100+ Facebook Page Posting Ideas Boost Engagement on Your Page, Easily Prerna Malik & Mayank Malik 100+ Facebook Page Posting Ideas Table of Contents Chapter Facebook Fast Facts Chapter Facebook Pages 101 . Chapter 11 100 Facebook Page Posting Ideas 11 ©2012|www.socialmediadirectbiz.com 100+ Facebook Page Posting Ideas About This eBook First of all, thank you for downloading this eBook and of course, signing up to our email updates and newsletter. You’ve just taken steps to not only boost your Facebook fan page interaction but also rock your overall smallbiz social media marketing! Yay! This eBook is designed to fuel your imagination and inspire you to think of Facebook not only for your social networking but also for brand building, brand advocacy, customer loyalty and a complete PR package designed to give you the maximum bang for your buck. Just a quick disclaimer: All the suggestions are made in good faith and there will be chances that a few ideas may not work for your business. The idea is to try, watch and try again. We wish we could guarantee huge increases in your engagement, but that’s just not our style. We’d rather you experiment, rinse and repeat for genuine interaction, community and brand building. Curious? Read on. ©2012|www.socialmediadirectbiz.com 100+ Facebook Page Posting Ideas Chapter Facebook Fast Facts F ounded in 2004, Facebook’s mission is to make the world more open and connected. People use Facebook to stay connected with friends and family, to discover what’s going on in the world, and to share and express what matters to them. Facebook Facts and Figures: 901 million monthly active users at the end of March 2012. Approximately 80% of monthly active users are outside the U.S. and Canada. 526 million daily active users on average in March 2012. 488 million monthly active users who used Facebook mobile products in March 2012, and more than 500 million mobile monthly active users as of April 20, 2012. ©2012|www.socialmediadirectbiz.com 100+ Facebook Page Posting Ideas During March 2012, on average 398 million users were active with Facebook on at least six out of the last seven days. More than 125 billion friend connections on Facebook at the end of March 2012. On average more than 300 million photos uploaded to Facebook per day in the three months ended March 31, 2012. An average of 3.2 billion Likes and Comments generated by Facebook users per day during the first quarter of 2012. More than 42 million Pages with ten or more Likes at the end of March 2012. Facebook is available in more than 70 languages. Facebook has more than 900m active users. If the company were a country, it would be the third largest in the world after China (population: 1.34bn) and India (population: 1.17bn) With 157m members, the US has the most Facebook users, followed by India with 45.9m, Brazil with 45.3m, Indonesia with 42.4m and Mexico with 32.9m (source: socialbakers.com) Facebook is the most popular social network in every country of the world, with the exceptions of China, Japan, Poland, Russia, South Korea and Vietnam (source: comScore) In April, Facebook announced a billion-dollar deal to buy the startup behind wildly popular smartphone photo sharing application Instagram, its biggest acquisition to date. ©2012|www.socialmediadirectbiz.com 100+ Facebook Page Posting Ideas Facebook has minted four billionaires: Mark Zuckerberg, Dustin Moskovitz, Eduardo Saverin and Sean Parker. The 27-year-old Zuckerberg's net worth was estimated at $17.5bn on the 2011 Forbes list of the wealthiest Americans. Moskovitz had a net worth of $3.5bn but pipped Zuckerberg for the title of world's youngest billionaire, being eight days younger. The Brazilian-born Saverin, who left Facebook early on after a falling-out with Zuckerberg, had a net worth of $2bn. Parker, the Napster co-founder who briefly served as Facebook's president, had a net worth of $2.1bn. Chris Hughes, one of Facebook's four co-founders, served as director of online organizing for Barack Obama's successful 2008 presidential campaign. Facebook says it had an average of 526m daily active users in March 2012, an increase of 41pc from a year ago. It had registered 125bn "friend connections" as of March 31 and 3.2bn "likes" and comments. ©2012|www.socialmediadirectbiz.com 100+ Facebook Page Posting Ideas The Social Network, the 2010 film about the origins of Facebook, won four Golden Globes including for best picture and best director - but flopped at the Oscars, walking away with only awards for