Remember when Facebook was something that only college students had access to? That's a time that has long passed. These days everybody has a Facebook account-even your ninety year old grandmother is on it! This has made Facebook a great place for many internet marketers to sell their wares and try and drive interest. There are lots of ways you can go about doing this but one of the best approaches is to build a "fan" page for your company. Certainly, it's not enough to simply create the page to generate sales and gain attention. Use these tips to help you increase your Facebook popularity (and grow your business).

To help give your visitors a better user experience, Facebook has apps that can improve your fan page dramatically. Would you like to do live streaming video on your page? This is possible with one of the apps. Even if people are not signed up with Facebook and they find your fan page, they can still watch the streaming video which will allow you to promote it to virtually anyone. Why not do a live stream introducing people to your fan page and encouraging the people who haven't "liked it" already to become fans. By simply asking them to "like" the page, they may not - however, you can provide an incentive that may motivate them.

Send a message to your subscribers. You need to make sure they are aware of your new Facebook fan page. Ensure that you insert a link in the message you send out and ask that people give you a "like." You should probably consider offering them a bigger incentive to do it. You can run a contest or ask them to post comments. If people like your page and mention the email, you could offer them a freebie. Something inexpensive should suffice because it doesn't need to be anything major.

Make sure that your Facebook fan page is listed in the signature of your email. Your signature might be getting quite lengthy if you already have your website address and contact information. Still, one more line of URL for your Facebook page won't take up a whole lot more room. It's a great way to let people know that you use the social media service and that they can like it to show their support. This way you'll be telling every single person with whom you correspond about the page. Some people will "like" you simply because they enjoy doing it! Culturally speaking, Facebook has integrated itself with our society. Here to stay, Facebook has championed its way past flash in the pan companies like MySpace and seems to be here for the long run. Many people that are aspiring Internet Marketer will agree that having a Facebook fan page is something that adds to your credibility on the Internet. Although it is difficult to do at first, through your consistent efforts and what we have presented in this article, you should be able to boost your Facebook fan page by getting people to "like" it.

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