Just so that I don’t get accused of all work and no play, the first part of this post is something fun for your personal Facebook page. It is all done through a free app which I link to below and the process is very easy. Drop me a line if you have any trouble with it but I didn’t think it was complex enough to justify a tutorial… have fun!
We have all seen the picture strip that Facebook pages now have – It is the five images lined up across the top where the tabs once were. So what can we do with those? Well, quite a lot actually but before I get into what you can do with it for your business Facebook page I want to take a minute to show you how to do something really cool and fun with it for your personal Facebook page.
Here, have a look at mine and you will see that I am actually using a large picture of my wife and I on the beach in Cabo. If you click on the image it will take you to my page so you can see the real thing. The large left side shows most of the picture and then the strip (the 5 images) show snippets of the image all lined up perfectly as if you were looking through the Facebook page at the picture. Pretty cool eh? While I would like to take some credit for being pretty clever on this one, there is actually a free app available that makes it easy as pie. You can find it here. By the way, whenever I stumble upon a “free app” like this that works so well and has such a dramatic impact, I often make a small donation to the Developer. This one certainly qualified so if you feel the same please contribute (not a plug, I have no idea who this guy even is)
So now that we have your personal Facebook page looking really cool, how about we do that with your business page as well? Can you imagine a product shot or logo with that “looking through the Facebook page” effect? That would really be something. But alas, Facebook has thrown us yet another curve and it isn’t quite as easy as what we did above with the simple free app. The difference with a business page is that those five images do not stay in the same place and get rearranged randomly every time the page is refreshed. What a bummer but I guess Zuckerberg really likes to keep us on our toes.
What I did here for my business Facebook page is use those five individual windows to each display one of the services I offer. You can use a little imagination and think of five things you would like to promote, or sell or whatever. You can use more than five but they will appear randomly with each new visitor and obviously not all appear at once. If you look at my example (again, click it to see the real thing – If you don’t already “like” us you will have to go through the landing page steps described in Facebook Landing Pages and then click on the “wall”) you will see that each of the five images is really a thumbnail of a larger image which says more when it is clicked on. Unfortunately this is a little more involved than what we did on the personal page and the images need to be sized to an exact template and a little bit of graphics help will make it look pretty sharp. The point being is that you will likely have to pay somebody a few bucks – Pick Me!!! Pick Me!! – to get this done for you.
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