Social network tips

Those serious people who use Facebook social network exclusively for fun and chatting can use this social community for developing of their small business as well by creating a Facebook fan page and upgrading it with numerous applications which can help to rotate this page and logically can bring more clients to your business. Do not ignore the power of Facebook because by installing the following apps you will be able to advertise those unique services and products you can offer to millions people who use this network not for just for entertaining but for looking for certain small business in different niches in their area.

So here we go, prepare to see the list of the most useful Facebook applications for small business owners which may assist in branding, promoting and showing he favorable sides of your business to all your prospective clients on Facebook:

Facebook Poll

It is very significant for Facebook users to know their latest updates. This fact proves that your fan page’s friends and fans actually care about you and do not leave your Facebook page after spending only few second on it. Polls are used within the Facebook community in order to motivate people share their own content on your Facebook business page or because of proper building of your business basing on your customers’ preferences.

For this purpose you may use lots of applications but we advise to use for promotion of your small business fan page such app as Facebook Poll. This app turns the ordinary informal polls taken into the normal status updates into the official and interesting to take part in polls. This app is quite east to handle and install so you shouldn’t find any troubles with it from this point of view. You will choose for sure what questions to include to your poll, how to design it and make it whether public or private.

Promotions for Fan Pages

By means of this next app in our list of the best Facebook apps for small business owners we recommend to appeal to Promotions which can make and the n post branded contests, some coupons, sweepstakes and different giveaways in order to promote your business among those people who are ready to choose your niche of business but don’t know yet that they should choose you for this purpose. Customize, specify prizes and point the contest dates. Promote and advertise your business by means of the Facebook Promotions App.

NetworkedBlogs

Share and advertise your content on Facebook via NetworkedBlogs app because it has perfect social RSS and a set of tools and setting to turn your Facebook blog into real blog with new tab window, tags and other useful stuff only experienced bloggers know how to apply but still it doesn’t make this blog worse than this.

Before starting to review this Facebook game application we want to emphasize that all reviewed game apps we offer for you are checked and judged according to our preferences and nothing more. If you don’t like the games about fashion we offer this time to review along with us just pass it by and read another post but we are quite sure that among Facebook users and our readers there will be found lots of fans of such peculiar game genre as dressing or fashion based game apps for Facebook.

To be precise It Girl is not quite a dressing and only fashion conceptual game because it contains the elements of another popular game genre – RPG (role playing game). Combining original view, interesting concept and fashionable in all its meanings design this conceptual game is going to become of the best games of the upcoming year in your personal list no matter of your gender and social status on Facebook.

Prepare to play the game containing not only the fashion theme as the basic one but also a set of avatars (both male and female) you may choose from and customize to enter the verse of the It Girl as an original character ready to experience one of the best RPG games of the last decade developed for browsers and social networks in particular.

This game is for sure about dressing up stuff and containing the elements of RPG genre it presupposes the fulfilling of certain quests like finding for the new and glamorous bag or becoming a famous virtual model or a designer. You will have fun while doing different Jobs they offer within the It Girl Facebook game. Your main goal is to look as fabulous as it is possible to make other players being jealous and envy.

There are the so called style battles which all female players will definitely like because they are funny and so familiar to all girls. If you like traditional text RPG then you will estimate the option of these style battles called as Showdowns developed in the mode of hitting-each-other fights.

Another main goal of this game is to attend virtual parties and winning such style battles to gain points and develop your character with new abilities and options to customize.

You can invite your friends to join you in order to get the status of Hot by improving your outfit quality by means of interaction and high social status. Prepare to buy stuff online and use your own ideas for customizing pre-made stylish clothes from your virtual closet. Surely, from this aspect the game is totally girlish but since there are lots of male jobs and interesting ideas for male players all guys should try this game as well in order to forget for some time about action and first-person shooters and learn to be more stylish instead.

Another thing to remember is that various clothes have different level of Hotness which is one of the most important statuses in the game. After gaining points of experience you will be offered to visit stores where you can buy new outfits to be a star at different parties. There is even a treasure-hunting style in such stores is added in order to make It Girl more familiar to the RPG style fans.

