So you probably came here looking to buy facebook fans or looking for advice? We have a short guide written below about buying facebook fans, because there are some things you need to know first before risking your money and facebook business page.

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Buying Facebook Likes (Fans)- Reviews and Warnings

Right now Facebook business pages are hot and building up a huge following on Facebook is a marketers or a small business owners prized goal. This has led to a huge increase in demand for ways to legitimately increase traffic and hopefully get a “like” to your Facebook business page. The legitimate ways to get fans to your page are:

• Facebook Advertising (https://www.facebook.com/advertising/)
• PR
• Cross-promotional efforts with other popular facebook pages that fall into your demographic
• Hire a dedicated social media person that will produce great content
• Make a game that includes many sharing options to get them to your page.

The best method to get guaranteed targeted Facebook likes and fans, is through Facebook Advertising. The amount tools, data, targeting, and the volume of traffic they bring to your page can’t compare to any other method of getting fans. Unfortunately, as Facebook advertising has grown in popularity, it has also gotten much more expensive. This requires you to really pay attention to your targeting, A/B split test ads, and continually refine campaign on a daily basis so you’re not wasting tons of money on expensive clicks.

The second best way is to hire someone like us, who will do everything, from good content, to cross promotional efforts and even PR to build up your page. You can see our portfolio of targeted campaigns and facebook page designs here: http://www.fastfacebookservices.com/get-a-quote-hire-us/

The option, is to go with a third party Facebook advertiser. These advertisers usually have a (limited) amount of partnerships with legitimate Facebook applications and games. Which means, your page is advertised in a similar manner to Facebook advertising, but usually much cheaper, and some of these services guarantee a certain number of fans or your money back. Unfortunately, these services usually come with some downsides, usually their targeting is limited by country. Also, since they are relying on a large volume a traffic to get your fans, many times the fans are not well targeted, sometimes they are people that accidentally clicked “like” on a Facebook page and have no idea how they got there.

The only legitimate ones we know of are here: http://www.fastfacebookservices.com/our-list-of-legitimate-facebook-fan-services/

Warnings on Buying Facebook Likes or Fans, and our experience in the past

As this market has grown, there are a number of providers that will provide fans for cheap, really cheap. A simple search on google: https://www.google.com/search?q=buy+facebook+fans&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a yields 100s of results. You can also buy fans from freelancers on sites like Odesk.com, Fivver.com and Elance.com . However, word of warning: these are almost always fake.

Do not buy guaranteed facebook fans or likes from freelancers:

Hiring freelancers to help you grow your page is perfectly fine. Our service, is essentially the same as hiring a freelancer. However, do not buy from people offering thousands of guaranteed fans for cheap. You should only hire a person to help you design and manage your creative content and advertising campaigns.

Think about it this way, if someone is offering you 1000, or 10,000 facebook likes and fans for less than .0001 cent per fan, where do you think those fans are coming from? That’s right: completely fake profiles. The only reason anyone would ever want to use those services is to boost their “Social Capital” . Otherwise, they are usually useless, and a large number of fake or spammy profiles to your facebook page, can actually result in getting your facebook page deleted. That means any legitimate fans you built up in the meantime, will be lost forever, costing more money in the end, than if you would have just went with a legitimate 3rd party advertiser, hiring a consultant like us, or managing your own Facebook Advertising.

Picking a Provider

If you decide you want to risk buying fans from a provider from the search engines be sure to heed some of these warnings:

• Do not buy from someone that does not except credit card. A credit card process is a difficult thing to get. If they don’t have a credit card processor, it probably means they are somewhat scammy.
• If they only take Paypal, make sure they are a verified business member when you buy. As above, if they don’t have a verified business account, the chances are pretty strong they are scammy.
• Do not buy from someone that does not have a direct phone number listed on their website. No phone number on their website? Probably because they are hiding. Any legitimate business should be more than happy to take your call
• Question their methods: keep in mind the only real way to get fans to a page is going to be through exposing your page to possibly millions of people. If they say they send out email invites, or they have a “large network of popular fan pages.” Run. There’s not enough popular facebook pages on earth, that will be able to push a large number of guranteed fans. The only real way to do it, is through advertising. If they don’t have an advertising network in place, you’re going to be getting fake fans.

Our experience with providers  (outside our recommendation list)  has been pretty similar to others, note from an article written by Southwestern Commerce:

There are a number of services out there that will let you buy Twitter followers or Facebook fans. We decided to try one of them, SocialKik.

In our experiment, we decided to buy 1000 Facebook fans for an Australian fan page, and 2000 Facebook fans for a United Kingdom fan page.

