How to Get More Facebook Likes

How do you get more likes for your Facebook page? More importantly, how do you get people involved in your cause through a Facebook page? The number of likes on your Facebook page is as important as wanting people to join your cause in a physical offline ministry.  In both cases, the higher the number, the higher the momentum will be. 

Keep these key principles in mind

• Your Facebook page should have a clear focus and clear objectives.
• Identify your target audience.

Now, you have two ways to get more likes.
The Free Way: The following tips increase your circle for free, which will eventually bring you more likes. It may seem slow at first, but I assure you if you keep doing these you will get an amazing result.

1. Post positive messages that people will care enough to share.
2. Invite people to like your page manually from your Facebook page.
3. Ask for responses to your posts. Ask a question or ask members to like and share your message.
4. Publish visuals (photos, posters, videos…) more often than text-only messages.
5. Add a Like box on your blog /site: If you are using a WordPress.com blog use this help link, or for a GCX-based wordpress blog, click the following help link here.
6. Be thankful:  give them a “Like” for positive comments and say thank you. This is a big deal for your members.
7. Be funny: Post fun content related to your objectives, and also user-generated content. A few weeks back I shared a video of my older brother and his family singing a gospel song with their two little kids. The kids were so funny in singing the song, which made the video go viral instantly.
8. Add your Facebook page QR code to your business card and/or nametags.  In 2012 in one of our leadership meetings, I printed nametags with Facebook  QR codes, which was unique for everybody. During that meeting, when I was teaching about Facebook, it was easy for me to explain and share about Facebook as they were scanning different Facebook URLs on their mobiles.

The paid method to get more Likes 

1. Test many and use only the best: Create several campaigns and ads with a smaller budget to see which one gets more likes and which ones don’t.
2. Choose small and specific audience: Your ad is more likely to perform better if it’s displayed to the people who are most likely to be interested in your product or service. When you target each ad to smaller, specific groups of people at one time you’ll be able to customize your ad so it’s more personalized and appealing to the audience you’re trying to reach. [Source from Facebook]
3. Pause or delete ads that are not bringing more likes.
4. Use appropriate pictures based on your budget. Now when you create new Facebook ads you can upload up to 6 pictures and Facebook delivers the best performing pictures with the same budget.
5. Adjust your budget. Sometimes the number of people you might reach may differ from time to time so keep changing your budget up and down.  This is due to other competitors who are targeting the same Facebook audience and changing their budgets as well.
6. Timing is key in doing Facebook promotion. You don’t want to spend a lot of money with a small return just because you’re promoting at the wrong time. If you are reaching specific country or city the morning time and early evening works fine. I encourage you to test it it might be different from place to place.

And finally celebrate milestone numbers with your fans when you reach 5K , 10 K or 15K. You can just share a thank you picture to your members to do that.
Read my previous post : Keep your Facebook Engagement High
More Help?

• Here’s a simple guideline from Facebook to set up ads to get more likes.
• Learn about pausing and restarting ads or campaigns here.
• Here’s an example of an evangelistic even Facebook page where I applied these tips