Posting About Your Business On Facebook Without Annoying Your Friends

The 1 in 20 rule holds true for me, although it can be difficult to strike that balance. I have a friend who is also an LO he posts a lot of motivational quotes which is kinda cool. Definitely better than the friends who violate TILA and start advertising rates.   

That's also what we do daily. In the morning we post inspirational/motivational quotes

From there they can join our e-mail or newsletter if they wish.

Enjoy the day

I appreciate the "softer sell" also.  My eyes glaze over and I move on when it's a hard sell.

I agree with the soft sell approach.

Great Post - My question to you is - are either of your friends using PAGES or Groups? Or are they just posting to one wall? This is one great way to keep personal with personal and business with business.

Sorry to have changed my post, but I read back over it and didn't want to come across as HEY you should be doing this instead.

Having personal FB Walls and then Business Pages / Groups are a great way to keep things separate.

We to have FRIEND request but like you we don't want to be rude, so we also send them links to our PAGE and Group.

Thanks again great post.

It's a tough balance.  I have some friends who do each of these, as well.  I have a business page and have tried to keep a lot of the area/neighborhood/real estate posts there, but I do share some of the photos and links to new listings on my personal page from time to time... as more of a "here's what I'm up to" message.

Hi David,

I worry that I am the annoying one.

Good post!

It is hard to figure out how to talk about what we do without beating the drum all the time. Your post gives good examples and food for thought

Thanks

Phil

H Phil,

Great post, good tips. We are just getting used to FB and there is a distinct culture and st off ethics to FB that is different,

it is okay to get blasted with people playing annoying games, but it is rude if you talk about what we do for most of our days, seems a little twisted, but if 500,000,000 are okay with it who am I.

Happy Selling

It really is a challenge.  I ask friends and family all the time if I have too many business-related posts and so far, no negative feedback.  You really have to keep that balance.

What is your opinion of the auto-populated blog roll that posts on Facebook if you add the link.  I try to be personal, and add lots of personal notes to my "friends" photos, events, etc.  However, I blog almost daily, and when you look at my page, you can see a LOT of my blog links.  I wish, too, that when I post comments on biz sites that it would use my biz name, not my personal, but that's the way it goes for now, I guess.  Great post - good questions and tips.

The key is that people find you interesting, relevant to them, and worth paying attention to as a person. I say approach it like google keywords, you need to have them in there, but don'tmake it so annoying that there is no content for the reader.

I'm still not sure how to use Facebook, if to use Facebook.  Between the endless office work, the blog writing I started a while ago and now AR, I am wondering where Facebook fits in.  I have a personal page but don't get to it very often. I guess I have not found the golden key to unlock the world of Facebook yet.  Thanks for causing me to think more about it.

Another thing that one should not do on Facebook is to post more than 2 or 3 consecutive times in a row.  I actually had to de-friend a Florida REALTOR that posted so much on a daily basis that I was forced to search to read post from my other friends.  Every time I had to scroll down to see a post from anyone other than that particular REALTOR, I became annoyed. Slamming Facebook with consecutive post will guarantee that very few people will actually read any of your post.

Hi Phil. Still a timely post.  I hope things are going well for you and you are having a great spring season.