Facebook is a powerful social media tool that can help boost your traffic and create a relationship with your buyers and fans.  Bead Mania Clothing over on Etsy has but together a great list of ways to gaining more fans to your Facebook Fan Page.

BeadManiaClothing says:

Throughout the Forum, I am reading posts in which many Etsians state they do not own a Facebook account and yet, they wish to go straight and create their Facebook Business/Fan Page. I do not think this is possible. Also, some Etsians do own an incomplete Facebook account which they have not been updating and where their friends list has not been built.

Well, the easier, faster and free way to build your Fans Club on your Business/Fan Page is to actually update your personal Facebook account and build your friends lists. Of course, there are few other ways to do grown your Fan Club, but let me address this easy and free way for now.

It could begin with one or 2 friends only and snow-ball from there without any efforts. Facebook has implemented a great technology which brings you potential new friends from the lists of your friends and from the lists of the list of their friends … and so on. This is how it works:

1. Go to FRIENDS on the blue top menu bar

2. Scroll down and click on “FIND FRIENDS” – It opens a new page with a few different options such as “Find People You Email,” “Search for People,” “Find People You IM” and “Suggestions”

3. Go to “Suggestions” and keep on clicking on all the “ADD AS FRIENDS” and “BECOME A FAN” located underneath each of the photos of people being suggested to you by Facebook. These peoples are from the lists of your friends and from the lists of the list of their friends … and so on.

4. These new potential new friends will instantly receive your request for friendship and either approve it or disregard it. At least 95% of the people who received requests are not so choosy and do confirm them; and the 5% remaining are picky people who would want to view your Profile Page first and check out if you are an active member with an updated Facebook account carrying your detailed information and interests (which they might like), or a telemarketer promoting Ponzi scheme programs and trying to spam them.

5. With such system within hours, you could send a request for friendship to thousands of new friends. And other friends of these new friends who do not even know you could send you their request for friendship, snow-balling over and over … Just keep clicking on “APPROVE” each time you receive a new request. Don’t be choosy, because any breathing person on Facebook (and there are almost 60 Millions of them) is a potential customer for your products.

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