See some of our previous logo design work for WAHP’s and small businesses.

Our timeline packages include a cover image, square profile image and up to 5 custom app cover images for your facebook page.

I have been seeing a lot about facebooks algorithm formula – or Edgerank – as far as I know it is the same as it has always been – fans need to interact with your page (like, comment etc) for it to show up in their newsfeeds.

You can view a great article on how facebook calculates the formula here.

So instead of asking clients/customers to like a post to keep you in their news feeds – engage them! Make your posts/images/videos “like” worthy to ensure people still want to see your page! ♥ I don’t want to like you just because you tell me to – Make me want to see your posts!!  ♥

What is engagement? 

Engagement refers to the attention other people pay to your published content, like your facebook posts, and how your customers/fans respond and interact to them.

How do I engage fans/customers?

Here are some ways to engage your fans and get them interacting on your Facebook Page (taken from http://www.famousbloggers.net/engage-facebook-fans.html)

1. Post Regular, Consistent Content

One of the best ways to get your fans to start engaging with you more is to start posting more often. Remember that Facebook fans usually only see you when you post an update that goes into their News Feed. By posting regular, consistent updates, you’ll keep showing up in their News Feed and you’ll become more familiar to them. They will be far more likely to comment and interact with you if they feel like they already know you.

2. Always Provide VALUE

Whatever you are posting to your Facebook Page should be relevant, helpful, and interesting to your fans. You want to provide valuable information that will let them learn from you and even get results before they ever actually buy from you.

You can share quick tips related to your topic, how-to articles and videos, quotes, case studies and even resources from other people. If it will be helpful for your audience AND is relevant to your business and topic, then share it.

3. Ask Questions

Asking questions is a blatant invitation for your fans to engage with you. It can be a great way to spark a discussion and find out what your fans are thinking.

You can ask questions in just about any way you want. Add a question to the end of a quick tip asking them to share their experience when they apply the tip, or to share any additional tips they would like to add.

Or ask JUST a question in your update to start a conversation. You could ask them what their biggest frustration is right now around this topic, or invite them to share something great that happened to them recently, or ask them who they would recommend as a resource for something you need. These are all great ways to show them that you are interested in what they have to say and to invite a discussion.

4. Post Photos and Videos

Photos and videos tend to get a lot of response on Facebook. They stand out and people love to SEE something, instead of always just reading your updates.

You can post photos of your products, events you do, your team, and other photos that are relevant to your topic and business. You could post photos of you with clients, images from your portfolio or pictures of your store front if you have a physical location.

Videos are a great way to share great tips and how-to info. Post video tutorials, interviews, teaching sessions, workshops and anything else you can share through a video format. You could also do video interviews with each person on your team to introduce them, video testimonials from clients or share videos from others that will be useful to your fans.

A good mix of different types of media will help to keep your fans interested and give them a choice of how they prefer to learn from you.

5. Respond Quickly

When you do get comments and engagement from your fans, be sure to respond quickly. Let them know that you are listening and are happy to hear from them. Reply with a thank you, or even ask them a question to keep the conversation going.

The more engagement you get on each post, the more it will show up in your fans’ News Feeds, so encourage them to keep contributing to the conversation. You could ask them a question about what they commented on, to entice them to keep engaging with you. This also gives you a chance to get to know THEM and to find out what they think and what they need from you.

Make sure that someone on your team has the task of checking your Facebook Page for new comments, so that you can respond quickly.

When you add these 5 steps into your Facebook marketing strategy, you’ll start to see your fans commenting and interacting with you and your Page. The more interaction you get, the more your updates show up in the News Feeds and the more people will see it and want to participate in the conversation. It’s a beautiful upward spiral that will have your business EXPLODING on Facebook in no time.

LBM Designs has made it to 2000 facebook fans!  And to celebrate, we are giving you 2 chances to win 1000 business cards!  The first way is to receive the parcel in our online Pass-the-Parcel game on facebook, and for those of you who do not receive the parcel, you can enter simply by commenting on this post!  Just tell me what made you want to become a work at home mum/dad!  Competition closes at 11.59pm on Friday 23rd of September 2011  and winner will be announced the next day.  The only terms for this competition is that you can only enter once – entrants with more than 1 comment will be disqualified!!

Good Luck!

Blog entries will be coming soon.

Congratulations to the winner of our 1st Birthday competition – comment number 3 -

Tania!!

You will receive an email shortly with details of your prize!

Thank you to everyone who entered!

Nicole xx