Beginner Tips on Using Facebook for Business
By now you’ve probably heard of Facebook, right? Taking the time to learn Facebook can help you market your small business. And if you are going to use social networking sites like Facebook it is also important to know the proper etiquette.
Shama Hyder, Chief Marketing Expert and Founder of After The Launch shared pointers on how to use Facebook to market your business in a recent episode on Small Business Trends Radio. This is a beginner’s tutorial covering: 
- The differences between Facebook, LinkedIn and MySpace;
- How a great profile page on Facebook becomes your “brand”;
- Why it is important to join Facebook groups; and whether Facebook Apps are worth spending time and money on;
- The proper way to connect with others on Facebook, including writing on walls.
Shama is a marketing consultant to independent professionals and professional service firms around the world. As Founder of After The Launch, Shama serves clients through her one-on-one consulting work, and through her company’s several online and offline marketing services. She offers a free report that you might want to take a look at: “101 Ways to Market Your Business“.
To hear Shama’s interview about using Facebook in business, click the red and yellow arrow below:
Small Business Trends Radio is sponsored by: JumpUp.com
March 7th, 2008 at 12:03 pm
Thank you Anita and Shama! I’m glad you started at the beginning because it is so tough to learn all these sites. Who has time to learn arll these sites?
March 7th, 2008 at 12:38 pm
I do agree, StartupStories. With all the ever changing sites, who can keep up? I had always wondered about Facebook but never had the time to sit and research how it could help me market my business. Thank you Shama for explaining everything so clearly and Anita for bringing us another helpful interview. Now if I could just find some time to get on there……
March 7th, 2008 at 6:14 pm
Thanks for the information. I heard a lot of facebook but I usually don’t mind it. I will try it to help my business boost more and earn a lot. Thanks.
March 7th, 2008 at 9:13 pm
Hey, great tips and insights. I have been using facebook for some months now and I am enjoying it’s features and apps so far.
Great post!
March 7th, 2008 at 9:27 pm
Shama, a great intro to Facebook, need to check out the profile page.
March 8th, 2008 at 11:42 am
Facebook is ok. There are a lot more sites that I would consider better business tools. Some of the apps are borderline ridiculous. I got tired of people sending me drinks and and having zombies chase me
March 8th, 2008 at 3:44 pm
Thanks so much. I also really didn’t understand what the big deal about Facebook was all about. I guess that is why there are people like you to teach people like me. Thank you so much.
March 8th, 2008 at 5:21 pm
Bill, I agree on the zombies and such.
And they’re tricky too. I got some chain-letter-teddy-bear yesterday and in the process of trying to delete it, it automatically was blasted out to everyone of my FB friends — yikes! I think the same thing happened to others, because now I’ve received that same little teddy bear about 10 times from other people. You think you’ll get to the screen to delete it, but before you can do anything it’s blasted out.
A Facebook app like that can make you pretty unpopular pretty fast.
Anita
March 9th, 2008 at 9:25 am
Anita,
I got the teddy bear! Thank you for the greeting!
March 9th, 2008 at 12:09 pm
Hi Martin, you are wonderful for taking it as a positive greeting. It felt a little too much like spam to me. But hey, if you enjoyed it, I’m glad.
Anita
March 9th, 2008 at 1:15 pm
I have the same thoughts about the apps. I use Facebook sparingly. I am on it and have a few friends but there are a lot more relevant site to use for business tools out there.
March 11th, 2008 at 8:59 pm
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