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Facebook Changes and What They Mean for Business Marketing

Written by eLaunchers | Feb 1, 2013 3:41:48 PM

The use of social media is important to many people. In order to stay on top, Facebook has changed the way that their users Facebook pages work and look recently. It is not only causing the users of Facebook to change. It is also making the businesses that use Facebook for marketing change.

 

Some might ask why Facebook is making these changes. There are plenty of other social media networks available for people to use. In order to stay on top, Facebook has had to make improvements for their users. They need to make each visit to Facebook a memorable experience. It is the key to Facebook staying on top.

 

If businesses want to make use of Facebook for marketing they are also going to have to adapt. The biggest changes at Facebook involve giving the users more control over the content that they see when they log on. Since the users have greater control, it is more important the content that business use for marketing purposes has to be relevant to the user. They have to be given a reason to want to see this content. Unless the marketing executives can come up with a way to make people want to see what they have to say, they need to make the content more relevant.

 

Marketing executives have said that the changes in Facebook will cause them to do things in different ways. It will not eliminate Facebook or any other social media as a marketing tool. The businesses that are able to succeed are the ones that are going to adapt to the new changes. The ones that refuse to change the way they do things will be the ones that fail. This is true with many types of technology and not just the social media and Facebook. It is still going to be the survival of the fittest.