Facebook News: Facebook Have Changed Their Promotion Rules

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If you need to use third party apps to run a Facebook promotion in the past, now you no longer need to use them. With the new promotion rules from Facebook, now it’s much easier for business owners to run contests, giveaways and all promotions on their Facebook Page. In their recently released statement, Facebook stated that they have removed the requirement that promotions on Facebook can only be commenced through apps. This might be a good news for any business owners who found the use of apps confusing and difficult to manage. With this new rules, it will certainly make running contests and giveaways by small business owners much easier. There is no more fear of having their Page deleted for not obeying to the Facebook Promotional Guidelines.

In the past there were very strict rules around running contests, giveaways, sweepstakes and all types of promotions. Small business owners struggled with understanding and then implementing these rules. Facebook’s move to ease restrictions around running promotions will be celebrated by many. App developers will now have to become even more creative to entice Facebook users to buy their apps. For now it’s cause for celebration particularly for the small business owner who can feel free to get creative and run giveaways, contests and promotions on Facebook by still maintaining adherence to The Page Guidelines and new Facebook Promotions Guidelines.  However, it is a wise thing to keep a check on Facebooks Page Terms before creating any competition to make sure you are still obeying their rules ad guidelines.

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