This is Day 30 of the 30 Days to 3,000 Fans program. There’s an old proverb which says “He who fails to plan, plans to fail” and while there are people that will debate the importance of planning, mapping out a guide for the next month will make things a lot easier. What blog posts will you be writing? What content will be most effective to drive new fans to your Facebook? What steps will you take to promote your Facebook Page? While we’ve listed 29 techniques to boost your fan base, have you really taken advantage of all the suggestions we’ve made?

By putting aside a little bit of time ever month to plan what the best next steps are, you will come up with some new promotion ideas as well as determine what are reasonable expectations.

How Much Time Should You Spend On Your Facebook Page?

After reading through this guide you may think that developing your Facebook Page takes countless hours. Honestly it shouldn’t take more than a few strategic minutes per day. Most of the tasks outlined shouldn’t take a substantial amount of time. The most time consuming component of building your Facebook page is providing relevant content. Spend some time determining what blog posts your should write over the next month.

Set up Google Reader to follow the most relevant resources and repost any article that you find interesting directly on your Facebook Page. While you can always spend more time on your Facebook Page, it’s possible to spend too much time on your page. In economics there is something called the “Law of Diminishing Returns” and that law applies to time you spend on your Facebook Page. The first few hours are extremely important but as you over invest, you will not only take time away from other marketing activities but also decrease the number of new fans per hour invested.

Line Up Tasks And Execute

While you can accomplish many of the tasks outlined in a short period of time, space out each task so that you have time to accomplish each step well. I personally use an application called Remember the Milk to plan out my tasks over a longer period time. One huge mistake that I used to always make was using my calendar as a method for planning tasks that need to be accomplished. Tasks lists are useful because you can go through them and mark them off without cluttering up your schedule. While you may aim to have an article completed by a specific day or an upgrade to your Facebook Page, things tend to change and you can adjust due dates as necessary (although adjusting due dates is a sign that you have too many tasks and need to start delegating).

Plan Well And Sleep Well

I spent the first year and a half after starting my company under an immense amount of stress as my inbox became bloated and I became an organizational nightmare. While there were numerous opportunities I found it difficult to prioritize. More recently I developed a system which works for me and that involves a combination of two things: a calendar and a to do list. As I mentioned moments ago, putting tasks where they should go will remove a lot of stress in your life. You have the potential to grow a fan base well beyond 3,000 but none of that can be done without proper planning. The only way to get there without planning is to not sleep for months on end as you attempt to balance a million tasks.

Develop a content schedule and a task list for items that you would like to add to your Facebook Page.

Daily Task

Take the lessons learned over the past 30 days to develop at least 5 tasks and begin to plan out a content schedule. As I’ve stated repeatedly throughout this program, content is critical to your success. If you drive an immense number of fans to your page, the easiest way is to create original content. While you’ve already come up with a few headlines for articles you can write, develop a schedule for writing and posting them.

Facebook recently surpassed 300 million registered users, meaning it’s becoming increasingly vital to your online and offline social graph. Whether you use Facebook primarily for your personal life, business purposes or both, this list of tips will help you gauge how well you’re already using Facebook’s tools and perhaps offer advice on how to make a little better use of them.

1. Tag other people in status updates

This feature was released earlier this week and is not well understood by the majority of Facebook users. For those of us that are savvy to Twitter, it’s a pretty simple transition as it functions the same way. You call someone out or speak directly to them by typing the @ symbol and then their name in your status update or on someone else’s wall. Facebook has programmed the feature to not only tag them, but also link to the said person’s Facebook page. Once you’ve posted your tag, anyone who sees the status update will see your friends name posted as a hyperlink and have the option of navigating to his or her page.
2. Block people on chat

This feature wasn’t available when Facebook chat launched. As a woman, my initial experience was not always good when up late working - lonely dudes would pop-up to say “hello,” looking to find out what I was “up to tonight.” Creepy. Thankfully FB has finally provided the option to prohibit this from happening. To block people from chat, you have to organize them under one group which you can then choose to be inactive in chat. Be careful though, if they’re filed under another group as well (i.e. “work friends” and “block from chat”),they will still show up in chat under the group that you haven’t blocked!
3. Create a “top friends” list, without an app

