How is your business represented on Facebook?

I recently read an article that stated Saskatchewan residents love Facebook.  That means that your clients and customers are watching their Facebook feeds daily.  Studies show that Facebook’s most active usage is between 9am –5pm.

How is your business represented on Facebook?

Your business needs to be represented as a “page” on Facebook, this makes it so that you can promote your business or organization to the millions of users on Facebook and they can share your page and posts with others.  Which is free advertising for you. 

Here are a few things to keep in mind with your Facebook page:

• Status updates are important but do not overwhelm, max 2-3 a day
• Show the people that “like” your page the benefits of your business.
• Users are more likely to engage with businesses if they post pictures.
• Photos included in your status updates generate 53% more likes than the average post.
• Check your spelling before you post.
• Mentions others with @, interaction helps get you more traffic and attention.
• If you are positive on Facebook people spend twice as much money with your business.

If you think you don’t have time to keep updating Facebook -- you are wrong.

In the picture above you can see a really useful feature of having a Facebook page.  You can schedule your posts.  You can write as many status updates as you want and schedule them throughout the week or month.  In 10 minutes you can write your updates for the entire week.  Everyone can find 10 minutes once a week to update their page.

Facebook is used to keep your business name in the minds of your customers, your website is where they go for more information.  If you do not have a website you can easily create one with Weebly.  Our Samuel Mcleod Business Awards website was just created using the program and I am very impressed with how easy it is to use and all of the features.  If you do not have a website or you are looking to update your current website take a moment to check out Weebly.

Keep checking our blog for more Business Tips and Tricks!

Carolyn- Communications Coordinator

Small Business Week 2013

We are excited to be apart of the Chief Economist’s tour through Canada during Small Business Week.  Be sure to register for this event today!

2013 September Luncheon

Strong Chamber Strong Community

As most may know, the Prince Albert & District Chamber of Commerce is the largest business based organization in our region.  We are a membership based organization, independent of all levels of government.   We strive to be the Voice of Business, to serve, protect and promote our members.  We offer advocacy, advertising, networking, marketing and information to our members, as well as other products and services, such as access to Chamber group benefits.

What some may not be aware of is, that the Prince Albert & District Chamber of Commerce also looks to become educated and engaged on many other sectors that can greatly affect not only the business community, but our community as a whole.  These sectors include; Health, Education, Labour force, and polices, bylaws or Acts that stem from National, Provincial and Municipal governments. Our engagement and collaboration on these areas helps us to build not only a strong chamber, but a strong Community.

We have a strong interest in engaging our members, to ensure we understand current business concerns, Community needs, as well as to look to assist in identifying regional priorities, so we can assist in growing a healthy vibrant community & region.  The chamber is a network, which operates on several levels; locally we look to support our members and assist in creating opportunities for networking, marketing, advocacy and more.  Provincially, we work with the Saskatchewan Chamber of Commerce to engage on matters that are relevant to not only our community but our province as well.  Nationally, we work with the Canadian Chamber of Commerce on matters that affect Canada, IE. The current labour shortages across Canada, as well as use our chamber networks to pursue policy changes at the national level.

I encourage everyone to get involved with the Chamber, if you are not familiar with the Chamber, then I encourage you to contact us to see how we may be able to assist your business or how some of our current initiatives may  align with your current interests.