Facebook Marketing

Hi this is my new blog after talk about the social media. In this blogs I talk about small history about Facebook and how we use Facebook page to business

Mark Zuckerberg, 23, founded Facebook while studying psychology at Harvard University. In February 2004. Within 24 hours, 1,200 Harvard students had signed up, and after one month, over half of the undergraduate population had a profile. The network was promptly extended to other Boston universities, the Ivy League and eventually all US universities. It became Facebook.com in August 2005 now Facebook became a largest social media in the world.

Facebook and Your Business

If you’re looking to create a Facebook page, you’re not the only one. Businesses have begun to see real results from the use of these user-friendly pages. Since so many people are using Facebook profiles for personal use as well as for professional reasons, it makes sense to learn how to create a Facebook pages for your business too.

Types of Facebook Pages

1. Facebook Fan Pages

Pages are for businesses, brands and organizations to share their stories and connect with people. Like Timelines, you can customize Pages by posting stories, hosting events, adding apps and more. Engage and grow your audience by posting regularly. People who like your Page and their friends can get updates in News Feed. You can create and manage a Facebook Page from your personal account.

Note: If you want to create a Page to represent a business, brand, organization or celebrity, you must be an official representative.

There are six Facebook page types

1. Local Business or Place
2. Company Organization or Institution
3. Brand or Product
4. Artist, Band or Public Figure
5. Entertainment
6. Cause or Community

2. Facebook Group and Community Pages

You can also create a Group or Community page, rather than a Facebook Fan page, and there are options to do that to the right on the page that opens when you create a business page. Facebook Group

How create a Page

1. Go to https://www.facebook.com/pages/create
2. Click a Page category
3. Select a more specific category from the drop down menu and fill out the required information
4. Click to check the box next to I agree to Facebook Pages Terms
5. Click Get Started

Note: If you want to create a Page to represent an organization, business, celebrity or brand, you must be an official representative.

How to maintain Facebook page

• Invite Contacts and Friends to Become Fans
• Adding a Facebook "Like" box to your website
• Target a Specific Niche
• Develop Relationships with Similar Businesses
• Obtain a Unique Username
• Links to other sites (news and articles that interest your customers.
• Personal updates)
• Ask interest and business related question

More Benefits of a Facebook Page for Business

• Help you to connect with your customers and clients in a more personal way.
• Helps to create a more professional appearance and a more professional reputation in your market.
• A Facebook page allows you to send updates about events, promotions, and other newsworthy happenings related to your business.
• You can interact with your customers and clients
• Gain a larger client base
• Cost effective promotion and marketing
• 24*7 hour access
• Viral Marketing

So Facebook now increase rapidly in Sri Lanka and international and it have more opportunities to business to increase the sale..