Fb0ok/Tweter Akounts (yes I know its spelled wrong)

**PatrickP** · May 31st, 2012, 11:30 AM

If I may offer a suggestion to me that sounds like oh someone MIGHT win $100 IF I think I got enough likes if not I may only give someone $2.

We have run over 100 contests, none with cash prize but maybe that is better.

You may want to do something like.

You can win up to $1000

Like our page and then share it(THIS is important the sharing part) On June 15th we will use an online random number generator to choose the winner which we will announce on June 16th at 12 Noon.

We will start at $10 and up that amount by $10 for every 50 likes we get.

**PatrickP** · May 31st, 2012, 11:35 AM

Originally Posted by Mike39

Please do!

Ok well I NEVER knew about this until last week or so when someone here posted a link to an article. It turns out that fb determines what percentage of your people will have your posts put on their wall.

It ranges from 10% to 40% or so. WHY do they do this? Because fb wants to make money and if you want to guarantee the % who see your post you need to pay them.

How do they decide what % of your fans see your posts? By how many replies you get to the posts you have on your fb page. I was VERY happy to see (you can look in the admin section to see what % of walls your posts were put on) we are at approx 35%. Reason is(dumb luck on my part) that when we make a post we almost always are running a contest and require people to SHARE it to be entered in the contest.

Sooooooooooo if you are posting lots on interesting facts, info etc on your fb page you are killing your % of people who actually see your posts because very few if any people will click like or share on these sorts of posts.

I truly think that fb intentionally did this so the number of your fans who see your posts will go down down down and you will need to pay fb to change that.

The same way that Google changes their SEO 'rules' so that you will become frustrated and pay them for clicks

**Mike39** · May 31st, 2012, 12:48 PM

Originally Posted by PatrickP

Ok well I NEVER knew about this until last week or so when someone here posted a link to an article. It turns out that fb determines what percentage of your people will have your posts put on their wall.

It ranges from 10% to 40% or so. WHY do they do this? Because fb wants to make money and if you want to guarantee the % who see your post you need to pay them.

How do they decide what % of your fans see your posts? By how many replies you get to the posts you have on your fb page. I was VERY happy to see (you can look in the admin section to see what % of walls your posts were put on) we are at approx 35%. Reason is(dumb luck on my part) that when we make a post we almost always are running a contest and require people to SHARE it to be entered in the contest.

Sooooooooooo if you are posting lots on interesting facts, info etc on your fb page you are killing your % of people who actually see your posts because very few if any people will click like or share on these sorts of posts.

I truly think that fb intentionally did this so the number of your fans who see your posts will go down down down and you will need to pay fb to change that.

The same way that Google changes their SEO 'rules' so that you will become frustrated and pay them for clicks

Interesting, so maybe contests that require you to share and comment?

**PatrickP** · May 31st, 2012, 12:58 PM

To me that would be best if your intent is to increase the % of your fans who have your posts placed on their walls.

You are also penalized if you have lots of posts, or other people post on your wall and you do not have lots of replies, likes, or shares.

**Mike39** · May 31st, 2012, 01:02 PM

Should have guessed, so maybe a twitter account haha

**PatrickP** · May 31st, 2012, 01:17 PM

For me I am VERY VERY happy with our fb account. Sorry didn't mean to sound so doom and gloom lol

But I am not sure what is right for your business.

For me fb you can post on forums where you sell your products, and do contests, have conversations with your current as well as potential customers in your contest posts. It puts a face to your company in a medium(the internet) which is pretty faceless. It puts your potential customers are ease. It gives them a place to ask questions, to see you really are human and you will take care of them and their concerns.

I am so very blessed to have a GREAT person who takes care of ours and comes up with unique ideas for contests, new product announcements, sales announcements etc. Our resellers can also post their info, videos etc and we support them in those posts/threads.