Facebook is making it harder to.........

I'm getting quite a lot of work from Facebook.

I blog a great deal, and post links to my blog on my personal and bus fb pages. This in turn gets shared, and seen my occasionally hundreds of people. Which then makes a lot of visitors to my site, from there calls and emails happen, which turn into paying jobs.
 
tf76 said:
My suspicion is correct.
https://www.facebook.com/business/news/update-to-facebook-news-feed

I used to be able to post on most pages but now I am limited to do so.

Regards,
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That's from last fall and yeah they tightened up some things to reduce spam (or increase PPC ads as we say). FB will auto jail your account of you try to post a ton of likes, comments or shares. Typically for a day or sometimes few days. We see it even with our own pages where we like comments people leave for us and after a bit of time with a lot of comments FB just doesn't allow us to like anymore. We just wait until the next day and continue on.

I once had a good friend that worked for a company that closed out businesses. His company would be hired to liquidate a large single store or chain of stores through aggressive promotions. Typically they would liquidate huge inventories and store assets for 80-90% of retail cost surprising owners and generating them a ton of money as they worked on a percentage of sales. I learned a lot from this guy about marketing. I won't bore you with all the details but will say from the time you open your business until the time you close, you should be running a contest and collecting customer contact information. This is almost more important than getting business, I said almost.

The takeaway was that every failed business he liquidated didn't maintain a list. Had nothing to support them when times got slow. They relied on traditional marketing and always trying to get new customers. Oftentimes ignoring the customers they already have, had. The bottom line is this in business; if you build a large enough customer list soon your days of worrying to pay the bills are over. Your worrying about what search engines do or don't do are over. You have a large contact list you can tap any time work gets slow or inventory gets stale. The real secret in long successful business ownership isn't how cheap your prices are, how good your service is or now well your store is stocked (although that all help); it's about how big your customer list is. We run non-stop giveaways, collecting customer details from contests, sales and work orders. We are always building our list and it's our most valuable business asset. That being said, Facebook is a good tool for building your list.
 
inbargains said:
That's from last fall and yeah they tightened up some things to reduce spam (or increase PPC ads as we say). FB will auto jail your account of you try to post a ton of likes, comments or shares. Typically for a day or sometimes few days. We see it even with our own pages where we like comments people leave for us and after a bit of time with a lot of comments FB just doesn't allow us to like anymore. We just wait until the next day and continue on.

I once had a good friend that worked for a company that closed out businesses. His company would be hired to liquidate a large single store or chain of stores through aggressive promotions. Typically they would liquidate huge inventories and store assets for 80-90% of retail cost surprising owners and generating them a ton of money as they worked on a percentage of sales. I learned a lot from this guy about marketing. I won't bore you with all the details but will say from the time you open your business until the time you close, you should be running a contest and collecting customer contact information. This is almost more important than getting business, I said almost.

The takeaway was that every failed business he liquidated didn't maintain a list. Had nothing to support them when times got slow. They relied on traditional marketing and always trying to get new customers. Oftentimes ignoring the customers they already have, had. The bottom line is this in business; if you build a large enough customer list soon your days of worrying to pay the bills are over. Your worrying about what search engines do or don't do are over. You have a large contact list you can tap any time work gets slow or inventory gets stale. The real secret in long successful business ownership isn't how cheap your prices are, how good your service is or now well your store is stocked (although that all help); it's about how big your customer list is. We run non-stop giveaways, collecting customer details from contests, sales and work orders. We are always building our list and it's our most valuable business asset. That being said, Facebook is a good tool for building your list.
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Do you run contests through facebook or some other way?
 
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