1. Facebook Contests And Marketing On Facebook -
Facebook Contest
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By Maon Laour - http://blog.incentivibe.com/
Facebook contests are an essential element to marketing on Facebook. For businesses, Facebook is all
about engaging the customer, building a list or fan following, and building a brand. You can transform
your Facebook presence and fan following with commenting, sharing, and interactive contests.
Marketing here is essential to any business alive or wanting to be alive today. Learning how to market
does not need to be difficult, Facebook Contest expensive, or excessively time-consuming. It can be
easy, effective, and powerful if you learn to use some key tools. Heck, it can even be fun! Enter the
Facebook contest.
Facebook contests are one of these essential tools that will help you leverage yourself and your business
in a mighty powerful way. First of all, they are great because people love them. Have a fun contest with
an awesome prize or a chance to showcase fans and their friends, and you are in there! The other
reason these are so great because of the viral capability of contesting.

2. Facebook contests have viral potential because when a user enters a contest, the contest info
automatically comes up in their status update and feed, visible to all of their friends. When another
friend sees this and also enters the contest, the contest also goes up for all of their friends to see. As
friends join (and they always will given you have a killer prize), voila! You have a viral contest running
strongly. It is very cool to observe.
Marketing on Facebook is all about making it all about your fans, and not yourself. Don't reprint your
website onto your Facebook page. This will make you seem stale very quickly and your 'fans' will be
steady hitting the back button. Engage them with useful, interesting, and unique content and make sure
you respond. Contesting is an excellent way to accomplish this. It can be very fun for the user and they
eliminate the boring factor. In this way, you can build both a list and a visible following easily, affordably,
and in record time.
Your contest doesn't have to be major. For example, say that you are a hairdresser. You can giveaway a
free haircut, or a free product. You could even do something cooler, like have a "Worst Bad Hair Day"
photo contest and award the worst hairdo with a free 'do or product. Say you own a spa, you could
simply offer a free spa day or spa service, or to up the ante, run a Mother's Day Contest to give the most
stressed out mother a rejuvenating trip to the spa. These options are varied and really fun, especially
and most importantly for the fans you need to be catering to.

3. Facebook contests don't even need to be limited to physical items or services. For example, if you are an
Internet Marketer, you can run a contest to give away a free course you've done. This is even greater
because digital products take no more time and no more money to create. It's a complete win-win. If
you are a coach you could create a contest to giveaway some free coaching or a free starter kit. These
are just a few ideas. Contesting are a great way to really implement the things that drive fan-love on
Facebook; commenting, sharing, coupons, and giveaways.
So… What’s Next ?
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