Useful Facebook Apps for Your Business Page

With more than 900 million users to date, Facebook has branched out from offering personal accounts to providing businesses, organizations and brands with various marketing options. You can now create pages for local businesses, companies, brands, celebrities or causes. These applications continue to be developed to make the pages more interactive for administrators and members. Here are some apps enhance your page for a more social experience:

1. Forums for pages

If you want a discussion board where members can exchange ideas and views about certain topics, a forum is the right choice for your needs. With forums, you can add moderators, manage banned users and stay in the know about your members’ views on different subjects concerning your business. You can build and nurture lasting relationships with members and increase traffic with repeat visitors.

2. Involver RSS for pages

Publish posts easier with an RSS feed to automatically syndicate blog entries, articles, news headlines and other content. Distribute entries automatically to your Facebook page to encourage users to join in conversations.

3. Twitter app

Having a Twitter app on your Facebook page will engage more users who have their own Twitter handles. This will also enable you to widen your reach to both your followers and members in both social media sites.

4. YouTube app

If you have many videos to share to your members, get the YouTube app to share all your videos in one tab. This will make your page more organized and persuade more users to click and view every video you upload.

5. Pinterest app

Pinterest is a social media site that is rapidly gaining in popularity. Add this app to attract more people to view your pins. Users with existing Pinterest accounts can follow you on Pinterest and increase traffic coming to your sites.

6. Scribd app

Want to share documents to your fans? Scribd is especially suitable for this purpose. This app lets customers read documents posted seamlessly on your Facebook page. Integrate this app on your page to allow users to view and download documents in .pdf, .xls, .doc or .ppt formats. All users can now access and read longer content that cannot be accommodated in status and comment boxes.

7. FAQ app

FAQs serve to eliminate the need to answer the same questions over and over again. With this app, you can list down all the common questions and their corresponding answers to inform your customers about what they need to know about your business.

8. Google Maps

Make it easy for your customers to find your physical location and go to your store. With this app, you can increase the number of customers visiting to your store and availing your products and services. Google maps can also help customers look for alternative routes to easily get to your store’s location without getting lost and confused.

9. Contact Us tab

Users sometimes prefer to contact the page administrator through private means. Incorporate a ‘Contact Us’ tab to make communication with your members easier. This app will allow you to collect feedback about a particular subject or service and show customers alternative ways to convey their concerns.

10. Customize an app

Cannot find a specific app that will fit your requirements? Coordinate with Facebook to create an app customized for your use. This will help you make your page be as unique as it can be and make it stand out from the slew of other pages presently circulating in Facebook.

Apps can effectively boost your users’ experience with your page. Plan the page design well to ensure that all tabs can be seen and fully utilized for your needs.

 

Source: http://socialmediatoday.com/johnsouza/559961/10-fantastic-facebook-apps-will-improve-your-social-presence?utm_source=smt_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter