No Flaming Figgy Puddings on Facebook Fan Pages

August 30, 2009

Facebook fan page for business I’ve been working on pimping out the Buzz Marketing Pros fan page on Facebook. It’s not exactly a quick fix, I can tell you that, and I haven’t been able to make it particularly fancy, unless I’ve missed an awesome app to help me out with that.

You do have a Facebook fan page for your business, right? Of course you do - you wouldn’t miss out on that opportunity! It’s become kind of like a social media round robin – Site to Blog to LinkedIn to Facebook to Twitter to Flickr to Site and so on, not necessarily in that order, but you’ve gotta have them all.

I haven’t utilized Flickr since it’s kinda hard to take pictures of SEO that anybody actually wants to look at. And I have a really hard time thinking of interesting SEO tidbits to tweet, since I don’t like to give away my “secrets.” I like LinkedIn for the networking aspect. I love my somewhat recently neglected Diva blog, and I’ve been busy adding Portfolio and Case Studies pages to the Buzz Marketing Pros site.

That brings me right back around to the Facebook fan page. It’s considered an important aspect of any online marketing effort right now, and you don’t need to throw flaming figgy puddings at your friends and clients, or watch a gift egg hatch to see what you got. Instead, the idea is to make it replete with photos, videos, interesting comments and such. After that your mission is to get as many fans as you possibly can.

If you’ve got a business that lends itself to fun and interesting events or products, you’ve got an edge. If your business is somewhat boring to others, like SEO and online marketing can be, at least it’s there and indexing on Google, pointing to your web site and all that lovely stuff.

If you haven’t gone there yet, here are a couple of links to help you set up and fix up your Facebook business page:

8 Essential Apps for Your Brand’s Facebook Page

How to Create a Custom Facebook Fan Page