30 Top Facebook Apps for Business
Facebook is a good place to communicate with friends and get new job offers. Freelancers should not miss an employment opportunity on Facebook. The social network app section is a real treasure box with multiple handy applications.
These are some of the best Facebook applications that help freelances boost their productivity, enhance their business pages, show off their portfolio and attract new contacts. Since many freelancers work with social media as experts, account managers and analysts, the list below has both apps for personal profiles and Facebook pages.
Welcome Page
Welcome
A welcome page has become a must-have feature for every Facebook business page. It’s a space to say “Hi” to new fans and encourage people to click the “Like” button. There used to be an authentic Static FBML app developed by the Facebook team for welcome page creation. But it does not exist any longer, so a freelancer should choose an alternative application for welcome pages such as: iFrame, iwipa, TabPress, Wildfire, Welcome by Word of Social, etc.
The setup process is simple: switch to your page mode, install an app, add content, images, links and publish the new welcome page. Most of these welcome apps are either free or require a small fee for a logo-free welcome tab.
Business Profile
Business Profile
To get a new employment offer via Facebook friends, a freelancer may add a portfolio or business experience page. This professional portrait will work like a public business card. If you want to show your freelance skill on Facebook, publish a short summary from your LinkedIn account or create a standalone page with apps like My LinkedIn profile, Professional, Business Profile or Professional Profile. Thus, a potential employer may evaluate your reputation and knowledge directly on your Facebook profile.
Contacts
Contapps
Connections are an important source for new job opportunities for freelancers. Thus, a good contact form, email signup tool or contacts list may be a useful plug-in for your Facebook profile. There are various options to consider depending on your needs: Contapps, Contact Tab, Constant Contact, Email Signup, or MailChimp. These applications can be installed on both pages and personal accounts.
Testimonials
Reviews-
A good recommendation means a lot for a freelance business. Try Reviews, Reviews- or Ratings app to help your customers or employers to express their opinion about your work.
Each app allows people to post a short overview, a rating or a long testimonial. It is a suitable add-on for pages to prove business reliability. These recommendations from real customer profiles help convince new clients to work with you.
Productivity Tools
Google Calendar Sync
Facebook is not only a place for playing FarmVille. It’s full of productivity tools for freelancers. These apps will help you work more efficiently. There are simple calendars, notes or more advanced online project management applications.
To get things done, install apps like Calendar by 30Boxes, Facebook Notes, Google Calendar Sync or Zoho App. These Facebook productivity apps help keep your day organized.
Updates From Other Social Networks
YouTube
Avid social media users and freelancers may add great updates from other networks to their Facebook account or page. Embed YouTube, Flickr or Twitter steam on Facebook via its apps. Enrich your Facebook profile with useful links, video or images. Besides, you can automatically transmit all information saving time on double update publishing and sync all your social media channels.
Blogging
Networked Blogs
Freelance bloggers will enjoy Facebook apps that enable them to announce fresh posts automatically in their social network. Tools like Networked Blogs, Simplaris BlogCast, Tumblr facilitate blog content exchange. If you run a WordPress blog, Networked blogs app is a useful tool for post sharing. Your Facebook fans will be immediately notified after new posts release on your blog.
Polls
SurveyMonkey
Have questions? Facebook has answers! There are lots of polling tools that freelancer can try. Apps like Facebook Questions or SurveyMonkey, Poll help make Facebook pages more interactive, get a public opinion or generate new business ideas.
Promotions
Sweeptakes
Facebook business pages may generate leads and boost ROI as marketing gurus know. Every freelance social media experts dreams about getting more profitable traffic from Facebook. If you are developing social media engagement program, think about using the promotional apps available on Facebook: Contests, Sweeptakes or EasyPromos. These tools are great for organizing contests or promotional events with word of mouth support.
E-commerce & Donations
Payvment
Facebook is an excellent solution for money making. There are various e-commerce apps and non-profit money gathering tools. For instance, Payvment is a check-out application for Facebook. With Payvment you can create a store on Facebook and deploy it for money processing.
If you collect donations for a non-profit organization or an independent rock-band try Causes or FundRazr by PayPal. The products will help you gather money via the social network and reach your audience.
