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<div style="font-style: normal;    font-variant: normal;"></div><div style="font-style: normal;    font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: #333333;  ">How much of your brand&#8217;s Facebook activity should be devoted to franchise sales efforts versus consumer marketing and engagement?</span></div><div style="font-style: normal;    font-variant: normal; color: #333333;">&nbsp;</div><div style="font-style: normal;    font-variant: normal; color: #333333;"><span style="color: #232629;  ">Many franchise systems with whom I&#8217;ve spoken in the past several years have struggled with balancing their social media communication for consumers and their engagement with potential franchisees. Some designate a certain amount of content on the page for consumer marketing and an amount for franchise development. Others create completely separate Facebook pages for their franchise sales messages.</span></div><div style="font-style: normal;    font-variant: normal; color: #333333;">&nbsp;</div><div style="font-style: normal;    font-variant: normal; color: #333333;"><span style="color: #232629;  ">I don&#8217;t recommend either of these practices; all goals of marketing a franchise on Facebook can be achieved in a more holistic approach.</span></div><div style="font-style: normal;  ">&nbsp;</div><div style="font-style: normal;    font-variant: normal;">&nbsp;</div><div style="font-style: normal;  ">&nbsp;</div><div><div style="color: #333333;"><span style=" color: #333333;"><strong><em>Your Page Versus Their Feed</em></strong></span></div><div>&nbsp;</div></div><div style="  font-variant: normal; color: #333333;"><span style="  vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><em><strong></strong></em></span></div><div style="font-style: normal;    font-variant: normal; color: #333333;"><span style=" ">First, let&#8217;s stop thinking of Facebook pages like websites with certain amount of real estate devoted to various parts of your organization. A Facebook page is really just your starting point.</span></div><div style="font-style: normal;    font-variant: normal; color: #333333;">&nbsp;</div><div style="font-style: normal;    font-variant: normal; color: #333333;"><span style="">The true power of Facebook communication lies in users seeing your brand and your news on his or her news feed, not on your Facebook page.</span></div><div style="font-style: normal;    font-variant: normal; color: #333333;">&nbsp;</div><div style="font-style: normal;    font-variant: normal; color: #333333;"><span style="color: #232629;  ">It doesn&#8217;t really matter what&#8217;s on your page. Very few people are ever going to seek out your page and view it the way people once did with websites. Typical consumers won&#8217;t be confused by your franchise sales messages because they don&#8217;t see them.</span></div><div style="font-style: normal;    font-variant: normal; color: #333333;">&nbsp;</div><div style="font-style: normal;    font-variant: normal; color: #333333;">&nbsp;</div><div style="  font-variant: normal; color: #333333;"><span style=" color: #333333;  vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><em><strong>Organic Versus Paid Targeting</strong></em></span></div><div>&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</div><p style="font-style: normal;    font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; color: #333333; box-sizing: border-box;">Your messages may be seen as organic (free) posts, <a href="http://jackmonson.com/2015/08/10/why-you-dont-want-1-million-likes-on-facebook/?utm_source=1851franchise.com&utm_medium=article&utm_campaign=franchise-sales-using-facebook-3551" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" style="  0px;  0px; font-style: inherit;   vertical-align: baseline;  none; color: #8c68cb; inherit; inherit; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">which will reach 2% to 20% of your fans</a>, depending on your fanbase size. But more likely, your messages will be seen in the form of boosted posts or other types of paid advertising. The reach or size of audience depends how many dollars you want to spend.</p><div style="font-style: normal;    font-variant: normal; color: #333333;"><span style="">Target your paid content by the demographics of your franchise sales candidates. This goes beyond just age and gender; target according to your typical candidates&#8217; interests, industries, and more.</span></div><div style="font-style: normal;    font-variant: normal; color: #333333;">&nbsp;</div><div style="font-style: normal;    font-variant: normal; color: #333333;"><span style="color: #232629;  ">Even within your group of franchise sales posts, you may want to change up content or demographics based on location. Messages promoted to Texas candidates might need to be different than those promoted to Florida candidates.&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #232629;  ">Your brand&#8217;s fans and your franchisees&#8217; customers won&#8217;t see that content. With a few exceptions, I typically don&#8217;t see anything wrong with showing consumers some franchise sales-specific social media content. But when paying to boost and target Facebook posts, it is cost prohibitive to show all messages to all people.</span></div><div style="font-style: normal;    font-variant: normal;">&nbsp;</div>

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