Buying FB likes
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Just been asked about this by a friend who wants to bump the FB likes for his business so it looks a bit more popular than it is.
Never looked into it before so thought I would seek out the sage advice of PH to help him out.
He doesn't want 10k like or anything stupid like that and also doesn't want them to interact on his posts - he literally just wants the number next to the thumbs up to be a little higher than it is. Purely a vanity thing.
Is there any pitfalls from using one of the many FB like services out there?
Never looked into it before so thought I would seek out the sage advice of PH to help him out.
He doesn't want 10k like or anything stupid like that and also doesn't want them to interact on his posts - he literally just wants the number next to the thumbs up to be a little higher than it is. Purely a vanity thing.
Is there any pitfalls from using one of the many FB like services out there?
https://www.facebook.com/wordswithlove?fref=ts
This is mine.
I didn't buy likes per se, but I did facebook advertising towards my demographic. If your only metric is likes (at the time, mine was), its very good.
If your metric is sales, its.... ok. I did get a few sales from it, but not enough to retire.
However, there are plenty of groups out there (depending on what your mate is selling) that will happily share his photos etc.... all you need to do is put a bit of effort in, in the evenings, take part in their games and like other pages etc.... and those likes will shoot up, and you will get sales from it.
Facebook have dialled down on how many people can see your status updates, around only 20% of your likers can see your status updates.
hope this helps.
This is mine.
I didn't buy likes per se, but I did facebook advertising towards my demographic. If your only metric is likes (at the time, mine was), its very good.
If your metric is sales, its.... ok. I did get a few sales from it, but not enough to retire.
However, there are plenty of groups out there (depending on what your mate is selling) that will happily share his photos etc.... all you need to do is put a bit of effort in, in the evenings, take part in their games and like other pages etc.... and those likes will shoot up, and you will get sales from it.
Facebook have dialled down on how many people can see your status updates, around only 20% of your likers can see your status updates.
hope this helps.
Presumably the point beind 'likes' is so that you can monetise your page in some way (I am not a social media guru).
I was attempting to explain to a rather naive young person once that you cannot simply take 'likes' to the bank and exchange them for cash, and that it might be better to get a job - but as a very rough guide, on average, how many 'likes' do you need to earn £1? Same question for YouTube views.
I was attempting to explain to a rather naive young person once that you cannot simply take 'likes' to the bank and exchange them for cash, and that it might be better to get a job - but as a very rough guide, on average, how many 'likes' do you need to earn £1? Same question for YouTube views.
Don't do it, it maybe good for vanity but it will seriously harm the page and is hard to recover from.
Facebook only shows your posts to a certain amount of people before deciding to show it to more people. As most of the likes will be fake they won't interact and his posts will be invisible to pretty much everyone.
Much better to spend money on Facebook advertising - promote the page for a bit to your target market and watch the likes roll in. Probably costs the same sort of money.
Or, post relevant, interesting content... Like social media was designed for.
Facebook only shows your posts to a certain amount of people before deciding to show it to more people. As most of the likes will be fake they won't interact and his posts will be invisible to pretty much everyone.
Much better to spend money on Facebook advertising - promote the page for a bit to your target market and watch the likes roll in. Probably costs the same sort of money.
Or, post relevant, interesting content... Like social media was designed for.
Thanks for the response guys, much appreciated.
I can see how running a competition would work as people love free stuff - but I am not sure it would be the right fit for his business. His company provides a less than interesting service - so unlikely to gain popularity through that approach? Obvious his circle of friends like and share but has gained almost no additional followers as a result of this.
He has done some digging after I relayed the point about random likes from foreign countries and it appears you can specify UK based likes which would at least be more relevant to his business.
Also the reason for the additional likes is just vanity - his business nemesis has more likes and he thinks the lack of likes might impact his credibility? He won't even be able to monetize his FB page mainly due to the product he sells so its just another mouth piece to promote his business and hopefully engage with a few potential customers.
Interesting point about diluting the circulation of his posts - just wondering if he kept the bought likes to a nominal amount 100 or less whether it would have much affect. Reach is almost non existent at the moment so it probably can't get any worse?
I can see how running a competition would work as people love free stuff - but I am not sure it would be the right fit for his business. His company provides a less than interesting service - so unlikely to gain popularity through that approach? Obvious his circle of friends like and share but has gained almost no additional followers as a result of this.
He has done some digging after I relayed the point about random likes from foreign countries and it appears you can specify UK based likes which would at least be more relevant to his business.
Also the reason for the additional likes is just vanity - his business nemesis has more likes and he thinks the lack of likes might impact his credibility? He won't even be able to monetize his FB page mainly due to the product he sells so its just another mouth piece to promote his business and hopefully engage with a few potential customers.
Interesting point about diluting the circulation of his posts - just wondering if he kept the bought likes to a nominal amount 100 or less whether it would have much affect. Reach is almost non existent at the moment so it probably can't get any worse?
I saw a video about this on facebook earlier today https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=7488227984632...
It makes interesting viewing comparing paid for likes and promoting your page
It makes interesting viewing comparing paid for likes and promoting your page
This is how its done........my page currently.
We have a competition on at the minute, when we hit 1000 likes we gave away £100, 2000 likes £200.....3000 likes - £300.
A lot of money yes but we are generating a lot of business from it.
