On the News: the Period Facebook Rant

Get Facebook likes – this is what most fan pages would want to achieve after weeks and months of setting up a business fan page. But, as online entrepreneurs know, it’s not as easy as setting the page up and filling it with impressive information, unless of course you are willing to buy Facebook likes to complement that.

However, nothing beats the attention-grabbing way this irate man expressed his disappointment on the Facebook fan page of Bodyform Maxi Pads. Where do you think he was coming from? This Richard, he complained about how the sanitary napkin brand was lying all along about the happy disposition women have while on a period using the brand. But reality hits him on the head after he experienced what it was really like to be with a woman with a period.

Below is Richard’s original post on the Bodyform Maxi Pads’ Fan Page.

The post has over 80,000 likes, which means the fan page also got attention. Half of the people find it hilarious while the other half defined it as a staged rant intended to push the brand’s publicity. Which do you think is it?

In a man’s perspective, I think it was all a ruse. A play that was rehearsed to look too real to ever be considered natural in the online advertising world. At first, I doubted that it was fake but when Bodyform created a video in response to the rant, that’s when I truly believe it is to be what it is – a promotional stunt. When you think about it, there is not much different with what they did as when businesses buy Facebook likes or Twitter followers.

Anyway, the least they can do is to offer us little brands a way to hijack their current online notoriety.

2 Ways to Hijack trending Topics

Write your two cents about the trend

What do you think about it? What is your opinion? This should be your focus when hijacking trending topics or even breaking news. All you have to do is get the facts, present them to your readers and tell them what you believe them to be. Are you in favor or are you in opposition? Once you have established that, insert keywords for both your main keyword and the keywords of the trending topic. Share it to social networks and for sure not only will you get Facebook likes but traffic to your website as well.

Write tutorials or tips and utilize name-dropping

For example, How to Steal the Show Like Romney and Increase Twitter Followers. That is a headline that says if you do it like Romney, you will grab the attention of the people as well as boost your follower count on Twitter. Doesn’t this sound familiar? Oh yeah. I’ve written about how Romney bought Twitter followers. Believe me, what I did was news jacking. This is only applicable though when the person concerned is more important than the event in which he/she was involved.

Just look around blogs and you will know what I’m talking about. Why don’t you start doing the same so you can get Facebook likes to either your post or your fan page.

 

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