20 Useful things you can do on Facebook

How to use Facebook to your benefit






Who does not has Facebook account? We all do. 

What can you do with your Facebook account? 

Are there funny things you can do with Facebook?

Or are there beautiful things you can do with Facebook?

Yes, there are, just read on and I will show you all of it. Even how to use Facebook in business to promote your products and make more sales.

Facebook is the social media that has highest number of users.  Approximately 2.85 billion monthly active users.

A platform programmed and designed in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes who were students  of Harvard University. As a networking forum to connect all the students in their school.

They not only achieves their aims but it escalated into what connects not just students in a school but people of the globe.

We love Facebook, we enjoy it. I can't imagine life without Facebook platform. Can you imagine that?

We are already spoilt and used to Facebook so it's going to be difficult to live without it. Most of us are controlled by Facebook.

The major platform we connect and reconnect with family and friends.

The earliest version of Facebook lacked most of the important features new versions have. One must learn to utilize Facebook effectively for maximum results. Enough of whiling away  scare time on Facebook. This is a wake up call to start doing meaningful things there.

Cool things you can do on Facebook

Meeting new friends

One of the features of Facebook is 'Add friend'. There you can add as many friends as possible. Some of whom you know and those you don't know. 

Once a friend request is sent the said person more often than none checks out the senders timeline. 

If he is satisfied with what she sees on that person's wall. Usually he accepts the friend request. 

Wooops! They becomes friends and chatting start straight away.

Reuniting with old friends

How to use Facebook to meet new people


Have you met someone and couldn't have the person's address or phone number before parting?

People meet and part.  At times without having any means of contact. Thanks to Facebook. Once you know your friends contact be it their full names or nicknames.  Finding them through Facebook will be a lot easier. 

 The next line is chatting and other familiarizing.

Use Facebook in your business to advertise your products

Are you a business man or woman with not less than 500 friends? (Definitely the least new Facebook users can have). The maximum friend one can have on Facebook is 5000 friends.

Are your friends aware of your products?

Why not utilize this beautiful platform to create visibility for that products or businesses. Tell the world what it is you do. Who knows where you will get that big break that has been your secret desire.

Use Facebook in your business for marketing your  products

Are you marketing you products or are you an affiliate marketer? You can use Facebook to promote your products.

It's time to leverage on your Facebook for marketing strategy. Showcase the products and their prices and you will see messages popping up requesting whether the prices are negotiable.

Make sells and receive payment

People already know what you do. Right? Facebook platform is there to help you make sells and receive payment always. 

However, this depends on the value of the products you offer.

Facebook can help you to become an influencer

An influencer is someone usually a celebrity who has won the love and admiration of many people. As a result, they are trusted by fans. Influencers are often contracted to pilot advert for certain brand at a price.

How to become an influencer

  • Some became influencer by consistently posting valuable contents overtime on social media
  • Most influencers started by posting their beautiful moment's constantly on social media
  • A lot others, by making short skit on any niche and posting it on Facebook.

Most popular influencers are music and movies Stars.

Vlogging

Vlogging is directories of videos on a particular niche which the creator post regularly on Facebook, YouTube and other social media. 

Do have passion for football, comedy, fashion, makeup? 

Then stop wasting your time binging on social media, utilize it in vlogging and your voice will be heard.

Blogging

How to blog on Facebook


Vlog is for video whereas blog is for articles. Blogging entails writing on niche of interest and sharing it with the world.

 The most popular blogger in the history of Nigeria is Linda Ikeji.

 You can own your website where you blog. Or you can blog on your Facebook account by simply posting on certain topics regularly.

Check out best blogging advice here.

Setting up Facebook page

Facebook page added a lot of flexibility to Facebook. 

I already stated that the maximum number of friend anyone can accept on Facebook is 5000. 

Unlike normal Facebook timeline/wall, Facebook page enables one to accept as many friends as he wishes. 

Creating Facebook page is one thing you should do if you haven't especially if you have a unique business and voice.

Setting up Facebook group

Similar to page, Creating a group is usually good if you except to share your stories and views to people of similar ideology, opinion and needs. 

The participants of Facebook group are usually called members.

 A group can discuss any of these topics

Weight, health, parenting, skill acquisition, making money, crypto currency, Forex trading and relationship among others. 

Recruitment

Do you know Facebook has  an inbuilt feature for hiring employees?

 I'm glad you know now.

There are 100 and 1 job opportunities on Facebook. Courtesy of this feature. So, are you a company looking for a cost effective way to hire employees?

What are you still waiting for to start utilizing this feature?

Be it content creators, secretaries, engineers, nutritionists, sales representative, marketers and distributors. You can hire them via this platform.

Connect with a hiring agencies

Are you tired of browsing through different sites in search of jobs?

 Try Facebook jobs. You might see a job that interests you there. All you have to do is to fill the required form. 

You will receive a message requesting your presence at an interview.

Disclaimer

When applying for job via Facebook platform, please do it carefully. To avoid being a victim of 491. Many good things abound but don't be ignorant of the wicked and foolish ones.

For attracting traffick to your site/blog

How Facebook can drive traffic to your site


Do you own a blog? Or an e-commerce website? Then you can leverage on certain Facebook groups in getting traffic to your sites.

It will be worthwhile to check the group rules before doing this because most Facebook groups have rules and regulations.

One of such rules frown at self promotion. To add to this, some of Facebook groups have days for promoting one's blogs, site and businesses. All you need to do is simply posting a link to your blog or website on the Facebook group.

Get news update

Do you know most people have been saved numerous times because of the information someone shared on Facebook?

It's true most people carry fake news. Nonetheless, helpful information are available on social media platform.

Get guided

You might be confused when trying out somethings. Either cooking a continental dish or making soap. Don't get pissed. Only join a Facebook group related to the question you want to ask and you will be guided properly.

Make orders

I currently made an order on Facebook, I needed a professional book cover for my book. One evening I logged into my account, I saw a post by one of my friends. 

Woow! 

A very beautiful book cover he designed. I had to chat him up immediately and we talked business.

You can place orders on different products.

Learn skills

We have been advised to learn a skill or two - just to be ready for what life may throw at one. Do you have any skill but want to learn more then Facebook group is one of those places to learn some new skills.

Whichever one it is, hit that search button and input it. How to make soap, cake, body cream and so on.

Sell yours digital products

Do you have any digital products you want to sell? Utilize Facebook in getting it across to people that might need it. Be it business template, WordPress themes, pictures, videos or games.

Sell your skills

Many of us have wealth of skills which must be monetize. Start making plans to sell your skills at a price. 

I'm already planning to do something on this. What of you? 

Impact on other people's life

Instead of using all your 24 hours viewing and liking pictures on Facebook. Write educative and inspirational post. You might be helping someone come out of their shackles.


I hope this post is helpful?

Have ever done useful things on Facebook?

What other things do you think one can do on Facebook?

What about funny things one can do on Facebook? Please do let us know on the comment section.






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