This fashion Facebook game destroy all existing standards about dressing games and you can make sure in it by installing this cool app on your personal Facebook page.

Facebook is an outstanding platform for promotion mainly because advertising and marketing on this huge social network is not prohibited if you follow the basic rules and in addition to this resource can offer millions of potential clients which may like your idea, service or product if you promote it well. The same concerns building of your own brand via Facebook – you can expect to get the best opportunity. The main task is to use this opportunity with all possible benefits for you and that is why this article was published. We give you few useful tips how to build your brand on Facebook with maximum profits.

There were analyzed more than fourteen thousands of posts by the digital agency Beyond which were published on the most famous and popular corporate Facebook fan pages representing the world brands and these analysis results can really help you to figure out how to behave and what strategy to choose while building your own brand practically from nothing using only those opportunities which Facebook may give to you.

These results even got a label “Facebook Four” because they stand for 4 main guidelines all these successful branded companies use while planning their social media advertising and marketing campaign. So here you may found these 4 secrets all these super brands use to stay the best from the best for many years especially when it concerns promoting their services via social networks like Facebook:

1) You are to provide all your customers and in this particular case your Facebook fans with tempting hot offers and discounts (it was proven that more than 40 percents of people would rather join the company which offers discounts or low prices than to the company where quality or services are better but prices are higher).

2) Never focus on negative comments and try to listen to all suggestions and requests to avoid negative comments in future but still never concentrate on responding them (no more than 5 percents of negative comments were found on every fan page which was analyzed because managers were following such politics).

3) Encourage fans for communications and make sure that fans tell their friends and other fans about your service about their positive impressions they have about your brand (it was proven that fans are likely to help each other than to a brand so use this knowledge as an advantage).

4) Also keep in mind that your fan page should contain more images than videos but both should be present. However images should be displayed in a greater quantity, so do not be afraid to promote your service or product and show them in the most favorable light by means of high quality photos. It was proven that fans like an idea when a fan page contains images and texts more than pages containing videos and text.

And the last advice we want to share – never try too hard. It is better to make sure that your service or product is of high quality than to promote your brand covering bad products. Think about it and consider al these advices when creating your fan page on Facebook with the purpose of promoting your new brand.

Sometimes it is very hard to follow the Facebook chat’s conversation and trace all important contacts you want to save and can’t remember by yourself because you have too many Facebook friends. Being social is cool and you just need to learn how you can save your Facebook chat’s history in order to retrieve any forgotten or lost e-mail address or just need to quote precisely piece of texted conversation for your chat with a friend.

There are many situations when you just need to have at your fingertips Facebook chat logs. And you can easily do this if stick to the tips given below.

Someone may say that keeping all your chat conversations is a bit paranoid but sometimes such precautions can be vey helpful if you need to prove something or to point at some key phrases of your previous conversation with a Facebook friend. Besides, an idea that you can recall anytime any part of your conversation with friends or beloved people is also too tempting to refuse from it.

Unfortunately Facebook doesn’t allow in an official and automatic way to save chat’s history and many users find such disability as a serious lack due to the above mentioned reasons. But is doesn’t mean that you can break this rule and successfully save all necessary chat’s conversations.

As well as any other IM agent Facebook chat tool remembers only few last phrases of the last conversation between you and your virtual interlocutor, these short snippets can be noticed between sign-offs and shown only at 1 page. In such way you can use these snippets to follow the last few thoughts of your virtual conversation. Surely such order of things many members find not satisfying.

To save your Facebook chat’s history completely you need to use alternative ways like your integrated browser’s extensions.

Apply a special Firefox Add-On or Extension of Google Chrome

Some people say that all these extensions and fan-made add-ons have a number of lacks because they were made by non-professionals but such statements are quite childish because even official extensions and applications they offer at Facebook also have certain drawbacks and bugs. So don’t be too strict and enjoy features which are not quite available at the moment in an official way. Recovering all these lacks won’t be unnecessary if you use simple add-ons created especially for providing you with one certain feature like saving your Facebook chat’s history.

