Facebook: A Place To Market

Facebook is a great place to market your product or website. According to TIMES magazine, Facebook has about half a billion of active users. People not only register to Facebook but they also visit Facebook regularly. Facebook is co-founded by Mark Zuckerberg, who is a billionaire at the age of 26. Facebook is only 6 years old and is continuing to grow everyday.

So, why market on Facebook?

The 500 million users all have one thing in common, and it is that they are not afraid to share. Anyone is able to view their profile but whatever you see is what the user is willing to share. After being his/her friend, you have access to everything. By marketing your product on Facebook, you have 500 million potential customers, supposing that you allow the users view your profile. Facebook users spend at least half an hour on Facebook and there is a chance in which they might come across your product. They may or may not become your customer on that day. But over time, they will be. Also, your product is not limited to the 500 million users on Facebook. The users might share it with their friends or relatives who are not Facebook users about your product, like how they share things on their 'wall'. Give it a try! Facebook is free to join and you can start as soon as you register.

There are also many other social networking websites which are great places to market. Twitter (20 million users), MySpace (42 million users), LinkedIn (14 million users) and PeopleString which is a different kind of social network. PeopleString is special as it shares its monthly ad revenue with its user. I will talk more about PeopleString in the next post. These social networking websites are free to join, making advertising of your product free!

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