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This report contains some of the most powerful Facebook Tips that I have learned during my years of Facebook research as the founder and primary author of the Facebook blog Facebook Flow. During my time as CEO of Facebook Flow I helped the blog rise in the ranks of Google to the #1 position for several competitive keywords, such as “Facebook Tips” and “Get More Facebook Likes.” Facebook Flow has since been acquired and re branded to “Fan page Flow” but my passion for Facebook remains and this eBook reflects just a small part of the Facebook content I have created since FacebookFlow. This report is part of the pre-launch content I am providing to help build hype for my Facebook training program fbpower.com. If you like this eBook I’d really appreciate it if you share it with your friends!  It would also be very cool if you dropped by my Facebook page to let me know what you think. Your friend in Facebook Success, Garin Kilpatrick

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50 POWERFUL FACEBOOK TIPS

This report contains some of the most powerful Facebook Tips that I

have learned during my years of Facebook research as the founder

and primary author of the Facebook blog FacebookFlow.

During my time as CEO of FacebookFlow I helped the blog rise in the

ranks of Google to the #1 position for several competitive keywords,

such as “Facebook Tips” and “Get More Facebook Likes.”

FacebookFlow has since been acquired and rebranded to “Fanpage

Flow” but my passion for Facebook remains and this eBook reflects

just a small part of the Facebook content I have created since

FacebookFlow.

This report is part of the pre-launch content I am providing to help

build hype for my Facebook training program fbpower.com. If you

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like this eBook I’d really appreciate it if you share it with your

friends! It would also be very cool if you dropped by my

Facebook page to let me know what you think.

Your friend in Facebook Success,

Garin Kilpatrick

PREVENT YOUR PAGE FROM GETTING BANNED

Although having communities on Facebook is a great way to build a

brand, the Facebook terms of service make it clear that your

Facebook page is subject to some rules that you need to comply

with.

I know of instances when fan pages have been erased for trademark

violation, and other cases where publishing privileges have been

revoked because Facebook simply did not like what the person was

posting and promoting.

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Make sure to check out the Facebook terms of service and be

mindful of what you post because Facebook reserves the right to

suspend your page or restrict your publishing privileges if you

violate their terms of service. Even the acclaimed movie critic Roger

Ebert had his Facebook page suspended for a time due to one of his

posts, until mainstream media rallied behind him, and Facebook

gave it back to avoid the bad press.

The good news is that that if you play the game there are millions of

potential fans that you can tap into to grow your page and your

income.

USE FACEBOOK TO BUILD AN EMAIL LIST

The best way to hedge against the risk of Facebook messing with

your page privileges is to build an email list. By getting your fans to

join your email list you are building an asset that noone can take

away from you. With an email list you can easily build up another

Facebook Page if your page is hacked and/or deleted.

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One way that you can capture emails into your page by installing an

email form into a tab on your Facebook page. All major email

marketing solutions have form building tools that will give you the

code you need to drop into a custom Facebook tab.

The best free custom tab host that I have found is from Woobox.

TAKE HINTS FROM BIG FACEBOOK BRANDS

Starbucks, redbull, and coca-cola are just three brands with

exceptional pages on Facebook. If you are thinking about designing

a simple landing page graphic with a call to action, take inspiration

from Redbull, as they make it very clear that they want you to click

the Like button.

In Facebook Power I examine the strengths and weaknesses of the

biggest brands on Facebook and offer suggestions about what to

emulate, and what to avoid.

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To create a custom landing page you will need to design an image,

host it on the web, and then install it into your Facebook page using

the Woobox static HTML iframe app.

OPTIMIZE YOUR FACEBOOK PAGE FOR GOOGLE

Before you create and name your Facebook page I recommend you

do some keyword research with the Google keyword tool to get a

better idea of the keyword opportunities within your niche.

Facebook pages can rank with relative ease in Google since then

piggy back on the massive PageRank that Facebook has. Of course it

can still be a challenge to rank a page, depending on the competition.

Use Google’s keyword tool before you create your page to determine

the keywords that people search for the most often in your niche,

and then make sure to integrate those keywords into the info

section of you page as well as the page title and page url, if possible.

BUILD CRITICAL MASS FOR YOUR PAGE ASAP

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Once you get your first thousand fans the second thousand will

come much more easily. Use all communication channels available

to you to promote your Facebook Page after you launch it to help

you get 1,000 fans as fast as possible.

