14 Must Have Tools For Small Business Or Startups

Change. It’s all around us. From the way we buy groceries to to the way we wake up in the morning or even the way we communicate with family members – things are different.

In business too. If you’re a technophobe, all this talk of change has beads of sweat starting to appear on your forehead just one paragraph in. But for small businesses, technology has become reality.

And this reality can be turned into a priceless growth engine for little to no monetary investment.

“My business is fine – I don’t need technology – I’ve operated the same way for 20 years and have done it successfully”. Fair enough. We understand that it might be hard for you to see how free online tools can help you grow a primarily offline business. But wipe the sweat off your forehead and read on.

I have no time

You’re not the only one who thinks that way. Over 80% of small business managers still use pen, paper, and spreadsheets to run their workforce. And like most SMBs, it’s very likely that your outlook is strongly influenced by your current focus on day-to-day operations. When you’re buried up to the ears in work, it’s hard to find the time and energy to find solutions that help you shift your focus from day-to-day operations, to strategic growth.

You don’t need to wait for your team and operation to grow to introduce technological solutions and tools. Often, it’s their implementation that affects business growth.

It’s too expensive

That’s just part of the equation. The second part is cost. Until recently, business operations software, such as ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning), were considered to be too costly to implement for small businesses. But that’s all changing now. Business software has become easier to implement and much more affordable. For a fraction of the cost, SMBs can get their hands on the latest software. Sometimes, even for free.

So now that fear and cost are no longer obstacles let’s have a look at some of the easiest to use, and more importantly free business operations management tools out there.

Communication and Collaboration

As your business grows, so does your team of employees, contractors and service providers. Managing communication, collaboration and cooperation between everyone can become a time-consuming task for you, as a manager. These tools can help you streamline these processes and save you the time you might be spending as an information conduit for your subordinates and partners.

1. Google Docs (& Friends)
2. Connecteam
3. Join.me by LogMeIn
4. Hubspot CRM
5. Sellsy
6. xTuple

Automation

You might not even notice, but some of your precious time is spent in two of the most unpleasant activities: waiting and catching-up. You wait for replies to messages or responses from clients. And try to respond as quickly as possible when you miss a communication or customer action.

By automating as many of your business processes and tasks as possible, you can save precious time you might currently be spending doing something a simple algorithm can.

1. IFTTT
2. Zapier

Email Rules

Many online experts like to claim than email is dead or dying. It really isn’t. Email is still the most common tool for communication in business, and that’s not about to change. Just evolve.

Today’s challenge is cluttered inboxes and difficulty keeping track and measuring effectiveness of email correspondence. Some tools are out there to replace your current messy inbox. And others just try and make email communications a lot more effective for your business.

1. Thunderbird
2. MixMax
3. MailChimp

Task Management

The bigger your team and, the harder it gets to keep track of all the various tasks of all the employees, contractors and partners. Without a management solution, there tasks that can get lost and not completed, falling between the proverbial chairs of every day work. Alternatively, you’ll find yourself wasting too much time micromanaging your workers’ tasks. And no one wants that.

1. Asana

On-the-Spot - Point of Sale Tools

Once upon a time, you needed a cash register to keep sales organized in your store. Those things were expensive, bulky and aside from the famous “kachink” sound, they had little to offer in terms of features. Those days are gone, and now all you need is a mobile device or basic desktop computer to manage your POS activity.

1. LoyVerse
2. KeyHut

You don’t need to become a mobile phones expert or software developer to use technology to grow your business, be it a local grocery shop, a plumbing service or a toy manufacturer.

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Here Is How You Can Be a Healthy Gamer

Gaming once took the world by tempest, and has kept on remaining a steady wellspring of fascination, and even fixation, for some individuals. While everything is great with some restraint, how would you fulfill your yearning for constant gaming, and still stay sound? Continue perusing to discover how. 

• Know how to put first things first - Gaming just get to be unfortunate when it begins to crawl into and upset different aspects of your life. Regardless of how in-your-face your gaming fixation is, it can in any case remain a solid energy as opposed to turning into an unfortunate fixation, the length of you stay clear about your needs. Certain things like family and companions, a full time employment, and wellbeing, ought to never be traded off upon. 

• Take consideration of your body - You can remain a solid gamer inasmuch as you don't let your enthusiasm throw you off calendar. Gaming late into the night, or all through until dawn, might be adequate now and then. In any case, when that turns into the standard, and you start you ignore your sound propensities keeping in mind the end goal to keep gaming, then that spells inconvenience. 

