Facebook Marketing: Leverage Social Media to Grow Your Business

Profit from Facebook!

High-Impact, Low-Cost Social Marketing That Works!

With more than 80,000,000 affluent, savvy members, Facebook is todays fastest-growing marketing opportunity! But traditional marketing methods wont work here. In Facebook Marketing, best-selling author Steven Holzner reveals new social marketing techniques that do work, and shows you exactly how to make the most of them. Using true case studies, Holzner introduces powerful new techniques from todays smartest Facebook marketers...and helps you avoid pitfalls that can cost you money and credibility. No matter what business youre in, youll learn how to create bottom-up, viral Facebook marketing programs that achieve maximum results at minimum cost!

• Crafting your Facebook profile for maximum impact
• Getting into the Facebook community: crucial dos and donts
• Joining the right Facebook Groupsor starting your own
• Creating a Facebook blog that attracts paying customers
• Promoting products and services with free Facebook Marketplace classifieds
• Hosting your own Facebook events: from company picnics to concerts
• Successfully advertising on Facebook, without overspending
• Promoting your business within todays most popular Facebook applications
• Tracking the results of your advertising
• Using brand-new viral video marketing techniques
• Driving even more Web traffic to your Facebook pages
• Building your own Facebook applications

Introduction 1

1 Targeting Your Profile 5

Welcome to Facebook Marketing 5

Welcome to Facebook 7

Getting Started with Facebook 8

The Profile Tab 12

Across the Top 13

The Search Bar 15

Name, Photo, Networks, and Status 18

The Mini-Feed Section 19

The Friends and Friends in Other Networks Sections 19

The Photos Section 21

The Groups Section 23

The Information Section 24

The Education and Work Section 24

The Gifts Section 25

The Wall Section 25

Editing Your Profile 25

Setting Profile Privacy 27

The Friends Tab 31

Searching for Friends 31

Managing Your Friends 33

Creating Friend Lists 35

The Inbox Tab 37

Reading Messages 38

Avoiding Spam 39

Reading Notifications 39

Composing Messages 40

Getting Help 41

2 Facebook Groups 45

Welcome to Facebook Groups 45

Messaging Your Members 46

A Word About Spam 46

Joining Facebook Groups 47

What Groups Are Available? 47

Taking a Look at a Group 51

How Do I Join a Group? 54

Which Groups Can I Join? 54

Creating Your Own Facebook Groups 55

Creating Your Group 57

Customizing Your Group 58

Inviting Friends to Join Your Group 61

Seeing Your New Group 65

Managing Your New Group 67

Deleting a Group 70

3 Creating Your Own Pages 71

Welcome to Facebook Pages 71

Pages from a Marketing Perspective 72

Viral Marketing with Pages 73

Page Authenticity 74

Finding Pages 75

Searching for Pages 76

Browsing Pages by Type 78

Browsing All Pages 79

Becoming a Fan of a Page 80

Examining a Page 83

Sharing a Page 85

Creating Your Own Page 88

Examining Your New Page 92

Editing Your Page 94

Updating Your Fans 98

Promoting Your Page 99

4 Hosting Your Own Facebook Events 101

Welcome to Facebook Events 101

All About Facebook Events 102

Checking Out Your Friends Events 103

Taking a Look at an Event 104

The Information Section 106

The Description Section 107

The Other Information Section 109

The Photos,Video, and Posted Items Section 109

The Confirmed Guests Section 109

The Other Invites Section 109

The Wall 110

The Event Type and Admins Section 110

Adding an Event to Your Event List 110

Browsing for Events 113

Searching for Events 113

Creating an Event 115

Customizing an Event 117

Uploading the Image for the Event 118

Setting Event Options 118

Setting Event Access 119

Inviting People to Your Event 119

Seeing Your Event 122

Managing and Publicizing Your Event 124

Message All Guests 1...

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