Facebook Marketing

[jaggiegill]

Facebook is a social utility that connects people with friends and others who work, study and live around them.

I've never thought of promoting my business on Facebook before at all because I don't see it as a place many business owners go looking for help with their business... I've just been using it to keep in touch with friends and connect with people I haven't seen in years.

You wont know the prices to advertise unless you have an advertisers account, but from what I can tell , the starting price is not cheap at all! You need to be the Tiger Woods of marketing to afford such rates, but how about the free way of marketing just like other social networking sites?

Myspace is having it's share of marketers but I've yet to see one on Facebook.

Advertisers do not LOVE college kids. They're part of the mix but in general their income is low, they don't buy in the numbers that those in 24-49 do, because they don't have money and their soulless American lives don't yet revolve around buying stuff other then beer and pizza. (partially kidding)

Would you explore into this untapped market , or is there anyone that has tried marketing with this networking utility before ?

[braver55b]

[MrCat]

It is a nice way to draw traffic to your site. But you don't get targetted traffic from it.

[Marc Meole]

I've seen a few reports on marketing using facebook...I've looked into it...nothing there really peaks my interest...

[annalaurabrown]

From my experience, it is a great way to let your friends and family and other acquaintances, espcially those with whom you may have limited contact or lost track off aware of what you are doing.

[johndilbeck]

I like Facebook for social networking and keeping in contact with some far-flung friends and associates.

I used MySpace for much the same thing. I tried business networking there and met some nice people, but Myspace doesn't want us to promote our businesses there.

When they changed the coding on my profile so I couldn't link to some business sites, I decided it was time to move my business activities off their site.

I didn't particularly like Adlandpro. I do some business networking on Ryze. I've joined quite a few other networking sites but didn't like the systems or the people I was meeting on some of them.

On Labor Day, I found Apsense and so far I really like it. They want people to promote their businesses and make it easy to do so, especially with the the free business center they provide for all members.

I'm in the process of moving most of my business-related networking to Apsense and I'm looking forward to seeing how it develops over time. They're quite new, but they're starting to grow.

I've done a little networking on LinkedIn and have met some high-quality contacts there, but the system is difficult to use and rather restrictive.

PowerfulIntentions.com was a very good site, but they went through some growing pains awhile back and I lost most of what I'd built there. To get the most of their service, you have to be a paid member.

I've joined PlugIM, Bumpzee, Peopleized, and a few others, but they don't offer what I'm looking for, but others tell me they're dong well on some of them.

I think we'll continue to see an explosion of these sites, but the question remains: Are they effective in helping us promote our businesses and make more sales and can we afford to advertise on them.

Act on your dream!

JD