best adapted screenplay, original score and film editing. Facebook, currently employs some 3,500 people, and has announced plans to hire "thousands" more over the next year Sources http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/facebook/9244718/Facebook-facts-and-figures.html www.facebook.com ©2012|www.socialmediadirectbiz.com 100+ Facebook Page Posting Ideas Chapter Facebook Pages 101 S imply put, a Facebook page is: A Brand’s Presence on Facebook For a brand or business to create its presence, it cannot have a personal profile. Of course, you need a personal profile to create a page but if you are a business and want to reach out to your customers, share your products, services, information and basically, build an online community, you need a page. Pages can everything that a profile can and SO much more. You can access feeds of pages or people you’ve liked, offer customers freebies and specials, host contests and giveaways and even, let people shop from your store without leaving Facebook. Granted many of these ©2012|www.socialmediadirectbiz.com 100+ Facebook Page Posting Ideas require the use of third party applications but then, they boost the overall functionality and ‘wow’ factor of Facebook. A Business’s Online Community Not every business wants to have a forum for its customers. Not only will it be difficult to manage, it really wouldn’t make much sense for customers to keep visiting a business website just for a forum. A page, on the other hand, gives a business the instant opportunity of creating a community of customers, potential and existing, and giving them an online space to ask questions, share feedback, get help and connect with your business on a personal level. Customers don’t have to go someplace else. Every time they access Facebook, they get the chance to connect with your business via updates in the newsfeed, your ads in the sidebar or just because they want to. A Connector Between Sales and the Customer As a business, you sell to people. If your people or customers are on Facebook, you’re connecting sales with them, in a way that is social, fun and engaging. You’re not being the pushy salesman. You’re being the fun folks to hang out with who also have some awesome stuff to offer! The goal of this eBook is to help you, the small biz owners, become those fun folks that fans love engaging with, interacting with, connecting with and eventually, buying from. ©2012|www.socialmediadirectbiz.com 100+ Facebook Page Posting Ideas Best part, you’ll it all in a way that is genuine, authentic and in keeping with your business’ mission, vision and values. Let’s get started! ©2012|www.socialmediadirectbiz.com 100+ Facebook Page Posting Ideas Chapter 100+ Facebook Page Posting Ideas F irst things first. Post daily. Period. Don’t let your page stagnate for weeks or even, days. Chances are that when you come back and share something, it wouldn’t show up in news feeds! The ideas below will give you plenty of content to share, daily. 1. Share content from your blog to your Facebook page. You can either automate this using a plugin like …… or it manually. 2. Share attractive, high-resolution photos. Choose photos that your customers would relate to, connect with and want to share on their own walls. 3. Ask questions with the W’s and one H – what, when why, where and how. ©2012|www.socialmediadirectbiz.com 100+ Facebook Page Posting Ideas 4. 4. Ask questions with multiple-choice answers. 5. Ask close-ended or Yes/No questions. 6. Ask True or False questions. 7. Provide solutions, tips and ideas to use your products or services. 8. Offer a freebie just for Facebook fans. 9. Offer regular specials only for fans. 10. Host a regular contest. Remember to use a third-party application to set it up and not run the contest directly on your wall. ©2012|www.socialmediadirectbiz.com 100+ Facebook Page Posting Ideas 11. Share news relevant to your industry. 12. Share news that is interesting and trending. 13. Relate posts to current events and happenings. 14. Promote and post about “Most Popular Fan or Commenter”. Fans love being acknowledged and recognized. 15. Answer questions, as soon as possible. 16. Acknowledge fan interaction to your posts. A simple ‘thank you’ can go a long way. 17. Offer people information that they’ll value. Facts, statistics, trends about your industry or product. 18. Take fans on an inside photo tour of your office, factory or warehouse. ©2012|www.socialmediadirectbiz.com 100+ Facebook Page Posting Ideas 19. Introduce fans to your team. Even if it is just you and your kids, show them a photo or two of all of you at work. 20. Share trivia about your team members. 