Within days, we began to receive new fans, as promised. But there were some problems.

1. We paid extra for the “targeted fans” option, and clearly specified that we wanted Australian fans and United Kingdom fans respectively. However, it became clear early on that all fans were from the USA. When we replied to SocialKik to ask them why we weren’t getting geographically targeted fans, they did not reply. Unfortunately this did not improve and we ended up with almost exclusively USA fans.
2. Some of the “fans” began to leave weird comments on our fan pages. Things like “hello” or “i feel bad today”. That’s no big deal, but the thing is, some fans made identical comments on both of our fan pages.  This leads us to suspect that many of the fans (or at least the ones that comment) are either junk profiles, or perhaps paid to join our page and comment. Why else would they join both pages and make the same weird/random comment on both of our seperate fan pages?
3. The fans don’t interact, or seem interested at all. This is no big drama, as we expected this. We can’t be exactly sure how SocialKik find the fans, but you can be pretty sure that they’re not joining your fan page because they are genuinely interested. So don’t expect much out of the fans, it’s really more about boosting numbers.
4. We had some issues getting the fans in the promised amount of time. For our UK page we were told that we would get 2000 fans in 21 days. In fact it took several months to get that number of fans, and only after several emails and complaints that it was taking so long.

We have also conducted other experiments by paying people at www.fiverr.com to recommend our Facebook pages to their Facebook friends. We have tried this method around 5 times and unfortunately on all occasions the amount of fans we received were minimal.

There is only two services we have found that is worthwhile, and guarantees country specific targeted fans and delivers and those can be found in our recommended guide here: http://www.fastfacebookservices.com/our-list-of-legitimate-facebook-fan-services/

So what’s our recommendation after all that, about purchasing Facebook fans?

Sometimes when you’ve started a new Facebook fan page, and you want some fan numbers to make it look more reputable, then you may wish to consider purchasing some fans. For example, you may feel that when someone visits your Facebook fan page, they are more likely to interact or join if they see 1000 fans instead of 3 fans.

But because purchased fans will never be as loyal as real fans, you should view them as just number builders (that is, just there to make your initial page look better). For that reason, you should source them as cheap as possible.

And you certainly shouldn’t hope that purchased fans will interact with the same interest as real fans.

 

Another article can be seen here from ExposedSEO: http://exposedseo.com/buying-facebook-fans-should-you-do-it.php

…the new fans I purchased have not really interacted or recommended the site to others. They mostly just “liked” the site and then moved on. Looking at some of their profiles, I can see they have hundreds of “likes”, so my site is just one more on their list. The only reason you should buy followers is to make your site appear to be more established than it is. This is useful if you are just starting out or if you are prepping your site for a future sale. It’s a bit of a self fulfilling prophecy there; to get popular you should already look like you are popular. And buying fans can help you look popular.”

 

Conclusion:

Our recomendation is always use Facebook Advertising, our list of recommened providers or hire a company like us that can organize a strong campaign for you. If it seems to good to be true or too easy, it probably is. Building up a legitimate fan page takes time, work and money. Anyone offering a magic solution, is probably going to result in you losing your money in the end.

If you want to get real fans through a legitimate Facebook advertising campaign you can hire us for as little as $75.00 an hour. Get a quote now–>

Interesting find this morning. As many of you know Facebook is about to move forward with it’s IPO. According to Stuff.co.nz, this means that at minimum, a thousand people could become millionaires overnight.

From Stuff.co.nz:

Travelling to space or embarking on an expedition to excavate lost Mayan ruins are normally the stuff of adventure novels.

But for employees of Facebook, these and other lavish dreams are moving closer to reality as the world’s No. 1 online social network prepares for a blockbuster initial public offering that could create at least a thousand millionaires.

The most anticipated stock market debut of 2012 is expected to value Facebook at as much as $US100 billion, which would top just about any of Silicon Valley’s most celebrated coming-out parties, from Netscape to Google.

Facebook employees past and present are already hatching plans on how to spend their anticipated new wealth, even as securities regulations typically prevent employee stock options from being cashed in until after a six-month lock-up period.

The article goes on to explain that many employees and investors are now creating a “bucket list” of things to do from their new found wealth. Everything from trips to space on Virgin Glatic to expeditions in Mexico to go to the same places as Indian Jones in the Raiders of the Lost Ark.

You can see the whole article here: http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/6128468/Facebook-to-create-millionaires

From Mashable: http://mashable.com/2011/09/22/facebook-gestures/

You can’t deny the success of Facebook‘s Like button. Its popularity quickly skyrocketed; it took less than a month for the button to appear on more than 100,000 websites. Now it is a standard method for endorsing something on the social web.

