In terms of social media promotion, Facebook groups are indispensable.
They allow you to create niche communities revolving around your product or service. Brand information, customer feedback, support, and educational opportunities are all on the table here.
Having a Facebook Group for your business can help you provide even more value to your customers than your core offerings already do, elevating your company’s status in the eyes of your target demographic to the point where they’ll have no reason to look elsewhere.
They can also help you rise in the ranks of Facebook’s search results. For all group members, group content will always take precedence over other types of feed posts. They are so effective, and nature provides the remedy for dwindling organic traffic. Not only will the visibility of your posts increase, but so will the number of times readers engage with them.
However, for a social media manager, the task of maintaining and growing a Facebook group and its associated community can be time-consuming and stressful.
Thanks to Facebook’s rapid feature expansion in groups over the past two years, it’s easier than ever to launch a successful community.
1. Connect your company’s Facebook page to an existing group
Do you have your Facebook Group and Page connected?
Users will be able to make the connection between the group and your brand or business, which will direct them in the right direction and raise brand recognition. It’s helpful to put a face with the great content when you share the source with your audience.
2. Establish Group Guidelines in Facebook
Establishing norms for behaviour at the outset is a crucial part of any successful moderation strategy, as any moderator will attest. Disagreements arise over nothing at all… Furthermore, having rules in place ensures that everyone is aware of where the boundary lies and how they should not cross it. If they do, you have every right to permanently exclude them from your site.
3. Third, mentoring
Relationships are the primary focus of group activities. Customers and members of your group are developing personal connections with you as they learn more about the people behind your brand. They are also familiarising themselves with one another.
People tend to congregate with those who can provide them with a wealth of information, illustrating the importance that learners place on their social interactions.
Group members can use Facebook’s mentorship feature to self-identify as either a mentor or mentee, and then the group’s administrators can make appropriate pairings. Then, they will be led step-by-step through an internal brand-offered programme that will keep them connected to you at all times.
5. Instructional Units
Do you wish to go above and beyond by providing unique material for your members only? The best method is to use learning modules.
Create courses and educational content that group members can work through, much like an online course, with the help of “learning modules.”
Agorapulse Scheduling, Number Five
Maintaining an active and engaged community will require consistent group posting.
Agorapulse can be of assistance here. Agorapulse now allows you to pre-schedule updates to your group’s feed. Adding your group through the dashboard is an option at any time if you haven’t already. It can only be a group where you have administrative privileges.
Conclusion
Groups on Facebook offer businesses of all sizes a remarkable promotional chance. When it comes to consulting firms, I’ve seen teams as small as six people still deliver results. Furthermore, I’ve witnessed large corporations offering premium service to hundreds of their most loyal subscribers.
Community building and providing value are more important than marketing, regardless of whether your group is highly open to all comers.