SEND PAGE INVITES WITH SPEED

Using the Suggest to friends features of Facebook is a powerful way

to build your Facebook page. The drawback to this method is that

clicking on each friend that you want to suggest your page to is very

time consuming.

By using the Google Chrome "Invite All" extension you are able to

suggest your page to all of your friends fast. This extension will save

you clicking hundreds or even thousands of times, depending on

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how many friends you want to suggest a page to.

Facebook frowns on using plugins like this and takes measures

against their use, so it might be just as easy to invite 50 or so a day

OFFER INCENTIVES TO SHARE YOUR STUFF

Incentives encourage action. Using the "pay with a tweet" app you

can offer a free gift to those people who share content on your

behalf.

POST ENGAGING CONTENT

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As the worlds largest photo sharing website Facebook is a great

place to share photos. A picture says a thousand words, and if you

can get your fans talking about your pictures this will attract new

people into your page as their comments feed back into the news

feed.

CREATE A CUSTOM FACEBOOK LINK

You can do this at: Facebook.com/username

Having a Facebook URL with keywords in it will help you rank for

those keywords.

Again you should use the Google Keyword tool to do keyword

research and try to choose keywords that are relevant to your page,

and have a low level of competition.

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CREATE SHAREABLE CONTENT

Content like infographics spread like wildfire.

Check out some of the comics on the Oatmeal, for example. These

highly graphic posts consistently get thousands of shares, and often

even tens of thousands.

These posts are a testament to the value of a good graphics. I never

write a blog post without an image, and I often find that the quality

of the images I use correlate to the sharing success of my post.

More cool pictures generally means that more people will click the

“Like” button and share your content far and wide.

COLLABORATE WITH INFLUENCERS

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By collaborating with Influencers you are able to benefit from the

attention of their network, so seek out strategic partnerships

whenever possible.

Two Facebook friends of mine, Brian Solis and Jesse Thomas,

recently collaborated on "The Conversation Prism."

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Since Brian and Jesse both have considerable networks, and the

content they created is gold, it spread virally and gained both Brian

and Jesse notoriety in the process. Jesse also collaborated with the

Facebook team and created Facebook Stories.

PROMOTE YOUR PAGE ON OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA CHANNELS

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If you have a YouTube channel your videos provide a perfect

opportunity to build your Facebook

page. You can watermark your videos

with text so that a link to your page is

visible throughout your video, and you

can also mention your page in your

video, and ask people to join.

On Twitter you can Tweet about your Facebook page of course, I like

to do this once every few days, or every 20-30 tweets or so. You also

have the option to link to your page in your Twitter bio. For more

Twitter promotion options I recommend you check out this Twitter

Marketing program I reviewed.

SAVE TIME WITH SHORT FB LINKS

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Remember that you can always swap a Facebook.com link for a

fb.com link and you will save yourself time. This tip is also

especially helpful if you are tweeting on twitter, where you only

have 140 characters max to work with.

USE POWERFUL FACEBOOK PAGE APPS

North Social, Involver, and wildfire are three Facebook app

development companies that offer powerful apps that you can use to

pimp out your Facebook Page.

Some of these apps from Involver are free, but most others can be

used for a monthly fee.

USE STRONG CALLS TO ACTION

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If you want people to join your page or share your content it helps to

ask for it in a direct way.

If you are designing a Facebook landing page go with big bold

arrows and text to convince your visitors to click "Like."

Saying please has also been shown to increase conversions so try

asking people to "please join my Facebook page."

SCHEDULE STATUS UPDATES

There are several different social applications that allow you to

schedule updates for Facebook, and other networks like Facebook.

If you want to schedule updates for your Facebook Pages and/or

your profile consider Hootsuite or Sendible.

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Hootsuite is my preferred method of scheduling Facebook page

updates, as they even allow you to edit aspects of your update like

the image, the headline, and the description.

COLLABORATE WITH ADMINS OF BIG GROUPS

Here you can find a Facebook Page Leaderboard. Dig a few pages in

and you will start to find pages that are topical, rather than brand

related.

Last year there was a page started called “I bet this Onion Ring can

get more fans than Justin Bieber.” Believe it or not this page actually

did get more fans than Justin Bieber. Since then it has been shut

down (the admin was probably paid off by Bieber’s marketing team)

but there are several other groups like this one and these can offer

affordable marketing opportunities if you are able strike up deals

with the admins to post status updates about your page.

