5 Reasons Why Facebook Has Succeed Where Others Have Failed

This was originally posted on www.ryanfmc.co.uk by 5or6 Managing Director Ryan McNamara, to view the whole post you can find it here.

Facebook has been up and running for over 6 years now and so now I'm pretty sure we can't consider it a start up any more (especially as it has over 500 million active users as of July 2010). Yet when it did start back in Mark Zuckerberg's Harvard dorm room I very much doubt even he could of imagined how big it would get. So what makes it so special? And what sets it apart from all the other internet fad's out there?

#1 - If It's Not Broken Don't Fix It

Facebook has never tried to fix a problem that wasn't there. Facebook have always look to improve and add new features with out changing the over all user experience. When they have looked to make majors changes it has only ever added to the user experience, they have never changed it. MySpace have found out the hard way by implementing massive changes which has caused the users to revolt because the user experience has changed.

#2 - Management Of Your On Line Life

Facebook actually provides an essential service. Some may see it as a way to just 'kill time' but Facebook allows user to mange their on line life, connects users all over the world and builds communities. What other service can make a claim like that? None.

Facebooks photos album feature allows users to store all their pictures on line, hassle free, tag friends and start conversations. Facebook messaging has almost replaced emails for the younger generation of Facebook users and the chat client has taken away the hassle of using third party clients...

This was originally posted on www.ryanfmc.co.uk by 5or6 Managing Director Ryan McNamara, to view the whole post you can find it here.

How to Get the Most Out of Your Facebook Business Fan Pages

This was originally posted on www.ryanfmc.co.uk by 5or6 Managing Director Ryan McNamara, to view the whole post you can find it here.

It's now offical people now spend more time on Facebook than they do Google. Which could be a possible explain for Google's new money making scheme with Google Instant, and the very strong possibility of losing advertising revenue to the new web super power, Facebook.

So how do you get a piece of the ever increasing Facebook pie? And how can you make the most out of your Business Fan Page? Because being on Facebook is important.

In the beginning
So how do we start? First of all we need a plan. What do you what to achieve from you page? Increased sales? 5 interactions with customers per week? Increase the overall awareness of your brand? The list could almost be endless that's why it is always important to define your goals.

If you want to get those all important customer interactions, you need to begin posting interesting questions or useful tips and tricks. However if you want to increase sales you are going to have to increase traffic to your page and make your product appealing. You could do this by hosting competitions to entice customers on to your page to win your product, if they don't win at least they know about your product and if they are willing to take the time to enter a competition for it they may well be willing to take the time to purchase it to...

This was originally posted on www.ryanfmc.co.uk by 5or6 Managing Director Ryan McNamara, to view the whole post you can find it here.

All Systems Go

We have been pretty lack luster with our blog posts over the last few weeks but we have good reason, its currently all systems go here. We will be posting up our new website at the beginning of next week, coupled with a few very exciting projects on the go at the moment we are very busy. Keep an eye out for all our latest news here and on our Twitter and Facebook accounts.

Rolling with the times...

Being a design consultancy and constantly having to search out new technologies out there, you often stumble across a few gems (and quite a few pieces of deadwood), that not only aid your work yet make it easier and far far quicker. At the moment the most popular net based technology we use here is Netvibes, with this you can have all your social networking pages (Facebook, Twitter, Blogs etc.) all on one page, along with almost anything else that you find interesting, for me thats BBC Sport and Sky News. This makes it so much easier to update everything in one go and get your voice out there on the net. Social Networking is one of the fast growing ways to connect to your customer and having a platform in which you can reach them instanly is always a plus! So give Netvibes a go, or you can always search out your own Social Networking gem, it will save you time, effort and most certainly stop you from seeing that frustrating little character the Twitter 'Fail Whale'.