But that’s exactly the problem — the Like button is an endorsement. If you run across an interesting article and share it, it’s seen as an implicit endorsement. And although that has gotten Facebook this far, the social platform is ready to go further.

The company did some internal research and found that users, especially younger ones, were afraid to “Like” because of the implied endorsement. Less Liking, or sharing, means less interesting content on Facebook and fewer posts about what these users are doing.

Facebook’s bet is that more people will click a button that says they’ve “Listened” to a song or “Watched” a video, rather than simply liking it. That’s why Facebook will be rolling out “Watched,” “Listened” and “Read” buttons, as has been previously reported. But at Facebook’s f8 conference, the company will give developers the power to create their own actions.

Called Gestures, these actions are the next step in integrating Facebook with every part of the web. It’s possible you’ll be able to click a Facebook “Challenge” button that would let you post a game challenge on your friend’s wall, or a “Cheer” button that would let you support your friends when they need it. And yes, you could theoretically create a “Dislike” button through Facebook’s new initiative, though if I were Zuckerberg, I’d put a limit on that specific verb. It will be, as the folks at AllThingsD describe it, a “sharing explosion.”

It’s Facebook’s partners that will take this capability and turn it into applications that populate Facebook and their websites with these Gestures, though. That’s Facebook’s plan — to become the social layer on which the web is built. To that end, you can also expect Facebook to roll out a new Open Graph at f8, one that includes a much clearer and more engaging permissions screen. The new Open Graph will change Facebook drastically.

This is only the beginning. Facebook has a lot more to show us, and some of its biggest announcements may not come at f8, but in the weeksafter. Facebook’s launching season is upon us.

What is Facebook? Facebook is a social networking site where users connect with each other and various forms of content and applications. Facebook has over 500 million active users and that number continues to grow steadily. It is the third most trafficked website in the world (behind Google and Yahoo) and the most trafficked social media site in the world.

Because Facebook is the largest social network, having a Facebook Business Page is a great way to stay connected with prospects and customers on a site they likely visit on a daily basis. It also allows you to facilitate a more personal connection with your audience. You’ll be able to share company insights, industry updates, pictures, videos, and more with your audience. You’ll also be able to get your fans’ opinions via polls and comments on your updates.

Facebook Business Goals Because of the sheer number of users on Facebook, a segment of your audience is represented on this network. For a business, there are five primary goals for connecting with the Facebook community:

• Build relationships with clients and potential clients
• Establish a presence for your business on Facebook through a Business Page
• Leverage viral features to strengthen brand awareness
• Generate traffic, links, and leads naturally through viral features
• Potentially buy target ads to prospects via Facebook advertising network, which offers an extensive set of demographic and psychographic information not available anywhere else

Build Your Network on Facebook After creating your personal profile on Facebook, you should build your network of friends that might be interested in your niche and could share it with their (many) friends. This is often the best way to get your first Facebook Business Page “likes.” Here are some ideas for people you should try adding to your friends list:

• Customers who might be interested in company information you distribute through your news feed.
• Industry contacts, such as members of professional organizations in your area.
• Bloggers in your area who might write blog articles about significant company news.
• Members of the media who regularly cover your products. They will receive notifications of your activity.

Create a Facebook Business Page While most Facebook links bring no SEO value, Facebook is growing rapidly and new and imaginative applications crop up every day. Creating a page will enable you to begin growing your online community. Facebook users can “like” your page to add themselves to your community, write on your Wall, and participate in other ways. This can also be an invaluable way for you to communicate with “fans” down the road. See HubSpot’s Company Page for an example.

To create a Facebook page or company profile:

1. Go to the Facebook Pages page and click “Create Page.”
   Click the radio button for the category that best describes your business: Local if your business has a local focus (such as a restaurant), Brand or Product for a national brand or online company, or Artist, Band, or Public Figure.
2. From the corresponding drop-down menu, select the best subcategory is for your business.(such as Technology/Service). Choose carefully because this is not simple to change.
3. Enter your business/product/brand name (again, choose carefully) and click Create Page.
4. Enter a short description of your business and a website address in the “Add Information To This Page” area.
5. Upload your logo as a photo/image.
6. Add events, videos, and photos.
7. Click your business name in the top left corner and then click Publish this page to make your new Facebook page visible.
8. From your new profile page, click Add to my products. This makes you the first “fan” of your business.
9. Customize your page by adding applications such as Simply RSS (to subscribe to your blog posts), the Testimonials application, and other applications and content.

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