It seems to me that more and more companies are using social networking sites, especially Facebook to do marketing. Personally I had some groups on Facebook that is somehow related to some of my websites, however I never really did any promotion on my websites other than putting the link on the group.
Prior to facebook, I do have some account on Friendster that targets towards a geographical location. This is because I was poor and had to utilize every Internet marketing technique I can do that will not cost me money, this was one of the method used. I would post some updates on the bulletin. I believe that it does bring some users, however I am unable to track them.
One obvious observation is to when my friends started organizing an events at Facebook to his restaurant’s Grand Opening at Jaya 1. More than 200+ people turned up to his restaurant opening. And the opening ceremony did pretty well, with people flooding the restuarant. Plus it is quite easy to invites friends that are not so close to you and you are shy to call them one by one.
i myself dont use too much social networking sites to promote my blogs.but i think it will be one of my long term goals – developing strong relationships.
yeah, FB is really good to be used as a marketing tool.
they even give us choice to advert at the sidebar too.
but I also never try it before. hehe.
but for friendster it is totally working too.
especially spamming those comment box and sending a lot of bulletin everyday.
hehe
i already use facebook. Its good and sometimes i got good return and traffic.
same here! i use facebook’s profile status updates and integrate it with my blog updates!
I only use Facebook to keep in touch with my friends and family. I don’t want to turn my Facebook to a marketing tool. That will bother a lot of my friends who don’t want to see spams and spams of me advertising my website.
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