It’s time to start a Facebook page or at least get them back off the ground again (like me) and start posting to your fans. Don’t you think fans is a star studded term for A list mega stars? They should have called it ‘Facebook community page’ but I guess that sounds a little boring doesn’t it?
Anyway we have a small challenge ahead of us and it is to create a Facebook fan page and drive some traffic. I will be posting the results here of peoples pages and hopefully we can get some community going in the comments section which will help each other get their pages off the ground. If you have any questions, please post in the comments section.
For this challenge I will be using Like Page Domination as it’s discounted to $4.95 at the moment and is packed with info to help get our pages off the ground. Please take a look below at the video walk though. As you will see it’s jam packed with FB tools to help create a launch FB pages. If you don’t want to use Like Page Domination, then that is also fine. If you already have a page, then this is great if you can help in the comments section of with any questions or addition comments it would be very well received.
Video 1
Ok, let’s get to work with the walk though
Why use a Fan page?
Did you know that the average Facebook users spend 40% of their time on the News Feed? They also spend upto 55 minutes per day talking and browsing on Facebook! Here are some reasons why you should create a Facebook fan page:
1. Reach – FB has a huge market of approximately 600 million users and 50% of these login every day. The average time online is a little over 50 minutes and next to Google, the second biggest site in the world. Ask yourself, why would you not want to be part of this?
2. SEO Capability – Google indexes your fan pages, not your personal profile posts. Take advantage of this it’s always nice to have more traffic from Google.
3. Open pages – I have segregated my friends list to split personal friends and online friends. I feel by doing this I have lost a lot of reach to my subscribers and online friends. By having a dedicated page, people can always find you and join in without having to friend you or ask for permission like some groups. This once more can expand your subscriber base.
4. Customizing – You can customize your page with different apps, which can be used to increase your pages functionality. Your fan page can essentially be an extension of your own website with added multimedia options such as video and audio.
5. Branding – Your Facebook page allows you to brand your page with your own logos and personal content much like your own timeline. However as I explained earlier, your page can be a separate entity from your personal page allowing segregation from online business friends and family.
6. Tracking – All fan pages have analytics attached to then which allows you to track all page demographics and reach. This is a good tool to track your performance.
7. Fan base – Your friends list has a 5k limit as far as I know. If you have a fan page you can have unlimited likes. Obviously this is a good thing when it comes to building your business and expanding your overall reach. If you are serious about building a business then a fan page is essential to avoid any limitations. I have posted an image of my old page below which as you can see needs some work:
As I mentioned in the walk through we have a full week at creating out fan pages, so I will be updating this post all week to see how we all go during the challenge. If you have any questions or you have completed the challenge please post in the comment section and we can deal with these as we go! If you like the idea of the challenge then please share and let people know what you are doing.
Lets create some pages!!
Ok, we are back with a new page! Why? I stupidly locked myself out of my own page and deleted my admin access. I tried to contact FaceBook to no avail, so I decided to create an all new page which you can see below.
Why did I decide to create a new page?
1. I got the chance to get used to the new tools
2. I got to choose a new name
3. I discovered some new apps
4. It made me research other peoples pages and get new ideas Take a look at the video below where I explain all about my new page, the sources I used for research and a very interesting find which I believe is going to be a big game changer.
Video 2
The coming week should be interesting when using the pages to gain interest, adding some new apps, also the Bloggers Roadmap sales page and news letter app should be cool. All it takes then is to generate some interest 
The final Video! How did the creation go and what exactly did I create?
Video 3
The big question now is did you create a page?
Lets start with the pages we have below. Please feel free to visit and like the pages of the people in the challenge:
Dan Sumner (My Page) – http://www.facebook.com/DanSumnerDotCom
Adrienne Smith – https://www.facebook.com/AdrienneSmithnet
Jo Bylski – https://www.facebook.com/MarketingWithJoBylski
Susan Wowe – http://www.facebook.com/moremakemoneyonline/likes
Aditya – https://www.facebook.com/beingchirpynow
John Koen – https://www.facebook.com/mobilelifestyledesign
Sergio Felix – https://www.facebook.com/MarketingWithSergio
Tonya Stephens – http://www.facebook.com/TonyaR.Stephens
Bernard Lo – 1. https://www.facebook.com/pages/Free-Blockbuster-Movie-Reviews-Trailers-and-Showtimes/444471495568702
2. https://www.facebook.com/pages/Easy-Internet-Jobs-and-Opportunities-Info/343070842381627
I want Your Page link Here
For this challenge I used Like Page Domination it’s $4.95 and packed with info to help get our pages off the ground!
