How To Automate 90% Of Your Facebook Marketing
After an awesome weekend and a little bit of time to catch up on some more training I’ve been meaning to do, today I wanted to get back to some basics of Facebook marketing.
Specifically, how to automate 90% of your Facebook marketing.
Now, Hold on A Sec…
You’re probably thinking “Hey Linus, didn’t you just do a “New” Facebook marketing webinar where you were talking about being involved actively and personally with Facebook?”
And my answer is “Yes.”
But, the emphasis on that webinar was your personal realationship building with prospects, your leads, and your team. And how to gather all of the above for your business.
This post specifically is about your marketing and content syndication on Facebook.
Facebook Automation
It takes way too much time to manual wrestle with Facebook, and it’s totally not necessary. You can automate 90% of your Facebook efforts with a few simple settings.
1. Connect Your Blog feed to Your FB Profile
- Simply go to your FB profile and select the “Notes” tab at the top.
- Scroll to the bottom of the page and select “See More Notes”
- Almost in the middle of the screen you’ll see a blue/grey box called “Notes settings,” and click on the “Import a Blog” link.
- In the “Web URL” box, enter in your blog feed address, minus the “http://” part. So in my case it is www.linusruzicka.com/feed (If you need your feed address, it’s just your blog web address with “/feed” at the end).
- A new window will open asking to confirm your blog import, so click the “Confirm Import” button.
- That’s it!
Importing a blog feed automates your content syndication and will cut down on your time significantly!
Whenever you publish a new post on your blog, Facebook will automatically notify all your friends in your mini-feed. Your current friends will see it and some will respond.
Keep in mind that this will also work with Twitter and YouTube. Simply do a search for their applications on Facebook, follow the instructions, and you’re automated with those as well. Just make sure that you do a search solely for the applications.
2. Connect Your Blog to Your Facebook Fanpage
I did an entire post about this a few months back. Here is the link to that post: “How To Connect Your Blog to Your Facebook Fanpage”
3. Add Facebook Friends Automatically
I’m going to assume that you have a list that you’re building.
If so, all that you need to do is send the members on your list a “let’s be friends” message within 3 days of them opt-ing into your list. Simply create a “follow-up” message for Day 3 or 4, add it to your message list, and you’re good to go.
The only point of this email should be about how you want to be friends on Facebook.
You can also add your Facebook profile link to your email signature as well as your auto-responder signature.
All you’re saying is “I’m on Facebook and I’m active…come check me out.”
Then BAM! When they check out your profile, they’re going to be opened up to a whole new world of you!
Friend Adder Bots?
NO! Plain and simple.
If you are using a friend adder application for Facebook, you will be red-flagged and given a warning – if you’re lucky.
Most people end up getting their user accounts suspended or worse yet, deleted. Even without warning.
So if you want to play the friend adder bot game, that’s fine. But don’t say I didn’t warn you!
Am I Your Friend?
If for some reason you haven’t added me as a friend on Facebook, click here to get to my Facebook profile. Stop by, leave me a note, and say howdy.
I promise I’ll respond!
Also, notice the little blue “Facebook Share” button at the top of this blog post? Take a few seconds and spread the word about the fact that you found this post helpful for you and your Facebook Marketing Strategy.
Leaving No Network Marketer Behind,
