Facebook groups with over 1 million members. Biggest groups on Facebook. Top 100 largest groups with 1 million members in the US to help you your campaign

Facebook groups with over 1 million members

Facebook groups with over 1 million members.

When you don’t have a budget to afford a social media automation tool that will shoot your marketing off the roof in days, then the biggest groups on Facebook become the next option. It may be hard scrolling through to choose from the top 100 largest groups on Facebook. That’s why I put together a list of over 1 million members in the US and other countries to help you with your campaign.

For those looking to find the next great app or campaign idea on Facebook, turning to what Facebook users are already doing on the site with the basic tools Facebook provides can often be instructive. So, what can we learn from the 25 Facebook Groups that have reached at least 1 million members?

    • Facebook users love to be a part of a group that’s about breaking records. Two of the largest groups on Facebook, including the largest at over 5.8 million members, are simply about forming the largest Facebook Group, and nothing more.
    • Facebook users love genealogy. Groups based on “social experiments” to see who’s related are very popular – much like some of the largest Facebook applications.
    • Facebook users love to use Facebook Groups to protest Facebook. Ironically, whenever there’s a big change on the site, most users use the site itself to protest the site, presumably because it offers the
      best functionality for building a movement.
    • Facebook Groups can be effectively used to promote causes.
    • Brands can subtly use Facebook groups for promotion. For example, Portaflores.com and Tramp Magazine both have groups with more than 1 million people. Users have also started Facebook Groups either supporting (1,000,000 Strong for Stephen T Colbert) or “against” (I Don’t care How Comfortable Crocs Are, You Look Like A Dumbass) brands, too.

With the new Facebook redesign, Facebook Groups don’t have nearly as much visibility on the home page stream. This could be a great time for creative marketers to borrow some best practices for their campaigns.
So, without further ado…

The 25 Facebook Groups with Over 1 Million Members

1. Let’s break a Guinness Record! 2010! The Largest Group on Facebook! (5,894,904 members)

2. Six Degrees Of Separation – The Experiment (4,437,060 members)

3. Feed a Child with just a Click! (4,206,122 members)

4. We Will Not Pay To Use Facebook. We Are Gone If This Happens (4,163,024 members)

5. Facebook Developers (3,352,805 members)

6. Let’s set and break a Guiness Record!!!! Approved by guinnessworldrecords.c (2,730,202 members)

7. MILLIONS AGAINST FACEBOOK’s NEW LAYOUT & TERMS OF SERVICE (2,671,766 members)

8. 2.4 MILLION STRONG GROUP FOR GENERAL DISCUSSION. INVITE ALL! (2,477,345 members)

9. We Will Not Pay To Use Facebook. We Are Gone If This Happens ►► INVITE ALL!(2,198,890 members)

10. Can We Get All Facebook Users in one group ???? by Danilo Mastrantoni (2,028,955 members)

11. If you remember this you grew up in the 90′s … ->hahagreat.com (1,911,224 members)

12. ENCUENTRA A TU DOBLE EN FACEBOOK… ¡GRATIS! (1,909,917 members)

13. Petition Against the “New Facebook” (1,744,735 members)

14. We Hate The New Facebook, so STOP CHANGING IT!!! (1,591,344 members)

15. I Dont care How Comfortable Crocs Are, You Look Like A Dumbass. ->fan FHS (1,456,757 members)

16. COMO PONER EL FACEBOOK DE ANTES (APLICACION) (1,392,429 members)

17. L’ ALBERO GENEALOGICO (1,366,747 members)

18. Ultimate Social Experiment™ (1,359,792 members)

19. ÁRBOL GENEALÓGICO MUNDIAL (1,299,463 members)

20. The Largest Facebook Group Ever (1,287,632 members)

21. I Want To Punch Slow Walking People In The Back Of The Head (1,281,507 members)

22. I Love to party – Let’s find 10,000,000 people strong! (1,250,993 members)

23. 1,000,000 Strong For Stephen T Colbert (1,194,635 members)

24. SI VAS A REGALARME FLORES, QUE SEAN DE PORTAFLORES.COM (1,125,103 members)

25. I bet I can still find 1,000,000 people who dislike George Bush! (1,000,318 members)

How to Grow a Facebook Group From Zero to 1 million Members Fast

Facebook groups with over 1 million members in the US largest to join

Over the past few years, Facebook has been steadily reducing organic reach. Which means businesses now reach far fewer people for free, when they post something on their Facebook Page.

Facebook’s reason for doing this is obvious. By reducing organic reach, they encourage businesses to advertise. This strategy has been very effective and there are reportedly now more than 6 million active Facebook advertisers.

However, organic reach has not disappeared completely. You can still consistently reach people on Facebook without having to pay, with a Facebook Group.

I’m not advocating that you spam lots of Facebook Groups with links to your website. That is a waste of time and quite frankly annoying. Instead, you should create your own Facebook Group.

