Benefits of using Facebook

Posted by Felix Okoli on Friday March 14, 2014 at 11:30:46:

Facebook is the Social Network with the highest number of daily Visitors. It has a membership of over 500 Million People and it is estimated that over 15 Million members visit Facebook on daily basis. An active User spends well over 15 hours on Facebook each week.

Facebook was actually built to help People connect with other People such as Friends, Old Classmates and Relations, and many People focus more on the connecting and Socializing aspect of the Facebook. One might not realize that as a Social Network, there are many other benefits a Person can get from using Facebook. This article will go through four other benefits which a Person can derive from using Facebook.

FOUR BENEFITS OF USING FACEBOOK:
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- Finding a Job: These days, most Companies place their job adverts on their Facebook page. This means that anybody who is following the Company’s page on Facebook, will get notifications of any job Vacancy placed on their page. Through the medium, A Person can now easily apply and get a job when there is any job advert placed on a Company’s Facebook page.

- Medium of Advertising for Your Business: You can advertise your Business and Services to your friends and Fans on Facebook. One easy way to do so is to create a Business Page on Facebook that will advertise your Products and Services. This way, a lot of People get to see your Business and this will lead to increase in Client base and better profit margin. You can also use Facebook to inform your friends of new products and Services and major changes in your Business.

- Make Money Through Affiliate Programs: Apart from using Facebook to advertise Personal Product and Services, A person can make money from facebook with Affiliate Marketing. This has to do with selling other People’s products and for each sale you make; you are paid a certain percentage as a Commission. A person can register with any of the Affiliate Companies online. Especially those that deal on Digital products, for instance Amazon and Clickbank and then use Facebook as a means of driving traffic to his Affiliate link by introducing the product to his Facebook friends and Fans, explaining the benefits of buying the products. This is an easy way to make money on Facebook, especially for a Person that has many Friends and Fans on Facebook.

- Networking: Networking here has to do with meeting new People, who are in the same Work Group, Profession or Career with you. Facebook is a good place to search out, network, meet and connect with new People who are in the same Career group with you, and also keep up with happenings in your chosen career.

From the four benefits mentioned above, this article has been able to list four other benefits of using Facebook apart from using it to connect with friends and family Members. It has also deduced that a Person can earn income from using Facebook, either as a means of advertising his or her Personal Products or to advertise other People’s products and earn Commission for each sale made.