How To Get Your First 1000 Facebook Likes For Your FacebookPage

 Now what? How do I get 1000 Facebook likes?

One of the main challenges faced by small businesses that want to have a presence in Facebook is the famous "and now what?". The famous, "And now what?" is kind of an immediate self question that almost everyone who has created a Facebook page comes up with, immediately after creating a business Facebook page (unless you've had a budget to contract a specialized social media agency).

  As an a main administrator on your page we very much guess that you literally followed all the steps to get your business page online and all of sudden you have all these doubts: What can i do?, What should I say?, How do I get 1000 Facebook likes for my page? Even well experienced internet marketers have trouble sometimes.

It is known that the beginnings of gathering "likes" are hard, so with a totally practical approach and based on our experience, we will offer you a small and easy to understand guide with steps that will help you get a critical mass of likes on Facebook, let's say were going to get 1000 Facebook likes to round up the numbers.

1- Create a quality image:

Before sharing your new business Facebook fan page with your contacts make sure you have good cover photo and a profile picture. And Yes, keep your images consistent with your corporate or products images. Either if its a logo or an image that represents your products or services, it is very important that images have a good resolution and are adapted to sizes predetermined by Facebook : the cover photo is of 851 × 315 pixels and the profile: 160 × 160 pixels. Images blurry or colors that don't match can give a bad image of your page.

2- Share it with family and friends:

For the first round of "likes" our recommendation is to go to your closest circle which is your family and friends. By the time you have put together a Facebook business page, your friends and family had already been aware of all the hard work you put into your real business and they undoubtedly like it. Send them e-mails with a link to the page or directly invite them using the "invite friends" button  located in the administrative panel of your page.

3- Give personality to your page:

The first impression of your Facebook business page is your logo and personal image. Give personality to your page with a profile image that gives a personal touch to your page. For example, if you're a hotel, share images and recipes of the chef, beauty tips from the spa maids, etc. Don't limit yourself to share news, videos or photographs that you've seen on other websites/blogs. The easiest way to personalize your page is creating your own content.

 4- Link your Facebook page with other promotional materials:

Don't forget to link to your Facebook fan page from your website and from the newsletter that you send to your customers. You can also incorporate the link of your FB fan page in the signature of all your e-mails. If you have business cards, brochures, posters, etc. put the link to your Facebook page there as well. An effective alternative is to create a QR code that scanned takes the person directly to your page. QR codes are ideal for packaging if you sell a physical product or "Menu" if your business is a restaurant.

5- Connect with your fans and get new fans with special promotions:

Once your family members, friends, contacts and customers already "liked" your page the process of acquisition of new likes & fans becomes slower. To keep a steady rising of your "likes" and accelerate the growth of your FB business fan page we recommend a strategy that's as old as 'commerce' itself, i.e., Offer 'FREE' trials, give out coupon codes, Free stuff to download, use promotional campaigns to speak about your business, etc...  This way you're offering a direct incentive to people making easier for everyone to like and become a fan of your page.


6 Use Facebook Ads:

You don't have to count with a multinational company budget to promote your business with Facebook ads. With only spending $5 to $10 dollars a day one can can get good results since you only pay for the clicks you receive on your ad. The biggest benefit of Facebook ads is the segmentation that offers by location, age, gender and interests.

The next step would be to take care of your existing fans and continue to grow your business Facebook page. Our recommendation in this case is that if you don't have the necessary time to dedicate to your FB fan page delegate or outsource its management to a professional social media services company. These professional services will help you get 1000 Facebook likes quick and safe in a totally new level.

Should you know about any other easy and practical ways to get 1000 Facebook likes quick please go ahead and share it with us in the comments.. (No Spamming)

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The Twitter Tools to determine influence on Twitter

A lot of people comes to me asking how to determine the power/reach/influence of a Twitter account. I've been myself struggling a lot to investigate some Twitter accounts. There's a few favorite Twitter tools that I've been a dedicated user of in the last 12 months. Reasons are simple, these Twitter tools are amazing at what they do, in their own way.

Logotype of Klout

To begin with, klout.com - The Standard of Influence - is probably the only Twitter tool that you can use alone if you only want to use one single Twitter tool to find out how powerful and influencing a Twitter account is. The Klout will determine every single Twitter account with a Klout score of 1-100, where 100 is the perfect Klout score, meaning, the most influencing account. Why I love the Klout score is simply because, it doesn't only measure how many followers a Twitter account has, how much it grows, how many retweets you get, how many mentions and FAVs you get -- It measures who the followers is, who is the retweeter and who is mentioning you. If Bill Gates follows and retweets you, then you are much more influencing than if 10 random nobodys retweets and follows you. Klout is measuring how influencing your audience is and how influencing you are towards them. Amazing site!

Screenshot from www.twittercounter.com comparing @Know @GoogleFacts and @SciencePorn

The second Twitter tool that I really want to recommend about influence is Twitter Counter. That's an amazing way of looking through the follower growth in the last 3 months! I however pay for the premium version and can check every single Twitter account's history in the last 6 months. Why is this interesting? As the statistics nerd that I am, I love to investigate Twitter accounts. If a Twitter account is growing 50,000 followers in 10 day or in 100 days, that's an amazing difference in power, reach and influence (if the followers are all real of course). The faster someone gained followers, the most likely, the more powerful they are.

Also, Twitter counter is great for measuring what's been awesome days on Twitter and what's not. After looking through the statistics on Twitter, I've noticed that most Twitter accounts are growing more Twitter followers on Sundays than Tuesdays, and Thursdays are more likely a good growing day than Fridays. You can also see how many tweets you've posted and how much you grew different depending on how many post you posted, how many followers you will have in 100 days if it's growing like it's currently growing on average and much more.

Screenshot from www.statweestics.com

The third Twitter tool that I enjoy a lot is Statweestics. This is a Twitter tool to take a closer look of Twitter statistics. It's live and old history updates of the hottest hashtags, users, words and locations. Very interesting.

Screenshot from Topsy Analytics

The forth Twitter tool is Topsy, and it definitely deserves a place in the list. Topsy has two parts of the site that I love about it, the regular Topsy site, and the Topsy Analytics site. The picture above is from the analytics site, where you can count all the mentions to a Twitter account for every day. I mean, the more mentions a Twitter account gets, the more influencing it ought to be -- if they tweet as many tweets.

The other part of Topsy is that you can search for a Twitter username and you can find the most retweeted/replied tweets that a Twitter account has received. Meaning, here's a way to find out if celebrities and similar things have mentioned you!

Logotype of Status People

Another site that I also enjoy to use sometimes for some accounts that I feel are a little bit mystery, is Status People. Here's a way to easily check out how many fake, inactive and very active followers every account on Twitter has. Very useful if you doubt an account out there and easily want to find out if the followers are real or not. The only bad part about this is that it's only the last 10,000 followers! Still an amazing good tool though.