More and more social media sites are delving into the eCommerce world. Also, Facebook groups have PromoDays. These groups allow you to market your goods and services without making you feel like a spammer. When you market on social media, connect to users on social media sites, and then you discover interest they have in your products or services, you can follow up with a direct message.
Consider these comments posted in the Bloggers Mastermind Group :. I would get into all the blog promo groups. As you can see, I received page views coming to my blog from Facebook. Look at the three posts that each received over views that day. I promoted all of them in Facebook groups that allow self-promotion.
My experience is not isolated. The Gay Dad blog reports the same success with Facebook groups. Clearly, my days of recommending bloggers for Facebook groups are behind me. Now my readers will have to request joining the groups without my intervention. You do have to make a request to join. Getting in is easy. I have never been turned down for a group I was trying to enter.
Have you ever heard of a group blog on Facebook being archived? I show archive on Blog Share and seen nowhere to post. I have contacted Admin in the meantime waiting for a response. They saved the old content and archived it. The group is closed. I tried going there to promote as well which is how I know. According to the Social Media Marketing Talk Show Podcast, Facebook saw many groups fold since the moderators of Facebook groups felt their groups were too big to manage.
Facebook recently hosted a Facebook Groups Summit and is offering group moderators tools to manage their groups. Do you target creating content for a certain number of groups or build a labyrinth of groups that are targeted to your niche?
The action is in groups. Facebook has a very robust group culture. Find groups of interest or create a group. The tide has turned away from Facebook to such an extent that in recent years, articles offering Facebook group alternatives are on the rise.
There are disadvantages as well as advantages to using Facebook :. Try promoting your posts in a few and see if they give you enough return on your time invested. Then, you can try others. Promoting your posts in Facebook groups might be time-consuming, and there might be rules you have to follow. However, the potential for blog traffic is high.
Bloggers, what Facebook groups that allow self-promotion can you recommend? I look forward to your links to groups you use for promotion in the comments section. Type in the name of the group as it appears below. Click Groups. Click Join. If the group admin has questions for you to answer, answer them. Your membership will be pending in most cases. Facebook groups are started by an administrator. The administrator sets the rules and admits the members.
Groups may have more than on administrator. The groups are made up of people with a common interest. The interest can be as broad as mid-life or a geographical location or extremely specific. The person who set up the Facebook page can start a group. That person is called an admin or an administrator. Social Media Examiner reported that in , tens of millions of Facebook groups exist. You can join up to 6, This is a timesaving tip.
What does this have to do with Facebook groups? Some people predict this exodus signals the beginning of the end of Facebook. I disagree based on the strength of Facebook groups. As indicated earlier in this article, Facebook groups prove such an asset for Zuckerberg, he now advertises groups on television commercials.
Janice Wald is the founder of MostlyBlogging. She is an ebook author, blogger, blogging coach, blogging judge, freelance writer, and speaker. Should have, because I use FB promo sites! Hi Anita, Thank you for the wonderful compliment on my article!
I am glad I could help by suggesting new Facebook groups for you. Hi Scott, Thanks for writing with the suggestion. I requested to join the group.
Thanks so much for this great list. I look forward to checking them out and thanks again for all of your helpful tips and insight. Hi Nicole, Great to see you here! I am glad you found the list of Facebook groups helpful. They are applicable to any blogging niche. My pleasure! Thank you for the Facebook list. My pleasure Carolann. I am flattered you consider the list a resource.
I saw you applying for the groups. I let you in, of course. Is that odd that I can? Janice, this was stupendous! Also did I know you live in So Cal too? Maybe I did and forgot, hence why I hang out on Midlife Facebook page. Really loved this post. Everyone should ask to be added to Beyond Your Bloggers on Facebook.
Susan Macarelli is amazing, just like you Janice! Have a great weekend. Thanks for the suggestion. I promoted there after reading your comment. Great to hear from you. Thanks for the kind words. How funny! Did you ever go to Legoland? I grew up in Northridge. Keep up all the brilliance! Hi Stephanie, I work in Northridge! I wonder why. Very helpful post, as usual!
