Promoting Each Other's Facebook Pages - mark II!

Chet Zar

Hi all,

A little while back there was a thread on the old Marketing forum: 'Let's promote each other's fan pages'. Tried to add our page there and couldn't realise why I couldn't add a reply until I saw the forum was discontinued! I thought it might be a good idea to revive the thread as it seemed to be very popular.

EDIT: This thread will likely work a lot better if I set it up like the old thread - i.e. as a link exchange. So this is how this thread show now work. Sorry for any confusion!

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Hey,

Was just thinking that it would be great (and free) promotion if we listed our Facebook fan pages and then everyone could "Suggest to Friends" for each other.

Rather than just going and suggesting everyone's page, and then getting annoyed if they don't suggest yours - how about you just post your Fan Page URL, then people can PM you and agree for the 2 of you to exchange a "suggestion to all your friends".

To make it easier for all of us, below is instructions to select all friends at once:

You can invite all your friends without clicking them all, by using this simple technique. It works in FireFox, Chrome and Safari Browser but might not work when using Internet Explorer. Just copy this code:

Code:

javascript:elms=document.getElementById('friends').getElementsByTagName('li');for(var fid in elms){if(typeof elms[fid] === 'object'){fs.click(elms[fid]);}}

After you copy the code above, go to our page and click "Suggest to friends" button and paste the code in the browsers address bar and hit enter on your keyboard. Finally, click "Send Invitations" after all your friends are highlighted. That's it! Your done...

Looking forward to us all having more facebook fans!

MrMatisse

Any clicks on the like button at the bottom of the homepage at www.turfbucket.com also appreciated

Macers

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Mix-Media/120493991349923

Liked the above ;P

suey71

Here's mine also,

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Happy-Jane/105242452886101

Click "Like" and you could win a FREE prezzy for the girl in your life for

Valentines Day.

Thanks.

MrMatisse

Macers wrote: »

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Mix-Media/120493991349923

Liked the above ;P

Very cool portfolio

Macers

MrMatisse wrote: »

Very cool portfolio

Thanks

moggie4000

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Morgan-Sports-Solutions/175229539169665

tombull82

Hi Guys/Gals

I've just Liked the above links.
Here is mine.. http://www.facebook.com/adspace

Don't forget my site is free and helps with your SEO link-backs etc.

Tom

PSKdesign

Hi, all who have FB links here got a ''LIKE'' from me. I would apreciate if I get a hit from you here:
http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/PSK-Design/127201913982582
thanks to all
cheers
Pat

PSKdesign

tombull82 wrote: »

Hi Guys/Gals

I've just Liked the above links.
Here is mine.. http://www.facebook.com/adspace

Don't forget my site is free and helps with your SEO link-backs etc.

Tom

Nice site Tom, I will definitely use it

MrMatisse

Lets keep this going

suey71

Happy Jane just liked all you guys. Thanks for the links lads, much needed.

Liked all the above. Here's mine

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Spiralli-Business-Solutions/425460200493

I've been meaning to devote some attention to facebook for a while now. Must get a competition going...

Acoshla

Deleted User wrote: »

I've been meaning to devote some attention to facebook for a while now. Must get a competition going...

Facebook has been great for my business, I get most of my work from there now, which is mad really. This time last year I had just started it and had 33 friends and family as fans, now I have over a thousand, it's really worth putting some effort into constructing interesting posts and doing the odd competition if possible.

Poppydee

http://www.facebook.com/deedesignkitchens
cheers

Macers

I've liked all the above...

Atlas_IRL

http://www.facebook.com/fitzpatricksshoes

Ive liked all the ones posted.

Chet Zar

Hi guys,

Got a couple of suggestions that this thread could work out better for everyone if it operated more like the older thread - i.e. with a more clearly defined structure. Have a quick read of the OP again and reach out to fellow posters for any desired link exchanges. Should work more fairly and effectively for everyone in terms of getting extra likes.

