Is it Time for Content Marketers to
Abandon Facebook?

Is it Time for Content Marketers to <br />Abandon Facebook?

If you spend time on Facebook, you’ve seen a great weeping and gnashing of teeth as Pages realize that they’re only reaching a tiny sliver of their audiences with each post.Facebook’s noisy, overvalued IPO means they need a better revenue model. Page owners are being strong-armed encouraged to pay to “Promote” posts to get a wider reach to the audiences they built in the first place.For a business with a really large Facebook audience, this can run into tens of thousands of dollars a year. This phenomenon isn’t as new as people think it is. Pages never reached 100% of their subscribers. But a recent algorithm update does appear to be making things

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  1. Chris Garrett

    170.0 days ago

    RT @copyblogger: Is it Time for Content Marketers to Abandon Facebook? http://t.co/sHsRzCNW

  2. Missy Ward

    170.0 days ago

    Is it Time for Content Marketers to Abandon Facebook? http://t.co/HMRpC7we via @copyblogger

  3. Amber Naslund

    170.0 days ago

    This this this, a thousand times, this. http://t.co/B7wo0VLV

  4. Brian Clark

    170.0 days ago

    Is it Time for Content Marketers to Abandon Facebook? http://t.co/OQmC37fQ

  5. Brian DeKoning

    170.0 days ago

    Is It Time for Content Marketers to Abandon Facebook? | Copyblogger - http://t.co/h798T3oa

  6. Pamela Slim

    170.0 days ago

    Is it time for content marketers to abandon Facebook? http://t.co/eZZzGf3O @copyblogger says not so fast

  7. Lauren Vargas

    170.0 days ago

    A gazillion. RT @ambercadabra: This this this, a thousand times, this. http://t.co/cRKgvENS

  8. Laura Click

    170.0 days ago

    Should you abandon Facebook? @SoniaSimone says no, but gives you 3 things to keep in mind: http://t.co/CnQJtsY9

  9. Community Roundtable

    170.0 days ago

    Great article on using your own community platform vs. one like Facebook: http://t.co/E7RCEmWN via @vargasl @AmberCadabra #cmgr #socbiz

  10. VerticalResponse

    170.0 days ago

    Is it Time for Content Marketers to Abandon Facebook? via @soniasimone of @copyblogger http://t.co/n5ItAVFY

  11. TXWriter

    170.0 days ago

    Interesting... Is it Time for Content Marketers to Abandon Facebook? http://t.co/CCemIpU9 via @copyblogger



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