That’s right, just like MySpace, you can easily separate your top friends from the rest so everyone can see who your favorite people are, without using an external app! It is a new feature that was introduced when Facebook unveiled their new layout. To edit your top friends, view your own profile and click the “edit” button in the friends section. Type the names of your friends who you want to be permanently highlighted on your friends list and they will remain there until you remove or replace them.
4. Login with your username

Another newly introduced feature, Facebook makes it easier to login by giving you the option of entering your username instead of your email. The ease of this option is especially noticeable when logging in from a mobile device where typing can be time consuming and awkward. Don’t have a username yet? Go to facebook.com/username and pick your vanity URL!
5. Edit the tabs on your profile

Just click the “+” button in your tabs section to choose which applications you’d like easier navigation to. This feature makes it simple to promote a cause that’s important to you or encourage people to join you on YoVille. Oh no, did I really just give advice on how to further promote YoVille?
6. Publicize your event without sending annoying messages

Easy to do, just change the time on your event and everyone on the list will get a notification of the time change in the bottom right hand corner of their homepage. This is a very subtle way to remind people about your event!
7. Select multiple people at a time for Facebook event invites

By default, Facebook doesn’t allow you to invite your whole friends list to your event, obviously as a measure to reduce spam. You can get around this, however, if you take the time to organize all of your friends into specific groups - Facebook does allow you to select all in a given group or network for quick inviting!
8. Restrict your wall activity

If you’re spending too much time looking at your own wall or tired of friends posting inappropriate comments that family and co-workers can see, you can disable wall posts from specific people to keep your reputation, and perhaps sanity, in tact.
9. Use your friend groups to easily send messages

Compose a message on Facebook and easily send to all your friends by typing their names in the ”To” line. The big downside is that you can’t blind carbon copy (bcc) anyone, and anyone who responds will send their message to the whole group. Be cautious when sending group messages and be sure everyone on list would benefit from getting updates and responses from other group members. Otherwise it’s best and more respectful to take the time to send individual messages.
10. Changing Your Privacy Settings

For those of us who use Facebook regularly, we probably know how to do this, but I still run into a lot of people who don’t. If you don’t want the boss to know what you’re “really” doing at work, lump him into a group titled “work friends” and tweak that group’s settings from viewing your status updates and anything else you don’t want them to see. Facebook privacy settings are incredibly specific - you can personalize each list to see, or not see, pretty much anything on your profile, giving you total control over your personal brand.

Following Zong and Waridtel now Telenor has also launched facebook sms service.

How to Register:

To get started, firstly login to FACEBOOK and go to your profile page there. Go to setting and then on the mobile tab.

Click on Register for Facebook SMS Texts and follow the steps involved to setup this service.

Now that you are registered, utilizing the FACEBOOK SMS service is easy.

Set your FACEBOOK status:

Set your Facebook Status by sending a SMS “” e.g. “Am at work” to 32665

Subscribe to your Friend’s Status Updates:

Stay updated to your friends’ statuses by sending a SMS “subscribe ” e.g. “subscribe Khurram Rasheed” to 32665. You will be informed of Taimur’s latest status updates by SMS.

Send a Message to a Friend:

Just send a SMS “wall ” e.g. “wall Hello. How are you?” to 32665. Your message will be posted.

Pokes Galore!:

Can’t resist poking your friends? By sending a SMS “poke” to 32665, your friends wont be safe from your pokes.

Add a Friend:

Just send a SMS “add ” e.g. “add Khurram Rasheed” to 32665.

Find a Friend’s Information:

What to know more about your friend? No problem. Just send a SMS “find ” e.g. “find Khurram Rasheed” to 32665. Your friend’s complete profile will be sent to you via SMS.

Find a Friend’s E-mail Address:

This is no biggie. Just send a SMS “email ” e.g. “email Khurram Rasheed” to 32665. The needed email address will be sent to you via SMS.

Find a Friend’s Address:

Cant remember your pal’s address? No problem. Send a SMS “address ” “address Khurram Rasheed” to 32665. Your friend’s mailing address will be sent to you via SMS.

A complete list of commands will be sent to you by sending a SMS “help” to 32665.

As you use the FACEBOOK SMS services, your friends will be notified via SMS.

How to Deactivate the Service:

FACEBOOK SMS Alerts can be turned off by sending a SMS “OFF” to 32665.

The Price:

Rs 1+ tax per SMS.
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