Is A Facebook Group Beneficial For A Wedding Business?

Once you’ve created a thriving Facebook page the next step is to create a group. The benefit of having a group comes down to creating a place that allows for more personal interaction. While a Facebook page is focused on promoting your wedding brand, a group gives you a great place to share advice, connect brides, and generally create a friendly place where brides can interact with you as a person, not just a business. For more ideas on how to use Facebook groups for business check out this article by Amy Porterfield.

Large businesses use a group for ongoing interaction with their clients, enabling them to turn one time buyers into long term clients. The benefit for a wedding business isn’t quite a simple. While it might be helpful for Photographers who shoot more than just weddings, it might not be quite as beneficial for someone who sells custom wedding favors, or a wedding planner. What do you think? Would a Facebook group be beneficial for your wedding business, or a waste of time?

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The Pros and Cons Of Facebook Sponsored Posts For A Wedding Business

There is a ton of Buzz around Facebook in regards to Sponsored posts so here is the news on them. A sponsored post isn’t just a regular status update coming from your wedding business Facebook page. Instead it’s a blending of a status post and paid advertising that allows your post to show up on more of your followers walls.

Does this benefit you? According to Christine Shivecharan the main businesses that will be able to use and benefit from Facebook sponsored posts are those with at least 400 followers. If you are one of those businesses you have a great tool for getting your voice heard on a daily basis by your followers. If not, well you either need to find a way to get more followers or stick to normal Facebook marketing. So what do you think? Is this a great new tool from Facebook, or just another waste of time?

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Setting A Default Landing Page On Your Facebook Timeline Page

 

WelcomeThere was a time when the best kept secret of Facebook pages was the fact that you could set up a custom tab with an opt-in form to your newsletter and set it as your default landing page. Businesses loved this as it boosted their fan base, and built their list at the same time.

The switch to Facebook Timeline pages has worried a lot of businesses as it seemed like this functionality was gone. According to the awesome article by All Facebook there are still ways to pretty much accomplish the same thing, just in a different format. Make sure to read their article to find out how to add this to your page!

Why do you as a wedding business want a different default landing page? Quite simply because it allows brides who land on your page the opportunity to get a better, more professional feel for your business, opt-in to your newsletter to stay connected, and gives them the possibility of getting a freebie from you for doing so (which boosts their loyalty to your business). Have you set a default landing page for your wedding business Facebook page and if so how did it work for you? Comment to let us know!

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How To Customize A Facebook Page

 

Working_At_ComputerThere are a lot of layers to what you can do with a Facebook page. You can keep it simple, or you can add all the bells and whistles and make your page sparkle, driving traffic and leads to your main wedding website.

One of marketer’s favorite ways to do this used to be by creating a custom tab landing page and requiring people to like their page before gaining access to the content. While the first is no longer an option you can still set the mood with your cover photo welcoming people to your page as soon as they Like it. These two things work together like magic.

The Cover photo enables you to give your Facebook page a custom flair, exposing people to your brand image. If you add a requirement for brides to like your page before they can access the content it boosts the number of likes, and therefore your Facebook audience. For details on how to set up your page so that brides have to like your page in order to see your content in the new Facebook Timeline format check out this informative article by R.J. LaCount. What do you think?

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How To Set Up Your Facebook Timeline Business Page

 

DeskThere is a lot more to setting up a Facebook business page than meets the eye. It is easy, you just have to know exactly what you are doing to have you page jump out at the potential lead who Likes your page.

Something that Lawrence Chan points out in his article on his blog Tofurious is that the new cover photo cannot include marketing on it. You can however include your business name and tagline. Remember, it’s the photos and writing style that capture a bride’s attention on your Facebook wedding business page, so make the most of it! Make sure you are using the correct size photos to make it look professional. What do you think of the new Facebook Timeline page format?

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Why Brides Want To Follow You On Facebook

 

Mixed_CoupleUnderstanding why brides will like your Facebook business page is crucial. While you are simply trying to find ways to reach new brides and get their attention, brides are there looking to not only get to know your business better, but to interact with you and, preferably get a rewarded in some way according to David Cohen.

Does this mean that you need to go all crazy with the giveaways? Absolutely not! However if you’ve never done a Facebook giveaway now is a good time. People look at liking a brand as a way to get to know them better. This means great interaction with your followers is a must. But if you never reward your followers in any way, even through good articles, or tips, then you are going to be fighting a losing battle in both getting, and keeping those who like your page. What do you think?

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What You Really Need To Know About Creating A Wedding Business Facebook Fan Page

 

At_DeskThere are lot of factors and decisions that go into creating a good Facebook Fan page. Making a mistake on a couple of them can result in having to start from scratch (and believe me, fans don’t like changing over to a new fan page).

The good news is that All Facebook has created a checklist which includes a very thorough checklist for each of those steps. The very first thing they have on the checklist is something which businesses rarely ask, and is the very thing that determines a successful fan page. Does your fan page give added value to both your business, and your fans? Think about it. This is the driving force and determining factor that should be driving everything else that you do with your page. If it doesn’t bring value to your business you might as well not have the fan page, and it your page doesn’t bring value to your fans, they won’t be any value to you.

A fan page for your wedding business can’t be viewed as a simple way to draw in new leads, but that’s all. Your wedding fan page should be a way for you to keep grounded with your fans, bring in new leads, let you reach a much larger audience, and help build your business all in one fell swoop. What do you think?

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How To Optimize Your Facebook Business Page

 

Hopefully your business has a good business page already on Facebook. But is it working for you? If not it is very likely that you’ve fallen for the idea that your Facebook business page is like a website, all about sales. Mike does a good job reminding us that Facebook is more about social interaction than sales in his article on Pi Portent.

A couple of quick fixes you can do right now is to create a custom welcome tab. This is a way for you to gather contact information, offer something for free, and make brides feel like you care about them. There are free services out there to get you started and you can upgrade later. Also make sure you are posting lots of pictures of weddings that you are doing. There is nothing more motivational, or that sparks as much interaction as pictures. What do you think?

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Expert Facebook Marketing Tips For Your Wedding Business

Happy_Bride_and_GroomIf you have tapped into creating a Facebook page for your wedding business you probably have noticed that the responses and interaction with your content sometimes works and sometimes doesn’t. The cool thing is that there are actually tips and rules to making your page a successful part of your marketing efforts.

Pamela Seiple has a great article in which she has 20 of the top Facebook page tips from experts in the field. A big stand out is the point that you should be leveraging your updates to get people to share testimonials about their experience with you. There is no better marketing tactic in the world that people recommending your business, especially when it’s in a format that leaves no question to its authenticity. Just ask questions about what people think about a certain product – for instance “What do you think about the new flower filled balloons? We think they are great!”

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