Facebook’s steps to business success

Facebook’s Steps to Business Success
Build your Facebook Page
Create a Page to build lasting relationships with your existing customers and to promote your business.
Pages allow you to:

• Express your identity with features like cover photos and your business’s key milestones

• Add information about your business and respond to your customers in a quick, more personal way
To build your Page, simply:

• Visit www.facebook.com/ads/page to create your Page

• Start building your fan base by inviting friends, family and employees to “like” your Page

• Get your vanity URL at www.facebook.com/username and promote it on all your marketing material

• Click here for more information on Pages: ads.ak.facebook.com/ads/FacebookAds/Pages_Overview.pdf



Connect with new fans with multiple well-targeted Facebook Ads
Once you have created your Page, acquire new fans for your Page with Facebook Ads.
Facebook Ads allow you to:

• Grow your fan base by encouraging people to like your Page by offering valuable benefits

• Reach a large audience with a well targeted Ad campaign
To create Facebook Ads, simply:

• Go to www.facebook.com/ads/create to set up your Ads

• Create at least four versions of your Ads so you can experiment with different images, calls to action and messaging

to understand what Ads are performing the best

• Test a variety of target groups based on criteria such as age, gender, likes, interests, location, etc.

• Regularly review the performance of your Ads by visiting www.facebook.com/ads/manage

Engage your fans with quality content
Develop a posting strategy to engage with your fans on an ongoing basis and increase your posts’ visibility.
Your posting strategy allows you to:

• Give your Page an authentic and consistent voice and encourage people to like and share your posts

• Drive sales by offering special deals and giveaways to bring people into your store
To develop your posting strategy, simply:

• Create a conversational calendar to help plan the timing and themes of your posts (we suggest 2–3 posts per week)

• Post engaging content like photos, videos and questions to encourage fan participation

• Highlight important and relevant stories with our new star function and use the new “pinning” function to anchor the

most important stories to the top of your Page for up to 7 days

• Reach and engage more of your fans by sponsoring Page posts at www.facebook.com/ads/manage/adscreator

Influence the friends of fans by promoting social activity from your Page
Extend the reach of your posts by promoting your fans’ interactions on your Page to their friends on Facebook.
Promoting your Page’s social activity allows you to:

• Drive awareness and promote fan interactions with your business

• Increase the visibility of your fans’ engagement with your posts or your Page to generate word-of-mouth promotion
To promote social activity from your Page, simply:

• Click www.facebook.com/ads/manage/adscreator

• Select what you would like to promote; this can be 1) a post on your Page, 2) when people Like your Page, or 3)
when people Like a post on your Page

• Ensure your Page has a minimum of 100 fans so you have enough reach for your campaign

• Regularly review, pause and optimize your campaigns at www.facebook.com/ads/manage