You can buy Facebook Fans, but is that what you really want?
I’m not sure if you have heard or not, but you can buy Fans for your Facebook Pages.
There are several different ways to do this, but this most popular, and reliable company out there right now is uSocial. Their packages start as low as 197$ for 1000 fans and go as high as 10,000 fans for 1167.30$. Now they aren’t just giving you a bunch of people that aren’t real as fans, they are giving real active users that are targeted to a specific location (country) and/or an industry or interest group.
We have heard a lot of scepticism from people about this tactic, saying that it’s all about the quantity but that the quality isn’t there. I can certainly relate to this, but I can also relate to the other side of people having a hard time getting fans, or more specifically fans that become customers.
Although I haven’t personally used uSocial’s services yet, I have used them for 2 of my customers so far, and both were satisfied with the results. Basically it gave them credibility and made them get noticed by others who were interested in what they were providing.
If you need more specific fans, for example, city specific, than this isn’t for you as they don’t go more specific than country.
In the end, whether you buy them or not, the point is to keep them or get interested, the more communication there is between the page and the fans the more success you will have.
Don’t buy fans for the purpose of buying them, but if you need them, then uSocial is there to get them for you.
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I work for a startup named Bulbstorm; we develop game-like applications for Facebook. Through use of these applications, client fan pages, such as our client Tornados (facebook.com/tornados) have doubled their fan growth since December of 2009. The number of fans who are engaged and interacting with the brand has increased by almost 50,000 since December 2009 as well. This was all accomplished through the use of applications such as Fan Ideas (http://www.bulbstorm.com/business/fan-idea-challenge-facebook.php). New fans were not bought, but encouraged to participate in the page and the application, and then rewarded for their participation with prizes. So while a high fan count might look good, what really counts is how engaged the fan is with the page.