subject: Let Your Business Gain Momentum With Facebook Promotions [print this page] With 845 active million users around the world, Facebook has emerged as an amazing platform for global marketing and social networking for businesses. Whether a brand is established or a start up, Facebook marketing tactics can be streamlined into marketing strategies of most of the businesses. There are several small and simple ways to boost your brand image using Facebook. Interestingly, the biggest brands of the world are using custom Facebook applications to promote themselves. Lets explore some amazing Facebook promotional tactics:
1. Contest Engines
Contest is a traditionally tried and tested methodology of engaging with the audience. Many brands have been utilizing this methodology for many years and in innovative ways to entice its customers.
Facebook contests are amazing means of increasing visibility of brand, getting your content shared massively and engaging with a large number of fans. There are varieties of contests that can be executed to lure your audience. Some of the most followed Facebook contests are:
Photo contest
Text contest
Quiz contest
Video contest
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2. Blog Promotion
Content sharing has always been the first choice of the online businesses for promoting themselves on internet. Blog promotion is a method of getting connected with your targeted users by the means of informative and appealing content. Below listed are four best Facebook applications that can be effectively used for blog promotion:
Networked Blog Apps- This application is shown in your profile and displays your blogs as well as any blog you like to read.
Notes (Default APP): This application is displayed on the right side of your profile. It enables you to share your content or RSS feeds and view RSS feeds shared by others.
Social RSS: Social RSS enable you to automatically place a new/recent blog post onto a Facebook Pages Wall.
Simplaris Blogcast: It is a fast and simple application for bloggers. Some of the interesting features of this app are automatic updates, profile info and custom tab; news feed integration, supports Facebook Pages and blog roll.
3. Viral Marketing
Viral marketing focuses on spreading marketing messages with an aim of rapid multiplication of message. Most of the experts indulged in Facebook marketing utilize many different viral features to explode business message to thousands and millions. Some of the popular viral features used in custom Facebook applications are: Auto Wall Posts, Facebook Comments, Facebook Like, Fan Gate, Facebook Share and Integration with other social networks and Email Service Providers.
There are many simple things that you can learn to promote your business using Facebook. However, when you want quick and effective long term results, hiring professional marketers is the best option. These professionals know how to integrate promotional techniques and tricks to give promotional momentum to your business.
