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Interested in learning how to turn your “likes” into revenue? Here’s your chance. What do you think of the Like button? Just a simple way to say you that you like something on a website? Well, it’s much more than that. It can actually help you reach more customers and drive ROI. Let’s start at step one: What is the Like button? No, we’re not talking about the “like” on a Facebook page. It’s on websites and is a way to show that you like the content, product, etc. The Like button lets a user share content with friends on Facebook. When the user clicks the Like button on a website, a story appears in the user's friends' News Feeds with a link back to the website.
Facebook recently announced it reached 750 million users worldwide, 50 percent of which return daily. This means that many of your website visitors are actually logged into Facebook when they land on your site. Because of this, it is vital to find ways to present social interactions to them immediately, such as the Like button. People are discovering and sharing information in new ways every day. Way back when, spreading news via “word of mouth” literally meant by speaking from the mouth. Fast-forward to the days of printing and it meant that people would actually cut newspaper clippings and send interesting articles to friends via mail (through the postal service, if you can believe it). Nowadays, sharing is much easier. When browsing the Internet, you’ll see a Like or Recommend button strategically placed so that you can easily share what you’ve found with your friends. The Like button helps amplify word of mouth by creating dialogue between users, their friends and friends of friends. If we like what we read, it’s simple enough to Like it and boom! You’ve shared it with your entire network. Plus a million more if your friends share it too. Talk about a broad reach. Let’s go back to Marketing 101. Do you remember the marketing funnel?
Well, as great as that used to be, there’s now such thing as the marketing loop. Think of this as a continuous circle:
It’s a cycle that encourages your users to be your brand advocates, who tell their friends and those friends tell their friends and so on. It creates a viral loop, which we know is every marketer’s (and brand’s) dream. The Like button is also a great way to increase referral traffic. We know that once someone Likes something it’s published to their friends’ newsfeeds and to the user’s profile, but did you know it also allows marketers (the business) to publish back to those users who liked that particular page? For example, say you click the Like button for a blue jacket. The marketer can update everyone who Liked the blue jacket and suggest that you look at the black jacket, too. The best practices for the Like button are as follows:
The average media site integrated with an optimized Like button sees a 300% increase in referral traffic. So what’s not to like about the Like button?
Tag: Community, Community Practice, Social Media Marketing
Topics: Community and Social Media
- Mitch Rezman January 12, 2012 at 8:56 AM
Anna Steely Marketing Associate Carousel30
Anna is a marketing associate at Carousel30, a full-service digital agency with national clients based in Washington, DC and Chicago.
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