Yesterday I had a friend ask how to get more likes on Facebook. She and her business partner have been working on their business for about a year, but their Facebook likes aren’t moving in the right direction and they use it as their main marketing source. After sharing some ideas with her I thought it would be a great article as well.

In this post I’ll share with you some of the thing that are working right now on how to get more likes on Facebook.

Fill out the About Section

Enter all the detailed information about your business in the About section. Use keywords people use to find the products or services that you offer. If you do this part right, your Facebook page can rank pretty high in local search engine results and people will find what they need with your business.

Write More Engaging Posts

Stop all the sales messages.

I looked through my friends Facebook page and all they do is share the latest sales or the latest items for purchase. It’s fine to market your business,  but you need to keep those types of posts to a minimum.

People are being sold to more and more today so they just ignore those messages and scroll right past a sale item. And they won’t like, comment or share those posts either.

Instead, engage with your fans by asking a question. Posts with questions get 100% more comments than posts that don’t.

Add Relevant Images

Another way to increase engagement is to add a post with an photo. Imaged posts get far more engagement than just links or just a text status update. A lot of people love the inspirational quote on an image so try that out for your audience.

Creating images with text on them is not difficult at all. There are several online image editing programs that let you use free or paid for images or upload your own and they give you an easy way to add your text or different backgrounds.

One of the easiest photo creation programs out there right now is Canva.

The software makes it easy for you to create a Facebook post image quickly and painlessly. They even have the default image sizes for Facebook so you can create in minutes and share it with your Facebook fans.

Use a Call to Action

Invite your fans to like, share, or comment. They are more likely to do what you asked, especially if they are feeling engaged with your content.

Be active on your page. When someone comments or likes a post, reply to them with your thoughts or just thank them for sharing. Facebook is a very social site and interactive with your fans goes a long way to growing your fanbase.

Be Consistent

Consistency is a big factor in growing your Facebook likes. As the page owner, you have several insights for your page. If your page has at least 50 likes, then you’ll see when your fans are more likely to be online, their age and gender ratio so you can start targeting your posts to their needs.

To help you with consistency, you can bulk schedule your posts for the upcoming week. Batch several together at once rather than remembering to do it everyday will help you stay consistent. When you schedule them out, make sure you’re posting 1-2 times a day and only 1-4 times a week, which gives you better engagement than posting more often.

Test Everything

Test your post frequency, the type of posts, the length of your post, etc. Just because the results were better for other Facebook pages, you’ll want to see how your fans interact with your brand. You have to be willing to try different things and see what kind of results you get.

Use Facebook Ads

Say you’re a new salon and you’re setting up shop in a local community, consider using Facebook’s new Local Awareness ad. The ad will target people who are near your business.

Cross Promote

You’re not the only one trying to grow your Facebook page. Look for other Facebook pages that can complement yours. Reach out to the page admin and offer a shout out for shout out deal. The concept is that you’ll send a shout out post on your page to the other Facebook page and they do the same thing for you.

This works best if you target Facebook pages that have about the same likes as you. Someone with 30,000 fans might not think a shout out from your page with 1,000 likes will be worth it to them.

Don’t forget to do all the “usual” stuff

• Add your Facebook link to all your printed material.
• Add a link to your Facebook page in your email signature.
• From your Facebook profile, add your Facebook page to your about section
• Invite all your friends and email contacts to like your page.
• Make it easy to link to you by creating a Facebook vanity url

Go through this list and start implementing the tasks and watch your likes on Facebook grow.

If you liked this article, Join ThemeLab on Facebook

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Yesterday I had a friend ask how to get more likes on Facebook. She and her business partner have been working on their business for about a year, but their Facebook likes aren’t moving in the right direction and they use it as their main marketing source. After sharing some ideas with her I thought it would be a great article as well.

In this post I’ll share with you some of the thing that are working right now on how to get more likes on Facebook.

Fill out the About Section

Enter all the detailed information about your business in the About section. Use keywords people use to find the products or services that you offer. If you do this part right, your Facebook page can rank pretty high in local search engine results and people will find what they need with your business.

