Give Your Facebook Fan Page a Boost – Invite Feedburner Email Subscribers

Have a blog ?

Got an email list of prospects, customers , blog readers or Feedburner subscribers?

It would be a nice idea to invite your email subscribers to view and like your Facebook fan page, if they are already on Facebook – they can read your site’s content directly from Facebook.

Apart from importing contacts from your email account, the Facebook importer tool allows you to import a CSV list of email addresses and send fan page invitations via email. Here is how to do it:

1. First prepare a CSV list of email addresses to whom you will send the fan page invites. If your blog feed is syndicated via Feedburner, you can export the list of email subscribers from Feed stats > Email subscription services > Manage > Export CSV.

2. Log in to your Facebook account and go to your Facebook fan page. You will see the Facebook importer tool, as shown below:

3. Just import the CSV list of email addresses and you are done. Facebook will send an email invitation to all the specified email addresses with an link to view and like your Facebook fan page (see invitation example).

I think this is a fair practice to invite your regular readers or customers to your Facebook fan page. When sending invites, you must comply with Facebook’s terms and conditions and it’s not recommended to send mass emails or spam your subscribers inbox over and over again.

Example: Earlier today, I sent an invitation to all the unconfirmed Feedburner email subscribers. Let’s see how the conversion goes.

What about you? Have you used the Facebook importer tool or any other method to drive traffic to your Facebook fan page ? Please share your ideas in the comments.

Written by Amit Banerjee on Saturday, September 18th, 2010

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http://www.snaphow.com/ Debajyoti Das

Superb idea
http://www.jagoinvestor.com Manish

Great information

I just did this for my 2500 subscribers , expecting 100 to join atleast :)

Thanks

Manish
http://www.ampercent.com Amit Banerjee

@Manish and Debajyoti: Glad it was useful. Thanks for the comment.
Hank

I don’t see the Facebook importer tool, as shown in the image… how do I find it?
Jaimin Rajani

Even I don’t see it.
http://www.strictlyonlinebiz.com/blog/ Udegbunam Chukwudi

The import contacts function is missing. :-(
Ishmarr

Great post Amit, However I couldn’t find any link to the Importer tool you mentioned in the post. How to locate it?
Dove

Can’t see it…Is there another tool for this…Please help!!!
http://www.ampercent.com Amit Banerjee

@Dove: It seems like Facebook has removed the contacts importer.
anon

yes i cant find the importer option either. it was mentioned in the Getting Started tab when my page was new but now that tab is gone because i have a few likes.
is there any link, app etc that i can use ???
dh

i had the exact same as anon above me
created the page and saw the importer. try to use it, but it failed (oops something went wrong), so i decided to do it later. however with the disappearing of the “get started” tab the importer is also gone
TOO BAD
http://www.undergroundmarketing.co.nz Richard Adams

Hi all.
Just had the same problem with a clients page.
You can still do it. Go to ‘Edit page’ on left menu, then ‘marketing’ then ‘tell your friends’.
Then you can import your contacts as a csv file.
Well worth the effort.
http://www.strictlyonlinebiz.com/blog/ Udegbunam Chukwudi

Thanks Richard. It works. Amit you should probably find time to update the post ;-)
http://www.ampercent.com Amit Banerjee

@Udegbunam, Richard: I should mention one thing.

Facebook has changed the way Email exports are handled. The thing is that your friends are not invited to your Facebook page. Instead they are invited to join Facebook as a result of the email invitation. When they launched this contact importer, i tried it and one of m friends got an invitation to join Facebook, not become a fan of my Facebook fan page.
http://www.strictlyonlinebiz.com/blog/ Udegbunam Chukwudi

Sh*t! I hope my subscribers don get pissed @ me.
vigs

Hi
I have tried sending invitation to the people regarding fan page, it was huge list, my account about to disable and luckyly, i have got my account back, so what I have learnt here is which ever look sweet don’t taste, you may loose your account.

Thank you
Vigs
http://www.pilatesexercicios.com Pilates Exercicios

Hi Amit,recently i did the csv importation that you mention in this article, but for some reason
none of the contacts on my csv mailing list has received an invitation. Do you have any clue on
what could be happening? Has this happened to anyone? It as been over a week, and still no one received the invitation to join the page. The lista has about 600 e-mails.

thanks!
http://www.ampercent.com Amit Banerjee

I guess Facebook has now removed this feature.
http://www.paulmcleary.com Paul

It is not gone! It has just been moved I think.

1. Go to the facebook page you would like to import your contacts to.

2. Click “Edit Page” on the left of the screen.

3. Go to the “Marketing” section, again on the left.

4. Click “Tell Your Fans.” This will bring up the CSV importer.

I hope this helps everyone. I just finished my fan page if you would like to check it out. Not many fans…yet ;)

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Paul-Cleary-Design/138746096186881?v=app_4949752878&ref=sgm
http://www.ampercent.com Amit Banerjee

@Paul: Thanks for the tips, yes it seems like they have moved the email importer for Facebook fan pages but using this we didnt got any subscriber boost yet. Hard luck !
juan

I have two fan pages, for one of them (+7000 fans) this function is disabled, I mean: Marketing > Tell your fans, but for the new one (6 fans) is enabled.

There are some Facebook rules for this function?
Rei

It seems that FB changed the game for inviting fans by email for the fanpage. How can we solve this problem? However it is still possible by inviting your friends for your facebook fanpage.
Rien

We have trouble inviting fans too! We enter a .csv file like decribed above and none of the recipients are arriving the invitation. Does anyone know why?
http://www.ampercent.com webmaster

@Rien: This is because Facebook has disabled the feature to invite fans to your fan page via CSV list upload method
http://marekgrodzicki.pl Marek Grodzicki

@Rien: I have exactly the same problem (using txt file), why FB provides the solution that actually doesn’t work at all?
If non-facebook contacts can’t be notified via txt/csv mailing list then what’s the other way?
I created company profile and the owner counts on opportunity to inform current customers about facebook page even if they never used facebook before…
Jason

@webmaster: Why would facebook disable this feature? It is so valuable to businesses. I am waiting to advertise with facebook until I reach a certain number of users. Disabling this feature will definitely delay my advertising with facebook. Bad business decision on facebook’s part – all the way around.
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