Facebook can be used as a highly effective business tool. It’s great for marketing your products and services for businesses – Dealers and Auto Transport companies are signing up…
Facebook is the world’s largest social network, with currently over 400 million users. Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg in February 2004, initially as an exclusive network for Harvard students. It was a huge hit
The original idea for the term Facebook came from Zuckerberg’s high school (Phillips Exeter Academy). The Exeter Face Book was passed around to every student as a way for students to get to know their classmates for the following year. It was a physical paper book until Zuckerberg brought it to the internet.
With millions more users,. Facebook continued to grow, opening up to high school students in September 2005 and adding an immensely popular photo sharing feature the next month Facebook’s growth in the fall of 2007 was staggering. Over 1 million new users signed up every week, 200,000 daily, totaling over 50 million active users. Facebook received 40 billion page views a month. Long gone were the days of Facebook as a social network for college students. 11% of users are over the age of 35, and the fastest growing demographic is users over 30. Facebook has also seen huge growth internationally; 15% of the user base is in Canada. Facebook users’ passion, or addiction, to the site is unparalleled: more than half use the product every single day and users spend an average of 19 minutes a day on Facebook. Facebook is 6th most trafficked site in the US and top photo sharing site with 4.1 billion photos uploaded.
Facebook is a “social utility” designed to facilitate connections between people as well as businesses and with this kind of traffic, what better way to promote a business and offer your product and services to targeted audiences.
Another benefit of having a Facebook Public Profile for your business is that it can be indexed by search engines. That is no small consideration, because Facebook is one of the most highly trafficked sites on the Internet. If getting noticed on Google and other engines is an important part of your online-marketing strategy, then using Facebook Public Profile makes perfect sense. After you set up a Profile page for your business, make it your base of operations from which all other forays into the network extend.
Dealers have long been looking for a way to get their products out there and known to more than just the locals, and it looks like they’ve finally found a way to do so. But utilizing a new application, dealers can now to post their inventory and entice customers to come down and buy a car. Hundreds of millions of people are members.
Auto transport companies are definitely excited about this because it will allow customers to shop from a wide array of dealers across the United States, which means more business because customers would need to ship their newly-bought vehicles. Facebook has gone a long way to keep people in touch; now people can use Facebook to shop and do a lot of other things.
