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Facebook Tabs for Mobile

Facebook recently revealed that more than half of their active users access the platform from mobile devices.

If you’re not offering your Facebook Page fans a mobile experience, you’re missing a big opportunity!

TabSite’s Facebook tab apps are mobile-ready, so your users can view and participate in campaigns from their mobile devices.

To get mobile support, just make sure to share our Mobile smart URL when linking to your Facebook TabSite tabs.

mobile2-photo.PNGHere’s how to access your TabSite Mobile URL smartlinks:

1. Log into the TabSite Facebook manager.

2. Open the Tab you want to share.

3. To post to your Timeline, go to the “Save” menu and click “Save and Post”.

4. To post on Twitter, on your website, or via e-mail select “Get Mobile URL” from the Save drop down menu and copy the URL given.

 

Mobile continues to gain more and more use globally and so it is important for TabSite users to utilitze the mobile tools that TabSite offers to boost engagement on your Facebook Page.

New TabSite Enterprise Facebook Page Tab Tools for Agencies

 

TabSite Releases New Agency Enterprise White Label Feature

TabSite is pleased to announce the release of a enhanced TabSite Enterprise service for agencies.

vocus-enterprise.jpgThe TabSite Enterprise is a Facebook Page custom tab app platform enabling marketing agencies to have a white label solution for building, managing, and granting clients access to manage custom tabs for Facebook Pages.

NEW FEATURE MAKES IT EASY TO GRANT CLIENT ACCESS:
Now with the new Enterprise User feature, agencies have a method to easily grant clients access to add Facebook Pages to the service.  The agency can set specific limits on the number of Pages that can be added and also the number of tabs that can be built by each client.

Previously, the agency needed to be a Facebook Page Admin to add a Page to their Enterprise system.  Now agencies can grant others access without needing to be a Page Admin of every Facebook Page in their platform.   

This new feature allows agencies more flexibility to not simply self-manage but now also offer capability to offer “Page Builder” packages to new clients who want their own Do-It-Yourself option. Agencies can advertise plans and then simply create the Enterprise User and grant them access. The agency maintains full control of management of the pages and custom tabs.

All Enterprise Users have full access to all TabSite widgets and features, including the popular Contest suite and Sweepstakes tool.

Example of how this can work for a Agency:

1. Agency creates Facebook Page “Packages” (example: 2 Pages, 4 Tabs total for $40/month) and displays them on a Tab and on their website with PayPal buttons to purchase the package.

2. User signs up, pays via PayPal

3. Agency gets e-mail, setups up Enterprise User by adding their e-mail address and sets this user to be able to add 2 Pages and 4 Tabs and sends e-mail off to new user.

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4. User gets e-mail, creates account and starts building tabs for their Facebook Page inside the agencies platform.

5. Agency maintains full control and access to user tabs to assist in support if needed.

The TabSite Enterprise service offers agencies the ability to offer their Facebook Page Builder services, enabling designers, web development firms, marketers, and full-service agencies the ability to easily build Facebook Page tabs with full featured options including lead capture forms, sweepstakes, and social engaging contests, as well as ability to offer the public ability to purchase packages and build their own Facebook Page tabs.  The Enterprise service is a completely white label service.  There is also an API with a TabSite SDK for advanced integrations if desired.

Learn more about the TabSite Enterprise white label service today.

 

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Powering over 72,000 Facebook Pages,  TabSite is a Facebook Page software enabling businesses to easily build and manage socially engaging custom tabs on Facebook brand Pages. TabSite offers a Enterprise white label service for agencies that enables complete, private branding, allowing agencies to build, manage, and offer their own Facebook Page services to clients.  TabSite also offers individual plans for small and medium sized businesses.

 

Facebook FBML Tabs End June 1 – TabSite is Easy Alternative

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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.

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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! 

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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.

 

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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_Blue_icon.jpgTabSite 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!

 

UPDATED Facebook Timeline Infographic with Profile Image New Size

 

We’ve create a Facebook Timeline Infographic to help you!  Includes the new Profile image size!

Here’s what sizes are covered:

  • Facebook Timeline Cover Photo
  • Page Profile Photo  (With the April 26, 2012 Update to 160 x 160 px)
  • Custom Large Tab Logo Image of 111 x 74
  • Shared Photo
  • Highlighted Photo
  • Custom Tab Pages width
  • TabSite incorporates ability to change the logo image and Timeline Cover image in the TabSite Manager.

     

     

     

    Mobile Access to Custom Facebook Page Tabs with TabSite

    TabSite announces a further upgrade in mobile friendly tab urls.

     

    As many have 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 Facebook Page Admins, 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!  

    NEW! Checkout the TabSite Mobile Infographic below!

        


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    Full Details available in our TabSite Help Desk.