You need to start building the know, like and trust factor and the best way to do this and get eyes on your profile and therefore your site is to have friends, LOTS of them.

Facebook allows you to have up to 5000 friends.

But don't just go willy-nilly friending everyone you come across!

Your new friends should be targeted so you have something in common, they have or may have an interest in your niche and/or be someone you can help.

OK so you’ve set up your profile and got your privacy settings sorted, you are ready for business …

If you haven’t done those two things you can check out my training here:

https://my.wealthyaffiliate.com/training/generating-targeted-organic-traffic-from-facebook

What now?

Well you need people to see your profile right?

Don’t wait around for people to find you ... go out and get them.

This can speed up your time to profit exponentially if you do this correctly, you will generate warm leads, you’ll be talking to people you can actually help and who might even buy from you.



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JacobB Premium
Thanks for the great training Heidi. I've just got one question: How long do you think is appropriate to spend sending friend requests each day? I just want to use my time as constructively as possible.

Thanks a bunch!
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HeidiY Premium
I work a full-time job as well Jacob so for me it's only about 60 minutes a day. I get on a roll and can usually add about 20 - 30 friends in that time.

But a word of caution if you are starting out you might want to add 15 friends twice a day, rather than all together. FB can be a fickle beast and you don't want to get thrown in FB jail.

If you are spending time checking out their profile, commenting and sending them a private message it can take some time. It's better to do those things rather than just quickly adding them one after the other.
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Mark1957 Premium
Great training Heidi, however............I've had my personal wall for a few years and like to use it to share things that are pertinent to me and my personal life, nothing business related at all.
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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HeidiY Premium
Honestly Mark business/fan pages are rubbish for organic traffic, FB wants you to use those to buy adverts and limits your reach to about 2% of your friends.

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?
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Mark1957 Premium
Absolutely Heidi, I appreciate your forthrightness and the points you make are definitely food for thought.
Thanks for your insight.👍
Mark
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HeidiY Premium
You are very welcome, we need to share what works and equally what doesn't.
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Mark1957 Premium
Very true Heidi, thanks again.
Mark
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HeidiY Premium
For anyone who does read this if you'd like to friend me on FB, my link is in my bio, I will happily engage on your posts and help give you a head start. Sometimes it's all you need to get a roll going and to help the algorithm see you in the right light 😁
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Diana-DB Premium
Great idea!👍
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Tirolith Premium
Being in a group, of friends with the same interests who promote one another's sites will keep you up the top where Facebook puts those who are cosistent.
Tom.
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HeidiY Premium
Niche groups are gold Tom, you can track down a group of warm leads all together in the one place! You don't need to make traffic, you just need to find out where they hang out and go there ... simples
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persue2 Premium
Hi Heidi,

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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HeidiY Premium
Use check out my other training also, it's not a matter of getting the right friends then just dropping links to your blogs. FB has an algorithm and it's easy to work once you know.
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persue2 Premium
OK, thanks.
Will do.
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Diana-DB Premium
Hello Heidi,

I will give it a try to see if the traffic will get improved or not. Thank you very much for sharing the tips. It's show me a new perspective.

Greetings,
Diana.
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HeidiY Premium
Hi Diana

Having the right friends will make a heap of difference to your leads and sales, but it is not the only thing. Check out my other training on getting the right privacy settings and using different types of posts to boost your engagement. FB is my #1 source of warm leads and it works if you work it. Hope these help.
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Diana-DB Premium
Thank you very much, Heidi. More good information. Wonderful!😉

Cheers,
Diana.
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