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Could creating a group on Facebook be beneficial for your freelance business?



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Could creating a group on Facebook be beneficial for your freelance business?

Social media is a big thing, I know with all big things that there comes people with similar interest. Recently I've took the time to notice how my nephew uses the sneaker groups he is in on Facebook to buy sell and trade his name brand shoes. He's using it on a small scale compared to what I would use it for, I can say personally I do see potential
in making my own group whether it's to get people more aware or just more connected point is it can bring potential clients, do you think I'm on to something here or could I just be doing a little much?

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idealmike
Nice. Yeah it's definitely worth a shot! What can it hurt you know? Unlike Pages that limit how many people you can reach. Group posts show in the timeline for everyone. Either on the group itself, and in the persons Facebook timeline. Lots of people. companies and business's use Facebook groups for this reason. They help new brands build recognition and awareness. The only thing is with groups is that they are a free-for-all and anyone can post anything to it, including links to their own sites, services and products etc. But that's not necessarily a downside as that's one reason why they would join your group so they can do that and you can still leverage something from that. Even though other people can post to that group, they're doing so under your name in a way and you can put your brands name and logo and even website URL in the header image and people will always see that and grow familiar with it.

You might start off small at first but there are many ways in which you can grow, advertise and promote your group and attract and gain new members/users for it. You could even buy some groups members for it and the numbers work for you then. When people see it has a lot of members, they will want to join it naturally because the more people they see in that group, the more potential there is to reach more people when they post something to it. You could lock it down so that other peoples posts are moderated first. And you could do it so that nobody else's posts are approved only yours. But I wouldn't recommend doing that as people will cotton on to it and not post there any more and probably leave that group. You should post to it yourself as yourself, but also post to it as other people and too. But you should let other people post to it too as that's what groups are for.

I have a couple groups and they started off small at first. Mainly YouTube groups, but I am getting about 100 new member join requests a day now and at this rate, if this keeps up, I will have about 50k members before the end of the year is out and that can be quite potent. By then I'll get much more response for my own videos and my clients that I post to it and may even be able to flip it for a pretty penny.

So don't even think twice and don't even hesitate for a moment and create your group and start building it up. As the owner of it you'll be able to "pin" your own posts to the top and that can get it seen guaranteed by everyone that uses that group. Could creating a group on Facebook be beneficial for your freelance business?



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Lynne
Oh wow Mike perhaps you can share some tips on how to start a group and grow it into a massive group?

I really want to have a number of really huge groups myself but I have not figured out how to get there. I have a few groups that I started but I haven't really had the time to devote to growing them, especially as I haven't really known how to go about it.

Share your wisdom!

Do you really think that buying groups members will work? Will it make such a difference? Are these real people or fake profiles?



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idealmike
Sure! I will have to concoct something up! And yes, in the same way as buying fans/likes/followers/views etc can help because people who see you have a lot of them are more motivated and inspired to check you out and it installs some confidence in them if they think you have a lot of followers. In the same way as buying FB group members can help "kick start" that group. Trust me, nobody wants to join a group that has like 10 members in it. A group with 10,000 members though they definitely want to join. ;)



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Lynne
Very true Mike,I will think on that, I really don't like to buy social services like that though, but I guess it is a means to an ends right?



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Webguy2024
I think it would be extremely beneficial to create a group and reach like minded people. I have a friend who is on Facebook and his group has 3.5M real members. Here is the cool part, every time that he launches a new product or service he will get hundreds and even thousands of responsive people that actually make purchases. His look to book ratio, how many people are looking to how many people are buying is very good. It is not uncommon for him to easily make 60K USD per month with little effort. That being said it did take him a long time to build up the massive audience that he is enjoying today. There are no shortcuts building a great group. If you are willing to put in a couple of years of hard work building the group it could really pay off in the long run.



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chetaseo
wow, over 3.5M group members,. it must have been a very long time that he has set up that a Facebook group. surely any product or service advertised on that group will surely get lots of visitors traffic and hence good sales and conversions. That group is a goldmine that will surely fetch lots of income now and in the future.



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Webguy2024
Yes, he worked very hard building his member base. It took years to get where he is today and a lot of hard work.



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Lynne
Oh man I would love to have a group like that! Imagine how awesome that would be!

So like has he written an eBook or instructions on how to get 2.5M real members into a group? I can work incredibly hard, tell me how!



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Webguy2024
I don't think that he wrote anything but I will suggest that he makes an eBook. Also, I will reach out to him today and ask if he could share some of the top suggestions or tips on growing a group to that size. I too would like to know the details!



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Lynne
Yes that would be amazing! He could write a great eBook and sell it Could creating a group on Facebook be beneficial for your freelance business?



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Cristian
Well not really. There is little I can do with a facebook group to improve my freelance sales. Yes sure, I can join other groups searching for clients but don't see the point in having my own facebook group.

Potential clients will probably never join it. But now that I think about it, maybe I should make a group and invite all my past clients there, they already know me so joining won't be a problem, I can update them on my new services....thanks for the idea!



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vinaya
Social media marketing can be very beneficial, even more for facebook. There are various ways to promote your work on facebook and one free method is promoting on facebook groups. You can either create a group ask people to join it and begin the promotion, or join a group and promote your work. If the group is yours, you have full control over it and you can share what ever you want. However, if you join others' group, you have to follow by their rules.
The first important thing for creating a group is how to build followers. Building followers on your group is really hard.



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Corzhens
I have been freelancing for quite a time now but I still haven’t used social media for my business purposes. But when I come up with my own blog then that will be the day that I will utilize my Facebook account to get viewers for my blog. And maybe, if plans push through, I will have to create a Facebook Group that is directly related to the niche of my blog as a preparation for marketing. Let’s say I get 1,000 members in that group then that’s good pasture for marketing my blog.



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