How Can Facebook Monetize While Expanding Pages' Reach?
Ever since studies showed that the average Facebook page's posts reach an average of 16 percent of fans, many marketers (as well as Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban and actor George Takei) have been quite unhappy with the social network, feeling that they're being pinched for advertising. But what if there was a way for Facebook to let pages reach most of their fans, yet still make money? A writer for The Next Web came up with some ideas that Facebook could use to gain some revenue while getting back into the good graces of those who manage pages.
Ever since studies showed that the average Facebook page’s posts reach an average of 16 percent of fans, many marketers (as well as Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban and actor George Takei) have been quite unhappy with the social network, feeling that they’re being pinched for advertising. But what if there was a way for Facebook to let pages reach most of their fans, yet still make money? A writer for The Next Web came up with some ideas that Facebook could use to gain some revenue while getting back into the good graces of those who manage pages.
Facebook’s news feed algorithm (which many people call EdgeRank) tries to make it so that fans mainly see the posts with which they’d be more likely to engage.
However, as pages’ reaches sometimes dipped below 15 percent, page managers became quite angry at Facebook, feeling that they had built up solid fan bases...
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