This is a really nice place to have some fun and casual engagement.

Be active

 Lastly be active, not just with your audience but with others as well. Try and participate in discussions, be a part of relevant groups, create groups and invite people to be a part of it. Engage with other Facebook pages as well. Like and comment with positivity. This will increase your visibility and hence draw people to your page.

Many marketing experts seem to suggest that Facebook is becoming out-dated but statistics beg to disagree. Facebook is still the world’s biggest social networking site and the fact that the two other very popular sites which include Instagram and WhatsApp are also owned by Facebook bears evidence to the fact that Facebook is far from being outdated. Hence don’t think to dwell on the fact as to whether Facebook marketing is going to benefit you. If done correctly, it can prove quite beneficial for your business.

Guest Post by Mary Jones

Mary Jones is the co-founder and editor-in-chief at TopMyGrades, which focuses on career counselling for university students in the US, Canada, UK and Australia. Mary also carried out tutoring sessions to help University students with sociology assignments to guide them in with science assessments. She has extensive content editing experience and has worked with MSNBC, NewsCred and Scripted in the past. She has also authored blogs on Lifehack.org, Wn.com, Medium.com, Minds.com and many more digital publications

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