4 Essential Facebook Page Apps to Improve Communication With Fans

Google+ has entered the market and is generating a huge database. It is giving a tough competition to other social networking sites especially Facebook. We have witnessed a lot of new changes and developments in Facebook in the past few months. It is an effort from Facebook to survive in the market.

Though Facebook has not shared the actual number of applications launched till date but AppData claims that Facebook has introduced more than 1,00,000 applications.

It is very difficult for a business organization to decide which app will be useful for the business.

4 Essential Facebook Page Apps to Improve Communication With Fans

Tweets to Pages — Show your latest tweets

Tweets to Pages has more than 1.2 million active users per month. A tab will be created on the Facebook Page. The tab will display the recent tweets of your company. In case some users do not have an access to Twitter, this feature will be very useful for them. It provides additional information about the company to the users.

It saves you from the trouble of streaming your tweets on the wall of your Facebook pagewhich makes the page look very cluttered. It is very easy to use this app. Try out its free version. You can adjust the count of tweets.
You can switch over to its paid version where the content limits can be controlled very effectively. It helps you in selecting color schemes and adding banner. Comments are allowed on the tweets.

ContactMe — Add a Contact Form

ContactMe has more than 1,80,000 active users per month. A tab is added along with a contact form on your Facebook page. Anyone who visits you on Facebook can contact you with the help of this contact form.
This app is very useful as it provides many customization options. Choose to display the contact information of your company or place various icons of social media like Skype, LinkedIn, Twitter or Facebook.

On contactme.com, various fields can be added, reordered, removed, adjusted and required by using a simple interface. Paid option of ContactMe can be used in which ContactMe branding can be removed, message alerts can be received when a form is submitted by someone and a success message is offered.

Static HTML: iframe Tabs — Easily Makes a Custom Landing Page

It has more than 61.8 million users per month. Custom Landing Page can be created very easily. You do not need to create any application and developer account. Copy & paste textboxesare provided by the app for CSS, JavaScript and HTML.

Checkboxes are also offered using which Facebook’s FBML can be enabled and the scrollbars can be removed. ‘Like-gate‘ lets you incentivize Likes for the Facebook page. Different content is displayed to those who like your page.

Scrollbars cannot be removed for a  design which is more than 800 pixels in length and 520 pixels in width. You have to host your files.

RSS Graffiti – Post Updates Automatically

RSS Graffiti has more than 1.5 million users per month. It posts updates on the wall automatically whenever an item is introduced in the feeds. If a blog is published every day by the company, its excerpt is posted on your Facebook wall automatically. This saves the time of posting every item to your wall.

RSS Graffiti also provides many customization options. Multiple RSS feeds can be posted automatically. You can modify the appearance of the post before publishing it. A frequency for checking the feed can also be scheduled. The interface is very simple to use.