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Claim Your Custom Facebook URL - Simple Tips for Getting to 100 Fans!

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Real Estate Agent with Keller Williams Realty DTC

100If you have a business Page on Facebook, you may know that when you reach 100 ‘Fans’ you are then able to choose a ‘username’ for your page. A username comes in quite handy because it allows you to have a direct URL to your Facebook page that is easy to remember and publicize…..and isn’t a bazillion characters long!

For example, before we reached 100 fans, the URL to our Facebook page was:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Denver-Colorado-Real-Estate-The-Bibeau-Group/75580359832

 

Today was a big day….we broke the 100 fans mark, and were able to claim our new username.

Now, the URL to our Facebook page is:

http://www.facebook.com/RealEstateDenver

Nice, huh?!

I’m sure there are better ways to get 100 people to follow you, but this is what we did.  We started by just putting a link on our website and mentioning it in our monthly letter to our sphere of influence.

When that didn’t bring too many Fans, we stepped it up a notch. Here’s what we did in the past couple of weeks:

  • Invited our existing Facebook friends* (there are two of us on our team, and we each have 100+ friends on our personal pages) 
  • Invited our database of referral realtors in other states
  • Invited our farm neighborhood contacts
  • Sent an email to our sphere of influence with a link to ‘Become a Fan’
  • Tweeted a request asking our followers to ‘Become a Fan’ (again, the two of us each have 100+ followers)

That did it….we are now at 105 fans and have our handy-dandy custom username!  Like I said, I’m sure there are more effective ways to gain a following, but just wanted to share what worked for us. Feel free to comment here if you have other suggestions.  We'd love to hear more ideas!

(* To do this easily, log in to your Business Page and, just below your photo/logo, you will see some links.  Click on 'Suggest to Friends' (you may have to click on 'More' before you see this option).  A box will pop up with all of your existing Friends and you can either select one at a time, or choose a Friend Group or Network to invite.)

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Comments (3)

Michelle Green
HER Realtors Michelle Green & Associates - Parma, OH
#MichelleWillSell

thanks for sharing...I'm new to Facebook and working on getting all my friends set up...this will help:)

Sep 03, 2009 09:43 AM
Michelle Green
HER Realtors Michelle Green & Associates - Parma, OH
#MichelleWillSell

thanks for sharing...I'm new to Facebook and working on getting all my friends set up...this will help:)

Sep 03, 2009 09:43 AM
Rich Cederberg
eXp Realty - Albuquerque, NM
eXp Realty Agent Albuquerque

Well, I'm still looking for #1 (just getting started), but this will give me something to shoot for. Thanks!

Sep 05, 2009 03:50 AM