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Hi Dan, this looks like a great product, so I got a copy through your link. I have a fan page I built for myself through Fast Fan Pages, but I do need to build another for the new membership Steve King and I are launching next week so thought I’d give your challenge a go! You are right, fan pages are valuable business assets and certainly worth spending some time on to get them right. Thanks for the challenge, see you on the other side!
Enjoy the journey.
Mandy
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Thanks Mandy, we are all in this one together. I’m looking forward to seeing your page
Hi Dan
I operate a diversity of websites ranging from “home business” (writing for a living) to my first preference business, “sustainable living” (a broad niche, but one where I have a lot of experience and knowledge – more on that at a later time). Several weeks ago I thought I’d get on the right side of FB, and so I established a separate FB business page that integrates my business interests.
As part of my education in all things FB, I looked around online and found some great info. SEOmoz is one source. Their stuff is always very informative.
Des
The aspect I want to do is to build my fan base, but my “bag”, so to speak, is fully loaded and I just can’t take on another course. I’ve written about this in blog comments … even at your blog I think.
So, my question is … what’s the difference between John Thornhill’s Like Page Builder and the present offering Like Page Domination?
Without going into a full review Des LPB is more of a done for you. LPD is a training course which looks at all the aspects of Pages and the marketing side of pages as well. I have LPB, but I feel LPD gives a little bit more on the understanding of Pages.
Hope this helps Des.
Don’t tell Dave Nicholson I said I liked LPD more
Hi Dan,
Thanks for the walk through nice video looking good. What’s the difference between a fan page and a group? Witch is better? Do you need both?
Thanks for the answers.
Have a good weekend see ya Sunday !
Regards
Zora
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Hey Zora,
Ok, This is what FB say – “Facebook created Pages when we noticed that people were trying to connect with brands and famous artists in ways that didn’t quite work on Facebook…Not only can you connect with your favorite artists and businesses, but now you also can show your friends what you care about and recommend by adding Pages to your personal profile.”
Basically when you become a fan of a person in our case, that information is posted on the wall of the person who likes you, and their friends might see it too. You can also see which Pages your friends are fans of on their profile as well. This allows you to create a community around your fan page. When you share info everyone who is a fan can see it and also people on your time line. It expands your reach and influence.
Pages can also host applications, so a Page can be more personalized like a time line to show more content. Groups can’t do this.
Groups do offer more control over who gets to participate as it is a group rather than a personal page. Permissions settings make it possible for group admins to restrict access so that new members can be approved which makes groups more of a club so to speak.
There is not one better than the other, as they are both different. However IMO it’s easier to get people to like your page than join your group.
Hope this helps Zora, let me know if you need more info and I’m sure I can source some for you.
Hi Dan,
I already have a Facebook account and a couple of FB pages. But I must confess I still am not clear on the understanding of the two. For example, when joining the FB groups we must sign in with our personal FB pages, right? So what good are the fan pages in these situations
Does John, in his Like Page Domination, goes through the differences and the different uses of each, tabs and the sort of nuts and bolts for the inexperienced users.
I just can’t get the hang of it. I am looking for something that will really set me straight.
Looking forward to your answer
Dita
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Hi Dita,
I haven’t got to that bit of the training yet. As far as having to login to groups with personal account yes, as for as I know you have to.
My aim is to advertise my FB page on my blog and email broadcasts to create interaction with people. Yes you can use your regular personal account for this, but I do want to separate the two from personal friend and family to business friends and family. With a page you can also add apps to make it more interactive from a business point of view e.g.advertising external content links such as youtube etc.
As for your question what good are pages when signing into a group? I guess I when you are part of a group you have to be yourself and use your own profile so you can interact with others in your group. When people in that group look at your profile they will see your page, this will give them the option to join. You can also advertise your page in your group to if the admin will let you.
I hope this helps, as I am a little new to this to Dita.
Hi Dan,
Thank you so much for the great answers you really completely cover all of my questions. And a have a more overall knowledge on the subject thanks to your good reply. You do excellent work. Have a good day!
Regard
Zora
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Thanks Zora
Hey Dan,
I finally made it, sorry for running so late getting over here.
Okay, so I have a fan page although I still have less then 600 followers but that’s okay with me actually because I get a LOT of interaction on my page. Oh yeah, you know me. The question queen and we have so much fun.
Anyway, I had taken a course toward the end of 2011 and wanted to understand more how I could get more fans. Once I created my fan page then I wrote a post welcoming people to come join and by the end of that week I had almost 100 fans. So that’s something to keep in mind for all those who are new wanting to introduce theirs to their readers.