Write More Engaging Posts

Stop all the sales messages.

I looked through my friends Facebook page and all they do is share the latest sales or the latest items for purchase. It’s fine to market your business,  but you need to keep those types of posts to a minimum.

People are being sold to more and more today so they just ignore those messages and scroll right past a sale item. And they won’t like, comment or share those posts either.

Instead, engage with your fans by asking a question. Posts with questions get 100% more comments than posts that don’t.

Add Relevant Images

Another way to increase engagement is to add a post with an photo. Imaged posts get far more engagement than just links or just a text status update. A lot of people love the inspirational quote on an image so try that out for your audience.

Creating images with text on them is not difficult at all. There are several online image editing programs that let you use free or paid for images or upload your own and they give you an easy way to add your text or different backgrounds.

One of the easiest photo creation programs out there right now is Canva.

The software makes it easy for you to create a Facebook post image quickly and painlessly. They even have the default image sizes for Facebook so you can create in minutes and share it with your Facebook fans.

Use a Call to Action

Invite your fans to like, share, or comment. They are more likely to do what you asked, especially if they are feeling engaged with your content.

Be active on your page. When someone comments or likes a post, reply to them with your thoughts or just thank them for sharing. Facebook is a very social site and interactive with your fans goes a long way to growing your fanbase.

Be Consistent

Consistency is a big factor in growing your Facebook likes. As the page owner, you have several insights for your page. If your page has at least 50 likes, then you’ll see when your fans are more likely to be online, their age and gender ratio so you can start targeting your posts to their needs.

To help you with consistency, you can bulk schedule your posts for the upcoming week. Batch several together at once rather than remembering to do it everyday will help you stay consistent. When you schedule them out, make sure you’re posting 1-2 times a day and only 1-4 times a week, which gives you better engagement than posting more often.

Test Everything

Test your post frequency, the type of posts, the length of your post, etc. Just because the results were better for other Facebook pages, you’ll want to see how your fans interact with your brand. You have to be willing to try different things and see what kind of results you get.

Use Facebook Ads

Say you’re a new salon and you’re setting up shop in a local community, consider using Facebook’s new Local Awareness ad. The ad will target people who are near your business.

Cross Promote

You’re not the only one trying to grow your Facebook page. Look for other Facebook pages that can complement yours. Reach out to the page admin and offer a shout out for shout out deal. The concept is that you’ll send a shout out post on your page to the other Facebook page and they do the same thing for you.

This works best if you target Facebook pages that have about the same likes as you. Someone with 30,000 fans might not think a shout out from your page with 1,000 likes will be worth it to them.

Don’t forget to do all the “usual” stuff

• Add your Facebook link to all your printed material.
• Add a link to your Facebook page in your email signature.
• From your Facebook profile, add your Facebook page to your about section
• Invite all your friends and email contacts to like your page.
• Make it easy to link to you by creating a Facebook vanity url

Go through this list and start implementing the tasks and watch your likes on Facebook grow.

If you liked this article, Join ThemeLab on Facebook

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Yesterday I had a friend ask how to get more likes on Facebook. She and her business partner have been working on their business for about a year, but their Facebook likes aren’t moving in the right direction and they use it as their main marketing source. After sharing some ideas with her I thought it would be a great article as well.

In this post I’ll share with you some of the thing that are working right now on how to get more likes on Facebook.

Fill out the About Section

Enter all the detailed information about your business in the About section. Use keywords people use to find the products or services that you offer. If you do this part right, your Facebook page can rank pretty high in local search engine results and people will find what they need with your business.

Write More Engaging Posts

Stop all the sales messages.

I looked through my friends Facebook page and all they do is share the latest sales or the latest items for purchase. It’s fine to market your business,  but you need to keep those types of posts to a minimum.

People are being sold to more and more today so they just ignore those messages and scroll right past a sale item. And they won’t like, comment or share those posts either.

