Ways to Get More Friends on Facebook
Connect With People
If you see someone commenting or liking something that you do, then connect with them. People want to talk to people so it’s best to start off a conversation before you friends request, then you will have more chance of making that person into a new friend. The second benefit is that by making a new friend that persons contacts will see who they just befriended, from there they may wonder who their best mate became friends with and if you are worth knowing (see item 10) then you will get a friends requests.
To connect with people look out for topics that you are interested in or that are relevant to what you do. e.g. “I am starting a online graphic design course tomorrow” then that is your chance to comment and connect. My reply might be something like “I like online courses for learning specific things but when it comes to bringing it all together I always prefer a teacher I can talk to and ask questions, which site did you choose to learn online?
Now there are three parts to my reply, 1. agree/disagree with their point, 2. give your own opinion and 3, ask a question. I find this works every time and allows me to connect to someone with just a few messages rather than me hounding them to be my friend.
Dont Do Same Same
If you sell clothes or run public speaking seminars dont harpt go through all the groups and fan pages and put the same text as this will appear as a long same same list on your profile. Someone looking at your profile will just see 10 or so posts all the same “how boring, he must just be using Facebook to sell, where is the unfriend link”.
on about them. Also if you're into something it does not mean everybody
else will be. If you keep going on about something you can imagine how
annoying that can be. Now this also means when you have a new product
launch don
I vary everything I do on Facebook, I tell people when I am having bad day, I wish my friends happy birthday, I post up funny pictures and I let people know that a new course is starting this weekend if anyone is interested let me know.
I know what you are thinking, “I am a busy person, I dont havet try to be, just be yourself and vary it a bit.
time to share my life on Facebook". Well luckily it is not about the
quantity on Facebook it is all about the quality. So post when you want
or when something important has happened or will happen. If you are not a
social person don
Join Groups
I am a member of 55+ groups, now that is not to say I take part in every group as often they start-up and fizzle out quickly. There is actually an art finding the good groups to join. When looking for groups I first see if they are relevant and am I interested in interacting with it’s members. Then I look at the wall, is the group active? With two yes’s under my belt I hit join and then I am in.
Once part of a group take a look at the conversations going on and see if you can anything of worth. When you reply to a persons comment and you get a dialogue going you can then check out their profile and hit friends request. Because they know you from the group they are more inclined to say yes.
A more direct way is simply doing a friends request and adding a person note like “Hiya, we are both members of the international ninja stamp collectors group, thought I would say hi”. If you are friendly, relevant and you share a group with the person you have more chance of the person clicking Confirm.
Invite Your Contacts
If you are new to Facebook then upload your contacts and Facebook will do the rest. To do this you will need to get a .csv file of all your contacts . In Outlook you simply export, Gmail you go to contacts and look for export in the settings menu, Hotmail is the same and if you are on Mail for the Mac then follow these instructions.
A word of warning, dont do this with a bought list or an export of your customers. They need to be friends, if you dont have a list of your friends then simply do not do this. You want a quality set of friends not just a big number. My 2222 friends is getting smaller as it is bigger as I am deleting people who dont interact with me.
Start a Fan Page
We currently have 1,225 people who like our Web Courses Fan Page,m Carl from Web Courses, thanks for liking our page. Are you interested in Web and Graphic design or are you a designer already?” If I am not mistaken I have a 100% friends request approval rate with this message from the people on the fan page.
of those 668 are my friends, so guess what I am slowly doing? I am
contacting those potential new friends with a friendly open message like
"Hi, i
Advantages of a Fan Page
Can be seen by Google, not hidden behind a profile. Do be careful that your fan page does not out rank your own website though.
- A great source of interaction with your users. We often post our own articles on there (this one included)
- You can ask questions. This is an under rated phenomena and can be so useful e.g. “what do you think of our new logo?” or “do you think people will like this new design”. You will be making your questions relevant to your business but getting opinions can really steer you in the right direction.
- Fan pages can be added to your website, if people enter your site and they are logged into Facebook they will see a list of the friends smiling away saying “dude where have you been, we already like this page, you should too”
- Fan pages come with insights telling you who is interacting with your page, male to female ratio and you will receive regular updates in your e-mail.
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