• Be a dynamic gamer - This is a vital procedure. Gaming on your consoles for a considerable length of time can make you slip into the trap of driving an inactive way of life. While it is ideal that your mind is kept dynamic by the gaming, it is vital to keep yourself physically dynamic too. This can be accomplished by taking short breaks at general interims, and utilizing these breaks to go out for a stroll, or to do two or three activities. 

• Stand tall - While most amusements that are played on the PC require the gamer to be situated, it would be enjoyable to take a stab at gaming with consoles so you can stand when you play. This is an activity without anyone else. Additionally, you can rearrange your feet along these lines and that to remain physically dynamic when you are genuinely gaming. 

• Drink to the diversion - obviously, we don't mean liquor! It would be a sound practice to deal with your body's liquid necessities, by drinking water at normal interims when you diversion. New squeezes or other sound beverages are likewise a decent decision. This, rather than the regular garbage of chips and fast food that we ordinarily settle on, will kickstart you on your adventure to be a sound gamer. It is one of the essential things to recall. 

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How To Play Video Games

The conspicuous answer is no, you shouldn't, yet in the meantime it raises questions about the essence of what we are accomplishing as a general public and what we are passing up a major opportunity for. Rather than going and accomplishing dreams and achieving objectives we are sitting before a YouTube screen watching others have a good time. A decent illustration of this is a YouTube star that passes by the name of PewDiePie. PewDiePie is well known for his recordings where he will play computer games and make remarks about them.

Sounds like a fun little diversion, yet for him it is a full-time work where he raked in over $7 million dollars in 2014 himself and at one point was acquired by Disney. Presently what does that say in regards to a general public when as opposed to playing computer games we now watch other individuals have a ton of fun playing them. It is odd that we have the need to watch somebody fulfill their objectives or dreams and never really perform any of our own. Another great case is the way critical big name tattle has gotten to be in our general public (A simple play on words on this article). Obviously you more likely than not knew about the Kardashians, or possibly a hundred different famous people who you have known about, yet know nothing about. What is our procedure, why do we sit and gobble up the majority of this data when it has nothing to do with us in our every day lives?

We need to perform something, however by discussing the greater part of this jabber nothing is really being proficient. Possibly we ought to quit talking, whining, or making a joke of things that don't relate to us and begin managing stuff that does. By doing this we might really be achieving what we need to do as opposed to looking at up what other individuals are finishing. In the meantime, beyond any doubt a few individuals do like making jokes of other individuals that they don't have the foggiest idea, or gripe about them and they do get advantages. Glancing back at the Shia LeBeouf video, there are play on words recordings that have gotten a huge number of perspectives. "Shia LeBeouf - Just Do It" is a finished joke on itself. It is enthralling and interesting with a bundle of dumb movements tossed in. That is the thing that we require. We require something that is engrossing to watch, yet in the meantime the video to be inspiring. While it is a joke to itself he is doing what he needs and he is attempting to get other individuals to do it too through the force of inspiration. So as opposed to watching other individuals accomplish what they need through YouTube and different means, go accomplish yours. Get it done!

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How To Get/Become Featured On Fiverrr

 

Step 1 – FIND YOUR NICHE/SKILL

Ok, so first things first, what do you have to offer? Are you technical, creative, a real smart arse…. or just plain kooky?
As you look around Fiverr you will see a huge range of different talents on offer, with both the highly skilled and just for fun gigs receiving equal popularity, there is no set talent that will earn you money. The limit is literally your imagination.
There are 3 questions to consider when deciding your gig:
1. Is your idea sustainable? You need to be able to consistently deliver your product/service and therefore need a sustainable idea. You will notice a lot of gigs on Fiverr are people turning their hobbies into an income… this is a fantastic idea as you should then love to work.
2. How long will this idea take to deliver? Fiverr is a great way to make an additional income (or even a main income), but you need to think realistically about your delivery times. You don’t want to work 12 hours for $5 and kill yourself doing so! The ideal Fiverr gig will take between 10-30minutes to deliver.
4. Will you really sell your idea for $5? Your final question is not so much a matter of pride, but more a matter of commitment. To become a good seller you must be committed and always deliver on time. Do not post a gig if you feel like you can’t actually be bothered to do it!

Step 2 – RESEARCH YOUR SKILL

So you’ve decided your product/service and you are ready to post your gig, right?… Wrong!
Before posting any gig, you must first look around and check out your competition.
Chances are that a similar gig to yours already exists, so you must stand out from the crowd and make yourself unique. As all prices are set at $5, it’s not a case of out-pricing your competitor; it is a case of offering a slightly different or higher quality product/service. What makes your idea the best?
If your gig is totally unique and doesn’t exist, you need to ask yourself why. Have you hit a gemstone that no one has thought of and could be the next big thing, or are you just flogging a dead horse?

