Here are some tacticts you can use: 1. BUY FANS.. You can buy about 2000 to 5000 facebook fans for as little as $30 using services like http://www.freelancer.com/ or similar. 2. FAKE ACCOUNT. Like someone mentioned above - create fake account, add as many targeret 'fake friends' as you can, interact with them, be friendly (comment their status, use "Like" function), post some funny, quality content (youtube videos and pics works really well). After you gain some trust - suggest them to join your fan page. This tactic will take some time, but it's every effective. You can get pretty high friends to fans ratio. From 100% of my friends 70% joined my fan page. 3. GIVEAWAYS. Everyone likes free stuff. Run some contests, sponsored competitions to win something. Usually non phisical stuff is better. For example ebooks. After or during the contest - ask your fans to invite their friends - usually they will do this with no questions asked. Use giveaways to reward your fans, which will invite the most fans (Haven't found the way to determine that, but if someone knows how to track this process - let me know). Another way is: give something in exchange for becoming a fan. A short ebook with some TOP secrets from your niche will do the work. 4. BE ACTIVE. If you want to have successful fan page, you should be very active. By very active i mean - post frequent, post quality interesting content, run polls, but what I have found that works really well is ASK QUESTIONS! Create conversation with your fans. If you will have an active fan page - other will join eventually. 5. FORUM SIGNATURES. Join forums related to your NICHE. Help forum visitors, post quality stuff and put your fan page link in to the signature. This works too. 6. USE FAN PAGE DESCRIPTION. If you done all the above, another effective way to increase your fans is to put a little message in the page description page. Something along these lines: "Help us to make this page the biggest *your niche* page on Facebook! Invite your friends, we can't do this without you." Or to post this message once in a week. If your fans appreciate what you are doing - they will help you. As an example, you can check (and join if you like soccer my World Cup Fan 2010 Fan Page - http://bit.ly/cgj96B which is only 2 weeks ago. Hope this will help. Good Luck!
Really interesting information. I'm trying to promote my site, so I'll try to do some of the solutions given.
Target the audience who are in need of your products & services and request them to become the fan.This will help you in promoting your business.
There are some tricks trending lately. Now you see a lot of fan pages which require you to become a fan before you can see something. E.g. you make a fanpage 'How to ...' or 'Top 5 ...' it must be something people really wan't to see/read. Then when they visit they see: 'Just must become a fan to see ...'. I've seen many fanpages raise from 0 to a few thousand fans with this technique.
I would suggest adding adding more content and friends to your list to increase your Fans and another thing you can do is show a Fan page widget on your website or blog if you are having one.
How do you require a user to become a fan before they can see something. I can't find anything in the settings page to force this to happen.
There is some ways to do that: 1. Post blog post on your own blogs about it. Tell your visitors that you have something that you don't have on your blog. Or better - become a fan to see the link of your free ebook that you provide on facebook. 2. Guest posts. Find your niche related blogs and write some guest posts. Write a killer article and mention something like: "If you like to know more about this, visit my site or become a fan on my facebook fan page to get exclusive 40 pages free step by step ebook.."
advertise on paidstatus.com - link up with some 100k+ fan page owners and get them to send a link to your fan page saying "join now" or something like that. Or you could ask fan page owners to simply send their fans to you for a predetermined price
Just think of something new that would interest people, and there are also other ways of getting users to invite all your friends to make it viral
This is exactly what was taught to me by someone who has been using facebook this way for a LONG time!
Definitely agree with the forum signatures, those are a great way to earn a few backlinks, but the fake accounts I haven't tried yet. Seems like a good idea if done right. Build up a ton of friends, and continually suggest, while at the same time keeping your fan page popular and automatically popping up on users home pages. Thanks for the tips everyone.
I guess this might be useful to you. it is a similar to your query http://www.free-press-release.com/n...using-facebook-earn-500-a-day-1274261270.html
Quality is better than quantity...why would you spend a dime on fake fans that don't truly care about your product/service? This may be a violation of Facebook's TOS. Personally, if someone I don't know sends me a friend request, by no means do I accept it. The rest of the ideas are pretty good though.
I do 100% agree. Although fake accounts can be useful and that's some black hat or guerilla marketing method.