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Many of these huge communities were started by everyday normal

people, many of whom are totally open to the idea of working

together. Often these page admins are not aware of the value of the

clicks they can send, so you can strike up a deal with them for a

great price.

COMBINE COMPELLING IMAGES WITH CONTENT

Content with Images is far more effective at attracting

clicks than simply text and links alone.

Keep the image you will be using in mind as you create content for

your blog. Google image search has a great selection of images,

same with the Flickr creative commons, and iStockphoto is a great

source for high quality images.

INVEST IN FACEBOOK TRAINING

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This is undoubtedly the most powerful tip of all. The tips mentioned

in this report are just the the tip of the iceberg when it comes to

powerful Facebook training.

Facebook Power is the name of the Facebook training product that I

created to simplify the Facebook marketing knowledge I have

gained since during my years in this niche.

With several videos, five in-depth .PDF reports, and a membership

section Facebook Power will give you a serious social media step up

on your competition, and allow you to leverage the most popular

social network in the world to build your brand in a powerful way!

I will be sharing an exclusive free PDF and training videos with

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those people on my email list so make sure you get on the list at:

http://fbpower.com

HOW TO GET MORE FACEBOOK LIKES

There are well over fifty million active Facebook pages, and many of

these pages are gaining thousands of new fans every day.

Facebook is constantly evolving and that means there are more

reasons to like Facebook, and Facebook Pages, than ever.

Here are some tips to help you grow your page and get more likes

on Facebook.

INVITE YOUR EMAIL CONTACTS

Use the build audience tool to send up to 5,000 invitations at a time

to your email contacts.

The Build Audience button is found at the top of your page admin

panel.

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Once you click this button use the invite email contacts and upload

your contacts directly from your email provider, or use the other

tools option and import a .csv file with email addresses in it.

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INVITE YOUR FRIENDS TO BECOME YOUR FANS

This tip might seem overly simple but the truth is that it’s often

overlooked.

One way you can invite your friends to your page is by using the

suggest to friends feature within your page's Build Audience tool.

A more effective way than using the "suggest to friends" feature is to

send a message to your friends directly.

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Send short messages asking your friends to join you in your

professional page and give them an idea of what kind of content they

should expect.

Taking a few quick minutes to send personalized inbox messages

asking people to join your page can yield great results over time.

GIVE AWAY GREAT STUFF TO YOUR FANS

Give your fans great content and prizes and this will get your fans

posting about your page so that they are in the top of your mind

when it comes time to dish out the goods.

Create a custom experience by asking your fans

what kind of content and prizes they would like

the most.

Really care about your fans and find ways to go above and beyond

with the content and promotions you launch on your page. When

you go the extra mile for your fans they will go the extra mile to help

you grow your page and succeed.

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USE SOCIAL PLUGINS LIKE THE “LIKE BOX”

The Facebook Like box has gotten me thousands of free fans for

various pages I have developed over the past several years.

This plugin works for me and I’m sure it can work for you too, so

long as the site you insert it into nets a steady stream of traffic.

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Installing this plugin into your site is easy: simply copy and paste

the code into the sidebar of your site.

USE STRONG CALLS TO ACTION

If you don’t ask people to take action and like your page many

people simply won’t.

So don’t beat around the bush – come right out and tell people to

like your page.

Build links to your Facebook page everywhere and include calls to

action for people to join your Facebook page in all of your marketing

materials.

Of course the five tips above are just the tip of the iceberg when if

comes to building your Facebook fan base.

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GET PEOPLE TO JOIN YOUR PAGE VIA SMS TEXT MESSAGES

Send a text message to 32665 (FBOOK) with the words “fan

yourusername” OR “like yourusername” (without the quotes).

This feature is especially ideal when you’re in front of a live

audience.

LINK TO YOUR PAGE AS A PLACE OF EMPLOYMENT

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Your Facebook profile page is highly visible so use this to your

advantage by including a link to your page right below your profile

picture.

To set this go to the about section and use the @ symbol + the name

of your page in order to set the hyperlink.

If your page is new and has less than 100 fans you may not be able

to set this link up. Once your page is established and has at least

100 fans you should be able to create this direct link to your page.

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OFFER A COMPELLING INCENTIVE FOR PEOPLE TO LIKE YOUR PAGE

By combining an incentive with a call to action you will increase

your conversions from visitors to fans significantly.

The best way to implement an incentive for your fb page is with a

"reveal tab" that contains content behind a “like gate” that is visible

only once people become a fan of your page.

