MEGA IMPORTANT NOTE: Do not friend 100 people one after the other in a short space of time.
This will make you look like a bot 🤖 to FB and will very likely land you in FB jail.
Space out your friending over the course of a day, say 2 - 3 times in 24 hours. You will of course be checking out everyone’s profile and messaging them so you shouldn’t look like a bot anyway.
Don’t cut and paste the same welcome message for your messenger posts, be a real friend and personalise the message, take an interest in your new friend and take the time to get to know them and build a freindship.
❌ Likewise do not put a link to any of your blogs or offers in your messages.
Ummm yeah great Heidi how am I suppose to get them to my blog or to buy something?
You need to get to know your new friend/potential customer before you pitch them. If you don’t know their pain points or what they are interested in or struggling with then how do you know where to direct them?
Spamming links doesn’t work, we all know that. By getting to know your friend IF you can help them it will become very obvious and then you can ask if they would like to have a look at your blog post or item for sale.
✅ I have a rule - I do not share any of my links unless the person has specifically agreed that they would like to see it or they ask me for it directly.
If you have done your homework correctly you will have people in your Messenger Inbox asking for your help like this message:
Be a friend and help them, provide value and if you have a product or offer that can genuinely help them then you should share that with them.
Now obviously this all takes a bit of work and time, so if you can only friend 20 people each day, that’s fine, just realise it will take a little longer to get the sheer numbers of people seeing your posts to make a difference to your bottom line.
What About Friend Requests That Get Sent To Me?
OK so you will also get friend requests sent to you … go through exactly the same process as above with each one. You do not and should not be accepting every friend request you receive, if they are not a good fit simply decline.
You will find after a short time the quality of your friend requests will improve and you will be declining less. BUT always remember it’s not about the number it’s the quality that counts.
My posts on there are few and far between but each one relates to me personally and the page also has a link to a small charity that I run locally.
I hear what you say about your wall being a tool for your business but do you have a page as well or just your personal wall? And do you have similar tips as these for business/fan pages too?
Cheers Heidi
Mark
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It is a complete waste of time trying to reach warm free traffic with a page, it needs to be your profile.
It's against FB terms to have a second profile but plenty do it. You must use a completely different email address and name eg. Heidi A Yates instead of Heidi Yates and have no links to your original profile.
I did this for a while but found it a pain to swap between the two profiles so just bit the bullet, my business comes first and I made the decision to use FB as a tool, but thats a decision for each individual and I know it's not palatable for some.
I also have a group which is worthwhile but initially I recommend concentrating on building your profile, adding friends and posting in bigger groups to cement your authority within your niche. It's really all you need to get in front of your audience.
Hope this answers your question?
I have been moaning for a few months now that none of my posts don't even get a simple like. I played a game where you entered friends @names and I did not get a single person to acknowledge the post or play along.
So thank you, many times over for this blog.
Going to put it into action.
Stay safe,
Sue
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