Facebook’s Free Tools to Promote Your Cause
Facebook isn’t just for kids: as a marketing tool, Facebook offers an endless variety of ways for you to promote your cause, organization, or business for free. Once you’ve signed up for an account, try any of the following tips to maximize Facebook’s branding and promotional potential:
- Profile: When you sign up for a Facebook profile, customize your page to reflect your business or organization, uploading logos, pictures, links and other information that reinforces your brand.
- Find Friends: Use this to find your friends on Facebook and import your contacts from AIM, Gmail, Outlook, and more. Then look for mutual friends whose addresses you may not have had.
- Groups: Use the site’s Groups feature to network with your target audience. You can join existing groups or create one just for your business to amp up the buzz about its services.
- Causes: Create a Cause to start recruiting members and volunteers, to promote events, and to raise funds for your group or mission.
- Marketplace: Not only can you possibly find needed items for cheap here, but you can also sell items to fundraise or offload excess inventory, and search for new employees.
- Networks: List your organization’s city, industry, neighborhood and any other relevant information to let potential customers and audiences know where they can find you.
- Badge: Create your own Badge to direct Facebook friends to your organization’s Web site.
See Obama This Week …
- Wednesday, October 29th the Senator will appear on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart. The Daily Show airs at 11:00 pm Eastern on Comedy Central.
- Wednesday, October 29th the Senator will appear on ABC World News with Charlie Gibson. ABC World News airs at 6:30 pm Eastern.
- Thursday, October 30th the Senator will appear on NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams. NBC Nightly News airs at 6:30 pm Eastern.
Know Your Voting Rights … and Spread the Info!
The Voting Rights Project of the ACLU is dedicated to providing citizens with information and assistance in exercising their right to vote. ACT this election year by sharing voters’ rights information with your friends, family, associates, and so on: http://www.aclu.org/votingrights/gen/36695res20080909.html
To voice a voting rights complaint, call 1-877-523-2792, email ACLU at vrp@aclu.org, or click on one of the links at http://www.aclu.org/votingrights/gen/36695res20080909.html