The more valuable your incentive is, the more people will be

compelled to click the "Like" button and access it.

An eBook or eCourse are two types of incentives that are excellent

for attracting new fans. eCourses are arguably more effective since

these are delivered over time so they help create a relationship

between you and your fans.

The image below shows different levels of increasing effectiveness

for acquiring new fans.

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By creating a fan only "reveal tab" you can create content that is

available to fans only to get more visitors to your page to click the

Like button!

CROSS PROMOTE WITH RELATED PAGES

If you contact the admin of a Facebook page and offer to cross

promote many will jump at this opportunity for free promotion.

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There are a few different ways that you can do this. One way is to

"Like" another page with your page and get them to return the

favor. Doing this will create a link between the two pages near the

top of both Facebook timelines.

KNOW YOUR AUDIENCE

The better you know your audience the easier it will be for you to

target your content and get

great results.

Click the insights chart on your

Facebook page admin panel to

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access your demographics.

INSTALL A PAGE BADGE

Facebook Badges are a simple, yet effective way to link to your

Facebook profile.

Unlike widgets badges are simply images, and will load faster than a

social plugin.

USE THE STATUS @TAGGING FEATURE

Status tagging is a cool and fairly new feature of Facebook.

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This feature will attract traffic to your page by posting on the page

of the brand or person you tag.

POST EPIC CONTENT

Content is king.

Posting awesome content is a great way to get your page to spread

virally.

Infographics are highly shareable and get great results.

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Watermark your images to get traffic if your content is shared

outside of Facebook.

Link to your fan page in the description. Be the first to share your

content to a few relevant groups after you post it.

People are more likely to share content after it has already been

shared, and every time someone shares your content this includes a

link back to your page that could lead to new fans.

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LINK TO YOUR PAGE WITH A HELLO BAR

Installing a like buttons into a Hello Bar on your web page can send

traffic to your fan page and enhance the style of your site.

The more people you send to your fan page, the more likes you will

get. A Hello Bar stays stuck to the top of the page as the user scrolls

down to get you maximum clicks.

Check out the bar at the top of my online success blog Smart Online

Success.

CONNECT YOUR FACEBOOK PAGE WITH TWITTER

Connecting your page to Twitter is an excellent way to convert your

twitter followers into Facebook fans.

Using this strategy will cause all of

your posts to be sent to twitter, with a

link back to the Facebook version of the post.

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GET FANS TO UPLOAD AND TAG PHOTOS

If you host (or attend) an event with several of your fans take a

bunch of pictures, post them to your page and then get your fans to

tag themselves in the pictures.

If you can get your fans to upload pictures to your page, or tag

themselves in pictures you uploaded, this will post to their walls as

well and will lead to additional traffic for you.

MAKE SURE YOUR COMMENTING SYSTEM IS COMPATIBLE WITH FACEBOOK

This will allow people to comment on your page, even if they are not

a fan. Any comments made can broadcast to news feeds and lead to

more traffic for your page.

You can get the official Facebook commenting plugin here.

LEVERAGE TRADITIONAL MEDIA

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Since Facebook is so widespread you can use any forms of

traditional media and achieve results.

Newspapers, Media Buys, Radio, and TV all work, but are often less

cost effective than innovative social media strategies.

DO A NEWSLETTER PROMOTION

If you do email marketing send a message to your subscribers

letting them know about your fan page and consider including a link

to your fan page in every email.

Another promotion method is to

purchase a "Solo Ad" from a

newsletter publisher. I have bought successful solo ads in the past

from internet marketers on the webs largest internet marketing

forum, The Warrior Forum.

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To ensure you are successful as well look for solo ad sellers with

plenty of positive feedback or contact me on Facebook and I will

point you in the right direction.

LEAVE INSIGHTFUL COMMENTS (AS YOUR PAGE) ON OTHER PAGES

This is a great way to get more exposure for your Business Page

with your target audience.

Go to the top right of the blue bar at the

top of Facebook and click the down facing arrow to select the

"voice" you want to use for your comment.

Participate on other Pages where your audience is already having

conversations.

Remember to add value to the conversation and authentically build

relationships.

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Building meaningful connections and you will lay the firm

foundation of a successful community.

GET PROMOTIONAL BUSINESS CARDS THAT LINK TO YOUR FACEBOOK PAGE

Business cards are cheap and effective, which is why nearly all

business people use them to this day.

For the small investment that business cards you can use them to

net several hundred new fans for your page!