Instead, engage with your fans by asking a question. Posts with questions get 100% more comments than posts that don’t.

Add Relevant Images

Another way to increase engagement is to add a post with an photo. Imaged posts get far more engagement than just links or just a text status update. A lot of people love the inspirational quote on an image so try that out for your audience.

Creating images with text on them is not difficult at all. There are several online image editing programs that let you use free or paid for images or upload your own and they give you an easy way to add your text or different backgrounds.

One of the easiest photo creation programs out there right now is Canva.

The software makes it easy for you to create a Facebook post image quickly and painlessly. They even have the default image sizes for Facebook so you can create in minutes and share it with your Facebook fans.

Use a Call to Action

Invite your fans to like, share, or comment. They are more likely to do what you asked, especially if they are feeling engaged with your content.

Be active on your page. When someone comments or likes a post, reply to them with your thoughts or just thank them for sharing. Facebook is a very social site and interactive with your fans goes a long way to growing your fanbase.

Be Consistent

Consistency is a big factor in growing your Facebook likes. As the page owner, you have several insights for your page. If your page has at least 50 likes, then you’ll see when your fans are more likely to be online, their age and gender ratio so you can start targeting your posts to their needs.

To help you with consistency, you can bulk schedule your posts for the upcoming week. Batch several together at once rather than remembering to do it everyday will help you stay consistent. When you schedule them out, make sure you’re posting 1-2 times a day and only 1-4 times a week, which gives you better engagement than posting more often.

Test Everything

Test your post frequency, the type of posts, the length of your post, etc. Just because the results were better for other Facebook pages, you’ll want to see how your fans interact with your brand. You have to be willing to try different things and see what kind of results you get.

Use Facebook Ads

Say you’re a new salon and you’re setting up shop in a local community, consider using Facebook’s new Local Awareness ad. The ad will target people who are near your business.

Cross Promote

You’re not the only one trying to grow your Facebook page. Look for other Facebook pages that can complement yours. Reach out to the page admin and offer a shout out for shout out deal. The concept is that you’ll send a shout out post on your page to the other Facebook page and they do the same thing for you.

This works best if you target Facebook pages that have about the same likes as you. Someone with 30,000 fans might not think a shout out from your page with 1,000 likes will be worth it to them.

Don’t forget to do all the “usual” stuff

• Add your Facebook link to all your printed material.
• Add a link to your Facebook page in your email signature.
• From your Facebook profile, add your Facebook page to your about section
• Invite all your friends and email contacts to like your page.
• Make it easy to link to you by creating a Facebook vanity url

Go through this list and start implementing the tasks and watch your likes on Facebook grow.

If you liked this article, Join ThemeLab on Facebook

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You’ve setup your dental practice in your city and now you’re looking for a dental WordPress theme to get online so people can find you when they search for a dentist in their area. Follow these five steps to can get your dental practice online quickly and painlessly in no time.

1. Setup Hosting

First, you’ll need to setup web hosting for your website. A web hosting company takes care of setting up the servers where all your website files and images are stored. You can choose from several different hosting providers out there. We have also partnered with several providers who do a great job hosting WordPress sites.

2. Pick a Domain Name

If you don’t already have a domain name, now is the time to get one. You want to stick to shorter names that are related to your dentistry practice if you can. It can be difficult to get a domain name since many of the common worded domains are already taken, but just keep playing with the spelling to find one that works for you.

To get your domain, you have to go through a registrar like Godaddy or Network Solutions. This service is a yearly fee that ranges between $7-35/year. Since you’re setting up your practice for the long haul, we recommend that register your domain for multiple years.

3. Install WordPress

After you get your hosting provider you need to install WordPress on your site. This can be a quick process, but if you are a beginner with WordPress, it can still be a little confusing to do. We’ve made this process easy though.

In fact, if you want to get setup quickly and without any headaches, we’ll provide you with Free WordPress setup when you buy our Bite dental WordPress theme and after you choose from one of the providers on that list. Setup your hosting plan with them and then email us the information and we’ll do all the hard work for you.

