9 Facebook Marketing Tips to Improve Engagement

Need some Facebook marketing inspiration? Here are nine Facebook pages using some great techniques for more engagement. Keep reading for some awesome tips from businesses of all sizes. #1: Get Personal Smart Passive Income with Pat Flynn does a great job with a variety of posts but also adds some of his personal life. Your community wants to get to know you and wants to be able to relate to you and your company. You can tell them what you had for lunch. Personal cover photo with his podcast setup and a picture of his son. #2: Use Pictures No doubt you’ve heard the visual marketing drumbeat, and it’s all true. Home Depot uses pictures very well by engaging their fans with project ideas, posts featuring employees and a fun game to guess the product. Home Depot gets engagement with their fans by making them guess the product. Home Depot features their employees. #3: Run a Contest Facebook Contests are a great way to bring some fun to your Facebook page. #4: Have Fun #5: Showcase a Cause

Instagram reaches social media milestone: 100 million active users Instagram announced Tuesday that it has reached 100 million monthly users. (Instagram ) Inc. 500: LinkedIn Replaces Facebook as Top Social Tool LinkedIn is the most popular social media tool among the nation's fastest-growing private companies, according to a study by the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth, Center for Marketing Research, under the direction of researcher Nora Ganim Barnes, PhD. More than 8 in 10 companies listed on the 2012 Inc. 500 (81% of them) use the professional networking site, up from 73% a year earlier. Meanwhile, the proportion of Inc. 500 companies using Facebook has declined, from 74% in 2011, to 67% in 2012. Other findings related to social media adoption among the 2012 Inc. 500: Blogging gained momentum in 2012: 44% of Inc. 500 companies now publish a blog, up from 37% a year earlier. Below, additional findings from the 2012 Inc. 500 study of social media use, conducted by the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, Center for Marketing Research. Importantly, nearly two-thirds (63%) of Inc. 500 CEOs are contributing content or taking ownership of some social media outlet. Investments Leveling Off

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