Best Practices to Avoid Facebook Jail
Getting blocked is the number one problem there is when it comes to hosting your parties online. For most of our customers, this never happens - but for some, it seems to be an ongoing problem. The good news is that since we’ve run well over a million parties, we can just look under the hood and see what’s going on!
So you have to ask yourself, why do 9 out of 10 of our customers have no problems with their online parties while 1 out of 10 has tons of problems?
In this article we are goingSome readersWhere is the best place to hold a party?
You can schedule posts to the following Facebook locations:
Groups
Events
Business Pages
Messenger Chats
While many folks have had success posting to each of these location, we consider Facebook Groups to be the best location to hold your parties.
Why?
There are a few advantages that groups have over the other locations.
Groups tend to have more of a sense of community - which can lead to higher engagement with your guests.
There is no end date attached to groups, whichFew readersWhy should I post as my business page?
With all of the upheaval and glitches in Facebook lately, we are really recommending switching your parties to business page groups. A lot of our users have made the switch and are experiencing great success in these groups so far.
A common misconception with Business Page Groups is that they are public posts that can be seen from the page but this is not true. Business Page Groups can still be set to private or secret and this is always what we recommend. Any content posted in these private buFew readersWhen is the best time to schedule my posts in my party?
Want to have better reach on your posts? Don't schedule for on the hour as that's usually when every other scheduler auto-schedules posts and FB can often be flooded.
Schedule for off the hour and you'll have much better reach!
For example - instead of you posts being set for 8am, 12pm, and 5pm, consider editing them to be a few minutes off the top of the hour. Such as 8:05, 12:05, and 5:05.
Also FB research shows us that Facebook posts get half their reach within 30 minutes of being puFew readers