Likes UP: Secret Power of Facebook Groups

Social Groups on Facebook – Give First

Beyond your personal profile and your business page with the new Timeline, there are Facebook Groups. There are all kinds of Facebook groups: open, secret, closed. Some groups you have to request an invitation to join and the group administrator must approve you.

There are three types of groups:

Secret: Only members can see the group and what members post.
Closed: Anyone can see the group. Only members see posts.
Open (public): Anyone can see the group and what members post.

Some have a a handful of people and some have thousands. Sometimes you may find yourself in a group because some added you without your knowledge. You can leave a group. Some groups have an exclusive membership relating to other activities, but most groups have a theme or concept that ties everyone together in the Facebook Group. Some activity in groups is considered addicting.

You can poll your group. Below is a poll asking if folks are addicted to the group!

Forcibly Removed from the Social Party!

More than a year ago, Mike Hill started a Facebook group called Internet Marketing Super Friends. I found out about it because I was added to the group by Mike. Yesterday on a webinar, the group was mentioned by Mike, so I’m adding the image with link. You can watch the reply of the webinar on Mike’s blog – Webinar Replay

What follows is in Mike Hill’s own words:

My intention with this Facebook group has been to help those who may not know where to turn, and to try and create a more open environment for sharing our marketing strategies and techniques.

I’ve been lucky enough to be in many mastermind groups, but I know many people who have not been able to do the same. Something interesting is happening as I continue to monitor and grow this group. We see all kinds of people coming in from different places and different mindsets. Many… in fact most, want to help, and want to give to others.

We do get the occasional person who comes in and immediately starts posting to the wall about how great they are, and how great their blog is, or how great their webinar is, but for the most part really doesn’t happen.

The reason I’m including this for you, is for you to think about social media, and obviously the 1st word in social media is “social”.

Would you consider it social if someone were to walk into a party, and the first words out of their mouth, was “how amazing they are”, “how they can help everybody at the party”, and how they would be willing to give everyone at the party “a free ticket to join them at an event where they were going to be sold”.

This person would probably be forcibly removed from the party by many drunk guys! While it may be a laugh at her party, online, it’s very different…. Yet this is the same tactic I see many people who enter into a social group, fan page, or any online social platform use.

One of the most important things to remember when dealing with Facebook, twitter, or your favorite social media site, that you must first come from the perspective of giving. One of the reasons I think that the super friends group is growing so quickly, is because as a group we mandate giving. It is a place where giving trumps everything else, and the place where selfish acts are not allowed (or at least strongly discouraged).

I once watched a video were a Rabbi was talking about giving, and how giving needed to be the new currency. How celebrity should be gauged on the amount of giving from the individual, and not based on shock value and other things that are currently manipulated by our media. I have not been able to find this video since, but it just stuck with me, and I think really his talk summarized social media.

We need to come from the point of giving in everything we do in life, only then are we rewarded with more relationships, more health, and more of everything that makes life important. Sure there can be the argument that with enough money and power you can make friends, but if you’re reading this, you’re probably not one of the people that believes in that mindset.

So if you can, ask yourself, what have I done today to give first?

What have I done to be an example of what I think the world should be like? Because honestly guys, with social media being as it is, and with you being the key influencers that you are, you really do have the ability to change things. I look forward to seeing you guys tomorrow, and making sure we can make these changes together, while setting up very profitable businesses as we help others. ~Mike Hill

Mike is a giver. He focuses on people and relationship building for business and those business relationships have turned into friendships.

Mike Hill “We are in the Relationship Business. We just happen to sell widgets while we BUILD THOSE RELATIONSHIPS.”

Mari is a giver and adds “Relationships First” under her name in her webinars.