how to use facebook to grow your business

How to Use Facebook to grow your business: the top 6 secrets

1. Promote your business in your profile without being pushy:
   
   Give a slight mention of your business in your profile without sounding too much of yourself or sounding over-promotional. You also don't want to be seen as a link spammer
2. Promote your business in your profile without being pushy:
   
   Give a slight mention of your business in your profile without sounding too much of yourself or sounding over-promotional. You also don't want to be seen as a link spammer
3. Respond to any friend requests and carefully send your own invitations:
   
   Send A Welcome Message To Your New Friends. There is no automated way to do this that I have found yet so we have to do it by hand which is a little lame but it's effective.
   
   When someone requests to be your friend, send them a little message saying "Thanks for adding me.....blah blah blah." Hope you get the point
   Social sites are all about interacting with people but not many people do it.
   
   WARNING: Be careful about using the message feature too much. You will get a warning Pop-up by Facebook if you message too much in a short time.
4. Respond to any friend requests and carefully send your own invitations:
   
   Send A Welcome Message To Your New Friends. There is no automated way to do this that I have found yet so we have to do it by hand which is a little lame but it's effective.
   
   When someone requests to be your friend, send them a little message saying "Thanks for adding me.....blah blah blah." Hope you get the point
   Social sites are all about interacting with people but not many people do it.
   
   WARNING: Be careful about using the message feature too much. You will get a warning Pop-up by Facebook if you message too much in a short time.
5. Use the Profile Html application on Facebook to build your list: That's add the "Profile HTML" application to your profile page.
   
   With it, you can add any html code you like into a small box in your profile page.
   I have an opt-in form on mine which I suggest you do too so you get people onto your email list.
   
   If you aren't building an email list, then you might want to add a banner ad there
   and link to it with your affiliate link.
6. Use the Profile Html application on Facebook to build your list: That's add the "Profile HTML" application to your profile page.
   
   With it, you can add any html code you like into a small box in your profile page.
   I have an opt-in form on mine which I suggest you do too so you get people onto your email list.
   
   If you aren't building an email list, then you might want to add a banner ad there
   and link to it with your affiliate link.
7. Create and join Facebook groups:Any Facebook member can make a group on their topics of interest.
   
   When you start a group on Facebook, you can invite members to join the group through your Facebook friends list, your Yahoo contacts, gmail contacts etc to share their thoughts, viewpoints contribute to the group.
   
   You can easily search Facebook for groups on your topic and related ones. In each of these groups, you can post a message on the group Wall or debate board, or you may use the Post a Link feature to inform the group's members of your group
8. Create and join Facebook groups:Any Facebook member can make a group on their topics of interest.
   
   When you start a group on Facebook, you can invite members to join the group through your Facebook friends list, your Yahoo contacts, gmail contacts etc to share their thoughts, viewpoints contribute to the group.
   
   You can easily search Facebook for groups on your topic and related ones. In each of these groups, you can post a message on the group Wall or debate board, or you may use the Post a Link feature to inform the group's members of your group
9. Comment on other people's stuff: Don't be too busy to post only your stuff.That's just not cool.
   
   It's easy to give a 'thumbs up' to someone's news or comment on it. Afterall, facebook is a social networking tool.
10. Comment on other people's stuff: Don't be too busy to post only your stuff.That's just not cool.
    
    It's easy to give a 'thumbs up' to someone's news or comment on it. Afterall, facebook is a social networking tool.
11. Adhere to Facebook terms of service:
    
    I know this sounds very obvious but you shouldn't shoot yourself on the toe by giving in to any temptations to flout the Facebook TOS unless you want to see facebook people snorting fire.
    
    For example, you shouldn't use your business name as the profile name. instead, you can create a fan page for your business
12. Adhere to Facebook terms of service:
    
    I know this sounds very obvious but you shouldn't shoot yourself on the toe by giving in to any temptations to flout the Facebook TOS unless you want to see facebook people snorting fire.
    
    For example, you shouldn't use your business name as the profile name. instead, you can create a fan page for your business