The most popular website "Facebook" is often mistaken as a network for personal contacts. But it is actually a place where you can give your business or website an instant growth by advertising your products or services. In this article I will tell you how to market your business or website in Facebook.

Creating a Fan Page

The very first thing which you need to do is to create an effective fan page.
• To create a fan page log in to your facebook profile and follow this link- facebook.com/pages/create.php.
• In the Official Page column, select the type of page you want to create.
• After creating the page, upload a picture that describes your business or website most appropriately.
• Fill in your business details such as company overview, mission, products, features etc.
• Start posting updates on your business/website.

Remember, just creating a fan page would never attract visitors on their own. You need to promote the page as well.

Promoting Fan Page

You can promote the fan page of your website in various ways.
• You can suggest the page to all members in your friend list. 40% of members are likely to join through suggestion.
• Post the link of fan page in your status update.
• Ask your friends to like the page and promote it by suggesting it to their friends.
• Post the link of fan page in other social networks and forums.

Make fans to visit your page again and again

Just liking a page would never do. You also need to make fans visit the page again and again.
• Post interesting updates in your page to make people visit the page and comment on it.
• Run various contests in your fan page.

With these simple yet effective techniques you can surely achieve higher goals in your business.

About Facebook
• Facebook is the most popular social network on the web.
• Number of active users in facebook is around 500 miilion.
• Around 50% of active users log in Facebook every day.
• An average user in facebook likes more than 80 pages.

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