Tag Archives: Fan Page

New Gallery Engagement App from Tabsite

The Gallery App is part of the new Engagement App suite from TabSite for Facebook fan page tabs.

Engagement apps are fast-setup, single fan page tabs with social boosting tools to help draw visitors in, empower them to share, and boost engagement on your fan page.

The Gallery Engagement App allows you to add a image slideshow with image thumbnail row below each image to a tab on your fan page. Create a full slideshow of images to give viewers a great presentation on your products, services, team, events, and more!

The slideshow can be set to advance upon click or autoplay based on setting seconds to display between views. Each image can link to a unique url. As with all Engagement Apps, social sharing tools are built in to help fans spread the message via “Liking”, “Sharing”, Tweeting, Pinning and more!

This App is available starting at the Gold Plan level. The Platinum Plan also offers a web/blog call-out feature enabling you to drive traffic from your website or blog to the tab!

KEY FEATURES:

Large image with scrolling thumbnails of the gallery beneath.
Users click any image to see at full size
Ability to add captions per image if desired
Social Sharing Tools integrated for users to easily share your images to Twitter, Facebook, Google+ and Pinterest
Gold and Platinum level offers Like Gate
Platinum level also offers a Promotional Tool feature so you can load a image, grab the embed code and paste it on your blog or website. When clicked on, users will be brought to your custom tab on Facebook!

EXAMPLE GALLERY TAB:

Simply select the Gallery App within the Engagement App area when you add a new Tab!

View setup guide for Gallery App >

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By Mike Gingerich
Co-founder, Bus. Development Manager

App, engagement, Engagement App, Fan Page, TabAugust 10, 2012

Summer Sizzlin Savings on TabSite for Facebook Pages

This summer is Sizzlin’!

TabSite is offering a COOL deal to help you beat the heat!

Now through August 1 any TabSite Plan is 25% off!

There’s never been a better time to beef up your fan page with engagement tools including Contests, Sweepstakes, and more!

In fact, the link below for our Summer Sizzlin’ deal is a sneak peek at our newest tool that will launch in early August!

Engage fans. Bring them back to your Fan Page. Give them tools to share your deals.

Click below to get the details!

Fan, Fan Page, Page, TabSiteJuly 25, 2012

TabSite Webinar – 7 Steps to Success with Facebook Timeline for Pages

Sign-up for TabSite’s Special Facebook Marketing Webinar

Cost: FREE TO ATTEND
Date: Wednesday, May 23, 2012
Time: 2:00 p.m. EDT / 11 a.m. PST

“7 Steps to Success with Facebook Timeline for Pages”

Grab your spot below – spaces will fill up!

Learn to maximize your Facebook Page to accomplish your marketing objectives!

KEY WEBINAR ELEMENTS
    – Understanding the Engagement & Visibility Cycle
    – Facebook Page News Feed Tactics and Keys
    – Strategies for building visibility on Facebook
    – Fan Page Tab Strategies with TabSite
    – Your Timeline Page as a Drip Marketing Master Strategy

Join TabSite co-founders, Troy Rumfelt and Mike Gingerich, for a fast moving, informative webinar empowering Page Admins to boost engagement and sales via your Facebook Page!

The webinar will include a live Question & Answer time to answer participant questions. This webinar event will last one hour.

BONUS! One attendee will be randomly chosen LIVE to win a Free for Life TabSite Gold Plan, a $150/year value.

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TabSite is a Fan Page Tab Management Platform with over 71,000 users. Perfect for small and medium sized businesses, TabSite offers a wide array of powerful widgets and tools making it easy for the non-coder to build a quality fan page that helps to maximize their presence on Facebook.

After registering you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the Webinar.

Facebook, Fan Page, Page, TabSite, webinarMay 7, 2012

Facebook FBML Tabs End June 1 – TabSite is Easy Alternative

ALERT! If you are still using Facebook’s old FBML tabs for your Facebook Business Page, now is the time to make the change to a current tool like TabSite.

In September 2011, Facebook announced that:

The final official end date when all FBML tabs will cease to work and will be removed from Facebook by Facebook is set for June 6, 2012.

So the time has come for those last holdouts to fully transition to iFrame tabs and depart from FBML coding completely, and TabSite is an ideal alternative!

If you have tabs on your Facebook business Page with the logo shown below, you’ll want to make a change!

History and Information for Fan Page Admins

4 Summary Points:

1. What is FBML and why do I care?

The answer is that you don’t need to care unless you were using FBML on your Facebook Fan Pages.

If you fall in the group that doesn’t need to care because you don’t have any FBML tabs on your fan page, then feel free to skip down to number 2!

