Facebook likes

artyman said:
I have to ask why do you want more 'likes' on photos, what does it mean, does it have any value.
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Exactly my thoughts when people post things like this. WHY?
 
Exactly neil, it spreads the word and get you more noticed i know someone know has more than doubled their work through likes on Facebook
 
355858 said:
Exactly neil, it spreads the word and get you more noticed i know someone know has more than doubled their work through likes on Facebook
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But that's what Facebook likes are for, they work organically, 1000 likes on your FB page from other photographers is useless. 500 likes from local 18-30 married women is Gold for a kids photographer:thumbs:.

The numbers are insignificant, it's not how many, it's who.
 
ChrisGilbert said:
It's like Twitter. You never really know who's listening and the expansion is logarthmic. In terms of marketing all 'Likes' are good.
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All likes might be good, but some are definitely better than others. And for me I'd rather have fewer better likes, horses for courses.

And for me the jury's still out on twitter as a marketing tool for a social photographer, I think it's much more use for commercial photographers.
 
Phil V said:
All likes might be good, but some are definitely better than others. And for me I'd rather have fewer better likes, horses for courses.

And for me the jury's still out on twitter as a marketing tool for a social photographer, I think it's much more use for commercial photographers.
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I have had my reservations as well, Phil, and I've certainly in the past been disdainful about Twitter in particular. I've only really been going at it properly for perhaps 9 months but I think on balance it's a positive move that has generated business for me. I agree that quality is far more important than quantity - which is just as well given the paltry (if hugely valued and loved deeply as individuals) number of followers that I have :lol:
 
ChrisGilbert said:
I have had my reservations as well, Phil, and I've certainly in the past been disdainful about Twitter in particular. I've only really been going at it properly for perhaps 9 months but I think on balance it's a positive move that has generated business for me. I agree that quality is far more important than quantity - which is just as well given the paltry (if hugely valued and loved deeply as individuals) number of followers that I have :lol:
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Snap!

I love Twitter, I just don't find any value in it as a business tool for me.

I think for B2B it's a great tool, but for B2C you'd need many thousands of followers for it to be of any use.
 
Bless the FB haters.

Get your content out there. Post at least one photo a day, share and like other pages they will do it back. More importantly share content that you think others will like and share not what you like. Also - spend a bit of money and do some targeted advertising. Facebook is astronomically powerful when used to its full potential! Lets put it this way - I'd rather advertise on Facebook than in my local Dentons/weekly hack rag.
 
willbaroo said:
Bless the FB haters.

Get your content out there. Post at least one photo a day, share and like other pages they will do it back. More importantly share content that you think others will like and share not what you like. Also - spend a bit of money and do some targeted advertising. Facebook is astronomically powerful when used to its full potential! Lets put it this way - I'd rather advertise on Facebook than in my local Dentons/weekly hack rag.
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Where are the FB haters in this thread:thinking:

It strikes me some people turn up to join an argument where none existed.:suspect:

It's about the best targeted advertising for some industries (possibly including wedding photography) but getting un targeted likes is a different kettle of fish entirely.
 
humm..


Y'know, this Facebook self promo business spam explanation would stack up, if in fact you where actually......touting for business.
Quite often though, peeps aren't, they're just touting themselves, so what's wrong with that ?
I dunno, I don't do it myself because I'd feel like an overly needy attention seeker, but that's just me, not everybody feels that way about promoting me me me just for the sake of it.
I feel this way about bloggs, Fb....Flickr, dunno about t***ter, t***ter doesn't seem to take itself seriously so it's a bit more likable..:shrug:
 
Liked the page and added on Flickr, links to mine are in my signature at the bottom :)

Matt
 
Oh come on the first couple of replies were anti FB, besides how do I join an argument if it doesn't exist? :thinking:

TBH FB is such a vast place that any like is better than no likes, the more likes the more coverage and reach each post will get. It only takes you to like a page that doesn't mean an awful lot to you might it might to some one who gets your updates in their ticker/news feed.
 
neil_g said:
post it in the big facebook page thread?

