Yesterday I saw that we had crossed the 1,000 Likes mark on the TentBlogger Facebook Page. Now, I created this page on September 21, 2010 which means that it took 662 days to break the 1,000 mark, meaning that I averaged about 1.5 Likes per day over nearly 1 year and 10 months.
As I stand back and look at these figures I realize how incredibly unimpressive that is. Honestly, it’s not very much of a big deal. In fact, it’s probably a slower growth than most Facebook pages (this is just a guess though).
I’m not worried or upset or discouraged by these numbers. In fact, it doesn’t bother me at all, especially when I’m reminded that my decision to focus on one area of social media was purposeful and strategic.
Choose one and kill it is how I typically describe this strategy.
But it does mean that there is an incredible amount of opportunity here if I wanted to spend time growing it organically and optimizing my approach and the community around it. To be sure, I’m not a Facebook Pro or Guru or anything like that so I’m not sure all that it would take but there’s enough free advice out there on the web if I wanted to invest.
But, before that I’d love to hear how some other people have faired with their Facebook pages. What have you done to grow them (or haven’t) and why?
Love to hear from the collective wisdom of the community here!
I started the LivingOneHanded.com FB page in December of 2011 (just over 7 months ago) and currently sit at 804 likes. At this point I don’t update my blog every day, but I’m able to update the FB page every day; usually more than once. I’ve loved the ability to post pictures and videos and “one-liners” without having to create an entire blog post about it and I think my audience appreciates that. One picture from last week has been seen by more than 3,500 people at this point. My weekly reach was nearly 14,000 last week and “friend of friends” was at 280,000. I’ve loved growing this audience. At this point I’m sitting at 200 followers on Twitter (@LivingOneHanded), but I’m ok with that. Haven’t hit it very hard yet. Thanks!
What now? Blog about it!
I just reached 600+ Likes now in just 7 months. Don’t you think its very low 1,000 likes in 662 days for tentblogger?
lol…I launched my blog on 6/20 and I got 518 likes so far. But out of 350 are my friends from my original facebook account:P..I think:)
I think fashion and travel stuff are more easy for people to press the “Like” button cus at least what they going to see are some pretty photos and NOT words!!! Also, it’s weird, people who blog fashion stuff like to follow each other?!!!! i always received emails from other asking me to follow them so they will follow me back:P..and we have so many sites that group travel bloggers and fashion bloggers together!..I am lucky, i combined both of them cus my site is about travel for fashion and I will be hitting 100+ countries after my 10 months trip and I already been to 7 continents:P
ALSO, do you know if you have pinterest, people are more likely to follow you on pinterest!!! I have one pin got viral and gain many followers!!
and you know why I know ……even though I only started for less than a month!! CUS I AM A BIG FAN OF YOUR SITE!!!!!. I can say I built my whole blog based on your —how to launch a super powerful blog posts!!!! iT’s excellent. I recommended everyone who want to launch a blog read your site:)))) It’s the best.
Cheers:)
Congrats on the 1000 likes on fb. We launched WordBiLLY.com a little over a month ago and we have a facebook page and twitter page. We certainly would appreciate any feedback about driving traffic to our site and likes on the facebook page. Thanks.