Step 3 – SUBMIT YOUR GIG

You have given great thought to your gig and researched it thoroughly, now you are ready to post!
There are numerous things to pay attention to when posting a new gig:
1. How long will the gig take to deliver? Do not rush this answer. You may be tempted to say 1 day and offer customers a fast turnaround (heck we’ve all been there), but this isn’t a smart move. You need to think about your life and how much free time you have. You also need to think about what would happen if you had 5-10 orders a day, can all of them still be delivered within a 24 hour period? Over estimating this time period slightly is ok, if you deliver within 1 day but have said 2, the customer will believe you have processed their order quickly!
 2. How will you sell yourself? You have 450 characters to describe your gig and sell yourself to the user. This really isn’t a lot of space, so don’t ramble!
 3. What image will you use? You need to upload at least 1 image to your gig. This image cannot be used on any of your other gigs. It is also best if this image isn’t copyrighted (to avoid any possible obvious issues).
 4. Will you upload a video? It is proven that video gigs have a higher sales conversion, the reason why is very simple. Within the video you can easily describe your gig in detail and build a trust connection with users. You may not feel confident in front of a camera, but I recommend filming a few takes and just have fun with it.

Step 4 – PROMOTE YOUR GIG

Your gig has been submitted and is live (unless it’s under review, which should process within an hour); now let’s go find some orders.
Firstly, use Fiverr’s inbuilt sharing scripts, located on the “My Gigs” page, to share your gig on both Facebook and Twitter.
Secondly, read user requests written on the website (located to the right in a green table). If any of these are related to your gig feel free to contact them. Every time you refresh the page or perform a new loading action these user requests change, so always keep a look out!
Thirdly, start spreading the word around the internet. Offer your product/services to friends, forums and anyone who will listen! $5 is a real bargain for most things, so let people know how generous you are.

Step 5 – ESTABLISH A WORK PATTERN

Over a small period of time you should hopefully start to see orders rolling in. When you receive 1 or 2 orders a day, it is very easy to keep on top. However, when this number starts to grow to 3-5, you need to start making a system.
The key is to develop a work pattern that works for you and around your schedule.
Here are a few top tips:
1. Set a time of the day you can work and make sure your do. No one likes late gigs and they could affect your buyer’s rating.
2. Simplify everything. Do not over complicate your thought and work processes.
3. If you are running behind or your gig works in stages, keep the buyer informed and always be polite.
4. When you deliver your gig, politely request that the buyer marks your order as complete by leaving a review and thumbs up. If they do not you need to wait 3 days for the order to automatically be marked, this is on top of the 14 day clearance period.
5. Buyers may ask for additions or extras, this is absolutely fine but never process any payments outside of Fiverr. Fiverr’s payment system protects both you and the buyer.

Step 6 – BECOME FEATURED

Every time you enter the Fiverr website I am sure you have noticed “featured” gigs and wondered how they accomplished this?
This is a lot easier than you may think. Featured gigs are usually very popular, showing possible signs of upcoming popularity or are just very unique and quirky. This is why they are selected as featured, as they are show on the homepage and high in search listings.
Fiverr staff usually manually flag unique and quirky gigs as featured, but you can request your gig to be featured on a popularity basis by contacting Fiverr’s customer support.
I would contact customer support if:
1. Your gig has over 50 feedback as standard
2. Your gig has received 20 orders (which have all been delivered) within a short period of time. E.g 3-7 days
Please note at this current time, you can actually only have one featured gig per user account.

QUICK TIPS

1. Consistency is key – Keep a high success rate with no late deliveries, this will help you become a “Top Seller” (ability to sell quantities and gigs more than $5).
2. Be self indulgent – Find a lot of your customers are praising your work? Create a “Tip” gig and point your happy customers to it.
3. Set your goals – Fiverr income is a great additional income but set your goals for withdrawal so PayPal fees don’t sting you. I recommend withdrawing every 14 days.
4. Don’t be afraid to cancel orders – If a buyer is being non-responsive, aggressive, over demanding or ordered outside of your scope, don’t be afraid to cancel. It’s better to lose $5 than get a negative review.
5. Have fun! – Fiverr is a real community of real people. Get involved and have fun

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50 TRICKS TO GET MORE PEOPLE TO LIKE YOUR FACEBOOK PAGE

 There are over three million active facebook pages, and these pages are gaining millions of new fans every day.

