No matter how great your product, all retailers face the daily challenge of getting people to sit up and take notice of their products. Social media takes this challenge, spins it around on its head, and gives you the opportunity to reach a vast audience – or potential customers. Facebook Marketing can similarly be of […]
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A Quick Guide to Facebook Marketing & Growing Your Business with Facebook Apps
Facebook Marketing is an integral part of social media marketing. Two important assets with which Facebook marketing can have maximum emphasis are Facebook Pages and Facebook Apps. Facebook Apps are your avenue to market your product using creative strategies and without violating Facebook guidelines. We have put together a simple slideshow to guide you to […]
Friday Wrap Up – Social-Powered Car, TweetDeck, Facebook Ads, The Turkish Uprising & More
This was a week chock full of innovations and things we thought we would never live to see, like Tumblr Analytics (gasp!), Rickrolling making a comeback, and Coke’s mind-blowing new bottle/ can designs (a can that splits into two, and a bottle made of ICE!) So here we are, back again, to share what made […]

Introduction of verified Facebook Pages
Facebook has recently introduced verification of Facebook pages. This option is not available to everyone. So far, celebrities, brands, government officials and a few journalists have been given the verified profile authenticity. The verification symbol is similar to that of twitter’s blue circle with a tick. Now, you would know when you’re being friended by […]
How to Run A Facebook Photo Contest – A Quick & Easy Guide
Constant activity and engagement on your Facebook brand page is a difficult thing to maintain for businesses. However, there are many existing tools available to use on your Facebook page to keep the momentum going – while continually increasing fan-growth and, finally, leads. Photo Contests have become an integral and useful part of every brand’s […]
Facebook Marketing for Beginners
There is no dearth of businesses marketing themselves on Facebook, and distinguishing yourself from this massive number of brands is a tricky endeavour. Some practices, however, apply to brands of all sizes and types, contributing positively to their brand page’s growth on Facebook. Are you new to social media? Want to use Facebook to promote […]

Friday Wrap Up – Google+ Gets an Update, Yahoo Acquiring Tumblr, & more
We’re here with your Friday Wrap Up again! Read on to find out what’s happened in the digital world this week. Google+ gets some Plus points Google updated Google + this week. They redesigned it into what appears to be a combination of Facebook and Pinterest. It auto selects the #hashtags relevant to your post. […]
Your Facebook Page Has Been Banned!
Facebook Guidelines have always been a narrow lane and often overlooked by businesses. One misstep can send all your Facebook marketing efforts in a permanent tizzy and may also result in your page being banned or shut down! No one wants to see an alert stating that one or more of their Facebook Page have been […]
Facebook Apps go LIVE!
We at Apps Mav are delighted to announce that, we’re going to go LIVE soon with a suite of exclusive Facebook apps. Out of Beta and into the lives of our clients, we are proud to announce that after much testing, and refining, we are launching some of the most interesting Facebook apps for our […]

What Not-to-do while promoting your business on Facebook Pages?
1. Don’t hold the contest on Facebook page timeline Never hold a promotion activity that includes ‘likes’ or ‘share’ as an activity. For eg: “Like this post and share it to win exciting prizes” is a wrong promotion activity and can get your Facebook page banned. 2. Release Facebook of all obligations related to promotion […]