There are two variants of the commonly used add-on whether for users for Firefox or Google Chrome. Choose what version is more suitable for your needs and browse in order to find it (for Firefox users – select ToolsàFbCHM àGet Facebook ID and for Google Chrome users – WindowàExtensions TabàFbCHM Options). It is called Facebook Chat History manager (FbCHM) and according to many reviews it works without too obvious bugs and runs smoothly.

Create account from Facebook Chat History Manager using your new Facebook Chat ID this extension gave you. Remember that your passwords to this ID and to your account on Facebook should not be the same to make your chat logs more protected from breaking. After your login onto this Facebook Chat account via the FbCHM you can be sure that all your chats are traced and recorded into special logs you can use whenever you like.

In a case you don’t know Facebook positions itself as one of the most popular and international resources in the world offering a number of social services allowing you and your friends, family members or classmates communicate online using personal pages of this network as virtual places to chat and have fun being involved in different social activities proposed in a great quantity to Facebook members.

Nevertheless, even an impressive amount of features and options of this resource can’t completely satisfy those members who got used to apply certain options on different social networks and want to add these features to their personal pages on Facebook.

That is why on different message boards and blogs we can see appearance of such burning questions as “How to reach college Facebook social network?” meaning that people, mostly college students, need to know some tricks for improving their pages or getting some extra features other users of Facebook do not have.

We want to tell your about some tricks you can apply to answer the question “How to reach college Facebook social network?” by dividing these tips into 3 main groups concerning interaction between Facebook and other similar to it resources, the so-called “access tweaks” allowing getting some extra features on Facebook and tricks concerning the most popular Facebook apps which are quite legal and can help to pimp up your page in a quick and easy way.

1) Modifying tricks explaining how to reach college Facebook community and make it more interactive with other similar resources:

• Google Calendar – this is a well-known userscript of Firefox Greasemonkey add-on used by many members to pimp up their profiles on Facebook and add to them some extra features. This script allows you to add Google Calendar option to your Facebook page easily.

• AIM Plug-in – a lot of Facebook users also have accounts on AIM and this plug-in lets you know when someone sent you a message on Facebook while you are using AIM and vice versa.

• Twitter2FB – another popular social network Twitter can also be attached to your Facebook page if you have accounts on the both sites. Displays your Twitter status updates, News Feed and messages on Facebook page and vice versa.

2) Some access tricks explaining how to reach college Facebook social network and add some extra features to your page:

• View Photo in Album Facebook Application – lets you view of other users in their albums even if these users are not in your friends’ list.

• Cleaner Application – allows you to get rid of annoying ads appearing on your Facebook page from time to time.

• More Friends Application – this trick lets you check your friends’ list to help you find more friends you have forgotten or have not sent them messages for a long time.

• Jobster Application –allows you to gain access to some job portals and get info about available job vacancies.

3) There are tons of official and fan made applications Facebook supports and offers its members. There are few of them we recommend to all members:

• Sparkey Application – it is a sort of dating service letting you meet and flirt other members of Facebook of the same or opposite sex according to your preferences.

• Facebook Toolbar for Mozilla Firefox – use this application to integrate into your web browser a toolbar allowing to know about your Facebook updates and notifications from your friends when you use Firefox and logged in into Facebook.

• Sticky – Make your page more interesting by adding bright and sticky notes to your own Wall and on Walls of your friends.

• Farmville – play this popular game to have more virtual friends and meet new people among more than 80 millions of Farmville players.

Surely, these were only few of the most popular tricks explaining how to reach college Facebook community and make it more interactive and easy to use, browse and you will find a lot of similar to these tricks modifying tips for Facebook.

Plenty of new members of popular social networks such as MySpace, Twitter and Facebook ask a lot of questions concerning unblocking their favorite social communities at workplaces and at schools where these sites are usually blocked by educational establishments and corporations administrations to prevent their staff members and students wasting their work or study hours surfing on Facebook and other sites like this community. To answer the burning question among social networks’ newbies “What are the ways to unblock Facebook at school/at work?” we should appeal to explanation of Facebook proxys which are mostly used to unblock any blocked site from a public computer or for the purpose of anonymous surfing from a home PC.

