Anti – Facebook Marketing or not?

[tazsolmarketing]

So by the title of this post, you’re assuming that I’m going to be ragging on Facebook. As opposed to giving Facebook a totally negative review, I wanted to provide you with both things I like about marketing with Facebook along with reasons why I don’t like marketing with Facebook. In the end, Ill leave the decision up to you.

Seven reasons why I like marketing on Facebook:

1. It’s the second most popular site in the world (next to Google)
2. Facebook Ads allows you to do some very targeted pay per click marketing
3. Fan Pages are a great place to market your business, products and services
4. It keeps getting bigger and getting more traffic (also can be seen as a negative)
5. Tricking out your profile is easy to do
6. It can be updated with ease using a mobile device
7. You can finally secure facebook.com/yourname! (unless someone grabbed it and wants to sell it to you now)


Six Reasons why I don’t like marketing on facebook:

1. They like to ban accounts and provide little information as to WHY it happened. This could put you out of the Facebook marketing business overnight.
2. It’s becoming over populated — this turns a lot of people off
3. Way to many crazy applications (I’m sick of seeing who poked me, hugged me, tried to get me into their mafia clan or listed me as their top friends) it’s just weird
4. Personal Facebook profiles are very difficult to monetize
5. Limitations on the number of friends you can have
6. Strange data ownership clauses — do you own your data or not? Make up your mind Facebook!
7. I can’t send out emails to my friends


All in all, I do use Facebook as one of my online marketing tools, but I do not use the site exclusively. I encourage you to check out additional social marketing sites that can be used to drive traffic, leads and sales.

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Michael Tasner
CEO - Taz Solutions, Inc.
Online Marketing/SEO Services/Online Strategy

[nimuel]

really time worthy reading
thanks for sharing this with us
i am gonna try this all things and soon posting

[Anton Juan]

Very informative post you got here. I especially agree on how annoying Facebook notifications can be - the apps can be cute or crazy.

[Paul Smith]

If you built your FB account around an invented persona with friends who are potential customers or network sources, how do you 'come off' as a real person?

[tazsolmarketing]

Thanks for providing a feedback on my post. It's good to know that my information was helpful.

[prakask]

I would say face book is not worth putting so much effort.