21. Share interesting pins from Pinterest. 22. Share a photo of something that is funny, interesting, thought-provoking, sweet. Ask fans to caption it. 23. Share a photo of a place you’ve traveled to. Ask fans to guess the location or share a piece of trivia from it. 24. Write up and share daily tips or quotes to inspire and encourage your fans. For instance, if you have a cloth diapering business, sharing a cloth diapering tip every day is bound to be helpful and looked forward to. 25. Share a view or statement and ask your audience to ‘like’ if they agree or disagree. ©2012|www.socialmediadirectbiz.com 100+ Facebook Page Posting Ideas 26. Ask fans to tag their own pages or pages of other businesses they admire and follow. 27. Conduct a poll or survey using either Facebook’s poll feature or something better, like Survey Monkey. 28. Ask readers to share their favorite product from your store. If you’re a service provider, ask them to share which package or service they’d like the most. 29. Help fans understand how to use your products or services. 30. Make it easy for fans to buy from your FB page. Set up a store using an application like ecWid. 31. Focus on your branding. Share posts that are related to your brand yet interesting and engaging. A coffee shop for instance, can share recipe posts and trivia while inviting fans to the same. 32. Share snippets of upcoming projects or new product launches. ©2012|www.socialmediadirectbiz.com 100+ Facebook Page Posting Ideas 33. Have an ‘Ask the Experts’ day where each week, on the same day, you invite an expert to answer fan questions. 34. Have a call to action in your posts. Readers like to know what to do. Do you want them to click, ‘like’, ask them. 35. Post photos of your products and ask readers to choose their favorites. 36. Pair status updates with photos that match. 37. Link and share posts and articles from around the blogosphere to inspire and encourage readers. 38. Have a Business Toolbox or Resource Day where you share other relevant businesses and ask fans to the same. ©2012|www.socialmediadirectbiz.com 100+ Facebook Page Posting Ideas 39. Invite fans to share their opinions and ideas on current industry issues. 40. Share FAQs. 41. Host an event on Facebook and invite fans to spread the word about it. 42. Attend an event on Facebook and tell fans about it or better still, if its open-entry, invite them to it. 43. Reward the most frequent commenter with a discount coupon or a special prize. 44. Always keep your posts fun and interesting but also professional and relevant. 45. Share a funny post card or a joke every other day. 46. Share book or movie reviews and ask fans for their opinions. 47. Share a limited time offer on a product or service. ©2012|www.socialmediadirectbiz.com 100+ Facebook Page Posting Ideas 48. Ask fans to upload photos relevant to your niche. For instance, if you have a car detailing business, ask them to upload photos of their cars or maybe, their dream cars and describe what detailing they’d like the most. 49. Share where you’re going during the day. 50. Ask fans where they would be going during the day. 51. Share what projects you’ll be working on. 52. Ask readers what they will be working on. 53. Ask people what products or services would they like to see you offer. 54. Share a quote from someone you know and admire. Better still, share a tip or idea from a popular industry leader’s blog or newsletter and link to them. ©2012|www.socialmediadirectbiz.com 100+ Facebook Page Posting Ideas 55. Do short how-to tutorials, video, photo or written. 56. Share an interesting and engaging welcome video. 57. Ask readers to share they how-tos related to your product or service. Write up a Top 10 or Best Of list, add a visual to it using Picmonkey and share it. 58. Write up a ‘Why I Love… list related to anything – your business, your place of residence, your Facebook fans and share it. 59. Write up a “My Ideal…” list and share it. Ask fans to the same. 60. Write up a “10 Things to Avoid When ” list and share it. 61. Create an infographic relevant to your product or service and share it. ©2012|www.socialmediadirectbiz.com 100+ Facebook Page Posting Ideas 62. Share useful tools you use in your business. If they’re physical tools, share photos of them and ask fans to guess what they are. 63. Share your must-read website or online resources. 