We allow self-promotion but also encourage engagement and discussion. Hope to see more bloggers there! Hi Fabi, Thank you for writing. I clicked your link and asked to join.
Thanks for letting us know about it. Great post Janice! Joining FB Groups was a game changer for me as most of my subscribers came from groups, when I first started out. Quite a few FB Groups you listed I had not heard of until now so thank you for this.
It is very new but steadily growing. Hi Yolanda, Thank you for the compliments on my article. Thank you as well for suggesting your Facebook group.
I requested entry, and I am excited about joining. Great advice, Janice. I have joined a few and will see how it goes. Shared on twitter bakeandwrite. Hi Robbie, Thank you so much for sharing my article. Definitely do what you have time to do. I generally try to see how active the group is. If they are active, I know I am getting exposure to more people. Let me know how it goes. Hey Janice! Fabulous list of groups! Just when I left a bunch of them, you share more goodies! I requested a few on a list and will see how it goes.
I know some of those groups are really time-consuming. Thankfully some of these are quite as demanding. Hi Brenda, Thanks for writing. I realize promoting in all these groups can be time-consuming. Only if there is a marketing group I might tweak the content a little. Oh yes, for dropping my own content. But some groups that I have been in have you do daily threads. I agree. Thanks for the recommendations. Some of the FB groups I am in now are not a great fit for me.
You are kind Pat. Thank you for reading what I wrote, commenting, and your compliments. I appreciate it! Great post, Janice. Thanks for including our group, Networking Bloggers. Groups are a great way to make friends, get advice and promote your work.
You are an amazing promoter, and do provide a great service to bloggers. Thanks for your work and your friendship. I promoted the Blogging Network group.
However, I did click the link and asked to join. Thank you for this fabulous advice, especially the point about searching for groups.
Thanks for writing to tell me. See you there! For a blogger looking for connections and exposure, this informative post is G-O-L-D! Thank you for the list. I am glad I could help with my Facebook group list. Thank you for sharing my article with the group.
Much appreciated. Please return with the link so we can see. You might want to join the overall group 1st? I think your kinda content would be well received by the other group members.
Hi Edward, Thank you. I will follow the instructions as soon as I can. Very nice list! Thanks for writing. Yes, we met in SoCal Lady Blogger. Thanks for sharing this information. This is very helpful to many bloggers out there like Me! HI John, So glad you liked my article.
Thanks for writing to tell me the Facebook groups are helpful to you. As always very useful advice. I will bookmark this. I mostly use FB to see what my friends are up to and to like their pages. However once I can crop some groups I will think about perhaps joining one group at first.
Any tips? Hey Janice i really appreciate this article, i use facebook to promote my blog and websites thank you for adding some more groups i have joined some of this and started to promote and boom!!! I recommend them all. This is where I promote daily. My pleasure to share! Hi Vicky, Thanks for your thoughtfulness of bringing us a new Facebook group to check out. This is very helpful to many bloggers who have just started carrier in blogging.
I help new bloggers. I am glad you enjoyed my list of self-promotion groups and found them helpful. My absolutely favourite list ever. These Facebook groups look perfect. I joined all if them except 3. Those 3 links are broken. The second one I am sure is showing an error code. Thank you for your help.
Visiting from my favourite linky At Bloggers Pit stop. Hi Amrita, Thank you for clicking my link over at the Pit Stop. I am glad you found my list valuable. I was not aware any of the links were broken. I have a plugin that shows me broken links by crossing them out, and nothing is crossed out. Thanks for letting me know. Hi Amrita, I replaced the link in the article. Hi, Janice.
They are time-consuming, YES, but there are V. Many of the larger bloggers have a few V. So, if your blog is dependent on page views for ads, I suggest investing in a V.
Hi Sara, Can you recommend an affordable VA that might help me with my social media management? That would be much appreciated if you know anyone.
