Involver’s Founder Reveals How The Smartest Brands Use Facebook – with Rahim Fazal
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I asked Rahim Fazal to teach the business side of using Facebook because his company, Involver, has helped brands like American Apparel, Us Weekly and Puma grow their businesses using social media.
Here’s an example of what they’ve done. “We started working with Us Weekly, the popular gossip magazine, in April 2009,” he said in this program. “And they used the Involver product, and its suite of applications, to grow their Facebook Fan Page in about six months, from 2,700 fans to over 250,000.”
Why does growing fans even matter to a business? And more importantly, how can you go from building your business’s fan-base to monetizing? Those are the two big questions that this program answers. Along the way, you’ll get to know the entrepreneur who co-founded Involver, a guy who negotiated the sale of his first company for $1.5 million while taking his senior year final exams.
Rahim Fazal, is CEO and Co-Founder of Involver, the fastest growing social media platforms for brands. He is a three-time entrepreneur. While still in high school, Rahim co-founded a web-hosting company and negotiated its sale for $1.5 million while taking his Senior Year final exams. He then started a web services platform business and eventually took it public, becoming one of the youngest directors ever of a publicly traded company in the United States.
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