Facebook Fanpage Overload
You will see many FanPages out there being updated by Twitter as well as the administrators 8 or more times a day. What happens to those updates? Do you really think they are being read or well received? If you think they are, you are sadly mistaken.
FanPages that have massive updates daily end up being put on "hide"status of those who have "Liked" the page. Most people initial reason for getting on Facebook is for the social aspect and not shopping around for services or products; that is secondary. To be most effective in utilizing your fanpage follow these few easy courtesies:
Make your updates fun. They do not always need to be business related.
Offer something such as an insight to your product or service in a form of a tip or fact.
Keep your updates to a minimum of 3 a day to keep from being hid by those who have liked your page.
Don't get stale. If you find yourself posting the same thing repeatedly, you are better off not to post anything. That is the quickest way to be hidden by a viewer!
By all means share your specials that you are currently running, but once a day to every other day is efficient.
A great rule of thumb is, if on your fanpage wall you see the same update more then once, it has been posted too frequently. Keep your wall fresh. Think of it as changing your clothes. You wouldn't put on the same clothes you wore the day before unless they went through the wash cycle right. So don't post the same update unless it has been buried on your wall.
Remember, your fans can and will complain if they feel you are spamming them and to many, spamming can merely mean annoying the hell out of them with excessive updates. It really isn't worth losing your page over!
Published by Deana Marshall (Baconator)
Baconator is a little bit of this and a little bit of that and not 100% a bit of anything! View profile
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6 Comments
Post a CommentI was unaware, thank you for the update.
I don't Facebook. I know. I'm behind the times.
Hi Genie! How are you.. Hope all is good!
You are so right!
:-) Thanks Don! ;-)
You are such a good egg to publish this.