Amen Maggie!!!! On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 5:17 PM, Maggie in Visalia <[email protected]>wrote:
> Well, first off, as mentioned, it is their party. The mindset that FB > somehow owes us-- or any of it's users-- anything has always been absurd. > And they've always manipulated the posts that are seen in anyone's > newsfeed-- just try getting your settings to stay at "most recent" instead > of "top stories" for the posts that show in your newsfeed. You have to > remember to switch that everytime you check your newsfeed, or FB will just > show you what it wants to. > > I think the biggest "problem" with FB is that the vast majority of users > don't understand the difference between profiles and pages. And FB treats > pages VERY differently than profiles. It's up to the "fans" to make sure > their settings are set to show updates from pages, but not only is that a > complete mystery to most people, they also don't understand making lists or > changing settings. > > I've never considered my use of FB as a means of advertising in the > traditional sense. I don't run paid advertising there, so I know I'm > unlikely to get my FB page in front of new eyes in hopes of driving new > clients to the business. I think that's a misguided approach to using > social networking as advertising and I see my theories played out numerous > times in abandoned pages and from what I hear from people who abandoned > them: I get decent traffic to my professional website via search engines, I > have my FB "fan box" in the sidebar of the website, that's where most of my > new "likes" come from. > > I post from the FB page regularly. I try to keep it fresh so the people > who've liked it will know that it's not just a static page taking up space, > they can see that I'm an active nail tech, doing business regularly, > posting new pictures, etc. For the ones who do keep up with my posts, they > can stay involved with me and my business. They develop a sense of > community and they start to feel like they know me, know my business, are > part of the fold, even though we haven't met yet-- they follow me for > awhile until eventually many of them finally get around to making an > apointment. By that time, I'm more likely to keep them as clients because > we've already bonded. > > It's a very new sort of way of advertising for many businesses. It means > we're courting new clients for sometimes years before they actually start > putting money in our pockets. But I know it works because I get to meet new > clients all the time from this conversion process. And I think it lends > itself well to our type of business because our business is one that is > looking for a long term client/professional relationship-- it makes sense > to go through a courtship process. > > The thing that I'm seeing/hearing on FB is this new practice of FB banning > people from making new friend requests if someone declines your request and > says they don't know you outside of FB. I think that will send a lot of FB > users who use FB for networking purposes outside of FB and back to private > forums again. Especially stupid of FB when they do that whole friend > suggestion thing. I'll be curious to see if my predictions are correct on > that front, or if FB drops that soon. > > I have a couple hundred friend requests pending because once I max out at > 5K friends, people can't even send me new requests. So I tend to ignore > requests and stay under 5K so I can leave room for making connections with > clients/friends/family and techs that I really want to befriend. But FB's > "help" pages say that if your friend requests go unanswered for a long > time, you can get blocked from new requests too. That means I have to go > through all those requests and deny them-- without answering the "do you > know this person outside of FB" question, or saying "yes" so that I don't > cause those users grief. > > But so far it's been my understanding that our pages are still free and > our ability to interact with our fans remains in the hands of the fans per > their settings. Has nothing to do with going public and we aren't required > to pay for advertising space in order to retain access and use of our > pages. All buying an ad does is put your page in front of more users. And I > thought it was always that way? > > > > Maggie Franklin: > Owner & Artist, The Art of Nailz <http://artofnailz.info/>, Visalia CA > * "Visionary rebel dreamer; obviously way ahead of my time." > *Maggie Rants [and Raves]@Nails Magazine <http://blogs.nailsmag.com/maggie/> > Facebook <http://www.facebook.com/onykophile> > > > *From:* Jill in Ky <[email protected]> > *To:* [email protected] > *Sent:* Sunday, March 17, 2013 11:18 AM > > *Subject:* NailTech:: What do all you techs think about the Facebook > changes? > > Hi you all! > > For awhile now, I'd been noticing that many techs I used to see showing up > on my home Facebook feed are no longer there. I wondered if since the > changes last year to charge $ for ad space (they shows up on the right hand > side of your FB page) had something to do with this. The recent March > Nailpro issue confirmed my suspicions with a big article, which basically > says that since FB went public we'll have to PAY for our posts to reach the > majority of our fan/friend base! > > That means if you're posting on your FB business page for your salon in > hopes of driving more clients to your doors, you'll only be reaching a > small percentage of your customers even if they already had 'liked' your > page. Sounds almost like extortion to me. > > The idea of what we'd previously gotten for free for years, we now have to > pay for, is bad enough. But what really bothers me is that FB is now > deciding for us who CAN & who CANNOT see our posts. Isn't that form of > censorship with the news & communications what goes on in communist > countries? > > How do you all feel about this? > > > > Jill Wright > http://www.nailtechevent.com/ > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NailTech" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nailtech?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NailTech" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nailtech?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NailTech" group. 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