:)
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artyman said:
I have to ask why do you want more 'likes' on photos, what does it mean, does it have any value.
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willbaroo said:
Oh come on the first couple of replies were anti FB, besides how do I join an argument if it doesn't exist? :thinking:

TBH FB is such a vast place that any like is better than no likes, the more likes the more coverage and reach each post will get. It only takes you to like a page that doesn't mean an awful lot to you might it might to some one who gets your updates in their ticker/news feed.
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:shrug:
The first one was straight advice for the OP to post in a thread already running designed to do exactly what he wants:thumbs:

The second a question as to the value of Facebook likes. Not negative, but a straightforward question:shrug:
 
Phil V said:
:shrug:
The first one was straight advice for the OP to post in a thread already running designed to do exactly what he wants:thumbs:

The second a question as to the value of Facebook likes. Not negative, but a straightforward question:shrug:
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Perfectly said...can't see anything negative or any FB haters.
 
I don't find any value in Facebook likes, personally. I'm yet to find a way to monetise them in the same way I have Twitter. Being active on Twitter gets me an extra £2k a month in business, yet I can't seem to get even 1/10th of that with Facebook.

Problem with Facebook is that it's just way too insular. With Twitter everything is out there and indexed.

The secret to getting both follows and likes is very simple though. Engage with your target market and make sure you're posting quality content. If you're sitting there wondering how to get more likes, it means you aren't being proactive enough, and are likely just sitting there thinking that uploading photos is enough. It never is.

If you're going to have a photography page, you need to make sure the photos you upload are exceptional. Otherwise, you have to think of other avenues to generate interest.
 
Rankbadyin said:
Why would you want to post your Photos on FB and grant them free use for gain, with no recompense or attribution to you?
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You do know that's nonsense, right?

Just checking because sometimes you appear to believe the tosh you spout and sometimes you know it's complete balls.
 
I read somewhere that was in the sign - up rules, I'm sure you know better though.
 
For content that is covered by intellectual property rights, like photos and videos (“IP content”), you specifically give us the following permission, subject to your privacy and application settings: you grant us a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, worldwide license to use any IP content that you post on or in connection with Facebook (“IP License”).
 
Rankbadyin said:
For content that is covered by intellectual property rights, like photos and videos (“IP content”), you specifically give us the following permission, subject to your privacy and application settings: you grant us a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, worldwide license to use any IP content that you post on or in connection with Facebook (“IP License”).
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That's why you stick a little watermark on it as it doesn't say they can edit the image, so removing a watermark would breach that.
 
Rankbadyin said:
For content that is covered by intellectual property rights, like photos and videos (“IP content”), you specifically give us the following permission, subject to your privacy and application settings: you grant us a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, worldwide license to use any IP content that you post on or in connection with Facebook (“IP License”).
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You could explain to me how they and their partners can show me my photographs without those rights:thinking:

It's the most often misunderstood passage on the Internet, you're not alone in believing it.
 
Rankbadyin said:
For content that is covered by intellectual property rights, like photos and videos (“IP content”), you specifically give us the following permission, subject to your privacy and application settings: you grant us a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, worldwide license to use any IP content that you post on or in connection with Facebook (“IP License”).
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They need that right to be able to show the images on their pages. It doesn't give them any right to generate income from them.
 
Put stuff up that people "like".
Having said that though, whether I like something or not, I can count on one hand (literally) the number of times I've hit the "like" button and most definitely will not "like" someone's page or photo if they ask something such as "please go to facebook and like my photo/page etc.
If you need to ask me to like it, it usually means it's garbage and you're desperate.
 
More likes?

Pay one of those companies for X thousand facebook accounts to like your images. Either done with bots (:naughty:) or "employees" paid $0.000001 per like they make.

Or post it up with a comment saying "if you share or like this you could win a car, competition ends 31st December 2013"
 
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I dont really feel facebook holds much value for gaining market share, especially as the amount of amateur photographers on there that have pages is quite high.

You should read the blog post by Neil van Niekerk on the value of facebook, its quite interesting especilly with all the recent 'pay for wallspam 'additions.
http://neilvn.com/tangents/facebook-value/
 
i wouldn't pay for likes from other sites such as fiver.com as they are not real people and will have no interaction with your page. FB may also ban your page!
 
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