Vista print even offers 250 free business cards. All you pay for those

is shipping.

Throw a link to your Facebook

Page on your card and some people

will certainly check it out.

If you're pressed for space in your

design all Facebook page urls can be shortened from facebook.com

to fb.com.

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For example, www.facebook.com/garinkilpatrick and

www.fb.com/garinkilpatrick both point to the same page.

USE QR CODES

How many business cards do you give out? Make it easy for the

people you have connected with in person to connect with your

Page.

Creating a QR code is easy and free at sites like and QRStuff.

Use the link for your Facebook Page and you have automatically

created a QR code that you can add to the back of your business

card.

BLOG COMMENTING

Leave insightful comments on blogs and in the website section use a

link to your fan page.

Strive to write helpful, detailed comments and these will attract

more attention and get more people clicking through to your

Facebook page to subscribe for more.

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LINK TO YOUR FACEBOOK PAGE FROM YOUR LINKEDIN PROFILE

LinkedIn gives every user three slots for

links to whatever you'd like right on

your profile.

You can make the anchor text of these

links whatever you like, so I

recommend using a call to action such

as: Join my Facebook page.

UPLOAD VIDEOS TO YOUR FACEBOOK PAGE

Facebook videos are very underrated, and can provide a great way

to drive traffic and Fans to your page if your video content is

compelling enough for people to share it.

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When you embed a Facebook video on another website this video

includes a watermark link in the top left corner to the fan page it

came from.

CREATE A MEMORABLE FACEBOOK URL

If you go to fb.com/username you will be able to create a custom

URL for your page.

Remember that your page username cannot be changed once it is

set, so choose wisely.

ATTRACT FANS WITH PROFESSIONAL DESIGNS

Hiring a designer to help you get an awesome looking logo or

timeline cover will help you attract new fans.

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I have found two excellent designers that I work with so if you are

stuck for a design contact me and I’ll get you linked up with a quality

and affordable designer.

Another option is to create the design yourself. I design most of my

own Timeline covers.

Make sure that your Timeline cover image does not violate any of

the Facebook Page Guidelines so that Facebook will not have a

reason to suspend your page.

The perfect Timeline cover size is: 851 x 350 pixels.

DELIVER AN AWESOME FACEBOOK PAGE EXPERIENCE

Do your best to deliver an awesome experience for those who

interact with your page by creating and posting epic content.

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The viral feedback this can send into many peoples Facebook news

feed will enable you to pull in many new free fans for your page.

Go above and beyond when engaging with your community and they

will spread the word.

Don't try just to get people to click "like" but instead seek to create

raving super fans who will share content from your awesome

Facebook page with their Friends.

WATERMARK YOUR GRAPHICS & VIDEOS

To watermark images use an image editing program like Photoshop

or the free web image editing tool pixlr.

For videos use a video editing program include a link to your

website. I use Camtasia to record any screencast videos I create and

they have features that make adding a graphic with a URL easy to

do. Camtasia comes with a free 30 day trial.

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GET YOUR CUSTOMERS TO LIKE YOUR FACEBOOK PAGE

If someone likes you enough to buy your product then there is a

good chance that they will like you on Facebook as well.

Rig up your "thank you" page with a Facebook "Like Box" and you'll

be good to go!

SEND YOUR FANS TO YOUR BLOG

Tell your fans to go check out your website when you publish new

blog posts.

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If your blog promotes products or services this can actually make

you money when you post about new blog posts on Facebook.

On my websites Facebook is consistently a top traffic source.

Google sends me visitors daily as long as my content is ranking,

whereas how much traffic Facebook sends me is largely dependant

on what I post.

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Create high quality content and you will be creating a win/win

situation since epic content can both pull traffic from Google,

Facebook, and across several other social media websites where

your visitors share your content!

Make sure your blog is equipped with Facebook Like buttons and

other social media buttons so your fans can easily spread your

content and bring you free traffic.

TRACK YOUR GROWTH WITH FACEBOOK INSIGHTS

Facebook insights shows you how many fans you accumulate over

time, and how you got them.

Using this knowledge you can analyse and

determine which activities are driving the

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most growth for your page and increase these outlets to amplify

your success.

MENTION YOUR FACEBOOK PAGE EVERYWHERE

Word of mouth does not start itself.

Get the conversation going by mentioning your Facebook page in

blog posts and in every day conversation.

