Facebook marketing in Kenya is the most common form of digital marketing following the high number of users Facebook has. Facebook is the leading social media platform in Kenya with 80% users, this is according to the January 2019 digital reports from Hootsuite and We Are Social. The report showed that Facebook adverts in Kenya reach 7.90 million people. This shows that carrying out Facebook marketing in Kenya can help you reach so many people at the same time.
How to grow your business on Facebook
Growing your business on Facebook can be challenging if you do not have the necessary knowledge. We will guide you on how to get your small Facebook business page noticed.
Below are some tips that will help you grow your business on Facebook.
Build a custom welcome page
The first step of accomplishing digital marketing on Facebook is to create a Facebook business page.
You need to customize your page so that it effectively represents your brand or company. You can do this by putting an attractive profile picture, a call to action button, about section, contact, engaging timeline and links to your website or blogs.
Use photos and videos
Upload photos and videos of your products. People always want to see visuals of what they are buying, you cannot sell to people without them seeing how the product looks like. Videos can help people understand how to use certain products or to display a product.
Relevant content and consistent posting
If your Facebook page is dealing with fashion let it be just fashion. Ensure that you post consistently on your page. Digital marketing always requires you to keep your page engaged. You can do this by ensuring interactions through replying to people’s enquiries and asking them relevant questions. Facebook advertising in Kenya requires you to show people that you are available and active.
Advertise on Facebook
Facebook allows you to advertise using Facebook ads and sponsored stories. This will help you target the people that are likely to buy your product this could be according to gender, age or location. Doing this will get your page out there.
Monitor your page
Facebook just like Instagram allows you to see engagements on your post, your post reach, your page review among others through insights. As you monitor you are able to analyze if your page is doing well or not. It will also help you know what kind of posts are attracting more people and which ones are not. This is going to help you achieve your Facebook advertising goals
Join Facebook groups
Join Facebook pages that are relevant to your industry and participate in them. If you are in the fashion industry, join fashion groups and be active on them, the more you participate the more people recognize you and they will start looking for your page to see what you do or sell. You can also promote your content there.
Start your own Facebook group
Start your own Facebook group if you find that there is none that suits your kind of business. Add members from your Facebook friends and ask them to recommend their friends. In the group create discussions, post articles and make the page lively. People will recognize you as the leader of that group and you can be advertising your business there from time to time so that people do not feel like it is an advertising group.
Reward your followers
People always want to feel appreciated therefore; you can be giving offers to your customers, discounts on items or gifts.
Facebook advertising in Kenya is important for your business if you want to reach more people. Facebook has the highest number of users in Kenya so utilize it to advertise your products or services.