Anyway, it sounds like a great product and I’m sure it would benefit me as well but right now I’m really working on another area but will definitely follow along and root you guys to fan page success.
Looking forward to seeing everyone’s fan pages and if you need me to like them, I’m in! Anything I can do to show my support.
Good luck and have fun this weekend at the sea life complex with the kids. Sounds like fun. I’ll be heading to the art museum on Sunday to meet my step-son. See, it’s not all work for me either.
~Adrienne
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Thanks Fine Adrienne, you don’t get punished for lateness over here
Yes, you are the question queen and I love the way you interact with your page fans as well. As you know I’m over there sometimes for your questions.
I think you have the fan page nailed Adrienne, so I guess you probably don’t need this at the moment. However you are very welcome to place your page here and I will ad it to the post which contains the links at the end of the week.
Creating a post about a fan page is cool. This what I would like to gain by the end of this one. Everyone here interacting with each other.
Have great weekend Adrienne and enjoy the Art museum.
Don’t forget your link
Okay, back with my link then. Wouldn’t want to miss out on this opportunity. My fan page is:
https://www.facebook.com/AdrienneSmithnet
Thank you for adding mine Dan.
~Adrienne
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My pleasure Adrienne, your link has been added.
Thank you Dan!
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I have a Facebook page, not sure it is a Fan Page.
A little under the weather, so may take a day or two to catch up!
You can look and maybe like if you wish!
on Facebook Artagene Internet Money Store….just working on it
Not very IM ish….if you can find it!
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Way behind working on my fan page
https://www.facebook.com/InternetMoneyStore have a left over welcome page with at video on it, it formerly was the first thing you saw, but changed after time lines.
At least I have added a post or two and a photo…….
Went throught my computer this a.m. and finally found my program watching a video…think I might read a pdf instead…..I read faster than I listen!
C.
Your page looks Great!
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Hi Dan,
Great post about utilizing Facebook fan pages. The product, ‘Like Page Domination’ looks very insightful just from looking at the video walkthrough. I’ve created a Facebook fan page/like page, recently, still working on improving it, but I’m up for the challenge!
I will go share my page in the ‘Bloggers Roadmap’ group.
Regards,
Jo
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Hi Jo,
Please share your page here first and I will put them all in the bloggers roadmap group at the end of the week. I will also create a page link in there with everyone’s link advertised.
Thanks Jo.
Hi again Dan,
You can see the page here on ‘Marketing with Jo Bylski’.
Regards,
Jo
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Liked and re-tweet this article. This is a kind offer from you. My facebook page is https://www.facebook.com/moremakemoneyonline. Thanks for liking it.
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Hi Dan
Can you have more than one Facebook Fan Page? For example, as well as your IM blog you also have a fitness blog so do you have a separate Facebook account for each business?
Thanks.
Lynn
Hi Lynn, yes you can. I actually deleted myself from the last page I created. I mention a little more about that in the video
I don’t have a page for my fitness blog at the moment, however I may just create one when I’m finished with the challenge. That could be a good page for running an FB ad campaign.
Hi Dan,
Like Mandy above, I also purchased a copy via your link.
I did this to motivate myself to get things going in social media, and to also have the privilege of working with you.
I look forward to see what you come up with! Take care!
Regards,
George
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Hey George, how is the page coming along? Any links yet?
Hi Dan,
Just grabbed a copy of Like Page Domination through you link. This is great timing for me as I just started a series about social media on my blog, and this will dovetail nicely.
I’m looking forward to the course as Facebook has always been somewhat of a mystery to me.
Thanks, Dan. – Steve
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Thanks Steven, I have updated this page and added a new video which should provide some more info. Did you start your page yet?
Hi Dan,
My Facebook promotion sucks! I have a good follower count on every other social profile but not on Facebook. I think I’ll have to go for this. Nice walkthrough, the audio is very clear
Aditya
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Thanks Aditya, Did you start creating your page yet?
Yep, here’s mine – https://www.facebook.com/beingchirpynow
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Thanks
A note to bear in mind, just found out Facebook are introducing a rule (not sure it’s in quite yet) of no more than 20% text in your header. Have you heard that, Dan? Just thought everyone might want a heads up on that.
Enjoy the journey.
Mandy
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Thanks Mandy, I should be ok with that
Hi Dan,
I’m also a member of LPD. I haven’t done much with my page, but here’s the link:
https://www.facebook.com/mobilelifestyledesign
I’d love any support you and the other challenge members can give. Currently I’m working on getting a header image completed.
I’m looking forward to seeing how everyone does in the challenge!