64. Share a list of Do’s and Don’ts about your product or service. 65. Go down memory lane and share early business days with fans. 66. Share the vision and mission behind your business. 67. Share clubs and groups that you’re a part of. 68. Ask fans which clubs and groups, online and offline, they’re a member of and why. 69. Share TV shows or movies relevant to your business. ©2012|www.socialmediadirectbiz.com 100+ Facebook Page Posting Ideas 70. Ask fans about their favorite shows or movies or quotes from them. 71. Ask fans to upload photos of them using your product. 72. Share a photo of a customer using your product. 73. Share a cartoon relevant to your business or industry. 74. Share an excerpt for a book or eBook you’re reading and ask fans for their opinion on it. 75. Share links to your other social media profiles and give fans good reasons to join you there. 76. Share links to your newsletter and offer them incentives for signing up. 77. Interview a fellow business owner or even, a team member and share the video. 78. Post photos of your latest trip or holiday with the family. Just make sure they’re appropriate. ©2012|www.socialmediadirectbiz.com 100+ Facebook Page Posting Ideas 79. Share information about deals on either your own products/services or something that is relevant to your product or service. 80. Share testimonials from customers or clients. 81. Support a fundraiser and share information about it. 82. Ask fans about their favorite charity. 83. Support a fellow business owner and some cross-promotion. 84. Run a contest in partnership with other business owners where each one of you promotes the contest to their fans. ©2012|www.socialmediadirectbiz.com 100+ Facebook Page Posting Ideas 85. Run a series of status updates around a particular topic. For instance, you can have a series of updates related to healthy eating for kids, sharing a mix of tips, news articles, blog posts and graphics. 86. Re-post or ‘share’ something that someone else shared on their Facebook wall. 87. Post Fill-in-the Blanks. 88. Talk about Facebook and how it helps your business. 89. Ask fans why they like Facebook. 90. Have a ‘Celebrate the Day’ post that highlights what a particular day or date is known for. 91. Ask an either/or question. Better still, share a photo and ask an either/or question. 92. Post pop quizzes on your product or service. Ask readers to visit the website for answers. ©2012|www.socialmediadirectbiz.com 100+ Facebook Page Posting Ideas 93. Have live discussions with fans via status updates. You’ll have to choose the right time and promote it in advance, but it can be a great way of engaging and learning what fans want. 94. Celebrate milestones, either in your business or on your page. For instance, completing years in business? Give fans a 20% discount. Or reaching 2000 fans on Facebook? Offer them a BOGO deal. 95. Start a 30-day challenge or a Weekly Check-in. For instance, 30 Days to An Organized Home is a great challenge for a personal organizer’s fan page. 96. Share the visuals related to your business – ad banners, flyers, business cards. 97. De-bunk myths related to your business or industry. 98. Share the Top 10 myths surrounding your industry and ask fans to weigh in on them. ©2012|www.socialmediadirectbiz.com 100+ Facebook Page Posting Ideas 99. Highlight unusual ways to use your product or services. 100. Create and share a music video exclusively on your page or if that is too much work, share a favorite music video every week. 101. Each day as you post, ask yourself “WHY” your fans would want to come back to your page. Let that guide you to make your updates interesting and relevant. 102. Ask your fans for feedback. Find out what would they like to see you offer, sell, give to them. ©2012|www.socialmediadirectbiz.com 100+ Facebook Page Posting Ideas Like What You Read? Click here to share it About the Authors: Prerna and Mayank Malik are the owners of Social Media Direct, a digital agency offering cost-effective, result-oriented social media and web content solutions for small business owners. Connect with them: On Facebook On Twitter On the Social Media Direct Blog ©2012|www.socialmediadirectbiz.com [...].. .100+ Facebook Page Posting Ideas Chapter 3 100+ Facebook Page Posting Ideas F irst things first Post daily Period Don’t let your page stagnate for weeks or even, days Chances are that when you come back and share something, it wouldn’t show up in news feeds! 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