Hard to quantify the value of that. My opinion is that it's worth a lot for the early ears, but not if you are thinking short term only.
Hard to quantify the value of that. My opinion is that it's worth a lot for the early ears, but not if you are thinking short term only.
Only a fraction of a page's fans will see each update from that page. By some estimates, that number is only 5-10% of a page's fans. So they've earned 700 new fans, but that doesn't mean 700 impressions each time they post.
I think the sceptic in me says that if you didn't get a worthwhile hit from a targeted ad spend, and if the Likers are only a subset of that target market, many of whom didn't even leave Facebook to visit your site, then it's unlikely to give a worthwhile conversion rate down the line either. Maybe the sceptic in me is wrong on this one, but only time will tell...