How to Grow Facebook Groups for Business

Facebook Group Growth Process

How do you grow your Facebook Group for Business?

1. CAPTURE

LANDING PAGE SIGNUP

You create a landing page with a mission statement that explains the community you want to build that the “WE” you want to establish as well as why that is important. Focus on both social, emotional and functional needs. Create a free information product that they will be able to download once they sign up to the waitlist.

CONFIRM

They are sent an e-mail to confrm their e-mail address and signup to receive the download. They click a link in the email and are redirected to a landing page. On the landing page they are offered to download the information product by clicking a link.

VIRAL LOOP (INVITE OR JOIN)

When the person clicks the link they are redirected to a page where they are given the offer of either joining the Facebook group or sharing the information product with someone they think would appreciate it.

2. ONBOARDING

QUALIFICATION QUESTIONS

In order to build a quality group you need to utilised the opportunity to ask applying members questions that show proof that they have the right kind of profle to be a participating member.

GROUP RULES

You need to present the group rules to the users. It should both include what kind of atmosphere you want in the group as well as what kind of topics are allowed to be discussed. In my case, the users will be encouraged to share Campaigns, Cases, Learnings.

They will also be encouraged to reply to each others questions, however they should not be allowed to give suggestions unless someone has explicitly asked for it. You need to add this rule in order to be able to ban members who are destroying your group. Your overall job is to create a strong WE.

Banning a member can create a strong villain that will strengthen the group who are still members. However, your group has to be larger than 500 members before attempting something like that.

3. ACTIVATION

PRESENT YOURSELF

In a post pinned to the top of the group you ask the members to present themselves and what companies they have worked at. Also write that you encourage people who have previously or are currently working in the same place to respond with an anecdote. For some time you should only:

• Ask questions
• Give advice

To the most active members as this will incentivise others to behave the same way to get the same kind of reaction out of you. And only post yourself when you:

• Share research
• Share cases
• Share learnings From obscure, high authority or “behind paywall”-places. Real resources that establish your authority.

4. ENGAGEMENT

REPLY TO ACTIVE

Always reply to the most active users who post insightful ideas and things they seem to have worked a lot on. Even if it doesn’t appeal to you, you should still thank them for widening your own perspectives and ask them some question back.

JOIN IN MESSENGER CONV.

Your objective now is to move the most engaged users towards becoming CO-MANAGERS of the group so that you can work less with its maintenance. A good way to recruit Co-Managers is to start private dialogue on messenger about some managerial question such as “I am having difficulties deciding over this post… you’ve been an active member since…, what do you think?”

The main tactic for Facebook Group Growth is in 8 steps and you can download it if you click the image above that has the full guide or you can read the steps here below:

5. CO-MANAGE

ASK FOR SUGGESTIONS

Together with your Co-Managers start asking members for suggestions on how they would have done things differently. Add polls, surveys and other such formats to get something you can format into an article.

ASK FOR OPEN OPINIONS

If someone gives an interesting opinion they seem to feel passionate about. You and your Co-Managers should ask the person if they can quote them in an article on the topic or if they’d themselves wants to write an opinion piece for the website (in this case marknadschef.com – the service I’m launching in this project) on the topic.

INTERVIEW ACTIVE

Actively source interesting people from the group to write interviews you can publish on your website. Make it into a team editorial together with your comanagers.

6. INITIATIVES

PUBLISH OUTSIDE GROUP

Publish the stories you have gather in your blog or in your article section of your website.

SHARE LINK INSIDE GROUP

Share the link to the article back to the group and tag the member. This will both incentivise them to share the article in their own feed as well as send signals to other members that they too could be mentioned that way if they behaved like the user you have chosen to interview.

7. BUBBLE BREAK

LIKE AND COMMENT IF @

If you are @-ed in the share as Group or as person. Make sure to like and comment, but don’t reshare the share as that will be too much.

SHARE THROUGH E-MAIL

If it is a well written post, share it to the members who have signed up through your landing page to boost social likes etc and reward the person who is sharing the story.

EMBED SHARED POSTS IN ARTICLE

All public Facebook posts can be embedded on external websites. Ask the person to make it public and you can embed it the same article that is being shared. Further boosting the persons social metrics reward and incentivising others to both join and to get active.

8. GROWTH LANDING PAGE

At the end of each article include a link to a landing page where the reader have the opportunity to become a member.

WIDGET ON ARTICLE

Add a widget to the side of each article and include a link to a landing page where the reader have the opportunity to become a member.