We had 2980 likes 3 days ago....people have really caught wind of the current competition and we are now at 3600 likes, within 3 days....Reaching 4000 a little quicker than I would have thought....
https://www.facebook.com/522452294471909/photos/a....
We have a competition on at the minute, when we hit 1000 likes we gave away £100, 2000 likes £200.....3000 likes - £300.
A lot of money yes but we are generating a lot of business from it.
We had 2980 likes 3 days ago....people have really caught wind of the current competition and we are now at 3600 likes, within 3 days....Reaching 4000 a little quicker than I would have thought....
https://www.facebook.com/522452294471909/photos/a....
Buying likes is like a football stadium full of cardboard cutouts. It may look impressive from a distance, but they will not ad anything to the experience or overal fan engagement.
As above, find an angle to make FB of interest to your customers. We also use competitions, and have grown out followers from 900 to over 5000 is 8-months. Another angle is to give completions prizes to a company with more followers than you, and ask them to like to competion back to your page. They get to offer their followers something different, and you get good engagement. We achieved 682,000 thousand impressions and 1500 extra followers in one competition that cost us £17. No wonder traditional advertising is in trouble!
If you really can't find an angle to make FB relevant to your customers, it maybe the wrong platform. Try something else: blogs, forums, YouTube or LinkedIn.
As above, find an angle to make FB of interest to your customers. We also use competitions, and have grown out followers from 900 to over 5000 is 8-months. Another angle is to give completions prizes to a company with more followers than you, and ask them to like to competion back to your page. They get to offer their followers something different, and you get good engagement. We achieved 682,000 thousand impressions and 1500 extra followers in one competition that cost us £17. No wonder traditional advertising is in trouble!
If you really can't find an angle to make FB relevant to your customers, it maybe the wrong platform. Try something else: blogs, forums, YouTube or LinkedIn.
As said above you are better of engaging with your audience and building it with competitions, or have an opt in box on your website where they can get a discount on their order for liking your page. We get about 50 likes a week from that alone.
If you really want to buy likes people sell them on Fiverr.
If you really want to buy likes people sell them on Fiverr.
Dejay1788 said:
As said above you are better of engaging with your audience and building it with competitions, or have an opt in box on your website where they can get a discount on their order for liking your page. We get about 50 likes a week from that alone.
Nice idea, could you PM me an example of this?Thank you!
Akiraprise said:
Don't do it, it maybe good for vanity but it will seriously harm the page and is hard to recover from.
Facebook only shows your posts to a certain amount of people before deciding to show it to more people. As most of the likes will be fake they won't interact and his posts will be invisible to pretty much everyone.
Much better to spend money on Facebook advertising - promote the page for a bit to your target market and watch the likes roll in. Probably costs the same sort of money.
Or, post relevant, interesting content... Like social media was designed for.
I completely agree with this and the other post that said buying likes was like paying for a football stadium full of cardboard cutouts of fans.Facebook only shows your posts to a certain amount of people before deciding to show it to more people. As most of the likes will be fake they won't interact and his posts will be invisible to pretty much everyone.
Much better to spend money on Facebook advertising - promote the page for a bit to your target market and watch the likes roll in. Probably costs the same sort of money.
Or, post relevant, interesting content... Like social media was designed for.
If you are posting stuff about your day to day business and the masses on Facebook don't find it interesting, then maybe your business isn't interesting to most people?
There isn't anything wrong with that, but maybe you need to look at other forms of advertising and suchlike and decide that Facebook isn't for you.
I saw a plumbers business the other day frantically trying to get people to like and share their page, and running a "free £250 voucher for their services if you like and share"... now would someone mind telling me why the hell I would want to 'like' the page of a plumbing business? I would have thought that 99% of the populations don't have the slightest interest in the world of plumbing?
NinjaPower said:
I saw a plumbers business the other day frantically trying to get people to like and share their page, and running a "free £250 voucher for their services if you like and share"... now would someone mind telling me why the hell I would want to 'like' the page of a plumbing business? I would have thought that 99% of the populations don't have the slightest interest in the world of plumbing?
It's because people are so distracted by social media that they think like Likes = Money. In fact they'd do much better concentrating on running their plumbing business properly and getting work the normal way, rather than daffying about on FB. Have a FB page if you want, but don't run it to the detriment of your business. 'Ooh look we've got 50 likes!' ' Yes but have you got any plumbing work?'.And then you wonder why they haven't got any work - because they spend too much time playing FB, or because they're not much good and think FB is the way back?
If I wanted some plumbing work I might 'like' them to get £250 off - but then I'd think that maybe their prices are £250 higher to start with to allow for it... so whichever way you look at it, it doesn't stack up.
moustachebandit said:
so it looks a bit more popular than it is.
doesn't want them to interact on his posts -
he literally just wants the number next to the thumbs up to be a little higher than it is.
Purely a vanity thing.
Everyone has given a lot of useful, good and correct advice. But it's all wasted if he wants the above. So he should go ahead and do the opposite of what everyone has recommended.doesn't want them to interact on his posts -
he literally just wants the number next to the thumbs up to be a little higher than it is.
Purely a vanity thing.
In fact, if his business is a cattery in Dorset, he should target AK-47 owners in Syria and put something like "free slave for every like". He'll get lots of likes and absolutely no interest in his posts.
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