I don’t use my personal Facebook account much for business/self-promotion purposes, mainly because I find it annoying when my friends do it. And I don’t want to be annoying. But I recently found a great way to show people what I’m working on without being annoying.
I created an album and uploaded ebook covers and blog/website screenshots to it. In the description for each one, I include a link back to the blog or the ebook’s page on Amazon.
Here are my Facebook albums (with the work album in the top-left spot, if it somehow isn’t obvious):
My albums. The first one is my work album.
And once you click on that album, this is what you see:
My ebook covers and blog screenshots inside the album.
There’s another benefit of promoting your content like this — it remains visible. Any link or blog post that you share on Facebook is normally buried and gone (that is, few people will see it) after, what, half a day or so? No one will find it after that. But when you post images into albums, they’re there forever. Whenever someone clicks to see your photos, they’ll see that album with your work content in it.
I’ve been tracking some of the links from the image descriptions, and people have indeed been clicking through to the ebooks’ Amazon pages from Facebook. Excellent!
So what could you use this for? What types of things could you post to Facebook albums?
- eBook covers (as already mentioned)
- Blog screenshots (as already mentioned)
- Blog post screenshots
- Blog graphics
- Infographics (your own, of course)
- Screenshots of especially interesting/funny/helpful tweets of yours
You could even have separate albums for blogs, ebook covers, and so on. Of course, if you do this too often, you’ll still be that annoying Facebook friend who is always doing self-promotion junk. Keep that in mind, and don’t be that person.
So what do you think? Useful? Still annoying? Will you start a work/blog album on Facebook? Sound off in the comments!
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As always, I love the “Random Greatness” main picture.
I saw you doing this the other day and was curious about this. I like the idea. If people are interested in your work, they’ll check it out. If not, at least there are nice pictures.
Heh. Yeah, that Random Greatness picture is a classic. Love it.
Pictures capture a thousand words..It is not possible you’ll get the attention of
your friends and family. Like the success of Pinterest, they use photos to encourage their community to upload and share their business using photos.
Very true, photos and other pictures do tend to grab the attention more.
Thanks Becca!
Interesting idea and something I might give a try.
I’ve always felt that I don’t really care for my Facebook friends to see what I’m up to in business, so annoying or not, I don’t mention anything on there.
I don’t mind if my friends know what I’m up to, I just don’t want to hit them over the head with it. For me, Twitter and Google+ are much more about business. Facebook is my sanctuary where I don’t have to read about blogging tips or business ideas :)
Thanks for commenting, Derek!
Great idea, and one that immediately used. It never occurred to me to add a photo album with my book pages in it. That’s such a Doh! moment. LOL. Thanks so much! Happy trails! bobbi c. https://www.facebook.com/bobbi.chukran
Yup, I’m kind of surprised I didn’t do it sooner, either! Thanks, Bobbi.
I totally get what you’re saying about people mass messaging their work stuff. I have a woman who does this with her Network Marketing stuff and she’s cool but when I can keep seeing that stuff my eyes just skip over her.
It’s very cool how you keep your friends point of view in mind. I do the same thing and some of these people probably think I’m an unemployed goofball based on how they see me doing nothing but joking around on that site and how I NEVER whine about my work.
But it seems like if there were potential fans of what you do with your business within your Facebook friends, you could segment your list and when you have something work-related you wanted to post you could only have it be seen by the people who could genuinely be served by it.
Exactly! I think most people are on Facebook for personal connections, definitely not to read MLM pitches.
And true, segmenting your friends is a great way to share work-related things with people who you think would be into that. I used to do that in the past and have been slacking off recently. Time to organize the friends again. Thanks Lewis!
Nice Way of showing what we have! but is there any good way we can promote website on facebook and ask friends to like it ?
Yeah, just paste the link to the page or to the Facebook fan page and ask friends to like it.
Very nice idea! I don’t like putting my blog and business stuff up there either. I may try this out too. Thanks for sharing it!
Great, Lisa, I’m glad you liked the idea and found it useful. Thanks for commenting!
Sharing your work via albums on facebook as worked very well for me as well. I own a web development company and share all my work in albums and I get a really good click thru rate and business through this!
Thanks for sharing this! Also I noticed you are a fellow blog engage member. I have added you as a friend and voted for you post!
Awesome, Kevin, it’s great to hear about your success using this tactic. Thanks for the post and the Blog Engage vote!
Genius :) I’ll have to work at this today as I have wondered whether or not my shared business posts were annoying others as they do me.
I enjoy reading your helpful posts.
Sher
Thanks Sher!
wow!! that’s a great idea I have never think of it, as you said people always love to see the images rather than the content, so this is the right way to attract them…thanks again :)
really nice idea ,,,i appreciate your observation power ,, i have never ever thought of this method for promotion
great idea and one that immediately used. It never occurred to me to add a photo album with my book pages in it. That’s such a Doh! moment. LOLL. Thanks so much! Happy trails! Bobbi c.
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Great post! That’s an excellent recommendation for posting and keeping your work stuff on the FB page where it won’t ever get lost or buried.
Thanks!
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