Facebook recently released a great new feature to their already robust social networking platform: Facebook Places. At this point, I would hope that all of you business owners out there have a professional Facebook page and maintain it on a regular basis. If not, start one because this new feature can be a hit for your company!

For what it’s worth, location based marketing is one of the largest trends and will most likely be here to stay – especially with businesses trying to get into industry niches. With that said, the Facebook Places feature is currently on a full head of steam after its start as a smartphone/iPad application so here are a few reasons that you should register today:

  1. Anyone can post content with regard to your place. This is great, but if nobody claims your place there is nobody there to moderate that content.
  2. Branding, branding, branding; you want to make sure that your brand stands out and delivers your message through your Facebook Place.
  3. Jump on the wagon sooner than later! We always talk about different ways to market here on IMPACT, and this is one of those ways that includes the best type of marketing – peer marketing. This means that your customers are marketing for you to their peers who are also part of your target audience…for free!

So, without further waiting, here is a quick video on how to control the settings for your Facebook Place. I look forward to hearing your comments and success stories with this location marketing!