If you manage a Facebook Group, you need to be sure you are gathering emails from that group! Facebook owns the group. You own the emails! And having emails open so many marketing doors for you. Here are detailed instructions from Social Media Examiner on how to gather emails from a group.
Facebook Reality
This snippet is from an article from Social Media Examiner about gathering emails from your Facebook Group. Good article! I’ll share it with you shortly. But what I want you to read today in the info here about Facebook – what they own, who they are, how they operate.
“Facebook groups can be an awesome way to share content, engage with your followers, and build your brand. They’re also powerful tools for growing your email list. When running a group is part of your marketing strategy, getting email leads from your group is important for several reasons, the most critical being that you don’t own your Facebook group. Facebook does.
Relying solely on a Facebook group for interacting with members is risky because Facebook can ban your account or shut down your group anytime. Although Facebook doesn’t ban groups or accounts often, a more likely risk is that Facebook could throttle your group’s organic reach. Many group owners (myself included) have noticed Facebook favoring paid traffic over groups’ organic reach.
With these risks in mind, I suggest you plan your audience growth around the worst-case scenario and focus on growing something you own. When you collect email addresses to build your list, you own that list.”
Please keep this reality in mind when you plan your marketing strategy and the phases of it that relate to Facebook. Always know your risks! Facebook is too big to ignore. But you can control your use of their software and their ownership of your data.
How to Use Facebook Groups for Business: A Guide for Marketers
Social Media
Altimeter Group does an annual social media study. This year the results to their question about the “Primary Business Objective” of social media was a surprise. The #1 objective was customer service. The #2 objective was Relationship Building. Increasing sales was way down at #5!! I have the complete report if you would like a copy.
The End of Using Your Facebook Personal Profile for Business
I received a notice from HootSuite which is a tool I use for scheduling social media posts. They are an official Facebook Partner.
HootSuite will no longer allow me to make a post to a personal Facebook profile. So I can make a post and schedule it to any other social media platform. I can schedule to Facebook business pages or groups. But I can’t post to a personal profile.
Why? Facebook is tightening up on people who use personal profiles for business. It has always been against their rules. But since January when the new algorithm came out, they are watching personal profiles more closely. Having HooSuite block personal profile posts is one more step.
PLEASE! Stop making business posts on your personal profile now! Set up a FB business page and use it to promote your business. I know it sometimes seems harder to make a business page work for you. But you need to abide by Facebook’s rules or they will shut down your personal profile. They can turn you off with no notice, with no recourse. You can send complaints and requests to be reinstated but who knows if you’ll get an answer.
If you need help setting up the business page or learning how to use it:
Join my Friday Free-For-All call to ask your questions.
Schedule a one-on-one meeting with me to do the set up together. I can save you time and give you suggestions to make it more beneficial
Could Email Be Better Than Social Media?
“A message is 5x more likely to be seen in email than via Facebook. – Radicati
4.24% of visitors from email marketing buy something as compared to 2.49% of visitors from search engines and 0.59% from social media. – Monetate
72% people prefer to receive promotional content through email, compared to 17% who prefer social media. – MarketingSherpa
Sending four emails in a month instead of one significantly increases the number of consumers opening more than one email – WhoIsHostingThis “Email Deliverability 101.
Email is 40 times more effective at acquiring new customers than Facebook or Twitter. – McKinsey
You are 6x more likely to get a click-through from an email campaign than you are from a tweet.- Campaign Monitor“
Statistics found on https://www.campaignmonitor.com/blog/email-marketing/2016/01/70-email-marketing-stats-you-need-to-know/
Control How Facebook Uses Your Information
Check your settings on Facebook to cut down on how Facebook uses your info and how they sell your info.
From your personal profile,
Click the drop-down arrow on the top right corner and select Settings
Go to Apps and Websites on the left side navigation.
On the Active tab,
Select an app then click the Remove button to deactivate it.
These are 3rd party apps that have access to your Facebook profile, Friends, etc.
Go to Ads > Ad Settings
Click the button at the far right beside Ads based on data from partners
Change to Not allowed
Click the button at the far right beside Ads based on your activity on Facebook Company Products that you see elsewhere
Change to Not Allowed
Click the button at the far right beside Ads that include your social status
Change to No One
How to Easily Create Videos from Your Blog Content
You know I’m a big proponent of using your content in multiple ways in multiple places. This article walks you step-by-step through converting a blog post into a video.
- Videos are powerful with your audience.
- Videos are loved by search engines and social media platforms.
I’m going to use this for some recent Your Computer Lady blogs. Hope you will use the technique too.
How To Cultivate Community with Facebook Groups
Many of you have businesses that would benefit from Facebook Groups. But they are work! How do you grow the group? How do you get people involved? This podcast will give you some real guidance in practical steps.
How To Create a Content Marketing Plan for LinkedIn
Here is an excellent article about how to develop a plan to market with content on LinkedIn. Should you be on LinkedIn? Are you a professional? Do you sell B2B? Is your target market 30-49 year olds or maybe up to 64? Is your target market making over $75,000 a year? Then it’s worth your effort. This article goes step by step on how to get results!
How to Use Facebook to Drive More Traffic to Your Blog
This article does a really nice job of outlining how to use FB posts to drive traffic to your website. They are talking about blogs specifically but the same principles work to drive traffic to any page of your website. We’ve talked about these steps before but I thought it would be good to hear the “lecture” from someone new! LOL
Please take time to read this! If you understand the overall principles, you and I can do a better job implementing the steps. You can call me with any questions this brings up.
Facebook posts can be very effective. But they don’t work as a shoot and splatter technique! They have to be purposeful.
Social Media Examiner article: How to Use Facebook to Drive More Traffic to Your Blog
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