Did I mention that you should join my Social Media Power Facebook

page? :)

INSERT MULTIPLE LIKE BUTTONS INTO SHAREABLE CONTENT

Installing a like button into your posts will help drive extra traffic to

your posts and it will also show that Facebook is an integral part of

your brand.

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If you have a self hosted WordPress blog I recommend installing the

WP FB Like plugin.

The more you can integrate Facebook with your site the more likely

people will be to join your Facebook page.

SPACE OUT YOUR FACEBOOK PAGE UPDATES

By using Hootsuite to manage your Facebook pages you can

maximize engagement by scheduling your posts ahead of time.

If you post 2 status updates a day for your page over five days this

will get you far better results than posting 10 updates in one day.

Pages now have post scheduling build in so if you are managing just

one page at a time this is the best way to schedule updates.

To schedule a post simply click the clock icon in the bottom left of

the post update section on your page. (See image below)

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RUN A FACEBOOK CONTEST OR A "FAN OF THE MONTH" PROMOTION

By highlighting one of your best fans every month you indirectly

encourage fans to engage more, so that they can win the coveted fan

of the month title the next month.

Offer a monthly prize, such as a cool free product or service related

to your brand, and the competition for this title will only increase.

Facebook Contest Idea: Award Prizes to the Fans Who Recruit the

Most People to The Page.

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LINK TO YOUR FACEBOOK FAN PAGE IN FORUM SIGNATURES

If you are active in any forums you will have the option to attach a

"signature" to every post that you write. Throw a link in your

signature to your Facebook page, and it will be clicked.

Do your best to add value and answer questions with your posts,

and people will be more inclined to click your link and join your

page.

A link with a call to action is more likely to get clicked than a link

alone, so go with "Join my Facebook Page:

fb.com/garinpeterkilpatrick" instead of simply:

“fb.com/garinpeterkilpatrick.”

CREATE A SHORT URL FOR YOUR FACEBOOK PAGE

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Creating a redirect to your Facebook fan page is one way to "presell"

the people who click it on joining your page.

Using the link shortening service bit.ly you can shorten any

Facebook link into a shorter on.fb.me link.

For example, I used bit.ly to shorten

http://www.facebook.com/GarinPeterKilpatrick into

on.fb.me/Garin.

Do the same for your page and it makes it much easier to share your

page on Twitter and elsewhere on the web.

on.fb.me links have built in analytics; if you want to see how many

clicks an on.fb.me link has gotten simply add a + to the end of it.

CONNECT WITH MORE FRIENDS ON FACEBOOK

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The more friends you have, the better your chances will be that

some of these friends will join your fan page.

Facebook has a Find Your Friends Tool that allows you to import

your contact list from a variety of email clients, or an email list.

This tool also displays "People you may know" which I have found is

very good at suggesting people that I know.

UPDATE YOUR TIMELINE COVER

Updating your timeline cover is a smart way to attract attention to

your page by being a very visible piece of content in the news feed of

your fans.

Include a link in your description to your email capture page and

build your email list!

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GIVE AWAY FAN PAGE SWAG

If you gave away shirts (or mugs, or stickers) like the one below

with your Facebook url on it you will get people walking around and

promoting your Facebook page for you everywhere they go!

ADD YOUR PAGE TO PAGE DIRECTORIES

The two page directories that pack the most punch from my point of

view are the page finder and like this fan page.

USE PROMOTED POSTS

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Once you hit 400 fans you will get the option to "Promote" any of

your posts.

Since your status updates typically only reach 18% of your fans this

can be a great way to extend your reach via the friends of your fans.

Promotes posts are easy to execute, simply scroll to the bottom right

of any post, select "Promote" and choose the amount you want to

spend to promote.

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As you can see from the recent Promoted Post above, I got great

results.

LINK TO YOUR PAGE IN YOUR EMAIL SIGNATURE

Every email you send is an opportunity to link to your Facebook

page. Check out the email signature tool wisestamp for a creative

way to link to your social profiles.

CONNECT WITH OTHER PAGE MANAGERS

Don't underestimate the value of cross promotion.

Even one cross-promotion a week will help you get a stream of new

"likes" with no investment on your part required besides the time it

takes to suggest the opportunity to your cross promotional partner.

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CONCLUSION

I hope you enjoyed this free report and take action on the powerful

tips inside to take your Facebook brand to the next level!

Want to create a rock star brand while you make money with

Facebook?

Make sure to check out the awesome content inside of fbPower.

Cheers,

Garin Kilpatrick

http://fbpower.com/pro