Facebook is the world's leading social networking website that connects people with friends, in a similar way to Friendster and MySpace. If you have an account on Facebook, you might be wondering how you can get more followers. It is one of the main aspirations of many Facebook account holders to grow their friends list as large as possible; it has become a modern day status symbol. This page provides lots of tips and information on How to Get More Followers on Facebook.
The easiest way to get more followers on Facebook is to be known outside of Facebook itself. The people with the largest number of followers typically are prominent world figures/celebrities. People such as Barack Obama http://twitter.com/BarackObama), MC Hammer http://twitter.com/MCHammer and Britney Spears http://twitter.com/therealbritney.
For the rest of the World though we can still have large numbers of followers on Facebook if that is what we really want. The first step along the Facebook followers journey is to create your Facebook Account, Group and Fan Page.
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Introduction
The easiest way to get more followers on Facebook is to be known outside of Facebook itself. The people with the largest number of followers typically are prominent world figures/celebrities. People such as Barack Obama http://twitter.com/BarackObama), MC Hammer http://twitter.com/MCHammer and Britney Spears http://twitter.com/therealbritney.
For the rest of the World though we can still have large numbers of followers on Facebook if that is what we really want. The first step along the Facebook followers journey is to create your Facebook Account, Group and Fan Page.
Step 1:Sign up for Facebook, Create a Facebook Page, Create a Facebook Special Interest Group
The process to sign-up for Facebook is thankfully smoothly, straightforward and secure. Before you can get more followers you will need to: 1. Create a Facebook Account 2. Create a Facebook Page 3. Create a Facebook Special Interest Group http://www.mahalo.com/How To Start A Facebook Group]
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Step 2: Make it easy for people to follow.
Put the Facebook “Become A Fan” box in a convenient location on your external website or blog. Advertise your Facebook URL in as many places as possible to encourage people to follow you.
Step 3: Find people with similar interests to you and your Facebook group(s)
Finding people with similar interests and following them will in a lot of cases lead to them reciprocating and following you. This isn’t SPAM following because in the medium/long term these contacts may well prove very useful to you.
Step 4: Produce quality content
Give people a reason to follow and be a fan. Ask yourself first whether you are interested. If people are interested in what you’re doing, they want to be updated. Above all else, update your content frequently.
Step 5: Integrate with email campaigns
Step 6: Grow your followers every day, never give up
Sometimes you will need to follow first and become a fan. Ask your friends and co-workers to do the same. Ask your friends and co-workers to promote your Facebook fan page as a favor. Don’t give up if the going gets tough.
Step 7: Create a short URL and promote it on Twitter
This is ideal for Twitter’s 140 character restriction. Create a short URL to create a “301” server side redirection to your Facebook fan page. When communicating, share the URL (with a compelling message) wherever possible.
Step 8: Give incentives
Give away free information, samples and goodies to reward your loyal Facebook fans.
Step 9: Utilize the power of MLM
Ask people to ask their friends to become a fan. Introduce some sort of reward arrange to honor those who bring the most followers. Ensure you have a mechanism to monitor who brings each new follower to you.
Step 10: Build a special channel on Facebook Fan page
Provide exclusive content within the Fan Page and make people have to join to get access to this content.
Step 11: Promote the page with a Facebook Ad
This might cost more than you think. Before you do this make sure you are specific about your objectives.
Table of Contents
- Step 1:Sign up for Facebook, Create a Facebook Page, Create a Facebook Special Interest Group
- Step 2: Make it easy for people to follow
- Step 3: Find people with similar interests to you and your Facebook group
- Step 4: Produce quality content
- Step 5: Integrate with email campaigns
- Step 6: Grow your followers every day, never give up!
- Step 7: Create a short URL and promote it on Twitter
- Step 8: Give incentives
- Step 9: Utilize the power of MLM (Multi-level Marketing)
- Step 10: Build a special channel on Facebook Fan page
- Step 11: Promote the page with a Facebook Ad
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Always produce quality content, update this regularly. People like to follow other people who have something worthy to read/listen to.
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Always include your Facebook URL in everything you do. Specifically your e-mail, you would be surprised how many people would visit from an e-mail link.
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Find a subject you are interested in. Create or Join a group in this subject. You will then find lots of similarly minded people who you can follow and whom would be likely to follow you.
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Set yourself follower targets, plan to grow your followers every day, never give up if you have a few bad days of minimal new followers.
