{"id":3910,"date":"2016-08-22T11:44:34","date_gmt":"2016-08-22T09:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=3910"},"modified":"2016-08-22T11:44:34","modified_gmt":"2016-08-22T09:44:34","slug":"growing-our-audience-on-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=3910","title":{"rendered":"Growing our audience on Facebook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LabourStart has had both a Page and Group on Facebook in English for several years, and has groups, pages and other accounts in other languages as well. \u00a0But growth to the English page, which we use to promote both top stories and our campaigns, has stalled recently.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3911\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3911\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3911\" src=\"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Screen-Shot-2016-08-22-at-10-300x193.png\" alt=\"Our English global page on Facebook - picking up nearly 2 new followers per hour.\" width=\"300\" height=\"193\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Screen-Shot-2016-08-22-at-10-300x193.png 300w, https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Screen-Shot-2016-08-22-at-10.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3911\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Our English global page on Facebook &#8211; picking up nearly 2 new followers per hour.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A year ago, we had <strong>10,078<\/strong> followers of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/labourstart.org\/\">our main Facebook page in English<\/a>; by the end of last week, that had risen to just <strong>10,689<\/strong> &#8212; a gain of only <strong>611<\/strong> new people in a whole year, or less than two per day.<\/p>\n<p>I took two steps to increase our audience on Facebook which has resulted in significant gains for us.<\/p>\n<p>First, I invited <strong>225<\/strong> of my Facebook friends to like LabourStart&#8217;s page.<\/p>\n<p>And second, I purchased an inexpensive Facebook ad to promote the page.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, we&#8217;re up to <strong>10,828<\/strong>, a gain of <strong>139<\/strong> in just 3 days, or an average of <strong>46<\/strong> new followers per day.<\/p>\n<p><strong>You can help by inviting all of your Friends to like our Facebook page &#8212; do this from our page at<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/labourstart.org\/\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/labourstart.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LabourStart has had both a Page and Group on Facebook in English for several years, and has groups, pages and other accounts in other languages as well. \u00a0But growth to the English page, which we use to promote both top stories and our campaigns, has stalled recently. A year ago, we had 10,078 followers of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[33],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3910"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3910"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3912,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3910\/revisions\/3912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}