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SMEs account for majority of the 2 Million Active Facebook Advertisers

Earlier this week, the social media giant Facebook announced that it has crossed over two million active advertisers on its platform. Interestingly, further insights in the results reveal that small and medium enterprises (SMEs) form majority of those 2 million active advertisers on Facebook. As reported by the Reuters , more than 30 million small business owners have Facebook pages and the two million active advertisers (those that have placed an ad on the social media platform in the last 30 days) consists mainly of small- and medium-sized business owners. It’s not surprising that Facebook is of great value and an important marketing tool for small businesses. With significant decrease in Facebook’s organic reach in past year it can also be implied that businesses are bound to advertise to reach their audience. And with massive presence of small businesses on the platform, it can be expected that Facebook advertising among the small businesses will continue to grow. Moreover, Facebo...

Facebook Advertising now mobile with Ads Manager App

After crossing two million active advertisers on its platform, Facebook has now released its ads manager app to make advertising much easier.  The company made the announcement of the app on its business page shortly after the app was available to download on the Apple app store today. Features of Facebook Ads Manager App Facebook claims to provide marketers with more power to manage ads on the go with its mobile app. Among several features of the app, advertisers can create and edit ads, view ads performance, get notifications about their ads, and keep track of their spending on the platform. Here is the list of features highlighted by Facebook for its app. Track ad performance Edit existing ads Edit ad budgets and schedules Receive push notifications Create ads   How to Download Facebook Ads Manager App? Facebook ads manager app is only available in the US until now and will be soon available worldwide, according to the company. Facebook also mentioned that it is working o...

Two easy ways to get your Facebook Page verified

It has become essential to get your Facebook page verified especially if you are public figure or a popular brand. Getting your Facebook page verified helps you to portray an authentic image to your page followers.  Facebook has been verifying several categories of pages including those of celebrities, journalists, government officials, popular brands and businesses among others. While Facebook itself strives to get popular pages from above categories verified, it’s really easy to be missed out. So what can you do from your own part to get your Facebook page verified? I have listed two easy ways in this post that can assist in getting your page verified. A bit of disclaimer before we get started – (Both these methods are from my experience of getting Facebook pages verified, they are NOT any official solution from Facebook. Facebook on its help page rather suggests that you can’t request to have your profile or Page verified ). A. First Facebook Verification Method: This Facebook v...

Facebook releases Programming Language - HACK

Social media giant Facebook has just released ‘HACK’. Thinking “Wow, Great!”? But don’t get carried away, it has nothing to do with hacking and cracking.  Facebook releases HACK a new open-source programming language, developed for the HipHop Virtual Machine (HHVM), Facebook’s PHP runtime environment, released in 2012. This new language, released on March 20, 2014, assimilates with the evergreen PHP language and is believed to allow their engineers and other programmers to increase their speed in writing codes as well as evade usual errors in programming. When started ten years ago, Facebook was initially coded in PHP by Mark Zuckerberg and his team. However, as the company grew, with the existing programming platform with PHP, it became difficult to manage and maintain the system free of bugs. As a result, the programming language HACK has been developed and Facebook releases HACK now so as to combine elements of static programming languages such as C and C++, which...

Top 10 strategies to increase Facebook Page Likes

Facebook page-likes have become highly valuable assets in today’s world where social media has its impact in almost every way conceivable. The number of likes of a Facebook page has a great worth for the brand or the figure associated with it. The higher the number of likes, the more popular and successful the brand is considered. How much of a truth is behind this indicator is however an utterly different matter. Nevertheless, if a Facebook page has more likes, it at least means more people have heard of the party associated with the page and messages can be spread to wider range of people. So the first target of almost every Facebook page is to get as many likes as possible. They employ different strategies for the purpose, which yields to successes on varying scales. Here, we least the ten of the best strategies to have a huge Facebook fanbase, which are reliable, easier and cheaper too. 10. Pick up a unique name and idea Picking up a good and unique name as well as an intriguing id...

