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5 Essential Apps for Your Business's Facebook Fan Page

5 Essential Apps for Your Business's Facebook Fan Page
This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business. If you've already searched for some Fan Page inspiration and undertaken the task of building a custom landing page for your business's Facebook presence, you may now be in the market for some features that will further engage your fans. A nice feature of the modern social web is that it's modular. You can plug in and customize pre-made pieces of software (often created by other users or companies), and mix and match what works best for you without a lot of technical know-how. Facebook works the same way with apps. Many Facebook apps are built for casual use, like the social games and quizzes you may see your friends using in their personal feeds. 1. We've already discussed how the Static FBML app can be used to make your Fan Page a unique destination. 2. 3. 4. Sometimes you just need a little feedback. 5.

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5 Links to Boost Your Facebook Marketing Leverage These days, it seems like everyone from celebrities to small businesses has a Facebook page. If you’re going to market on Facebook, though, it pays to spend the time working out a solid strategy. Otherwise, you’re just wasting your time and shooting status updates into a black hole. Sure, you could always automate your Facebook page, but giving it that personal interaction and paying attention to your users will often give you a higher ROI.

HOW TO: Get the Most Out of Your Business Facebook Page Susan Payton is the President of Egg Marketing & Public Relations, an Internet marketing firm. She blogs at The Marketing Eggspert Blog. Follow her on Twitter @eggmarketing. So you paid attention to what everyone is saying and you created a Facebook Page for your business. 3 Simple Ways to Rapidly Create Custom Facebook Landing Tabs Unless you can get people to click your “Like” button, your Facebook strategy will be as limp and lifeless as Matt LeBlanc’s post-Friends career. That’s because the vast majority of consumer Facebook interactions don’t occur on your fan page, but rather in the newsfeeds of your fans. In fact, research from Jeff Widman of Facebook fan page consultancy BrandGlue (and a presenter at Facebook Success Summit) estimates that 199 out of every 200 interactions (99.5%) come from the user’s wall (or newsfeeds). This means that almost nobody is coming back to your fan page after they visit it the first time. Think about your own behavior on Facebook.

How to Design and Program a Facebook Landing Page Jun 21 2011 We all know that Facebook provides a great opportunity for organizations to connect with their target audience and interact with their clients. To do this more effectively, organizations are creating custom Facebook pages to differentiate themselves and represent their brands on Facebook. But how does one go about creating one? How exactly should one be designed and what are these iFrames that are used?

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10 First-Class Photoshop Related Facebook Fan Pages Facebook drives a large amount of web traffic though its site, it is like a parallel Web with about 700 million users. Most successful sites are rushing to open a Facebook Fan page and try to capture new readers. Why? Well, let’s say that a single update can potentially reach thousands and thousands of readers. And on the readers’ side, this is quite convenient. You just become a Fan of a certain page or pages and let the updates flow into your Facebook News Feed. Facebook Page Or Group: Which Should You Use? This is an updated version of our previous post on Facebook groups vs pages. Over the past couple years the Facebook Pages and Groups products have moved closer together, forcing marketers to ask themselves: which one should they use? After writing a complete guide to Facebook Pages, we thought it would be useful to highlight the core differences between Facebook Pages and Facebook Groups. If you had any lingering questions, this guide should completely clear things up for you! If you don’t know what Facebook groups are, there’s a good chance you haven’t spent more than an hour on Facebook.

7 Facebook Tip For Photographers With the rapid grows of social media and networking, every professional Photographer must inevitably build one’s business through Facebook. Be sure, Facebook is an amazing way to connect with targeted audience and deliver called-for services and products to them directly. It’s kind of a business, where you can do right things in a right place. Image by CoffeeGeek 1. Create a fan page rather than group. 50 Best Remarkable Icon Sets From 2010 A well designed remarkable collection of carefully hand picked best icon sets created in 2010. If your looking for the best icons sets which are fresh new sets which have all be well designed and worth checking out . A great resource for bookmarking for future reference.

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