Facebook Or Twitter Best Results?

[Entrepreneurjay]

Facebook Or Twitter Best Results?

I personally have much better results from Facebook, what do you guys think?

[retta719]

I find a lot of great results from Twitter, but that's probably because I spend more time there than on Facebook. Over the past year and a half I've met a lot of clients on Twitter and come up with a lot of spur of the moment ideas there as well.

[danwangert]

I love using twitter. Its great being able to update people with my most recent business ventures and then getting tons of traffic back to my sites. Then again, I also love Facebook. I make sure my internet marketing business gets plenty of attention by keeping my Facebook status updated.

[Engage]

Anybody care to explain how you get results with either service?

[russell]

I know Lynn has stated Twitter has been one of her biggest traffic sources.

[Maa]

For me I have gotten better results with facebook. I have found it to be very hard to hold a conversation on twitter.

[retta719]

Anybody care to explain how you get results with either service?

Just by getting involved in the conversations. I have a keyword search tab in hootsuite for things that I have sites on like transcription, cross stitch, work at home, etc...

[Engage]

Just by getting involved in the conversations. I have a keyword search tab in hootsuite for things that I have sites on like transcription, cross stitch, work at home, etc...

So, the same basic idea as posting on a forum, hoping folks will click on your signature link?

If yes...

I enjoy posting on forums, and sig links are good for SEO purposes. But I couldn't justify the time based on just the link clicks.

I get the theory of building relationships, and enjoy it, but again, the time investment is so high, that the return on investment just doesn't seem to be there.

Thus, I don't get Twitter and Facebook really.

Of course, I may be posting the wrong things, have a crappy sig, a poor landing page, and lousy products etc. I'm open to the theory it could just be me doing it wrong.

I've seen a LOT of things come and go in 15 years, and am trying to sort out the facts from the buzz regarding social sites. All input most welcomed.

[retta719]

I get the theory of building relationships, and enjoy it, but again, the time investment is so high, that the return on investment just doesn't seem to be there.

I think the ROI on a relationship is far better than a one time visitor any day of the week.


So, the same basic idea as posting on a forum, hoping folks will click on your signature link?

If yes...

I enjoy posting on forums, and sig links are good for SEO purposes. But I couldn't justify the time based on just the link clicks.

Not exactly my approach or plan really. If they happen to read the profile and click through there, that's great. If they click a link I tweeted even better. But, getting to know people and helping when I can is really what I'm aiming for when I answer things on Twitter.

I'm not a social media expert and I'm probably doing it all wrong, but Twitter has been good to me and I've met some great folks there :)

[jmmoore321]

We have close to 4000 fans on our facebook page and it is a phenomenal resource for us. We interact with our fans there similar to the way we do with our regular friends with status updates about what we are doing with our "food storage" which is our blog topic. Our market doesn't tend to be big Twitter users and I never got much traction there.

We autopost our blogposts to facebook, and we get 10-20 responses on most posts. I have also figured out how to import those comments back into my blog (which only typically gets 1-2 comments per post). It seems most of the conversation is moving to facebook as it is somewhere people are hanging out already. They can stay engaged with us and our content on the platform they feel comfortable with. We don't get as much traffic to our site maybe, but we have an active active readership who responds fabulously to our offers there.

Today I switched things up and it only imports a blurb from our post, and we saw a big jump in traffic to our actual site. I will definitely keep experimenting with Facebook and building the relationships there. People love to feel connected and feel like you are "real people".

[danwangert]

I get the theory of building relationships, and enjoy it, but again, the time investment is so high, that the return on investment just doesn't seem to be there.

I did some outsourcing and got some very reliable people helping me so it's like I am doing a lot of things at the same time. I have a personal assistant that does the twitter thingy for me, that's just for one site and the result is phenomenal. I never thought I would get that much traffic just for sending updates via tweets. It surpassed my expectations.

Then I got another person to keep my facebook updated. The result is amazing! I know a lot of people with the same strategy. I actually got the idea from them.

[angienewton]

We autopost our blogposts to facebook, and we get 10-20 responses on most posts. I have also figured out how to import those comments back into my blog (which only typically gets 1-2 comments per post). It seems most of the conversation is moving to facebook as it is somewhere people are hanging out already. They can stay engaged with us and our content on the platform they feel comfortable with. We don't get as much traffic to our site maybe, but we have an active active readership who responds fabulously to our offers there.

Today I switched things up and it only imports a blurb from our post, and we saw a big jump in traffic to our actual site. I will definitely keep experimenting with Facebook and building the relationships there. People love to feel connected and feel like you are "real people".

Jodi,
I would love to know how to just have a blog post blurb show up on my fan page AND how to import those comments back into the blog. That would be awesome! Thanks for any help you can provide.

[MikeF421]

For affiliate marketing, I don't really get much out of Twitter. Of course, I might be biased because I think Twitter is a heaping pile of dung. Just me.

Facebook, on the other hand, has a much better chance of going viral for you. If a person becomes a fan of your page, all of their friends see that in their activity. Some may choose to be a fan too. Then all of their friends see that, etc., etc.

The other amazing thing about Facebook is that over 50% of Facebook users log on every single day. If you post a message on Facebook, you are almost guaranteed that each fan of the page is going to see the message. If you post something on Twitter, your followers are only likely to see it if they are logged on within a minute or two of when you post it. After that, it will be too far down their feed for them to ever see it.

It might take a little longer to build a large number of fans on Facebook then it does a large number of followers on Twitter, but I think you get a higher ROI.

[Engage]

Mike, thanks for your analysis, appreciate it.

OK, here's what I probably need. A Facebook user whose page is all about marketing on Facebook. If anybody has a suggestion of such a user, your advice most appreciated.

[KathleenGageSpeaker]

They both work well for me. I also use LinkedIn and find it to be an excellent resource.