Why Facebook Fan Pages should be your start in social media
Posted by Patrick Murphy on Mon, Feb 14, 2011
Is Facebook the first step for social media?
If you’re a business owner with a Facebook page, you have made the right first steps towards navigating the labyrinth that is social media. Of all the social media forums, Facebook is without question the most popular, the most entrenched and the most rewarding in terms of functions offered to businesses. So advanced is the Facebook system, that used correctly, it can be used to set up and run successful businesses.
Nothing wrong with a Facebook Page
Most businesses choose to create a business page when setting up their initial presence on Facebook. There is nothing wrong with this as a business page will allow you to promote the business whilst also building up a database of friends / customers / prospective customers who are interested in the business products or services. The Facebook business page will also the company to convert friends into group members which then makes it possible to mail group members en masse and set up discussion forums.
Facebook Fans are the way to go
There is one catch to all this activity though. The number of friends a business page can have is limited to 5,000. Once a business reaches the 5,000 mark, it must set up a new page or set up a Facebook Fan page. Facebook fan pages were created specifically to cater for those clients who are on Facebook to attract thousands of fans and are therefore restricted by the options on a normal Facebook business page.
Is Facebook limited?
The number of fans a business can have is limitless and totally down to the popularity of the business, product, service or brand. Of course Facebook can also be used to drive the popularity of a business, product, service or brand. Just take a look at some of the fan pages on Facebook. The diversity is wide proving that with the right thinking, any business can benefit from a Facebook fan page.
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