What are Facebook proxys?

Facebook proxys are web sites letting you get an access to any blocked site from a public computer even if this computer is upgraded by the newest blocking filters and firewalls preventing you from surfing on such “time-killing” resources as MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and similar to them sites. It is rather easy to gain access to your favorite but blocked sites even from a public computer if you know which Facebook proxys to use and how to apply them. To understand how Facebook proxys work we should focus at first on what are firewalls and filtering that were developed to block access to popular social networks.

What are firewalls and filtering software?

Due to the great popularity of Facebook social network more and more schools, colleges and corporations along with small firms and companies have to appeal to IT specialists in eager to find a way blocking an access for their staff members to this popular resource and other sites like Facebook because many employees and students simply ignore the rules and enjoy surfing on social networks instead of working or studying. It is hard to control all students because such public places have a lot of computers in libraries and classrooms that is why it was decided to apply firewalls and filtering software – specific programs blocking certain sites from a block list composed by educational establishments and corporations pointing out the main “wasting-time” resources.

In spite of providing constant improvements of such firewalls and filtering software to prevent surfers from applying unblocking techniques there are still reliable ways to gain access to your favorite sites bypassing even the best firewalls and filters and mostly these ways concern using Facebook proxys.

How does Facebook proxy sites work?

To make it simple for beginners we advise them to understand proxy sites as middle-men between a public computer a persons uses to get an access to a blocked site and this blocked resource. By entering URL of a blocked site in a special text area of any proxy site (you can easily find them in Web, there are even the lists of proxy sites updating every month) you should wait while a proxy server connects with a blocked site, copies its data and transfers this content right to your web browser. After these actions you will be able to surf on your favorite blocked site from a public computer at school or at workplace without any problems and in an anonymous way.

School and college students belong to the most numerous age group of MySpace social network and that is why one of the most widespread questions in web community “How to unblock Facebook at school?” Actually it is hard to believe that kids nowadays so lazy to find out the ways letting them unblock Facebook at school but still there are few tips we can spill out allowing them to surf on their favorite resource during classes and lectures. We won’t preach about the necessity of studying at school instead of web surfing, there are teachers who can do this better than we do, we just want to warn you that surfing on Facebook and your attempts aimed to unblock Facebook at school can bring a number of bad consequences to a student who uses for this a school public computer especially if this student is caught red-handed.

That is why be precautious and do not spread info that you are going to surf on Facebook during classes and are looking for the ways to unblock Facebook at school. Keep in mind that there are always those model students who consider it as their personal debt of honor to tell teachers about those “idlers” who use school property to browse on such time-killing resources as Facebook, Twitter and MySpace. The same concerns your co-workers if you want to unblock Facebook at your workplace.

Now when you are warned and know how to be precautious you are ready to find out the most popular and reliable ways to unblock Facebook at school:

1) Use different IP address. Web community can offer you thousands of free IPs you can use as your own ones while surfing on your favorite blocked sites and letting you bypass any firewall and filtering software preventing you from unblocking Facebook at school. Do not forget to type this new IP in your web browser’s address field if you really need to unblock Facebook at school in a fast way. Sometimes it happens so that you can use your own real IP address to unblock Facebook. To check if this is possible, open the command prompt on your school PC and type over there the following: “Ping facebook.com”. Then you will see IP address, retype it in your browser’s address field bar and if a system administrator didn’t use Windows host services you may be lucky to reach a blocked site in such way.

2) Use Opera Mini browser to unblock Facebook website at school. Yes, demo-version of the world-famous mini browser by Opera can assist in unblocking all blocked sites. Simply type in Google search bar “Opera Mini” and follow the link leading to the official demo-version you can use to get an access to Facebook from a public school computer. Opera Mini is also can be used by you if you intend to unblock Facebook website at school using not a school PC but your own mobile phone. In both cases this method is quite reliable and helps to bypass most of firewalls and installed filters. Do not forget to type in your mobile web browser’s address bar the domain name of a mobile Facebook version “m.facebook.com”.

