An Evening With Facebook's Brooke Oberwetter: Making Small Business Social

On June 25, join The Vancouver Board of Trade and learn how your small businesses can leverage the world’s most popular social media network — Facebook. Brooke Oberwetter will discuss how to use Facebook effectively for business, and how the social media outlet can help small business grow and expand their customer base.

With more than one billion users worldwide, Facebook presents an enormous opportunity for businesses to reach consumers in new markets. Small businesses across Canada are already using Facebook to connect with customers and respond to their wants and needs — but is your company doing everything it can?

This presentation will guide attendees through the three key steps to small business success on Facebook — be discoverable, find customers, and build relationships — including how to apply those lessons to a mobile web strategy.

Don’t miss this opportunity to take your Facebook experience to the next level.

Event: Facebook – Making Small Business Social

Date: Tuesday, June 25, 2013

Speaker: Brooke Oberwetter – Associate Manager, Policy Communications at Facebook

Time:

Registration: 5:30 p.m.
Networking Reception: 5:30 p.m. to 6:15 p.m.
Program: 6:15 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Location: The Star Sapphire Ballroom at Fairmont Pacific Rim (1038 Canada Place)

Tickets (includes 1 drink and light refreshments):

Members – Individuals: $55 + GST
Non-members – Individuals: $110 + GST

Click here to purchase tickets.

Facebook Statistics

Also see Facebook’s 2013 Q1 Financials, released on May 1, 2013. Via DMR:

Number of Facebook users: 1.11 billion
Daily active Facebook users: 665 million, an increase of 26% year-over-year
Average time spent per Facebook visit: 20 minutes
Number of Facebook pages: 50 million
Average number of monthly posts per Facebook page: 36
Number of Facebook apps: 10 million
Average number of page likes per Facebook user: 40
Number of Facebook pages promoting posts: 500,000
Number of Facebook pages promoted posts: 2.5 million
Number of Facebook page offer claims: 42 million
Number of connections between local businesses and users: 2 billion
Average number of weekly local business views: 645 million
Average number of weekly comments on local business pages: 13 million