[John Milnes]

Is it worth having a Facebook attached to your website?

I'm not realy a fan, but does it help page rankings and is it of any benefit to customers?

[AshWhite]

Are you running a FB page anyway?

[John Milnes]

Yes just a personal one

[AshWhite]

So you're asking if it's worth setting up a business facebook page?

At the moment, I've got 204 'Likes' on mine. I booked £150 of work through it this week, £70 the week before, and got another £70 job booked in for the week after next (this doesn't include referals, just the jobs booked directly through Facebook). This is more than I've had off my own website - which is subject to being kicked in the ar*e whenever Google feel like it.

So for me, yes it's worth it. There's a lot of people on there who will make an enquiry just because there's an ad break in Jeremy Kyle, but you've got to accept that as part of being easily contactable, people will ask just for the sake of it.

[AshWhite]

Oh, and also, I've this week added a 'Store' to my FB page, so people can see my prices and book/pay online (through Paypal) if they want. I'm not expecting to get much from this, but I think it makes things a bit more 'transparent' if that makes sense?

[John Milnes]

Many thanks Ash,

So what you are saying is that people from Facebook find you there and are booking jobs?
Are people that much into Facebook as an information and advertising media?

[AshWhite]

They can find you, or more likely you have to be in their face at least every couple of days by posting pictures, helpful info or anything else that might capture attention.

By drawing attention to your services, you can make people realise that they want them, even if they didnt before.

[Jamie Pearson]

Oh, and also, I've this week added a 'Store' to my FB page, so people can see my prices and book/pay online (through Paypal) if they want. I'm not expecting to get much from this, but I think it makes things a bit more 'transparent' if that makes sense?

What app re you sing with that? I use payvment for a sideline I have which seems to work well.

[John Milnes]

Ash said,
By drawing attention to your services, you can make people realise that they want them, even if they didnt before.

So what do you do.....set up a seperate FB account for carpet cleaning and then it sort of pops up for  the potential customer?

Sorry for so many questions....but when i log in to my FB account, Im flumoxed as to navigating around it....even to find posts from my family....I find it more complex than my Wordpress website  :

In fact it's so easy to put a FB widget on my website but when comes to FB I'm a complete dummy

[Jamie Pearson]

There are loads of tutorials on YouTube that can help you with everything you are looking to do. My advise would be to start a business page not another profile as Facebook rules don't allow you to use a personal profile for business use and can delete it without warning.

[AshWhite]

There's different ways of doing it, some people set up accounts so that potential customers have to friend request you (or accept your request) or as a page, so people 'Like' it, and automatically get fulla access to see your pics & posts (and your postings automatically appear on their wall when you make them).

Feel free to take a look at mine: www.facebook.com/floors2show

If you do a search on facebook for local "Selling pages" and add them, you can post your pics etc to their pages, whilst directing their friends/followers to take a look at your page.

[AshWhite]

Oh, and also, I've this week added a 'Store' to my FB page, so people can see my prices and book/pay online (through Paypal) if they want. I'm not expecting to get much from this, but I think it makes things a bit more 'transparent' if that makes sense?

What app re you sing with that? I use payvment for a sideline I have which seems to work well.

Sorry Jamie, missed this post - yeah I'm using payvment too, not the fastest but seems to be ok?

[Chris Hawkes]

Facebook, Twitter, Website, Old media - all part of the marketing mix.  Why not do them all?

[garyhumphreys]

I started mine this morning after reading this - any likes would be greatly appreciated.

http://www.facebook.com/DerwentCleaningServices

[John Milnes]

Looks like I'll be doing one as well then

[starplus]

I started mine this morning after reading this - any likes would be greatly appreciated.

http://www.facebook.com/DerwentCleaningServices

Done

http://www.facebook.com/Starpluscleaningservicesltd

any likes would be greatly appreciated.

[Richard Meads]

I have been meaning to start using this properly!

http://www.facebook.com/DerwentCleaningServices

http://www.facebook.com/Starpluscleaningservicesltd

Done 

mine
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Afresh-Carpet-Cleaning/139848699365846?ref=tn_tnmn

How do you get rid of all the numbers at the end of the url?

Richard

[starplus]

I have been meaning to start using this properly!

http://www.facebook.com/DerwentCleaningServices

http://www.facebook.com/Starpluscleaningservicesltd

Done 

mine
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Afresh-Carpet-Cleaning/139848699365846?ref=tn_tnmn

How do you get rid of all the numbers at the end of the url?

Richard

Done :

[starplus]

There's different ways of doing it, some people set up accounts so that potential customers have to friend request you (or accept your request) or as a page, so people 'Like' it, and automatically get fulla access to see your pics & posts (and your postings automatically appear on their wall when you make them).

Feel free to take a look at mine: www.facebook.com/floors2show

If you do a search on facebook for local "Selling pages" and add them, you can post your pics etc to their pages, whilst directing their friends/followers to take a look at your page.

Done :

[AshWhite]

I have been meaning to start using this properly!

http://www.facebook.com/DerwentCleaningServices

http://www.facebook.com/Starpluscleaningservicesltd

Done 

mine
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Afresh-Carpet-Cleaning/139848699365846?ref=tn_tnmn

How do you get rid of all the numbers at the end of the url?

Richard

Richard,
As a side-note to this thread - you're running a mobile website, when I view it on my phone (blackberry, perfectly capable of browsing the internet) it won't let me access the full site, it keeps redirecting me back to the mobile site with very little info. Personally, I'd either make this page more worthwhile, or ditch it altogether (with smart phones becoming more and more popular, and people using them more - you can't walk down a street now without seeing 4 people texting/browsing on their phones!)