Creating a Facebook Fan Page for Baldydog.com

Posted by kdoud10

Today was day-two of interning for Baldy Dog so I worked on a mini project: I put together a fan page on Facebook for Baldy Dog. This is the first fan page I ever created, but it was pretty simple. I followed a few steps, and then added the company’s logo and some contact information. After a short time I was staring at the page which still looks rather blank. I posted a link to the website on the page’s wall, but I was still wondering, “What else should be on a page like this?”

How do you create an interesting fan page on Facebook?

I’m a fan of several pages on Facebook, including a photographer, a band, an athlete, a comedian and a few publications, but it’s been awhile since I’ve checked up on them. There were tons of interesting updates and links to look at- including videos and photo slideshows- and now I’m actually going to make a point to check these pages regularly!

Now that I’m on Twitter, I see a number of similarities between Twitter and these Facebook fan pages. A business, celebrity or whoever can write updates on what’s new or where they are with links to anything their fans should be aware of. Pages actually have a lot of options compared to a Twitter page. For one thing, fan pages don’t limit the number of words in a posting. They also allow photos and videos to be uploaded and notify us when new photos are added so we are sure to check them out. Many of the pages have links to follow them on Twitter as well, but I find the look of the fan pages more appealing than Twitter maybe because they are more interactive. I can watch a clip on YouTube without leaving the page, and because it’s Facebook, fans can “like” everything and leave comments. Right now, Baldy Dog’s fan page is just collecting some fans (I think we’re up to 5 …) but it would be nice to develop it into something more interactive.

5 ways that some pages (that I am a fan of) made use of the site:

YouTube video embedded in the wall post
Encouraging fans to pass along a new promotional video
Photo albums including professional works or promotional posters, as well as regular snapshots
Links to main website, Twitter, and email contacts
Links to other associated Facebook pages

Has anyone created a Facebook fan page for their company and found it beneficial?

Here is a link to the new Baldy Dog fan page if you would like to take a look or become a fan:

http://www.facebook.com/#/pages/Boyertown-PA/Baldy-Dog-Search-Marketing/251591627711?ref=nf

Written by kdoud10 on January 13th, 2010 with comments disabled.
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Ferries
#1. January 13th, 2010, at 9:21 PM.

I believe that the key to success in Social media is to interact with customers/visitors in a way that they feel that they get something out of it and are being threathed with respect

Keith
#2. January 13th, 2010, at 10:44 PM.

I created a few fan pages this week, something I learned was how to add feeds to the page, wrote about it on my blog if you want to add to your fan page by sending a blog feed to it….

I became a fan, looking forward to more of your projects!

Ron Leyba
#3. January 14th, 2010, at 6:29 AM.

I created a Facebook fan page for my old blog. And I can tell that, it was really helpful, in terms of traffic and branding.

And by the way, I just become your fan on facebook.

badtimestory
#4. January 14th, 2010, at 7:04 AM.

Well, that does sound fun, put up some amazing stuff and there’ll always be admirers. I love video things.

Joshua Brisbane (mlm lead king)
#5. January 14th, 2010, at 1:32 PM.

I’ve created a group on Facebook which I assume is very similar to a fan page because it’s a great way to funnel consumers throughout my network. One thing you can try doing is offering contests and coupons specifically to Facebook users to entice consumers to join.

kdoud10
#6. January 15th, 2010, at 9:33 PM.

I did read a little bit about adding feeds to a page… that seems like a pretty good idea.

kdoud10
#7. January 15th, 2010, at 9:34 PM.

Thanks for becoming a fan! I think we have 28 fans now… not bad.

kdoud10
#8. January 15th, 2010, at 9:36 PM.

I like that idea.. I love contests! Not sure how we would tie in a contest with the SEO business, though…

Vlad Reznik
#9. January 16th, 2010, at 8:04 PM.

I’ve looked into creating a facebook page in the past but it always seems to be so time consuming! I’ll get round to it eventually!

Watch Human Target Online
#10. January 17th, 2010, at 5:24 PM.

Just became a fan. I like this idea very much and think that it will work very well for the value of your site.

Indiansafaries
#11. January 18th, 2010, at 2:02 PM.

very useful idea ans tips to create a good page on the facebook
very lovely idea dude.

Pixelhead
#12. January 18th, 2010, at 4:21 PM.

creating it really does not take that much time, even updating it is not going to take a ton of time, but it is something that needs to be done regularly.

Wedding in Italy
#13. January 20th, 2010, at 4:44 PM.

Nice idea.
I also realized a fan page for my website about Wedding and in 30 days i had more then 100 fans.
Then i suggested my new post on the blog and all the fans read that.
http://www.italianwedding.com

Action Figure Toy
#14. January 22nd, 2010, at 1:32 AM.

I never use a fan page from facebook
well, I really want to make it but sometime I forget to have it
maybe I should make it now

Paul
#15. February 3rd, 2010, at 8:04 PM.

Having a Facebook account or fan page for you business is a must. I have even seen Facebook fan pages show up in the SERPs for key terms. So it is defiantly a must have tool and it’s free!

Goran | Net Age
#16. February 4th, 2010, at 10:59 AM.

I’m looking at your fan page, and am joining up straight away. I am also posting comment on the blog next. Thanks for sharing your facebook fan page story with us. It definitely helps to promote your offering. Fan pages are trawled by the googlebots, right?

social mediamarketing
#17. February 5th, 2010, at 10:55 AM.

Is there any benefits for joining the fan page of Baldydog.com on face book?

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#18. February 10th, 2010, at 4:20 AM.

Fan page play a very important role in our account, because of fan page visitor knows what is the popularity of that user having. more fan means more popularity.

Andrew
#19. February 14th, 2010, at 6:46 PM.

In My opinion, I still prefer facebook fan pages rather than twitters..Cause I think fan pages in facebook are more flexible & have more contents in it

Pet Care
#20. February 15th, 2010, at 12:18 AM.

Hey nice tips. I’m glad that bloggers are using more a more the big fish Social Networks to improve their traffic. I’ve created some fan pages myself. I’m still evaluating how it goes but it promises to be a great deal.

masan
#21. February 20th, 2010, at 4:04 AM.

I look for a facebook application that can put fan group ( i mean an apps like fanpage) on a website. There is only an apps for page called fanpage, but not for facebook group.

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#22. February 22nd, 2010, at 6:44 AM.

Great blog! We have created a facebook fan page for our company and found it beneficial as well awesome.It helped us to increase popularity of our company and we are becoming success to achieve our targeted goals.We are very happy with this result.Thanks for sharing your awesome point of view ,Keep this work alive.

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#23. April 13th, 2010, at 9:31 AM.

Great information and nice tips. A Facebook fan Page is a public profile that enables us to share our business and products with facebook users. It also helps in knowing the popularity of the persons. I like your idea very much. It will really help me a lot.