Facebook and Your Business?

Are you using Facebook to market your business?  This is a question I recently posed on LinkedIn.  I got many different responses, but Facebook seems to be the natural way to market your business instead of the old fashioned way of distributing flyers, cold-calling, and doing the rounds of businesses that may help you.

As Facebook enters it's second set of 500+ million users world wide, Facebook is one of the best arenas to get yourself recognised, known and respected, with due diligence not to post too much personal content.  That is also why I have a personal page and a business Facebook page.

However, Facebook is for some, a very personal environment, for me it is both.  On my business Facebook page, I can interact with my clients, potential clients, while letting them see that I am indeed also human, but also have useful information that they may value once they think about potentially buying a new home.  I can include links to homes for sale, pertinent market information, interest rate updates, what maybe happening in certain areas of my city, and Facebook, after all, is a free forum.  If used correctly, I believe it is a great way to interract and generate interest in my business of real estate.

Here's to another 500 million users, all potential clients and friends, on Facebook!

Jane Loveday
Licence # 01439083
Pacific Sothebys International Realty
619-519-1615 Cell

http://janeloveday.com 

http://www.facebook.com/realestatesandiego

http://www.twitter.com/sdrealestate 

Are You on Facebook?

Here's some interesting statistics abut Facebook!

People on Facebook

• More than 500 million active users
• 50% of our active users log on to Facebook in any given day
• Average user has 130 friends
• People spend over 700 billion minutes per month on Facebook

Activity on Facebook

• There are over 900 million objects that people interact with (pages, groups, events and community pages)
• Average user is connected to 80 community pages, groups and events
• Average user creates 90 pieces of content each month
• More than 30 billion pieces of content (web links, news stories, blog posts, notes, photo albums, etc.) shared each month.

Global Reach

• More than 70 translations available on the site
• About 70% of Facebook users are outside the United States
• Over 300,000 users helped translate the site through the translations application

Platform

• More than one million developers and entrepreneurs from more than 180 countries
• Every month, more than 70% of Facebook users engage with Platform applications
• More than 550,000 active applications currently on Facebook Platform
• More than one million websites have integrated with Facebook Platform
• More than 150 million people engage with Facebook on external websites every month
• Two-thirds of comScore’s U.S. Top 100 websites and half of comScore’s Global Top 100 websites have integrated with Facebook

Mobile

• There are more than 200 million active users currently accessing Facebook through their mobile devices.
• People that use Facebook on their mobile devices are twice as active on Facebook than non-mobile users.
• There are more than 200 mobile operators in 60 countries working to deploy and promote Facebook mobile products

Next time you log on, look me up - http://www.facebook.com/realestatesandiego


Jane Loveday
Windermere Pacific Coast Properties
619-519-1615 Cell
http://janeloveday.com
http://www.facebook.com/realestatesandiego