Thanks!

writhen

"Liked" the above

here's mine

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Buildtec/131216536923632?v=app_4949752878&ref=sgm

http://www.facebook.com/Soundproofing

gg1

If anyone would like to swap with me my page is

http://www.facebook.com/First1Date.ie

All 'likes' appreciated!!

niall_walsh

liking all posted

Here goes

www.facebook.com/tullyvin

Thanks Folks

Kent Brockman

www.facebook.com/prints4gifts

This is mine, thanks.

cormie

Hi everyone, so are people doing the PM/exchange idea? I guess that would be best if you think the page would suit a large portion of your friends as to not to annoy your own friends.

I guess everyone might need a man with a van at some stage, so here's mine

www.facebook.com/VanTasks

Also looking to use it a bit more in the future so any friend suggestions would be appreciated

-Chris-

This is mine. Not much to like yet, just trying to get the 25 likes needed to reserve facebook.com/bgofireland

http://www.facebook.com/pages/BG-of-Ireland/119881734746364?ref=sgm

Cheers!


P.S. I've liked all the above

Poppydee

liked all of them!

MrMatisse

Bump!

robinph

From looking at the Facebook terms it appears that you are not allowed a personal account as well a a business account or they will kick you off. Is it possible to keep the business page created under you personal account completely seperate?

My real name is obviously not a secret to anyone that I'd be doing business with, but I don't want the two worlds to be connected.

MrMatisse

I doubt they would find out or else everyone here is screwed!

cormie

Is it not possible anymore to "suggest to friends" for pages that aren't your own? I can only "Suggest to friends" on my own VanTasks page, but I can't "suggest to friends" on anyone elses page?? What's the best way to suggest somebody elses page, to my own friends does anyone know?

Poppydee

I suppose you could share(bottom left hand corner) with a personal invite?

Although I become a 'fan' of the above these sites I dont get posts showing in my newsfeeds, is that something to do with my own settings or does it vary from page to page?

PaulPinnacle

robinph wrote: »

Is it possible to keep the business page created under you personal account completely seperate?

This is the default behaviour.

While 'technically' they are directly linked (e.g. your account administers and edits the page etc.), there is no obvious link between the two for any external parties. Assuming you don't actively post on the page, I'd have no way of knowing that you were the owner of the page.

Poppydee wrote: »

I suppose you could share(bottom left hand corner) with a personal invite?

+1. If you click the share option, there's a sub option to "send as a message instead" (or something close to that).

Poppydee wrote: »

Although I become a 'fan' of the above these sites I dont get posts showing in my newsfeeds, is that something to do with my own settings or does it vary from page to page?

It could be your settings, there is an option in there to block/stop them showing.

If you click on the "Edit Options" at the bottom of your news feed, there's an option there to show 'all' or 'ones you interact with most' (for friends and pages). If you don't frequently check the page, post, interact, etc. this might be filtering it out (also shows why you need to encourage interaction on your FB page, not just the initial likes).

(Slight aside, but when checking the wording of the 'edit options' I was shocked at just how many seriously irritating apps I have in my blocked list. Seriously making me question some of my friends!)

Homer

Super idea for a thread guys! Some great pages so far and I'm getting ideas as I like each one for different reasons.
Here's mine http://www.facebook.com/pages/L5-iPhone-Remote/123325707736785 It's fairly new so any c&c welcomed.
Cheers.

bonkers1

Is there anywhere to promote your business on boards.ie

rooster108

loving it!!

http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/pages/RoCKeR-Foods/179851523516

-Chris-

Just a question,

I liked 16 pages before posting my link (a week ago).

At the moment I have 9 likes on my page, two of which I can already account for.

It seems this thread is very firmly weighted in favour of the pages further up the thread, which barely seems fair.

What's the story, people?

Kinetic^

-Chris- wrote: »

Just a question,

I liked 16 pages before posting my link (a week ago).

At the moment I have 9 likes on my page, two of which I can already account for.

It seems this thread is very firmly weighted in favour of the pages further up the thread, which barely seems fair.