Thank you for writing. As far as page views, FB groups trumped all methods for Stumbles. Your Linky was one of the top referrers as far as getting comments and ViralContentBee was the top app to increase Retweets.
Do you plan to? I sent your nice comments about Pit Stop to Kathleen, the head of our linky. Thanks for the help with the reasonable VA. Yes, site. I would be curious the results of your experiment. Which traffic worked best? Do you have a link to a post you wrote up?
No, not yet……. I will post my results upon completion. However, please let me know if I need to create a business FB account or can I use my personal one. Your personal one should be fine. Be sure to send me the link whenever you finish your research.
Great, thank you — I just noticed your previous reply below; it did not come up when I clicked on the notification link the first time — I am sorry, I missed it when I replied earlier!
Great info. I only have a personal FB page. Does it matter whether you have a few blog posts two — four in order to promote your blog? Or would a blogger need more? Hi Michelle, Thanks for writing. As long as you have one post you can promote your blog! Thanks for the hearty congratulations and for writing me. Amazing list. Thanks a lot for sharing. Exciting to hear! You will love the exposure and ultimate traffic. I was just there this morning without a problem. Hi again Sudipta, I was wondering where you found the Facebook article.
I like to know what promotion methods work for me. Thank you for reading what I wrote, by the way. Thank you for the tips. Hi Yasar, Thanks for writing me. I am addicted to Facebook also. I am surprised I have not seen you over there in any of the groups. Hopefully I gave you ideas for new groups to join. My pleasure, Yasar. Thanks for writing to tell me you found the list of groups helpful. Hi Lorna, My pleasure. Glad I could help.
Thanks for writing to tell me I did. All sorts of things can go wrong. A new, untouched group is more likely to trust you and be receptive to your messages, while a more veteran, abused group is going to be wary and more likely to kick you and delete your posts.
When you want to find Facebook groups you can use, you need to start with a list of relevant keywords. You need foodie groups. First, brainstorm some keywords. Variations on vegan, like veganism, can be used as well. Next, go to Facebook and put a keyword in the search bar up at the top. By default, Facebook will give you a bunch of results based on your existing interests. None of this is important. Up at the top, you see a list of categories: All, Posts, People, Photos, etc.
One of those is Groups; click it. By default, the group list will be sorted by groups that share some tertiary interest with you. For example, they might be focused on groups that have a significant membership who all attended the same college you did. They might contain people who all have similar careers. So, as you can see, t here are a lot of possible pitfalls. Generally, what I recommend doing is scraping all of the groups that come up in a search and pasting them into a spreadsheet.
I might note when a group has members I know in it, for example. Once you have that spreadsheet made up of results from all of your various keywords, sort it, remove duplicates, and start vetting them. The wrong niche, very strong anti-marketing rules, or dead groups can all be removed.
I say you should only join a small handful of groups at a time for a few reasons. First of all, one account can only join up to 6, groups. Secondly, every group is just that; a social group. They all have their own communities, their own perspectives, their own rules, both written and unwritten. You need to invest time into them to see how viable they are for marketing. If you join too many at once, you can quickly lose track of which rules apply to which groups.
When breaking a rule in the wrong group can result in losing all of your work, it pays to be careful. When you join groups, the first thing you should do is turn on notifications for them. This way you can see when new posts are made, read them, and learn. Make sure you also read the rules and familiarize yourself with anything out of the ordinary.
Some will have more specific rules, regarding a first post, behaviors, or acceptable content. Read and learn those. I recommend spending at least a week or two just reading posts. Some groups have no written rules but have strict rules enforcement from draconian admins. Some have strict rules in place that are violated all the time. Just get to know the feel of the place, the common opinions and perspectives, the frequent posters, and so on.
Once you feel comfortable in a group, you can start posting. Leave comments with some value on the posts people make, similar to blog comment strategies.
I always recommend starting with a blog post you wrote about a topic they would be interested in, and let the traffic and potential conversions build from there. Then move on to another group from your list, building until you have an active presence throughout your industry.
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