Now your targeted prospects can become a fan of your branded Fan Page via a simple text message. In other words, you can ask people to text the word “FAN” followed by the name of your facebook fan page (as in www.facebook.com/YOURFANPAGENAME) to Facebook’s 32665 shortcode (FBOOK) and they’ll instantly “like” your page! This is an unbelievably powerful means of promoting your Facebook fan pages with SMS text message marketing campaigning, yet I haven’t seen anyone marketing their pages in this manner yet.
Try it for yourself: text “fan offmarket” to 32665 and see the power of combining Facebook with mobile marketing.
There are two things that need to happen to enable Facebook fan page “liking” by text message: 1) The person doing the texting needs to setup their mobile phone settings to receive texts from Facebook (which is a simple setting on their “Settings” facebook page) and 2) Your fanpage needs to have a unique URL (which is obtainable after your page receives its first 25 likes)
The applications here are limitless and if employed in the correct manner can drive a Facebook fanpage from nothing to literally thousands of people liking your brand. Imagine asking an entire crowd of thousands to “like” your fanpage just by sending a simple text? How much money does that cost you? Answer: NOTHING! And now for secret #2: Twitter allows you to do the same thing by texting “follow <username>” to 40404.
Are you using sms text message marketing in this manner in your mobile marketing efforts? Probably not, but that’s okay. You learned 2 secrets today. Now all you have to do is implement some creative ideas to bring your brand to the forefront utilizing these techniques.
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