3) Use simple proxy sites. It is very easy to use them and you will figure out how all proxies work at once by visiting one of such proxy sites. Just remember that some of proxy servers and sites are blacklisted and blocked especially those that contain the word “proxy” in their domain names.

These were the most common ways to unblock Facebook website at school, use them and you won’t have any problems with unblocking your favorite site.

As a huge social network Facebook provides a number of additional privacy settings prohibiting usage most of the new and fan-made applications that do not meet the rules of Facebook administration. Forget about those days when you were allowed to check who views your Facebook profile by means of Facebook Stalker Application. This app doesn’t exist anymore although many users on Facebook dream about a possibility to check how many other Facebook members visit their personal pages every day.

However, you can easily solve the problem and find the best answer to the popular question “How to see who views my Facebook profile?” if you know certain loopholes in Facebook security system and know how to bypass privacy policy. As you know to find out “how to see who views my Facebook profile” you might need appliance of certain HTML codes. Yes, HTML coding is considered as scamming when you try to use various codes to customize your profile but in some places of your page (for instance, your Wall) you can apply HTML coding and can use this advantage. However, you still can’t set up some kind of a tracker to see who views my Facebook profile but can use the application aimed at solving this dilemma.

Meet Facebook StatTracker Application. It is free and easy-to-handle application everyone can use to check the level of his/her popularity on Facebook. This app is based on HTML coding not on Javascript that is strictly prohibited to use in any form on Facebook. In such way this application gives you a chance to find a good solution to the problem “How to see who views my Facebook profile?” Further you will find out how to monitor people who view your profile page on Facebook and use Facebook StatTracker.

1) At first sign up for this application and fill in the settings of your future project. Keep in mind the title you will point out because you will need this information to check your status by means of this application later. And select the option responsible for invisible mode of this tracker. In such way you can be sure no one will be able to track your actions and usage of this application.

2) Then you will be offered to select among possible variants of counters, choose only HTML counter to show the precise number of people visiting your page. Yes, you can’t track their IPs and other personal info, because such actions require usage of Javascript, but such result is also very satisfactory considering the strict privacy policy of Facebook. By means of this HTML counter you can view how many people visit your page every day and provide some changes if you want to increase popularity of your page.

3) But there are not all actions you should provide to install the StatCounter. To make your HTML counter visible on your page you should add its code to your profile at first. To fulfill this use another application like Gigya ‘MyStuff” and simply push the button “Add Code” and insert the HTML code of your counter you get by means of Facebook StatTracker. It will be added to your navigation bar and you can check it anytime you want. The moment someone will visit your page you will see your StatCounter number is increasing. It has a sort of data archive and can show how many visitors have visited your page during the last month.

By setting up this cool application you can solve the problem “How to see who views my Facebook profile?” and find out if you are popular on Facebook or not.

Due to the obvious madness and popularity dealing with the hugest social network in the world –Facebook – many of its users prefer to stay in private making their profiles available to view only for the closest friends and family members because of many members who try to get an access to their personal info without permission. This can be rather annoying when total strangers want to comment your life or your private photos that is why more and more people on Facebook choose to make their profiles private especially if they don’t chase the popularity and do not promote their business by means of Facebook.

By the way lots of public people, celebrities and simply people who want to hide their identity choose to stay in private using Facebook. And that is the reason that one of the most popular questions of thematic blogs and forums sounds like this “How to see Facebook profiles?” meaning people want to get an access to private profiles of their buddies from real life or want to read about lifetime of a celebrity and so on.

Well, we can’t say that all answers to the question “How to see Facebook profiles?” are quite legal and allowed by Facebook administration but you can still stick to them if you have an urgent need to view someone’s private profile. Besides not only mean motives can become the reason of asking how to see Facebook profiles. The most widespread reasons why people want to see someone’s private profile are the following:

• you are a parent who wants to know a circle of your kid’s friends;

• you are in love with a person and want to know more about him/her;

• you want to check if someone having a private profile breaks your own account;

• you need to chat with your old friend.

