Facebook Account for business

**jsphtay** · 03-22-2011, 12:12 AM

Hi,

Im just wondering is creating an facebook account for your business helps you? If does whats your facebook account address?

**opticalcathy** · 03-22-2011, 10:55 AM

Yes, Yes and Yes, http://theopticalvisionsite.com/cate...-social-media/

**charan** · 03-22-2011, 02:30 PM

adding to this questions, we've had a facebook page for a while .... not many people i guess we gotta ask them to join.... any tips on how you guys ask your customers to join your facebook page

**uncut** · 03-22-2011, 02:47 PM

Well.....a lot of firms advertise that they are on Facebook.

**Jacqui** · 03-22-2011, 05:20 PM

Don't forget that you need to keep it updated daily (that means every day, faithfully) or you will lose customers interest. This is the reason why many companies don't get the results that they should.

**edKENdance** · 03-22-2011, 05:29 PM

Originally Posted by Jacqui

Don't forget that you need to keep it updated daily (that means every day, faithfully) or you will lose customers interest. This is the reason why many companies don't get the results that they should.

I disagree. If you update too often you risk people dropping you because it becomes nothing more than meaningless spam. We seem to have hit a peak with our FB account and are finding it hard to surpass the number of members. It's basically like getting someone to subscribe to a mailing list. It's a bit of a balancing act.

**kcount** · 03-22-2011, 05:55 PM

Yes I have a facebook account. To be honest upuntil this past couple of months I havent done anything with it. Now I envite patients to 'like' us on Facebook so they can keep in the loop on products and specials. Later this year I will be using it to broadcast a Maui Jim function at the office. The thing to remember is that when someone 'Like's' you and your posts, all their friends can see your company site. The key is to put out interesting info regularly. Not everyday! Not come buy this or that! Post interesting things related to your office and your patients (with permission). Talk about local events and how your looking forward to seeing everyone there, etc. Then occasionally post a pic of a client in their new fab glasses!

**Uilleann** · 03-22-2011, 07:22 PM

We offer online appointing through our FB page, have internet only promos every so often, pts (and prospective pts) can see reviews of the practice from prev pts. We also include product news, and office happenings. It's not daily, but a couple times a week generally.

**jsphtay** · 03-24-2011, 12:29 PM

But who Join or add you? Is it for inner industry marketing or to direct customers? Which is more effective, a blog or FB account?

**opticalcathy** · 03-27-2011, 01:16 PM

Both are effective. A Blog is more time consuming and a long term investment, helps in search engines and to compete against online retailers. Facebook, once set up is 1-5 posts a week and it can take anywhere from 1 minute to an hour a day, depending on how much involvement and how you are using, your patients (potential patients) and interactive you are. You can tie both FB into blog and vice versa.
Blogging depending on how much time you want to put into it can be 1 post a day or 1 post a week. Depends on news and time.

**Chris Ryser** · 03-28-2011, 02:06 AM

Originally Posted by opticalcathy

Both are effective. A Blog is more time consuming and a long term investment, helps in search engines and to compete against online retailers. Facebook, once set up is 1-5 posts a week and it can take anywhere from 1 minute to an hour a day, depending on how much involvement and how you are using, your patients (potential patients) and interactive you are.

I have never joined any Facebooks or Twitters or any other of those social pages. However most of those items you have to do to keep up on them I have been doing on my website which takes me from 2- 3 hours a day, but keeps my site on among the top of the list in Alexa ratings. So I think its not where you make your input as long as you do it.

**jsphtay** · 03-28-2011, 07:54 AM

I am going to setup one Now!!! hahah thanks for your contribution ppl. I really enjoy reading opticalcathy blog. Pretty useful for me =D

**rimlessglasses** · 04-01-2011, 10:20 AM

We ahve one. I updatre it 2 or 3 times a week, any more often than that and people tend to "unlike" me. You can access my page through my website www.spectacles-direct.com

Let me know what you think, always love a bit of feedback. We are a small community opticians but have 90 members and its FREE!!!