Technology is becoming more and more important for business. More than 17 million Australians have a Facebook profile so it is a great place for your business to be marketing and engaging with existing and potential customers. These presentation slides covers how to:
set up and manage your business Facebook page
use your business Facebook page to share great content and interact with your loyal customers
attract new customers to grow your business through Facebook marketing options, and
measure what is working and what isn’t
3. Session Overview
• Why is now a good time to be using
Facebook to grow your business?
• Your Facebook strategy: Who? What?
How?
• How to create and manage your
Facebook Page
• Marketing on Facebook
• Measuring your Facebook marketing
• What will you investigate further?
7. Source: Smarter Business Ideas – Spring 2013 – “Make a social call”
Facebook – aka ‘the Pub’
• Connect with friends or seek feedback from
customers
• Think ‘cats’ and ‘babies’
• Regular short posts/week – useful and relevant
content, news and events about your business
• Answer questions on status updates and in
Groups
• Provide notifications about your business
• Post: Early morning, during lunch, after work,
before dinner and before bed
• ‘Boost’ posts and pages
• Competitions for “Likes”
14. Building a Facebook Strategic
S Specific
M Measurable
A Attainable
R Relevant
T Timely
15. Building a Facebook Strategic
S Specific
M Measurable
A Attainable
R Relevant
T Timely
• What do you want to
achieve specifically?
“Have more people visit our
website through
Facebook…”
“Be seen as THE industry
expert”
“Be front of mind”
16. Building a Facebook Strategic
S Specific
M Measurable
A Attainable
R Relevant
T Timely
• When and how will you
measure your goals?
“Have more people visit
our websites through
Facebook by 10%”
• Measured through
Google Analytics etc
17. Building a Facebook Strategic
S Specific
M Measurable
A Attainable
R Relevant
T Timely
• Is your goal achievable?
• What is the
benchmark?
• Do you have the
necessary resources?
• Do you have the
necessary skills?
• Do I know how Google
Analytics work?
• Do I know Facebook?
18. Building a Facebook Strategic
S Specific
M Measurable
A Attainable
R Relevant
T Timely
• Is this meaningful for
your organisation?
“Why do I want more
visitors to my website?”
“What will they do when
they visit my website?”
19. Building a Facebook Strategic
S Specific
M Measurable
A Attainable
R Relevant
T Timely
• Is the goal time-bound?
• Is there a due date?
“Have more people visit
our websites through
Facebook by 10% by the
end of April”
21. Image: VELG Training - https://www.facebook.com/VelgTraining
Cloud Computing aka “the Cloud”
Visual
Sincere/Caring
Announcements
Polls/Comps
Discussions
Give to get
22. What should I share?
Your
original
content
Other
people's
content
Interactions
Customers
23. What should I share?
Your
original
content
Other
people's
content
Interactions
Customers
• Content you create
– Blogs
– News
– Videos
– Photos
– Infographics
– Links
– Reports / Papers
– Checklists
26. What should I share?
Your
original
content
Other
people's
content
Interactions
Customers
• Content other people
create related to your
cause
– Articles
– Events
– Government policy
– Reports / Papers
– Infographics
31. What should I share?
Your
original
content
Other
people's
content
Interactions
Customers
• Facebook
– Tagging others in your
posts
– Replying to
comments/posts
– ‘Likes’
