Bowie Company Helps Businesses Reach 850 Million People with Facebook
Do you think of Facebook only as a website for teens to waste time or for people to share recipes? Does Facebook intimidate you? Have you ever wondered what it would be like to get exposure for your business through 850 million people worldwide?
Facebook is a great way to promote your business. You can share your products and services, events, articles, tips, photos, specials, newsletters and more with daily posts on Facebook. You can link your Twitter page to your Facebook business page. You can link your Constant Contact newsletter to your Facebook page. Build your audience and promote sales from your FREE page.
All this and more can be taught to you or done for you by Cindy Freland. Freland offers local workshops at the Greater Bowie Chamber of Commerce, Bowie Senior Center and Anne Arundel Community College. She has also written a book called, "Easy Guide to Your Facebook Business Page, available on Amazon.com Freland offers help with designing Facebook business pages, cover and profile design, daily posting status updates and graphic images.
Maryland Secretarial Services, Inc. is a woman-owned and operated small business in Bowie that was founded by Freland in 1997. Freland is an award-winning virtual assistant, she serves on the Board of the Greater Bowie Chamber of Commerce and hosts the Bowie cable tv show, Bowie Business Journal.
Contact Cindy Freland at (301) 352-7927, email at cindy@marylandsecretarial.com or visit the website at www.marylandsecretarial.com.
Joe Neighbor
12:01 pm on Thursday, September 27, 2012
I'm not sure if this was meant to be an advertisement, or a helpful post.
I agree with the sentiment of this post: Yes, Facebook can be used to help businesses reach potential customers. However, the title is a bit much. A Bowie company may be helping businesses reach potential customers on Facebook. A Bowie company is NOT helping businesses reach 850 million people on Facebook.
The beauty of on-line advertising in any form (whether it is on Facebook or via Google ads) is to reach the right people, not the most people. In order to reach Facebook users, companies do need a Facebook presence. But no single Facebook page will ever reach 850 million different users. Few will reach even 1 million different users.
As a business owner, if someone approached me and said that they will help me reach 850 million users on Facebook, I would immediately dismiss the claim, and I would question the credibility of the person making the claim.
There are great reasons to have a Facebook page for your business. Google "using Facebook to promote my business," and you will find a lot of interesting information. Companies also need to consider the downsides of Facebook, including over posting, over promoting and avoiding posts that might offend potential customers. The Facebook page needs to be considered as part of an overall marketing strategy.