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I´ll be the first to comment. Excelent Apps! nowadays many business are moving their online activity to Facebook, as a web designer based in South America I am rethinking my business strategy as more clients choose to have online precense in social webs rather than a traditional webpage. Thank you for the resources!
Great post.. and very valuable.. this type of information is very hard to find on internet. thank you for the knowledge of FB related to digital marketing.
Thanks for the excellent post. Bookmarked!
Very useful, we will have a look; cannot really understand the FB for business, but use it all the time for personal. Business seems like a completely different game.
Thanks for share excellent post.
Thanks Anna, some useful apps that I will be able to put to good use.
Thanks for these helpful tips, it will help to unravel the mystery of Facebook for business! I have bookmarked.
Posts like these are invaluable.
I’ve found it very difficult trying to get good recommendations for Facebook Apps for small businesses / freelancers: there’s no directory, the Facebook search is not clever enough and only finds things that you know the name of already.
Our little StudioMcKean uses Static HTML: iframe tabs that gives a different welcome page for liked and unliked visitors (offering a free thing in exchange for a like), RSS Graffiti for linking blog posts, notes and tweets into a single format… and that’s about it.
I’m always on the hunt for new ones, and so thanks for some of the ones mentioned here.
Thanks for all that information. I am about to launch into social media for our business and this has been very helpful.
I just take a peek and I discovered your post. I find it interesting and incredible. Big thanks for sharing and keep posting.
Nice post. I found this blog which provides you how to create any type of business application and easily integrate it into your Facebook business page
http://blog.caspio.com/integration/create-a-custom-facebook-application-for-your-business/
Very comprehensive and informative article. Under “Reviews” you could add “Ratings”. This is a free Facebook app and enables your fans to rate your product or service out of 5 and leave a comment. It can be found at http://www.facebook.com/pages/Ratings-Tab/146. The great thing about Facebook is that you can discover a useful new app every week to help your business.
Great apps! As companies are moving online, there are many tools to use but Facebook is still not ready for e-commerce and many companies have opt out since it is still effectively used only as a PR tool.
Branding is really important. FB is still used as a casual tool to connect with friends. For the most part we look at other sites for shopping. It’s not a one stop shop solution as of now.
Hello Anna,
Great post there, but i am still wondering what you would recommend as the app to go for a Facebook welcome page. Do you have any suggestions or should i try them all and see what works the best for me?
Thanks in advance and
Regards,
Jasper.
Good post, but screenshots are a bit old I think because facebook looks different now.
I believe there is a shop cart you can put on facebook (not a facebook store) that when you click on the shop it goes directly to your website and its free.
Any help or suggestions as have seen this on a couple of facebook pages but they cannot remember how they got it and would be ideal as to have a facebook store would take so long as hundreds of products and this is really all we are look for at the moment so people can click on “shop” and it goes direct to our website.
Teamup Calendar is a simple solution to add an event calendar to your Facebook business page. See http://www.facebook.com/TeamupCalendar for examples of calendars as tabs. A step by step guide to implement the calendar tab is available at http://goo.gl/1H5RJ
I really Like this E commerce App, it’s very interesting and easy to install any Facebook Page.
This has been very helpful. I’m a newbie with building a Facebook page, but going to install some of these apps and start engaging!
Thnaks for useful share, just installed Sweeptakes , its cool app.
For those who want to engage your Facebook fans easily, check out this simple tool called Tint (http://tintup.com) .
It lets you aggregate any social feed (even social feeds you don’t own) and lets you embed it into your Facebook page, giving your fans dynamic content to engage with.
Check out how this Facebook Page did it with inspirational quotes by aggregating from ‘StartupQuotes’: https://www.facebook.com/teamtint/app_394630527280041
wow this is what i’ve been looking for!!
thanks for sharing!
Great read. Apps are fantastic for the B2C market not convinced about marketing B2B just yet?
Hi there. I know this post is a little old, but I was just wondering if you knew if the Google Calendar Sync app still works (the link does not work in this post). I’m trying to find a way to sync a google calendar to my Facebook Business Page. Thank you!
After an app that allows people to enter their contact details (lead generator) and they receive a free service..
Any help would be great