Josh Rhodes and the whole team at Big Lead Gen Inc. know what it takes to generate leads for real estate agents. They’ve spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on Facebook advertising! With their university training program, customers learn their advertising recipes and strategies. They taught us about why Facebook advertising works and we wanted to share this valuable info with our readers!
Based on this data, a Facebook Page with around 20,000 fans could expect fewer than 1,200 people to see its posts, and a page with 2 million fans would, on average, reach only 40,000 fans.
On average, there are 1,500 stories that could appear in a person’s News Feed each time they log onto Facebook. For people with lots of friends and Page likes, as many as 15,000 potential stories could appear any time they log on.
Advances in smartphone technology means we can now create and share this content with just a few swipes of the finger or taps on a screen. More and more of our friends and favorite brands are also active on the platform, meaning competition for attention is higher.
The second reason for the decline in organic reach on Facebook is how the News Feed works. Facebook’s number one priority is to keep its 1.5 billion users happy, and the best way to do that is by showing only the most relevant content in their News Feeds.
Of the 1,500+ stories a person might see whenever they log onto Facebook, News Feed displays approximately 300.
To choose which stories to show, News Feed ranks each possible story (from more to less important) by looking at thousands of factors relative to each person. To a realtor, this may feel like a negative, but it’s actually a good thing, because what we’re left with now is a far more powerful marketing tool than we had when reach was free.
