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5 Reasons Why Businesses Should NOT Buy Facebook Fans

fans10kA controversial company, Usocial is “selling” social media friends and fans; causing it to be in the spotlight of many blogs and news channels.

For $654.30, Usocial will deliver 5000 new friends to your Facebook account. Pay $1167.30 to double that number.

Will you buy your Facebook fans?

I definitely won’t and here are 5 reasons why you shouldn’t.

1. All quantity but no quality

There is no point in having 10,000 fans where only a small percentage of them are interacting with your brand. The very basis of social media marketing is to engage fans who want to be part of your brand. Think, who are reaching out to? Are you speaking to people who are sincerely interested and receptive to your products?

Are your bought fans going to read your updates and buy your products? Is a huge following the only motivation for true fans to join your group? If they really like you, they should support you when you need it the most.

2. You may get negative interaction

Imagine what the bulk of your bought fans are going to say, if they actually say anything?

Willis says “Hey! How many people are bought over here? and what other fan pages are you guys paid to join?”

Sarah replies “Me! I’m on FB page X and Y too. Heh”

I don’t think businesses will want this. Maybe you can start paying for positive comments too?

3. You will appear desperate

Imagine a small business, which is not engaging in too much marketing. What would be your reaction when you notice that it has received a sudden boost of 10,000 fans within a month. Does it appear suspicious? Is the business that desperate?

4. It may piss off your true fans

Once you, as a true fan notice that you are being crowded by a group of insincere fans, what are you going to think and feel?

• I feel betrayed

• I don’t want to be appear like I’m bought too

• I am not going to continue supporting a brand that is so desperate

5. Will bought fans stay?

Usocial guarantees to deliver the quota within 30 days. I’m not too sure if there is a clause for fans to stay. If there isn’t, how many of them would remain on your Facebook page?

Hmm, fans retention depends heavily on your post content. Is your content good? If yes, why bother buying fans?

Conclusion

Growing a fan page is a problem that most businesses face. Usocial has indeed brought upon an innovative product to ease their suffering. But how effective is it? There are definitely good reasons to buy fans; an obvious one would be how good it would look on your business in such a short time.

Obviously, I’m not too comfortable with the idea just yet. So what are your thoughts? Share them in the comment forum!

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About Willis Wee

Co-founder of Penn Olson who is also an entrepreneur since 2005. He has had experience in crafting social media strategies for organizations such as Marriott Vacation Club, James Cook University, Reach Singapore and Unilever. Contact him at willis[at]penn-olson[dot]com

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    I see brands and specifically some magazines struggling with way too few fans given their possible fan base and minuscule numbers relative to their published subscription base. Magazines that i see on the store magazine rack suffing with hundreds and not thousands of fans. They simply created a fan page and have not paid much attention to creatig growth or they may have just become frustrated with learning how to do it.

    Obviously there are others who Fan count may even exceed their subscription base and they are doing something right..

    .I do not know how this company Usocial actually creates the fans but it is hard to imagine they are paying people to become fans of any page. Not many of us would be interested in becoming fans of bogus pages for a few pennies each. So i understood that they are attracting people ot the page (obviously with a form of spam) and those people will then have to take action to become a fan once they are introduced to the page.

    I have created fan pages and know it is a difficult thing to start rolling but I have shown consitent grown in all of the pages over the few month they have been running. I now have in excess of 32000 fans on all of the pages and this number grows in constant association with the time i invest. I could almost guarantee 10,000 fans over a 60-90 period and can attest to the fact that when the fan base hits a large enough number it continues to attract new fans at a reletively smooth rate.

    My conclusion is different. That fans even passive fans have a value, but 10,000 fans not interacting with the page have short term value but if they are encouraged to interact then the fan base will continuously grow and this service may be a shot in the arm. But the page owner needs help and some training to keep that moment going if they did buy this Usocail service and it worked.

    I am not affiliated with Usocail or any other such service but after visting Usocial i think i may offer to help those struggling with FAN page growth.

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    #1: “There is no point in having 10,000 fans” –

    Yes, there is a point. Having 10,000 fans will increase your exposure on Facebook, and make your fan page look like a very popular page, thus leading to more fans. Also, I believe you will get a high percentage of those 10,000 fans who are interested in the topic of the page. Fans are not “forced” to become a fan (or “like”) – they have to agree to like the page.

    #2 – Maybe, but highly unlikely. Even if your page did get some negative comments, you can DELETE them

    #3 – Desperate, no – POPULAR, yes!

    #4 – Why would it “piss off” other fans just because a company had a large increase in fan base?

    #5 – Will bought fans leave?

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    But if you think about it, most of the fan pages out there which has thousands of fans are built on hype and promotional methods which you may disagree with. But one thing is sure- many of them have succeeded in their goals of

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    4)All quantity no quality? In fact, fans can be targeted according to their existing fan pages- a member of a “make money at home” group is likely to be interested in other similar offers too!

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    I will be conducting a case study on bought FB followers of my blog and fan page over the next 2 weeks and reporting the findings here. Perhaps you could do likewise too and show how targeted followers, albeit smaller counts, can provide greater receptivity to whatever one is selling or educating (info) as opposed to an untargeted audience.

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    Hey willis, i surely disagree with you at this point that these fans are not worth at all :) . I will tell u some points, hope i will get your reply on them.

    1- If you are unaware of two brands, and you visit the fanpages of them, you see 12 fans on one and 15000 fans on another. What is the first impression that you have on the repute of the company??

    2- Will it not be true to say that these fans will finally pave way to build foundation for or to attract other interested fans, who would like to join the page and get involved in the activities.

    3-In this cut throat world of competition , your competitor has built himself a social media image and has 5000 fans. How much can that fans participate or be interested in the discussions.Lets be honest, even on micosoft bizspark page, 10-15 people out of 15000 or so respond to the posts, so how does it make so difference.

    4- Some companies like SOCIONIKS offer targeted followers(by location, interest ) also, so how come it is not advantageous.

    basically, Rather than getting nothing, you can get better results if you have a fan following and it leads to growth of company as people build that “TRUST” bonding with them.

    thanks and hoping a reply from you .

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    Hi Roman, thanks for the comment. I see you POV. But don't quite agree to it.

    Where's the quality? as good brands, we want true fans. Is getting the numbers that important? Or is interactivity more crucial?

    Even after buying 5,000 fans. They aren't as active and loyal as a company with 500 organic fans. That goes the same for twitter:

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  • http://twitter.com/williswee Willis Wee

    yes, quality of post agree. According to what you said, “taste” of the fans seems to be a false element if fans were bought.

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    Think about it this way, no one is really being bought are they?. Your page comes to their attention, if they like it they will join, if they don't then they won't join. Maybe a few will join just to take the piss but thats the way the internet is. I guess this method is all about numbers, you cover a wide area and take a few quality customers in the process.

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    3)well my answer would be business has done something really well or have spend money on marketing.this is like marketing and every big and small company do this
    4) this part is totally irrelevant?and lots of people will agree with me..
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