
There are 2.3 billion active monthly users on Facebook. This presents an opportunity to businesses and non profits that want to use Facebook to reach customers and potential customers. However, this opportunity is also a challenge, as Facebook is an incredibly busy place. It’s becoming a very crowded place. And so the challenge for small businesses and non profits is figuring out how they can stand out.
Branding your Facebook page is the foundation of your social media marketing strategy. If your page is not branded correctly, efforts to create content and use Facebook Ads could be wasted. Potential customers need to hear from us between 9 and 18 times before they will consider doing business with us. Branding your Facebook page assists with raising brand awareness, growing warm audiences and sales conversions.
In this tutorial learn about:
Why we need to brand our Facebook Page
Five factors to consider when identifying a Unique Selling Proposition (USP)
Six points to consider when it comes to your brand and Facebook
Five ways to communicate your value proposition on your Facebook Page
In this tutorial learn best practice on how to set a profile picture for a Facebook Business Page. The objective is to use the profile picture to maximize brand awareness.
This profile picture serves as the main visual icon of a Facebook business page, appearing in search results and alongside any comments you publish.
In this tutorial learn how to set a cover picture for a Facebook business page that represents your brand and communicates your value proposition. Learn best practice for single cover images, slide shows and video covers.
Students will learn about the "About section" including;
Page Name
Username
Contact Info
Page Description
Page Story
The template that you use for your Facebook Business Page determines the page tabs, call to action button and the buttons on your page. Businesses should pay attention to their template and its set up to ensure they represent their brand effectively and communicate core messages to their target audiences. For example an online store will want to give priority to a “shop” tab and a “shop now” call to action button. Businesses that have invested a lot of time and money in producing videos will want to prioritize this on the page tabs. Service companies will want to showcase the “services” tab and so on.
In this tutorial learn all about page templates, including how to set and change a Facebook page template. Learn about important page tabs including
The Services Tab. How to add a services tab to your page, turn it on and off and how to set it up
Shop Tab. Adding the Shop Tab to your page and how to set up products to sell via a Facebook shop
Video Tab. Setting a featured video on your page and how to add play lists
Page reviews and recommendations
How to add a Call to Action Button to a Facebook Page
Setting up Page Messaging and auto responders
This is the first course anyone should do when starting to use Facebook as a marketing tool.
Consumers are moving at speed, generally on a mobile device. Only businesses and organisations that effectively brand their channels and stay on message will catch the attention of fast moving consumers. To be successful, businesses should clearly position themselves by communicating to prospects why they are different and why they should do business with them.
In this course learn
The fundamentals about branding and why you need to brand your Facebook page
Best practice for profile and cover images
All about page set up
Louise McDonnell has developed this course having trained and mentored over 8000 businesses and non profit organisations. She knows the issues they face, and the common mistakes they make. This course is clear, concise and is the fist step in any Facebook marketing strategy.