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40 Highly Effective FaceBook Business Pages | Speckyboy Design Magazine. Facebook is huge. With the average user connecting to 80 community pages, groups and events and with over 900 million (!) Objects that users love to interact with (pages, groups, events and community pages), Facebook pages are massive and with a well thought layout they will prove to be a very valuable business asset and a great experience for the user. There are no clear design standards for Facebook pages, but there are good practices and that is what this article explores. The Holy Grail of Facebook page interaction is called FBML (Facebook Markup Language). FBML allows you to enter fully into Facebook World and build Facebook applications that deeply integrate into a user’s experience.

You can hook into several Facebook integration points, including the profile, profile actions, and canvas. This article takes a look at some highly effective and well developed Facebook pages and shows what can be built using FBML, just scroll down and see yourself: Redbull Britney Spears Fox News Playboy. 10 Tips & Tricks For Your Business's Facebook Fan Page. Facebook is one the fastest growing social media network and its users are increasing by thousands every day. Due to its vast base of users, it takes no effort to acknowledge its influence and any company will jump on the bandwagon to utilize Facebook because it allows them to boost their brands or products also in the same time engage with possible clients.

It is convenient for a company to create a Facebook page, publish their profile and products however, setting up a Facebook page that receive many "likes" and a huge fan base is never an easy task. What is the first thing a visitor will see when they land on your Facebook page? Most of them will probably click on the “wall” or the “info” and if nothing is more fascinating than that, chances are they will leave your page. It is an advantage when visitors "like" your page and become a fan is because they will be updated from time to time with latest things you published. 1 – "Call-To-Action" Graphic 2 – Embedding YouTube Video The code: IKEA: Facebook Showroom Campaign Strategy  Forsman & Bodenfors are known for some great creative work, and they recently devised a Facebook campaign for a new Ikea store in Malmo, Sweden. When small budgets and big briefs clash, the out come only ever heads in a single direction these days… to Facebook!

Some of the best campaign strategies are simple, and none simpler than using the default “tagging” tool on facebook to help create a bit of buzz for an online competition. Users were drawn to the new Facebook profile page of the store manager, who’d uploaded pictures of his new showrooms. People were told that the first to tag their name on any item, would win it. Be Sociable, Share! Measuring What Matters in Inbound Marketing | Grader.com. How To Integrate Facebook With WordPress - Smashing Magazine. Advertisement Facebook is one of those Web phenomena that impress everyone with numbers. To cite some: about 250 million users are on Facebook, and together they spend more than 5 billion minutes on Facebook… every day. These numbers suggest that we should start thinking about how to use Facebook for blogging or vice versa.

We did some research to find out how the integration of Facebook with WordPress and vice versa works, or — in other words — how you can present your WordPress blog on Facebook or use the functionality of Facebook on your WordPress-powered blog. Both of these can be achieved with a set of WordPress plug-ins, a couple of which we’ll present here in detail. 1. Integrating a WordPress blog into Facebook is actually quite simply achieved via the Facebook API. The applications sustain themselves through earnings generated by displaying advertisements, which also makes Facebook an even more attractive platform to develop on. Plug-In Installation and Configuration 2. (al) OutSync - Home. 5 Elements of a Successful Facebook Fan Page. Samir Balwani is an emerging technology strategist at Morpheus Media, a firm specializing in Social Marketing, SEM, and SEO.

You can follow him on Twitter @leftthebox and get his newsletter. For many companies a Facebook fan page is an integral part of their social media campaign. But, what elements help fan pages build up large followings and what can brands do to emulate the success of others? I've put together a list of specific elements that I believe have helped create fan pages with large, engaged, followings. This post is part of Mashable’s Facebook Week. To discuss everything Facebook, join our authors and community at Mashable's Facebook Page. 1. Building a large following requires a network of other platforms, working in conjunction to drive visitors to your fan page.

As you can see, on their PINK landing page they have a link to their Facebook fan page and their MySpace profile. When is the last time you went looking for a brand's Facebook fan page? 2. 3. 4. 5. 5 Tips for Optimizing Your Brand's Facebook Presence. Steve Coulson is a partner at The Advance Guard, a new media company that creates radical marketing programs using disruptive technologies, community platforms and social media. So – you’ve set up a Facebook public profile for yourself, your brand or your company, and you’re starting to post content.

Now what? If you’re like me – a tinkerer and tweaker – you might be interested in ways to fine-tune your profile for maximum affect. So here are five tips to optimize your activities on Facebook, including the right way to create profile and thumbnail graphics, how to show different content to Fans and non-Fans, creating DIY vanity urls, and how managing what and when you post can lead to greater success.

This post is part of Mashable’s Facebook Week. 1. Facebook specs recommend that profile pictures should be 200px wide, while height can vary as needed. You'll find the system crops images when generating a thumbnail, losing information around the edge. 2. 3. 1. 2. 3. 4. 4. 5. 1. 2. 3.