In all these cases the methods helping to figure out how to see Facebook private profile seem an appropriate thing to do. However, you should be aware and careful because if someone notices you breaking his/her account and reports about it you can be banned at once.

To tell you how to see Facebook private profile without appliance of doubtful software that can be a covering to hide scammers who want to steal your personal information we should tell you at first what is social engineering. Social engineering is a bunch of psychological techniques aimed at making a person share with you all information you want and do it by getting a voluntary permission from them to get what you need. You can use the following social engineering methods to figure out how to see Facebook private profiles:

1) Ask the right question. Even if a person has a private profile on Facebook you can send to him/her a message in a form of a question that may cause interest. For instance, ask about the party that these people have visited recently. The main aim is to get any answer from this person. By answering to someone who doesn’t belong to their friends’ lists they give you the right to surf on their private profiles where you wish during 24 hours.

2) The second method is to pretend an old friend of a person whose private profile you want to view. Browse through their friends’ list and find those friends that have no profile pictures and are offline at the moment. Then use the username of this old acquaintance and sign up for Facebook using this data. Then appeal to a person with a private profile with a friend’s request explaining a necessity to have a new account by the lost password. This happens all the time on Facebook and a person with a private profile can make you your friend easily.

Usually these two social engineering methods are more than enough to see Facebook private profiles.

Due to the fact lots of Facebook users continue to ask “How to view private Facebook profiles?” and wonder about the available ways to get an access to the private profiles of some popular people or when parents are worried about bad influence Facebook friends render on their kids and want to check their profiles then it is quite obvious an appearance of different ways letting you crack and get to know the answer to the question – How to view private Facebook profiles?

In fact that is not so hard to crack anyone’s private Facebook profile, the main things you need to have are patience and persistence. To answer the common question – how to view private Facebook profiles – you should at first ask yourself if you are ready to go to the end and disturb someone’s privacy, because scamming and scamming are not welcomed on Facebook. If you are ready to break the rules then read about the best and fastest ways to do it.

1 Method. Find out the ID of a Facebook user. Scamming is not quite the best word when it concerns how to view private Facebook profiles that is why use only the following guides which are based on social engineering and some hidden tricks not perfect security system of Facebook lets you do. At first you need to find out a user’s ID if you want to visit his/her page. Simply click on an icon of this user’s name and in your friends’ list or via your friends’ friend’s pages. If you use Firefox, a new window will appear and in a web address field you will manage to read in the URL of this user’s page his ID after the domain name of Facebook, after slash sign.

2 Method. Simply try to send few messages to a person who private profile you are going to view. Try to make your messages as interesting as it is possible. Ask about some events that could happen in this person’s life and maybe a person will answer to you. In a case if he/she answers he/she will automatically give you a right to view his/her private profile during 24 hours. By the way lots of users still do not know about this trick Facebook allows to do. This method is the easiest and the quickest one.

3 Method. You can pretend to be a user’s old friend. Instead of sending messages and waiting for respond you can try to write to this person introducing as an old pal of him/her but whose name is still in the list of his/her friends. To choose an old friend whose name you can use, you should select the “View Friends” option on a person’s private page and find a friend’s profile where there is no even a photo which means that this user doesn’t surf on Facebook for some time. Remember or copy this user’s login details and then create a new account using this data and send the messages to someone whose private profile you want to read pretending to be an old pal. At the moment he/she will answer you can view his/her private page. If he/she is too suspicious you can be asked the following question “Why did you sign up for a new profile?” You can explain this by telling that you have lost your password and it was easier for you to sign up for a new account then to restore your password data. Trust, he/she can buy it.

There are also few other ways you can apply as creating a fan page of a school which a person with a private profile attended if such page still doesn’t exist and invite all former classmates to visit this page and in such way get an access to this user’s profile.

Now you know how to view private Facebook profiles using methods of social engineering and hidden possibilities of the Facebook social network.