4. Setup Your Theme

After purchasing the Bite dental WordPress theme, just follow the documentation to get your site looking professional and exactly how you want it. With a few clicks you can add things like your logo, setup your site color, and contact information. Then you can add all your pages for your website, including your services, about, and contact page.

5. Add Your Content

Now your dental WordPress theme is starting to take shape, you need to add information to your pages. Include all the services your dental practice offers on your services page. Setup your contact page with your phone number, a contact form, and a map to your dentistry and how to get there. Don’t worry, the map adding the map is easy with the Bite theme. Use the About page to set you and your staff apart by sharing your medical credentials.

Add all the current testimonials you’ve received from your current patients under the Testimonials section. When you do that, they can be shown throughout your site to give new visitors an idea of how great your practice is.

After you setup all the pages, consider creating a blog where you can share monthly or weekly updates about the dentistry field. Use commonly asked questions as a source to talk about things. This will help you rank high in the search engines and it will help you answer questions to prospective patients and prove your expertise in dentistry.

Following the above 5 steps will quickly take you from no site for your dentistry practice to a beautiful, mobile responsive website that will attract new patients and grow your business.

I hope this article helped you get your dental WordPress theme up and running quickly.

For more ThemeLab news and updates, join us on Twitter or Google+.

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You’ve setup your dental practice in your city and now you’re looking for a dental WordPress theme to get online so people can find you when they search for a dentist in their area. Follow these five steps to can get your dental practice online quickly and painlessly in no time.

1. Setup Hosting

First, you’ll need to setup web hosting for your website. A web hosting company takes care of setting up the servers where all your website files and images are stored. You can choose from several different hosting providers out there. We have also partnered with several providers who do a great job hosting WordPress sites.

2. Pick a Domain Name

If you don’t already have a domain name, now is the time to get one. You want to stick to shorter names that are related to your dentistry practice if you can. It can be difficult to get a domain name since many of the common worded domains are already taken, but just keep playing with the spelling to find one that works for you.

To get your domain, you have to go through a registrar like Godaddy or Network Solutions. This service is a yearly fee that ranges between $7-35/year. Since you’re setting up your practice for the long haul, we recommend that register your domain for multiple years.

3. Install WordPress

After you get your hosting provider you need to install WordPress on your site. This can be a quick process, but if you are a beginner with WordPress, it can still be a little confusing to do. We’ve made this process easy though.

In fact, if you want to get setup quickly and without any headaches, we’ll provide you with Free WordPress setup when you buy our Bite dental WordPress theme and after you choose from one of the providers on that list. Setup your hosting plan with them and then email us the information and we’ll do all the hard work for you.

4. Setup Your Theme

After purchasing the Bite dental WordPress theme, just follow the documentation to get your site looking professional and exactly how you want it. With a few clicks you can add things like your logo, setup your site color, and contact information. Then you can add all your pages for your website, including your services, about, and contact page.

5. Add Your Content

Now your dental WordPress theme is starting to take shape, you need to add information to your pages. Include all the services your dental practice offers on your services page. Setup your contact page with your phone number, a contact form, and a map to your dentistry and how to get there. Don’t worry, the map adding the map is easy with the Bite theme. Use the About page to set you and your staff apart by sharing your medical credentials.

Add all the current testimonials you’ve received from your current patients under the Testimonials section. When you do that, they can be shown throughout your site to give new visitors an idea of how great your practice is.

After you setup all the pages, consider creating a blog where you can share monthly or weekly updates about the dentistry field. Use commonly asked questions as a source to talk about things. This will help you rank high in the search engines and it will help you answer questions to prospective patients and prove your expertise in dentistry.

Following the above 5 steps will quickly take you from no site for your dentistry practice to a beautiful, mobile responsive website that will attract new patients and grow your business.

I hope this article helped you get your dental WordPress theme up and running quickly.

For more ThemeLab news and updates, join us on Twitter or Google+.

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