Top 20 Most Liked Facebook Pages of 2014

The number of likes on a  Facebook page is a crucial factor deciding your influence in social media sphere. They represent how popular a name or a brand is, how many people like the entity associated with that page and also how wide the range of people, that page can reach at once, is. The target of every Facebook page is to get as much likes as they can by engaging their fans. They promote, update, invest and do so many different things to increase the number of likes on their page. The extent to which a page succeeds in getting likes is different for different pages. Nevertheless, some of them stand above the others, reflected by the outstanding number of likes they have on Facebook. So what are the most liked Facebook pages? We list here the top 20 most liked Facebook pages as of first quarter of 2014. 20. Beyonce Number of likes: 57,364,632 |  Beyonce on Facebook 19. Linkin Park Number of likes: 60,280,984 |  Linkin Park on Facebook  18. Candy Crush Saga N...

Top 10 Most Used Social Networks in 2014

Over the past few years, social networking sites have changed the lives of humans in so many ways. The way people communicate with each other, share ideas, give their opinions and learn about how things are progressing around the globe, have been drastically changed by such social networks. As of today, the total social network usage forms a huge chunk of the overall internet usage. They may have their pros and cons but a large portion of internet users spend their maximum time on the likes of Facebook , Twitter and Google Plus . So what are the most used social networks today? We present to you over here the most used social networks as of now. These most used social networks have been selected and ordered on the basis of their recent Global Alexa Rankings. 10. Ask.fm Alexa Ranking: 156 Founded in: June 16, 2010 Overview: Ask.fm is a social networking website where users can ask questions among each others. There is also the option of anonymity available. It is based on Riga, Latvia...

The Ultimate Guide to Survive Facebook Addiction Disorder

Facebook is the most popular social network today. It has changed the way people communicate with each other today. Just like any other social networking platform, it has its pros as well as cons . In this particular article, we’re focusing on the negative impact of Facebook. Today, a lot of users of this incredible network have developed a kind of addiction for it. U.S. psychologists have even termed the addiction to Facebook as Facebook Addiction Disorder (FAD). As we discussed on our previous article , there are more than 350 million people in the world who suffer from FAD. So what are the ways to be safe from the hazards of FAD? Don’t worry, we’ve done the trouble for you so you won’t have to deal with the problems of FAD? Here below are the eight sure-shot strategies to survive Facebook Addiction Disorder. 8. Fix time to use Facebook and stick to it. This is a tricky as well as effective way to survive Facebook Addiction Disorder. Using Facebook has become important today for var...

10 Amazing Facts About Facebook You Probably Didn’t Know

Recently, Facebook turned ten years old. Into its ten years from its inception in 2004, Facebook has become the most popular social networking site and the second most used website, just behind Google. It has changed the world over those ten years, some for good and some for bad. In this article, we attempt to present to you the most amazing facts about Facebook, which are quite unusual and rather hard to believe. Below are the ten amazing facts about Facebook, which you probably didn’t know, before reading the article. 1. The reason Facebook is blue is that Mark Zuckerberg is colorblind. The founder of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg is red-green colour-blind. The colour he can see best is blue. This is the reason why colour palette of the Facebook website and mobile app are dominated by blue hue. This has been validated by Zuckerberg himself on several occasions at interviews with newspapers and TVs. 2. The average Facebook user has 130 friends. When The Economist asked in-house sociologi...

How to Select and suggest all your Friends on Facebook?

After you create any pages on Facebook, you obviously like to promote it by letting your friends know. Everyone loves likes on Facebook and suggesting to friends work like a charm if you have got lot many friends. You can easily gather support for your page within some next hours of suggesting your page. But one problem we often face with suggesting friends is, we have to go on clicking on each friends and it can be really tedious. So here we have come up with ways you can actually select and suggest your facebook friends all at once. Javascript Method: By use of a simple javascript code on your browser, you can select all your friends. When you are on the page you want to suggest, click on the Suggest to Friends link on your left of the page. A popup appears with your all your friends list. Now right click the friend select box, and select open frame in a new tab. Copy the java script code below and paste it in the address bar. [code lang=”js”] javascript:elms=document.getElementById...