FBML
FBML is Facebook’s original framework for serving custom content on fan page tabs. This content is served by Facebook, which, in short, means the user’s browser never hits the app developer’s server directly. Instead, Facebook requests the content from the app developer’s server, parses and filters it, and sends it to the browser for display. The result was content served by Facebook on custom tabs.

Facebook’s Static FBML App
Facebook’s Static FBML app was an application provided by Facebook that enabled the creation of FBML based Facebook page tabs. To use the application, page admins simply added the app to their page, and then customized the content by coding using FBML code language.

Again, FBML tabs will NO LONGER WORK on Facebook Pages beginning June 1, 2012.

2. What is Facebook’s preferred method for adding custom tabs to Fan Pages?

iFrame Apps like TabSite
iFrame Apps are Facebook’s accepted framework for serving content on fan page tabs. Content is served directly by the developer’s server, rather than being proxied by Facebook’s servers. Because the page is hosted externally of Facebook, it can render HTML, CSS and even Javascript just like any external website does, which was not the same with FBML. iFrame Apps were launched in March of 2011 and are the standard set by Facebook for Page tabs.

All TabSite fan page tabs use iFrame Apps.

3. I’m not a coder and yet I want a nice, custom fan page. What should I do?

TabSite is a great solution for businesses wanting to easily customize their fan page without learning to do any coding. With a easy to use drag-n-build system, TabSite is easy to navigate and has a full suite of widgets and tools including ability to:

Add Videos,
Run Contests and Sweepstakes
Add/Edit Content easily
Create Photo SlideShows
Add Facebook Social Plugins
Embed E-mail Sign-up forms
Add your Blog and Twitter feeds
Create a fan-gating mechanism with our Like-Gate tool
iFrame in your website
and much more!

4. June 1, 2012, FBML ceases to work. Now is the time to changeover to a solution like TabSite.

Visit www.TabSite.com for more details or go here for to get a 14 Day Free Trial of TabSite for your Facebook Business Fan Page!

Facebook, Fan Page, FBML, Page, TabMay 1, 2012

TabSite Tabs for Mobile Viewers Upgraded

TabSite announces a further upgrade in mobile friendly tab urls.

As you have likely experienced, the Facebook mobile site and mobile apps for Android and iPhone do not offer a simple ability to access custom tabs on a fan page.

Facebook limits you in the mobile version to the Wall, Info, Photos, and Activity. For most apps this means your custom tabs are hidden from viewers accessing the tab on their mobile device.

However, with TabSite this doesn’t have to be the case!

TabSite offers multilple ways to get a mobile friendly url to use per tab or sub-page.

TRY NOW:

Option 1: Save & Post to Wall

When you use the TabSite “Save & Post to Wall” feature, this will post an update to your fan page wall and it will link back to the TabSite custom tab you are posting from.

It is programmed so that if the link in the wall post is clicked, TabSite checks to see if it is a mobile browser, and, if so, we deliver a mobile friendly version of the content to the user. (see image)

This powerful feature sets TabSite apart from many fan page platforms and gives TabSite users ability to post updates to their wall about their fan page tabs that can be viewed by mobile users. With mobile use of Facebook continuing to grow and averaging over 40% of normal daily use, this unique TabSite feature of “Post to Wall” enables you to easily reach more fans and give them access to your custom tab creations!

Use the pop-up box to customize your Facebook Fan Page Wall post:

Option 2: Generate a Mobile URL per tab to use anywhere

In the TabSite Manager, open any tab and go to “Save” button. From the Drop Down menu, select the “Save & Get Mobile URL” option as shown below.

When the “Save & Get Mobile URL” is selected, a mobile url will be generated and a box with it will appear like below: (click to see larger view)

This shows you the mobile friendly url and by simply clicking the “Click here to copy the URL” it will copy the url to your clipboard so you can simply go to your fan page wall or elsewhere and paste it.

You’ll get a confirmation message that the post was published to your wall. Below is the mobile view from an iPhone of the Facebook wall post and then the custom tab view aftering clicking the link. The image and “Widget Videos” are linked to the custom TabSite tab.

Here’s the custom TabSite tab fully viewable in the iPhone Facebook app.

OPTION 3: Copy the Mobile URL from the My Sub-Pages area

The mobile url is also accessible under any tab in the “My Sub-Pages” area accessed via “Open / View Pages” in the drop down menu show below.

So go ahead, give mobile users access to your custom tabs! Mobile Facebook use is over 30% of daily user activity, so take advantage of this opportunity!

EASY. POWERFUL. SOCIAL. TABSITE.

For further TabSite mobile instructions, go to the TabSite mobile help page.

Fan Page, Mobile, Page, Tab, TabSiteApril 18, 2012