Business App Resources for Facebook

This is by no means a complete list of apps or recommendations. The apps I personally use are marked with *.  This list is only as a reference to get you started on your integrated FB Page.

FYI: 10/13/10 -  It has come to my attention that Facebook will not longer allow Custom Tabs starting in November. You can still use and enjoy custom business apps. I will post more to my blog and FB page at http://www.facebook.com/gogetcreative as new information comes to light.

Social Media and Blog Apps

NetworkedBlogs * – This app shows up on your profile or in your boxes tab and displays your blog and any of the blogs you like to read. It’s a great way to promote yourself and others.

My LinkedIn Profile – Creates a badge from your LinkedIn profile that gets displayed on your Facebook profile.

Social Tweet (formerly Social Twitter) – Social Tweet enables you to tweet directly from Facebook. It updates both your Twitter and Facebook profile. It can also be displayed on your Wall, Boxes tab or a new “Tweets” tab. You can also select which tweets to be posted to your status.

YouTube Channels – Synchronize your Youtube Channel with your Facebook profile, pages or even on Application page.

Constant Contact Labs – Join My Mailing List – Helps Facebook users interested in your business or organization to join your Constant Contact contact lists.

SlideShare * – SlideShare is the world’s largest community for sharing presentations. Upload your presentations, documents, PDFs, add mp3 audio to make webinars or embed Youtube videos into them. You can also import your SlideShare.net presentations into Facebook.

Video Channel – Integrate an entire You Tube channel into your page with this powerful app. Simple content management system included.

Notes (Default App) – Default App found on the right side of your profile. Add your RSS feed and view your friends’ feeds. When your blog updates it shows the article in your feed.

Social RSS * – This one can be in either a box on your profile or even better, its own tab on your profile.

RSS Graffiti – RSS Graffiti allows you to publish multiple RSS/ATOM feeds on your Facebook profile’s & pages’ walls and automatically pushes them to the news-feeds (Facebook homepage) of your Facebook friends & fans.

Business/Self Promotion

GLPrintBusinessCards – A flashier business card; gives you options to create your digital business card.

IEndorse – Testimonials are a great way to build the value of your company. This app allows Facebook denizens to endorse your company or find it via the IEndorse business database.

My Business Blink Web– Create a widget that promotes your business and that others can place on their profiles. This basically turns your friends, clients, or customers into your advertisers.

Professional Profile – Create a tab on your profile for all of your professional contacts, information, and activities. Very useful if you want to separate the two sides of yourself.

Testimonials – Use Testimonials to gather your personal, professional and academic references in one place from your teachers, friends, and co-workers.

Roost Social Media Toolkit – Roost’s free “Real Estate” tab adds a local real estate section to your Facebook pages in 3 easy steps. Includes residential property data, schools information, walk ability and more. You can also brand this tab with your own company logo & links

Networking

Introductions– If you’re not good at meeting new people this app will help introduce you.

Social Fly– Create notes about your online contacts, setup reminders to talk to them, and manage your contacts. Great app for keeping up with business contacts.

BranchOut – BranchOut is the leading career networking tool on Facebook. If you’re looking for a job, have a lead for your friends, or just want to explore your friends’ employers, BranchOut is for you. Branch out, and discover the power of your network.

Collaboration

Huddle by WorkSpaces – Store or share documents, make plans, collaborate on projects, and more (also one of  the LinkedIn apps).

My Office– This virtual office will help get everyone on the same page by sharing documents, tasks and more.

Retail/ecommerce

Payvment E-Commerce Storefront Launch a professional full-featured e-commerce storefront on Facebook. Features built-in search enabling millions of Facebook users to discover your storefront and products. Plus the storefront and shopping cart supports over 20 world currencies.

Marketplace – Buy, sell, and trade with your Friends, Friends-of-Friends, and the Facebook Community

ShopBuddy – ShopBuddy will take your shopping carts product feed and convert the data into a Facebook friendly display of your shop, right on your business or personal Facebook page.

ShopTab – ShopTab is a Facebook App for online shops who want an easy and inexpensive way to get products to show on a shop tab on a Facebook page. We created ShopTab to make that process very easy so shop will show on your Facebook page with share tool.

eBay Selling Feed – This application enables eBay registered sellers to share the items that they are listing on eBay via Facebook news-feeds with friends in their Facebook social networks.

Contests/Polls/Surveys

Contests – Contests for Fan Pages enables companies & agencies to easily create & launch branded contests on Facebook Fan Pages within minutes. Available formats: Photo contests, video contests, design contests, logo contests, essay-based contests.

Misc.

My Money – This online banking app isn’t very useful if you’re a large business, but for small or single owner businesses it’s just one more tool that can help make Facebook a more valuable business stop.

Page Maps – Display a mini map (with links to larger maps) of where your business or favorite place to have business meetings are.

Static FBML – Add some advanced functionality to your Facebook Page by being able to render HTML or FBML (Facebook Markup Language) on the page. Change the look and feel, and even add apps, forms, and widgets from other places.  This app was developed by Facebook, so it’s fully supported and not prone to the problems of some third party applications.

Menutab – Display the Menu of your Restaurant on your Facebook page. Add Photos and choose your Style.

Facebook Places – Facebook made a huge splash last week with the official announcement of Places, the social networking site’s stab at a mobile location-based feature similar to Foursquare and Gowalla.

While the feature is still being rolled out to everyone, the potentially huge significance for small businesses is hard to miss. What makes Places so important is not so much the functionality (which appears to be largely lifted from existing players), but rather the fact that it’s being launched by Facebook. With over 500 million users, who are automatically opted in to the new feature, it may well be Facebook that pushes geolocation into the mainstream.

Brenda Whitfield

Go Get Creative Design and Marketing

Navarre, Florida

http://www.facebook.com/gogetcreative

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