What's the story, people?

I'm one of those on there. I've just revisited your page and there doesn't seem to be a "suggest to friends" link on your page or perhaps I'm having a Stevie Wonder moment.

cormie

I'm getting a bit confused with the whole facebook pages thing myself.

Also, is there a way to comment on something using your page rather than personal profile? So for example, if the IKEA page says something, I'd like to comment as VanTasks as opposed to cormie (well, my personal profile!).

Kinetic^

No you can't cormie, not unless you set up your company as an individual profile.

cormie

Thanks for that, if I did that though, it would just be a "friend" as opposed to having a like button and everything like that, yeah? So there wouldn't be the review section and everything on the page?

Kinetic^

Nope and you'd have to confirm everybody as a friend rather then have people just "like" it and then be able to post.

cormie

Thanks for clearing that up, that's a bit annoying, would be handy if you could comment on pages your own page is a fan page of without it showing up as a personal comment.

Kinetic^

Yeah, damn facebook preventing our spam!

ronaneire

robinph wrote: »

From looking at the Facebook terms it appears that you are not allowed a personal account as well a a business account or they will kick you off. Is it possible to keep the business page created under you personal account completely seperate?

My real name is obviously not a secret to anyone that I'd be doing business with, but I don't want the two worlds to be connected.

Your allowed to have a FB account for yourself and a FB page for your business.

I liked everyone's so here is mine if everyone could like

http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Water-4-You/123467047714252

Thanks,

Ro

PaulPinnacle

Kinetic^ wrote: »

No you can't cormie, not unless you set up your company as an individual profile.

... which is a breach of the FB T&C's, so not worth it imho.

You can add other pages to your 'favourite pages' on your business page, but you can't interact with others in the same ways you can with a profile. Having said that, FB are pushing to monitize the site as much as possible and business pages are to the fore of that, so who knows what changes will be made in the future (look at the recent page changes when merging a place page and business page).

Kinetic^

With that, I just got an email saying that there's been an update for facebook pages. You can now post on other people's pages as your business page. Cormie, ask whether or not I'll win the euromillions please.

cormie

Just came here to post same

Hi cormie,
Facebook pages are getting an updated layout and several new features to help you engage with your fans. Here's some of what you'll be getting:
# Notifications when fans interact with your page or posts
# A place to showcase photos along the top of your page
# A news feed for your page
# The ability to Like and post on other pages as your page
Preview your page and you'll be given the option to upgrade early. All pages will automatically be upgraded on March 10.
Here is this week's summary for your Facebook Page:

Hows that for coincidence!

cormie

I've been messing about with my facebook page for the past hour actually and clicking the "preview" button in the email I got doesn't give me the opportunity to upgrade so I'm not sure how I can upgrade now

cormie

found it, http://www.facebook.com/pages/status/

bernyh

Hi

good idea guys

I make handmade cake toppers.... based in Dublin


www.facebook.com/happycaketopper

mention on my wall that ur from boards n I will reciprocate the like!! xx

cormie

have been trying out the "use facebook as VanTasks" and it's exactly the way it should be really!

PaulPinnacle

cormie wrote: »

Hows that for coincidence!

Heh, if I'd actually done my homework before commenting yesterday, there were some announcements around about this (that I was totally unaware of). Hopefully soon they'll also add the ability to remove competitor adds from your pages, that's a real gripe of mine with business pages.

Just take care in rushing for the upgrade/change. New releases always have a few initial bugs, this won't be any different. One that has already emerged, is an unintended change in tab size (from the 520 px width to a 493 px width). This is described by the FB team as a 'bug', so hopefully we'll see it revert again shortly. Not a big deal if you've a relatively simple page, but if you've spent time setting up custom tabs for the old size layouts then take care upgrading.

On the other side of it, be sure to keep an even closer eye on the management of your pages. This will no doubt lead to a surge in spammy crap from questionable page owners, so try not to let them hit your pages.