34. What should I share?
Your
original
content
Other
people's
content
Interactions
Customers
• Ask questions
• Involve your customers
in your content
• Facebook
– Off-topic posts/memes
38. Image: Digital Capability - https://www.facebook.com/digitalcapability
Image: Business Networking in Australia - https://www.facebook.com/groups/50481628494/
Page vs Group =
Controlled vs Community
53. Sponsor ads
Image: Slam Strategy - Facebook Advertising ticks all the right boxes http://slamstrategy.com.au/facebook-advertising-ticks-all-the-right-boxes-2/
54. Competitions
Image: VELG Training - https://www.facebook.com/VelgTraining
Image: Pure Bliss Massage - https://www.facebook.com/pureblissmobilemassage
55. Marketplace
Image: Facebook Marketplace - http://newsroom.fb.com/news/2016/10/introducing-marketplace-buy-and-sell-with-your-local-community/
“More than 450
million people visit
buy and sell
groups each
month”
*October 2016
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Editor's Notes
Introduce yourself / –
Elearning ebusiness eportfolio consultancy, and supplier of connected and essential services
Managing a community website since 2008, and my own business website from January 2012 so sharing from the perspective of a small business owner, and someone who works with a lot of small businesses, and not a website developer or SEO expert
Also write blog posts on this topic for VV & ePF Australia, and develop small business short courses, including ‘Building and managing a website or blog’, for TAFE Now (TAFE NSW)
Encourage questions / discussion
Download the two word docs – can access slides later
http://bit.ly/EBEC-090616
So why is now a good time to be using Facebook?
Source: Social Media Statistics Australia –
– January 2018 https://www.socialmedianews.com.au/social-media-statistics-australia-january-2018/
Source: Smarter Business Ideas – Spring 2013 – “Make a social call”
http://smarter.telstrabusiness.com/make-a-social-call-media-marketing-relationship-building-how-to-case-studies-why-use-it-experts-tips-how-to-use.htm
Keys to engagement - Love / Lust / Loyalty (all gain points) – more about engagement later
Top 10 Australian FB Pages =
3 x musicians
2 x Act / Model
3 x Experts / Thought leaders / Self helps – fitness (2), Christian evangelist,
1 x Sporting Retail (Motor)
1 x Science
Others include:
Restaurants
Bars / Music / Entertainment venues
Creative concepts – Street Art
Locations (holidays)
How many people have a Facebook business page?
Get people to give you their URL – have a look at them – get people to ‘like’ each others’ pages
Write down on the Facebook Plan information about:
Your ideal customer
How many people have a Facebook business page?
Get people to give you their URL – have a look at them – get people to ‘like’ each others’ pages
Acknowledgement – this slide has been adapted from Ben Teoh’s Digital Enterprise “Social Media for NFP” workshop slides
Your action plan needs to be specific, measurable, attainable, relevant and timely
Use the SMART table handout to create your business’s social media goals
Acknowledgement – this slide has been adapted from Ben Teoh’s Digital Enterprise “Social Media for NFP” workshop slides
Acknowledgement – this slide has been adapted from Ben Teoh’s Digital Enterprise “Social Media for NFP” workshop slides
Acknowledgement – this slide has been adapted from Ben Teoh’s Digital Enterprise “Social Media for NFP” workshop slides
Acknowledgement – this slide has been adapted from Ben Teoh’s Digital Enterprise “Social Media for NFP” workshop slides
Acknowledgement – this slide has been adapted from Ben Teoh’s Digital Enterprise “Social Media for NFP” workshop slides
Content is King when it comes to Facebook so:
What should I share? –
Visual is king
Be sincere/caring
Announce a sale/special offer/event
polls; competitions;
spark a discussion,
provide customer service,
others?
What shouldn’t I share?
Just info about you / your business
no flogging;
Acknowledgement – this slide has been adapted from Ben Teoh’s Digital Enterprise “Social Media for NFP” workshop slides
Acknowledgement – this slide has been adapted from Ben Teoh’s Digital Enterprise “Social Media for NFP” workshop slides
Acknowledgement – this slide has been adapted from Ben Teoh’s Digital Enterprise “Social Media for NFP” workshop slides
Acknowledgement – this slide has been adapted from Ben Teoh’s Digital Enterprise “Social Media for NFP” workshop slides
Acknowledgement – this slide has been adapted from Ben Teoh’s Digital Enterprise “Social Media for NFP” workshop slides
Getting people to ‘like’ your page - add your FB page details to your website, promotional information, stationery, have a ‘Like’ us poster in your business,
managing posts - ie pinning to the top or highlighting
deleting and hiding posts and comments ( do not delete a bad post or comment unless its derogatory )