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Hey John, thanks for taking part. I’m looking forward to seeing the graphic.
Hey what’s up Dan?
I couldn’t avoid laughing at the second video when you said “disaster struck” or something like that haha sorry! But I have learned that whenever we do something not too smart, there’s always something good that can happen in return.
So you’re starting fresh and I think it’s good man, maybe you had a lot of unresponsive peeps there anyway so meh just get the new one done (which already looks great btw!)
I’m buying this through your link and even though my time is very limited my fan page sucks so this will be a perfect excuse to get that one up to date!
Take care man and thanks for mentioning this product, I already learned a few things from how they set up their site with OP.
Sergio
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Thanks Sergio! I do feel I have lost a little bit of reach from previous people, however the learning curve had been a good one.
Thanks for purchasing via my link for LPD, I also agree with you regarding OP, it’s good to see such a well designed members site.
Thanks again Sergio.
No problem Dan and here’s what I have so far:
https://www.facebook.com/MarketingWithSergio
It’s pretty plain and dull right now but at least it has the twitter feed and a youtube videos feed as well, still need to create a sign up tab and at least a cover image, I’ll do that first thing in the morning tomorrow.
I definitely could use one extra like or two
Sergio
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Come dude, add a cover image! lol a little encouragement for you there Sergio. It’s looking good so far man.
I will be adding all the links tomorrow as well as a new video with exactly what I have done.
Hahaha I’m very slow whenever I have to do stuff like that man, haven’t you noticed?
Looking forward to that video!
Hi Dan,
uhhh so sorry about your admin situation. You know you can name other people as admin and it is a great idea to do that just in case. Facebook can actually lock you out of your own page if they so desire . Some of my Facebook Buddies have 5 or 6 admins just for this reason.
Note to self…get another admin on my Fan Pages.
I have 2 Fan Pages…one generic for internet marketing training and the other for my primary MLM business…I’m leaning more towards building the internet marketing Fan Page at the moment.
http://www.facebook.com/TonyaR.Stephens
Thanks for the challenge!
Tonya
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Lol never mind Tonya, it was the learning curve that made it important. I’m still a little nervous about setting up a new admin as this is how I killed my last page ahhhrggg.
I guess I need to do it though. Deep breath
hey Dan,
I already have FB fan pages and i dont really want to create more, can i redesign my old ones with this software?
thanks
Mark
Yeah Mark that is nor problem.
Please add my pages to above list. Thanks!
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Free-Blockbuster-Movie-Reviews-Trailers-and-Showtimes/444471495568702
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Easy-Internet-Jobs-and-Opportunities-Info/343070842381627
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Hi Bernard,
I will be updating all the links tomorrow when I update with a new video. Thanks for the links.
Hey Dan. Not spoke for a while. Great videos. I have to admit I’m not the most educated person as far as Facebook goes but ill be sure to start setting up my page pretty soon using like page domination
Thanks Dan
Mike
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Hey Dan
Great idea thanks and great information coming from you all the time. I have developed many pages, but this one I have developed just yesterday, to launch a new phone app coming out 1 April.
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Lifestyle-Apps/295306480598979?ref=hl
Please add it to your list.
Cheers
Stuart
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Hi Dan,
Full of useful tips as usual. I signed up for LPD and need to start using it!
My website is down at the moment. Transferring file to n new host did not go well
Please add me to the list. https://www.facebook.com/holistichealinguk
Trevor
Hi here is my link: https://www.facebook.com/stjamesdentalgroup?bookmark_t=page
Hi Dan,
Facebook has always seemed such a mystery to me, but I’ve been checking out “Like Page Domination”, and I did finally get a page up, although it’s gonna need some more work.
I hope I’m not too late to make the list.
Here’s the link: http://www.facebook.com/mr.steven.stuart
Thanks, Dan. – Steve
Hi Dan,
your fan page looks great. It didn’t occur to me before, but I really like the way Facebook makes everything so serious. Whenever someone presses a ‘thumb up’ button on your page – they become your fans. Maybe it’s a part of ‘think big’ strategy, but I definitely like this approach.
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Thanks Dave. Also when they become your fans they see everything you write on your page.
Hey interesting product and initiative. I had really focused on using Facebook for traffic but later dropped the idea. However a good strategy can really change thing.
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hello dan
found your blog link from adrieene smith’s website. so i checked it and found some great information. you have good writing skills. and yes having a facebook fan page can get more traffic to your blog but we should have proper plan for all the things. social media is becoming a great way to increase traffic
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Thanks prabhat, yes FB is definitely worth being involved in, just don’t get lost in it.