Facebook ROI: Converting likes to Dollars for Small Businesses

Likes are nice, dollars are better. Likes are nice, dollars are better. That is the mantra for our team when evaluating Facebook campaigns.

It’s easy to get caught up in the glamour of accumulating Facebook likes, but they are a terrible indicator of social media marketing success. An unengaged audience of thousands is worthless compared to a smaller army of loyal advocates.

The Agora [Weekly] Pulse – All you need to know about Facebook marketing this week (April 26)

This week’s hot topic is the change that Facebook has made to promoted posts. Facebook marketers no longer have the option to promote to ‘fans only’. Is promoting to ‘friends of fans’ spam and how will it affect your Edgerank?

Wildfire announced that they would be retiring their basic, standard and premium promotions at the end of June. We find out how to optimize your Facebook page for Graph Search, we discover more about the value of a Facebook fan, and the importance of following up your Facebook ads with a strategy that drives organic exposure.

Build Likes With a Facebook Contest App + Custom Audiences and Lookalike Audiences

One of the great things about AgoraPulse is that you can create apps that help you build an email list. Run a sweepstakes with an email form, for example, and AgoraPulse will collect and store the email addresses for you.

You can use these email addresses as an excellent way to help build your Fan base. You do this through the use of Custom and Lookalike Audiences.

Let’s step through exactly how you can do this today…