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Facebook Marketing Tips – Hungry?

by Albert Maruggi

Time 24:33

You know I could have done the solutions headline and just throw a number in there, but I hate those things. The hungry part is because in some of this podcast we talk about Facebook and restaurants. Facebook Marketing, An Hour A Day is a book by Chris Treadaway and Mari Smith. In this podcast we talk to Chris Treadaway about some of the ways Facebook is used to market companies. Facebook is a place that requires attention, lesson one if you are not prepared to give it attention, forget it. This is where the hour a day comes in.

To pull a favorite useful idea out of this podcast I’d call attention to using Facebook as a market research tool. Creating an ad in Facebook will give you insights into potential online market size. Here is an example where I took the city of Chicago, people age 21 and over that self identified interest of football or fantasy football. The kind of information of interest to a sports bar owner. Targeting by interest, geography, age and other variables is a great feature of Facebook.

Using Facebook Advertising for Market Research from Albert Maruggi on Vimeo.

We are holding a drawing for the book Facebook Marketing An Hour A Day. Email MarketingEdge AT Providentpartners DOT net – put Facebook in the Subject line. Link should do that for you.

Other Examples of Social Marketing to Hungry Patrons

Smalley87Club – Tied Twins ticket drawings to items people like on the menu with a link to the Smalleys 87 Club menu page. (I helped on this one)

Dino’s Gyros IAMDEZ – Guess random number between 1 and 10,000 on Tuesdays before 7PM, closest 10 get a free gyro.

Izzys Ice Cream incorporates a variety of platforms and communities. Also has unique notification of the availability of limited time flavors Dave Erickson

The Sterling Cross Group broke new ground with Motoi only Japanese saki brewer in Twin Cities

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This entry was posted on Saturday, August 7th, 2010 at 10:50 am and is filed under market research, marketing, social media.

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5 Responses to “Facebook Marketing Tips – Hungry?”

  1. ctreada (Chris Treadaway) Says:

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    RT @provident: Plenty to talk about & Read with Facebook Marketing an hour a day and @ctreada [link to post] Marketing Edge Podcast

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  2. KaryD (Kary Delaria) Says:

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    Interesting tactic: RT @AlbertMaruggi: Skip Facebook Create an Ad and use the Targeting section for market research [link to post]

    – Posted using Chat Catcher

  3. GirlOpinion Says:

    Thank you for sharing your ideas about using Facebook.I have been struggling to market my business using Social Media platforms. But because of this article, I was able to realize that there is indeed something behind Facebook. Thanks for shedding some light.

  4. amaruggi Says:

    Girl Opinion thanks for the comment. You’ll like the July 19 post because I talk about another example of Facebook for USA2Pilinias which is very successful. The Philippines market is very active online.

  5. amaruggi Says:

    Kary thanks for the comment, Perhaps Facebook doesn’t like me skipping the ad but it makes no sense to me to go through the process of ad creation before I know the scope of the segment I’m trying to reach.

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