Best Facebook Apps for Business

At the outset, lingering on facebook and creating a virtual reality seems to be a brutal murder of some hours of our life; however, not all is so unproductive on facebook. There are millions of applications on facebook that have been hailed to be a great booster for businesses. Most of these apps are for free and they help firms to connect with their customers and enhance their corporate image.

Top Facebook Apps for Business

Business practices, especially those in the web marketing, entertainment & media, corporate, education, web designing, IT, marketing & advertising, have integrated facebook religiously in their operations. Now facebook may not be the next best thing that has happened to you in your lifetime (except for Mark Zuckerberg, though!) but for businesses it certainly is a better way to establish closer bonding with their customers. Rough figures estimate that there are nearly 550,000 apps on facebook! We can't discuss each and every app, as most of them are very simple features. So, we have chosen a few apps that we believe would be helpful to our readers.

KREMSA Design
When big firms change their logos, the customers know it and even discuss it. Earlier, for small businesses, there was no easy way to get feedback from huge list of customers. Polls - something that we randomly participate in, while browsing a website, have a great role in shaping a companies policies. KREMSA, an interactive design agency came up with a free app on facebook that helps even small business get feedback from their customers. Millions of people use it every month and it is certainly an interactive platform for small and large-scale business.

Fan Appz
If you are like me, inclined towards brands, you'll love this fan page and you won't get tired thanking its creator. Fan Appz, a free platform for musicians, athletes, actors, companies and corporates to create their fan page and manage them. The professional version of this app comes at $50 per month and is useful in creating a more professional fan page with videos, quizzes and polls. So if you have to find the newest products, trends and works of the company, you can get to know it through this app. From business point of view, this has been amazingly beneficial for companies.

Marketplace
It can be called the Craigslist in its infancy. One of the most successful virtual classified ads for facebook, Marketplace is an online platform wherein people log in to post free ads and search millions of classified ads related to cars, jobs and rental apartments. Created by Oodle, this fan page also offers opportunities to companies to understand the effectiveness of social media leads on Facebook Marketplace and Oodle network.

Fan Page Promotions
Created by Wildfire, the Wildfire Interactive Promotions' page is a one stop platform for companies to add giveaways, coupons, special deals and conduct various contests by attaching it to the facebook fan page. It's one of the most profitable apps for businesses, that companies use effectively, because they're well aware of the importance of promotions of products.

Huddle
This is a certainly useful tool for advertising and marketing agencies. Businesses that want to merge facebook with their online collaboration tool can do so by using this application. Consumers, companies and employees can create their own secure space on the Internet (called Huddle), wherein they can share files, organize tasks and approve various actions. So you can carry on with your office work with important updates and file sharing works through this application. This app is free however, for more professional assistance, a fee ranging between $8 - $200 is required to be paid every month.

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For all companies in the media industry, this can be the best application on facebook. With the help of this app, one can create or embed multiple videos like YouTube, Yahoo, Google videos, music MP3, websites, files and more onto the profile or facebook page.

As aforementioned, these are some of the best facebook apps for businesses that are really productive in terms of time and money invested (if any). Facebook has emerged victorious in the race of social networking websites and we will only see it evolved in the coming years. Technology will go on expanding its domain and range in the coming years and businesses will be aggressive in integrating them into their operations. Nevertheless, in the end it is the customer who is the king and he will always welcome quality and transparency and excellent customer service from businesses.