Have you ever considered using Facebook for your business? I bet you have heard stories on how businesses have used it successfully for marketing, branding, customer service, file sharing and work management.
We’ll explore, in a nutshell, how these 10 simple applications could help you achieve various business goals
1. Facebook Page
Type: Marketing
A Page allows you to bring your fans and customers together on Facebook to interact with each other. Conversations topics are normally related to the organization, ranging from a new product launched, customer service, recent advertisements to their customer experience. This application can be found here.
Besides activity among your fans, there are a couple of useful functions which allow you to keep your customers updated and would probably help spice up more conversation. Refer to my post on 5 Successful Facebook Pages to get a better idea on how a page could help your business grow.
2. Facebook Event
Type: Marketing
Facing difficulties marketing your event? Why not invite people via Facebook? You are just a form away!
Besides that, Facebook’s Event application allows you to view your Guest List, which gives you a further breakdown of their invitation status: Attending, Maybe, Declined, Not Yet Responded.
3. NetworkedBlogs
Type: Marketing
With more businesses owning a corporate blog, there is a greater need to market your blog to gain more readership. NetworkedBlogs helps your blog gain more exposure by allowing people to follow your blog post via Facebook.
4. Notes
Type: Marketing
Notes is a fairly easy to use application. All you need to do is to insert your RSS feed link and it would automatically update your friends on any new posts in your blog. Notes includes showing the title and also a short description of your post.
5. Simplaris Blogcast
Type: Marketing
Blogcast has a similar blog feed function as Notes except that it only shows the title of your blog post. Additionally, Blogcast allows you to re-share your blog updates conveniently, with the help of the yellow Blogcast button.
6. Calliflower
Type: Communication
With the current financial climate, cutting cost is definitely every businesses’ priority. You may want to consider using Calliflower for your conference call.
7. To Do List
Type: Personal Management
To Do List allows you to create your task list on Facebook. This is extremely useful for business people who’re extremely addicted to Facebook.
Note: You might want to set your to-dos to private
8. Files
Type: Files Management
Having trouble to share your files with your partners and colleagues?
Facebook Files, powered by box.net, works like a virtual thumbdrive. Create a collaborative folder, upload files and share them with your friends.
9. Slide FunSpace
Type: Fun Marketing
All work and no play in any social media platform will slowly create a barrier between you and your online friends. A couple of humorous and interesting posts could prevent such a barrier from developing and Slide FunSpace is exactly what you need. It contains loads of fun and interesting resources for you to forward to your peers.
By having a good balance between work and play portrays you as an all-rounded person, someone who works hard and is at the same time fun to be with. This would definitely increase your popularity in any Social Media tools and help you get heard!
10. Application Builder
Type: Marketing
9 out of 9 applications shown above are created by companies with the intent to entice their application users to pay for their service one day. Maybe you too should leverage on Application Builder to develop a simple application that helps spread your brand name across the globe. A Quiz application would be something good to start with.
