Comment by DanielBMarkham | Hacker News Reader

Comment by DanielBMarkham | Hacker News Reader

I've been playing around with Facebook and other social media for a couple of years now. I have several fan pages, including one that I associate with my blog -- http://www.facebook.com/pages/What-To-Fix/184671281560277?re...

To me a FB fan page is unlike anything else out there. It's not an email list, though some people use it like that. It's not a group or circle, although it kinda works like that also. And it's not a one-way tunnel.

I liked this article, but I wonder if the real power of Facebook Fan pages isn't communication happening the other way -- getting feedback from your readers and fans. It also would have been nice if the author could have told us a bit about his real-world experiences before tossing out the list. How much did these tips help him, in real numbers? Advice is easy. Proven advice is much more difficult. This article walked the fine line between being useful and just restating generalities. It was difficult as a reader to tell.

Thanks for the comment. Good points all around. In regards to my background, I'm a co-founder at PostRocket. We recently announced our seed funding here: http://techcrunch.com/2012/05/31/postrocket/. Prior to co-founding PostRocket, my team and I worked as social media consultants for big brands and celebrities. If you check out the TechCrunch article, you'll see one of our bigger past clients, Pitbull.

In regard to your point on feedback, I totally agree that is the most powerful thing that you can get from a Facebook page; however, you can't get feedback if your fans don't receive your messages. Multiple case studies have shown that 90-98% of fans never go back to a page after 'liking' it, which means that in order to get this feedback from them, you must conquer EdgeRank. If you have any other feedback I'd love to hear it.

I've noticed that images seem to be by far the most popular on Facebook. A recent one I uploaded for my fan page (http://www.facebook.com/ModernSherlock) got 12,000 'likes' and actually reached over 51% of my audience. That was a bit of a milestone for me. :-)

I've also always stuck to only posting once or twice a day and mostly never in the weekends.

Thanks for commenting and awesome page-- I just liked it and that image. I have to ask though, why have you chosen not to post on weekends?

I took the liberty of thinking that if I'm too busy to Facebook in the weekends, then everyone else is too. (Yeah... I know it doesn't work like that).

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