Suggesting to Friends: Part 2 of Facebooking for Conservative Activists

This blog is the second installment in the series “Facebooking for Activists.” To apply the tips in this blog effectively, read Part 1 of the series, “Using Facebook Lists.”

Suggest to Friends is an ideal set up for word-of-mouth marketing in Facebook. For activists who may be reluctant to frequently bombard their friends with status updates and Facebook messages, the “Suggest to Friends” function is the perfect solution.

Many Facebook Page administrators will ask you to help them spread the word about the Page by “suggesting it to your friends.” This is a really important tool on Facebook that allows you to easily invite new fans to your favorite pages with a few simple clicks.

My ideal day as a Facebook Page administrator would be for each of my Page’s fans to suggest the Page to each of their Facebook friends. Imagine how many people you could reach! I realize this won’t happen, but I would like to walk you through the “Suggest to Friends” process in hopes you’ll opt to share quality conservative Pages with your friends and family more often than not.

Suggest to Friends

To begin, go to your favorite Facebook Page, look at the options located just under the profile picture, and click “Suggest to Friends.”

The box that pops up when you click “Suggest to Friends” contains all of your friends and in order to suggest the Page to your friends, you have to individually click on their names. This is time-consuming and I’m positive it’s the reason more of you aren’t suggesting! Luckily, the lists you created after reading “Using Facebook Lists” will make this process much, much easier!

Click “Filter Friends” and select the list you want to use from the drop down box. For this example, I am using a list I created called “ConservativeNC Politics.”

Once you have filtered the friend selection by your list, Facebook will allow you to “Select All” to suggest the page to all the friends in that list. If you still want to narrow your friends from here, go through and handpick them individually.

Click “Send Invitation” and you’re done!

Suggesting Facebook Pages to your friends is the fastest and easiest way to spread the message about new candidates or nonprofits. The conservative causes you support on Facebook are depending on you to help them get their message out.

Use Facebook lists to make that process easier and start suggesting today! If you’d like a practice round, feel free to suggest Majority Connections to all your friends!