Is 1.2 Million Facebook Likes In Three Weeks A Crock?

Nearly 1.2 million likes for a Facebook page that launched August 19? It must be Charlie Sheen, right? Ashton Kutcher? Lady Gaga? Nope: Try Crock Pot Girls.

Nearly 1.2 million likes for a Facebook page that launched August 19? It must be Charlie Sheen, right? Ashton Kutcher? Lady Gaga? Nope: Try Crock Pot Girls.

But was this explosion the result of a sudden interest boom in slow cooking, or something else?

Facebook marketing and relationship marketing consultant Mari Smith, author of upcoming book The New Relationship Marketing, and Sam Goldfarb, general manager of Facebook marketing service Tradimax, did a little digging and unearthed some interesting nuggets.

Smith noted the rapid growth of the Crock Pot Girls page in a post on Facebook:

There is much speculation on the Net as to how these fans came about.

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