Who hasn’t heard of Facebook? Without doubt it is one of the leading platforms for businesses looking to engage with potential customers.
Why is Facebook important for your business?
Around the world there are over 1.5b active users. Facebook also recently announced that it had its most successful day with over 1bn logging on in a single day. Now, just imagine getting your name in front of all of them!
However, more realistically, Facebook allows you to target your message to specific demographics. For example, if you are a wedding photography business based in London, you can produce a message/advert and have it displayed to females who have a relationship status as ‘engaged’ and living in London. Alternatively, if you are a residential care home provider in Birmingham you could target males and females over the age of 65, based in Birmingham who have ‘care’ as an interest.
What this means is you don’t need to adopt the ‘spray and pray’ approach that traditional advertising often produces. Instead, you can focus at a target group that you know are likely to be buyers of your services and thereby increase the chances of converting them into a customer.