Abusing the Facebook Attention Chain for Negligible Brand Gain
It’s now accepted wisdom that successfully getting fans to engage with your brand’s missives on the Facebook platform has a linear impact on impressions due to the EdgeRank algorithm. When you accumulate disproportionately numerous likes, comments and shares on a post, Facebook shows that post to a larger percentage of your fans. Further, because the […]
How to Track Facebook Success Or Failure with Real-Time Stats
There’s been lots of gnashing of teeth and wringing of hands and pounding of keyboards about Facebook’s Edgrerank lately. “How dare they!” pontificate the social pure bloods. “We put forth the effort to get fans to ‘like’ our page, and now we have to PAY Facebook to reach them? It’s an outrage!” It’s not. Facebook […]
How to Know When to Promote a Facebook Post
Social media has never been inexpensive, just different expensive. But now, the last vestiges of false assumptions about the true cost of social marketing are being wiped away. Facebook’s changes to EdgeRank essentially require that Pages pay a fee to reach more than 12 out of every 100 of their fans. Other social networks (Instagram, Twitter) […]
3 Ways to Fight Facebook’s Algorithm and Customize Your Feed
You pick the categories, we deliver the content. The best content from around the web, on topics you care about and need to be an expert in. My wife asked me today if something had changed at Facebook. “I used to see a lot more posts from my friends about where they are, and what […]
Digital Sharecropping – Why Most Facebook Customization is Wasted Effort
Part 3 of a 3-Part Rant The time, money, and overall exertion being spent on customizing Facebook fan pages is largely misspent. Just because you CAN replicate much of your corporate website functionality on Facebook, doesn’t mean you SHOULD. Your Facebook fan page is not a collectible automobile. You do not get extra brand advocacy […]