By creating a Facebook Group and getting people within your target market to become members, you can market to those people on a regular basis without having to pay. And the big difference between a Facebook Group and a Facebook Page is that members of your Group will actually see your posts – which is a big deal!

So how do you convince people to join your Facebook Group? This article will show you exactly how to generate 1,000+ Facebook Group members quickly.

For the purposes of this article, I have focused on growing a Facebook Group as opposed to creating one. If you haven’t already created a Facebook Group, here’s Facebook’s support documentation on how to do that.

1. Link your Facebook Group to your Facebook Page

You can generate members by directly advertising your Facebook Group. But I have found that’s expensive and ineffective.

Instead, you should link your Facebook Page to your Group. Doing so is straightforward and you can click here for Facebook’s instructions.

2. Invite your Page Likes to join your Facebook Group

Once your Page and Group are linked, you can invite people that like your Page to join your Group:

Invite Your Pages likes to Join Your Facebook group for grow Facebook Group

If you’ve been active on Facebook for a while, it’s likely that you already have a number of Page likes.

Inviting those people to join your Group is very effective. I consistently see 50%+ of the people invited, accept the invitation to join.

It should be noted that Facebook won’t let you invite everyone at once. You have to invite each person manually and Facebook seems to limit you to around 50 invites per day. But if you have thousands of Page likes it won’t take very long to reach the 1,000-member mark in your Group.

However, not everyone reading this will have thousands of Facebook Page likes and some will have brand new Pages.

If that’s the case, you can advertise your Page to generate likes and then invite those people to join your Group. I have found this is much more effective than advertising your Group directly.

3. Create a Facebook Page likes campaign

Head into Facebook’s Ads Manager and click on the green Create button. That will bring up a window that looks like this:

Create a Facebook Page Likes Campaign to grow facebook group

Here you need to give your campaign a name and select the Page likes campaign objective as you can see above.

Selecting the right campaign objective when you create a Facebook ad campaign is very important as Facebook will optimize that campaign to meet your objective.

Then give your ad set and ad a name, and click Save to Draft at the bottom of the page.

4. Set your targeting criteria

Now it’s time to set your Facebook targeting for your new campaign. Navigate to the ad set level and scroll down to the Audience section:

Set Your Targeting Criteria to grow facebook group

When looking to generate new Page likes it’s very unlikely that you’re going to advertise to warm audiences. Therefore, you can ignore the Custom Audiences section.

Start by adding the Locations you would like to target. I would recommend making this as large as possible. But, bear in mind that it should be within your area of operation as a business.

After all, there is little point building a Facebook Group that is full of people that can’t become customers of yours.

Then set your Age and Gender parameters. Again, I would recommend leaving this as open as possible. Page like campaigns work best with large target audiences.

After that, you may want to add Detailed Targeting criteria. If you operate on a local basis, or your product/service has mass-market appeal then I wouldn’t add anything here.

However, if your product/service is quite niche then you may want to add something that is closely related to your industry.

You can leave the other settings as default. All you need to do is set your budget and then move onto the ad.

5. Create your Facebook ad

Facebook ads that are designed to generate Page likes should be very straightforward.

You simply want to include an interesting image that is related to your industry. And include a bit of information about what your company does, and why people might want to like your Page.

Here’s an example of an ad I’ve used that has performed well:

Create Your Facebook Ad like Ben Heath to grow facebook

The ad images in Page like campaigns are formatted differently to most ads as you can see above. Which means not all images will work.

The image above works well because it is interesting and colorful, which helps grab people’s attention. It also immediately lets people know what this ad is about.

Here I’ve used short and simple copy, and I’ve told people why they should like my Page. It’s very important that your copy focuses on why people should like your Page.

You may need to experiment with a few copy and ad variations to create an ad that can perform well and generate Page likes inexpensively.

6. Repeat step 2 regularly

As your Facebook ad campaign starts to generate Page likes, you obviously need to invite those people to join your Group.

The quicker you invite someone to join your Group after they have liked your Page, the more likely they are to accept the invitation.

I would recommend that you do this on a daily basis. It only takes a couple of minutes, but having hundreds or thousands of members in your Facebook Group can be well worth it.

Conclusion

Organic reach on Facebook has almost completely disappeared. One way that you can still reach people without having to pay for it, is with a Facebook Group.

Directly advertising a Facebook Group is expensive and ineffective. I’ve found that generating Page likes and then inviting those people to join your Group, is a more effective strategy.

There are 6 steps to this strategy:

  1. Link your Facebook Group to your Facebook Page
  2. Invite your Page Likes to join your Facebook Group
  3. Create a Facebook Page Likes campaign
  4. Set your targeting criteria
  5. Create your Facebook ad
  6. Repeat step 2 regularly

Let me know if you have any questions in the comments below and best of luck with it.

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