Facebook Now Has 40M Active Small Business Pages

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Facebook Now Has 40M Active Small Business Pages
by Martin Beck, Marketing Land
April 29, 2015

Facebook announces "Boost Your Business" tour and live chat support for advertisers.

Facebook continues to roll out the red carpet for small businesses. And they continue to create Facebook Pages.

Today, the social network announced that 40 million SMBs have active Facebook Pages. That?s up from the 30 million Facebook said it had last June. To support those businesses Facebook will host a series of ?Boost Your Business? events in the coming months. Facebook is also rolling out live chat support for advertisers in the United States, the United Kingdom and Ireland (with plans to add it in more countries later this year).

With both initiatives, Facebook wants to send the message that it?s committed to helping small businesses with Facebook marketing, both organic and paid. Shrinking organic reach for Page posts has been a point of frustration for many SMBs and Facebook has been nudging them with education and explanations about how people use Facebook to interact with businesses. One of the recurring messages is that creating a beachhead on Facebook is valuable even if potential customers don?t regularly see your businesses posts in their News Feed.

?Creating a presence on Facebook ? is a powerful asset in its own right,? Facebook head of small business Jonathan Czaja told TechCrunch.

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