Social Media Engagement Strategy – Facebook (Part 2)

In the past few posts I have written about social media engagement. Don’t take this lightly, it’s important. It is about conversing with your customers and your fans. It does requires work, but what relationship doesn’t.

To continue my series on social media engagement practices I’ll finish up my list on how you can increase engagement on Facebook. For most brands, especially B2C brands, this is going to be a huge market for you. When it comes to Facebook it is all about newsfeed marketing. In other words, getting your brand and your content on as many people’s newsfeed as possible.

To recap what we discusses in my part 1 of Facebook engagement visual media works best. Think photos & videos & follow up. Today we’ll talk a bit about how to enrich your Facebook content and page to keep fans active & sticking.

HOW TO INCREASE FACEBOOK ENGAGEMENT

6. Encourage people to post on your wall?

While getting people to comment on your posts is highly effective, another effective method for engagement is encouraging their participation on your wall. This is effective for 2 reasons. One, it opens up a dialog for your fans to communicate with other fans. It builds a community between your fans, spurring common interest. Secondly, it shows up on the newsfeed. Like I have said before, it is all about the newsfeed. People on Facebook are nosy. This small act, allows the posters friends to see what he/she is doing. Since Sally likes this brand, perhaps I should too. In many ways, Facebook users are always trying to keep up with the Jones’.

You can encourage posting in many ways. For example, if you have a fashion brand, you can ask people to share a picture of their favorite look.You don’t get, if you don’t ask. So, a simple request is all it may take.Many times an incentive will also work. Ask your fans to post something on your wall and they will receive 20% off. If you have a physical store you can post a sign on your register or in the store somewhere. Let them know you are a social brand and you will be surprised at the results.

A more sophisticated strategy is to use Facebook tabs which allow fans to comment/review easily. Wildfire, a social media app & contest application (which I use and will go into more in future posts) will allow you set this up in a few clicks. They have a ton of templates to chose from, which makes the designing side very easy.

7. Host a content – will get into depth here more?

Oh, how I love a good contest. In fact, contests in the social media world, are a godsend. Who doesn’t love FREEBIES? I know I sure do. I sign up for tons of contests on Facebook. Airlines like Virgin & KLM do contests extremely well, and you should head on over to their page for some inspiration.

While contests cost money to run and a little bit of legal jargon, they are relatively simple to use.Again I use Wildfire and will dedicate a whole post to contests later this week.

Contests are good for Facebook because they encourage sharing (sometimes for more entries) and encourage fan growth. There are a ton of different types of contests to hold. Sweepstakes are the least engaging but will allow you for the most growth since the the entry level is the easiest.I recommend doing something with user generated content and voting. We’ll talk more about this later.

8. Allow people to interact with your site through FB

People are spending more time on Facebook than any other site, or at least it seems that way. If you can allow them to interact with your site without going to your site you are in good hands. Again the way you do this is through the use of tabs. I use Static HTML: frames tab. Search for it in the apps. The reason I like this app is because you can import your URL and it does the rest.

9. Cross pollinate other social sites on FB though tabs?

Again, it is all about the tabs here. You can stream your Pinterest, Instagram, Flickr, & Twitter feed through your Facebook page. Why not grow your other sites as well all in one place.

As I have talked a lot about tabs in this post, it is apparent that a “all about tabs” post is necessary. Stay tuned for that.

Here are my last posts in this series for your review. In my next article I will discuss ways to increase engagement on Twitter, G+, and Pinterest.

Social Media Engagement Strategy – Overview

Social Media Engagement Strategy – How To Increase Engagement on Facebook (Part 1)

Social Media Engagement Strategy – Twitter Engagement

Social Media Engagement – Pinterest

Social Media Engagement Strategy – Google Plus (Part 1)

Social Media Engagement Strategy – Google Plus (Part 2)

How do you increase engagement? What have I missed? I’d love to hear your thoughts in the comment section below.