I recently returned from attending Ali Brown’s Online Success Blueprint Workshop in LA (which was fantastic to say the least!) and whilst there we also heard from Mari Smith who is a leading expert in Facebook marketing. Below you will find some of the facts and tips I gathered from Mari’s presentation. I also highly recommend you visit this link to get Mari’s Facebook Tips Report which goes into even more depth!

Here are a few of the facts about Facebook;

• 125 million active members (Wow!!!)
• It is estimated there will be 500 million members by 2011 (this is massive growth!!)
• Facebook is the 4th most trafficked website in the world
• Facebook is the most used photo-sharing platform online, it is even beating Flickr
• 30 million photos every day!!!
• Members on Facebook have an average age of 35
• There are more members with degrees, they are more mature and have more money (compared to other sites like MySpace)

 Four Tips to get more attention on Facebook

1. Connect with leaders in your industry. Search them out on Facebook and send a friend request with a personal note. A personal note gets you more attention and shows you are not just sending friend requests to everyone possible!
2. Get your photo taken with famous people and/or experts in your industry and tag them in your photos. This will then show up on their profile and in the activities feed (list of recent activities in your network). Mari calls this ‘Viral Visibility’.
3. Add a Facebook page to your profile - go to the ‘Advertising’ link at the bottom the screen when logged in to Facebook and click on ‘Advertising’.
4. Join relevant groups that cover your topic and/or industry and make regular comments and post content. Great for visibility.

by Belinda Jackson

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