Yes, I just said fans.

Although the button has changed from “Become a fan” to “Like,” the action of joining a brands page remains the same. Facebook pages are still fan pages.

With Facebook’s announcement of The New Messaging there are more reasons to like Facebook, and Facebook pages, than ever.

I hope you enjoy this post about 50 Ways to Get More People to “Like” your Facebook Page, and if you do I would really appreciate it if you share these tips with your friends, and join theProHackingTricks fan page.

Here are the tips:

1. Post a Status Update

Post a status update mentioning your facebook page.

Don’t be afraid to outright ask people to join your facebook page.  Ask and you shall receive.

Give them a great reason why they should join, tell them news, or find a creative way to mention and link to your page

2. Get fans to upload and tag photos

If you host (or attend) an event with several of your fans take a bunch of pictures, post them to your page, and then ask your friends to tag themselves in the pictures.

If you can get your fans to upload pictures to your page, or tag themselves in pictures you uploaded, this will post to their walls as well and will lead to additional traffic for you. 3. Offer an incentive for people to sign up

Using some static fbml you can create a dynamic facebook landing page with a “reveal tab” that contains content that is visible only to fans of your page.

The more valuable your incentive is, the more people will be compelled to click the “Like” button to access it.

Examples of exclusive content could be: An exclusive Video, an exclusive whitepaper/.pdf, exclusive pictures.

Stay tuned to PAGENAME.  In one of our upcoming posts will explain how to set up a “reveal tab.”

The image below shows different levels of increasing effectiveness for acquiring new fans.

Involver offers apps (and several of them are totally free) that make it easy to create a “Fan Gate” containing incentives, like a file or coupon, that will cause more people to “Like” your page.

4. Contact admins of groups related to your page

Groups are more powerful than pages in terms of their messaging ability. Pages send updates, but groups send messages directly to a users facebook inbox, triggering an email alert.

If you contact the admin of a facebook group with some valuable content that adds value to their readers then this can help them nurture their community and help you build yours.

5. Get people to join your page via SMS

Send a text message to 32665 (FBOOK) with the words “fan yourusername” OR “like yourusername” (without the quotes).

This feature is ideal when you’re in front of a live audience.

6. Install a page Badge

Facebook Badges are a simple, yet effective way to link to your facebook profile.

Unlike widgets, badges are simply images, and will load much faster.

7. Install a facebook “Like Box” into your site

Installing a “Like Box” is an excellent way to allow visitors to your site become fans without even leaving your page.

The like box builder tool makes it easy to customize the size of your like box, the number of connections to display, and even the color scheme.

Shown in the image below is the rarely used “dark” color scheme.

8. Use status tagging

Status tagging is a cool and fairly new feature of facebook.

This feature allows you to tag any page or person by entering the @ sign and then typing the name of the page or person you want to tag.

9. Suggest your page to friends

Use the “suggest to friends” feature of your page. Use this feature sparingly. Personally, I try to only invite people go my page once because I know it annoys me when multiple people invite me.

If you have many friends you might want to consider using the “invite all” Google chrome extension, rather than clicking hundreds or thousands of times.

10. Install a Like Button into your site

Installing a like button allows visitors to like your page, and when they do this posts the their activity stream.

This can send more traffic to your site and if you have a facebook “Like Box” and other content promotion your fan page, since this will help you convert your visitors into fans.

11. Connect your page to Twitter

Connecting your page to Twitter is an excellent way to convert your twitter followers into facebook fans.

Using this strategy will cause all of your posts to be sent to twitter, with a link back to the facebook version of the post.

www.facebook.com/twitter

12. Link to Your Page as  a Place of Employment

The info box uner profile pictures is being phased out, so now if you want an omnipotent link on your profile to your page you will need to list your Page under employment.  Once you do this your Facebook Page will appear under your name on your Profile.

13. Install commenting on your landing page

This will allow people to comment on your page, even if they are not a fan.

Any comments made can broadcast to news feeds and lead to more traffic to your page.

Setting up facebook commenting requires registering a facebook application, so act on this tip with caution unless you are comfortable with code.

14. Leverage Traditional Media

Since facebook is so widespread you can use any forms of traditional media and achieve results.

Newspapers, Media Buys, Radio, and TV all work, but are often very costly.

To maximize your promotion offer a free gift to those who join you page.

15. Newsletter Promotion

If you do email marketing send a message to your subscribers letting them know about your fan page and consider including a link to your fan page in every email.

16. Email Signature

Every email you send is an opportunity to link to your facebook page.

Check out the email signature tool wisestamp for a creative way to link to your social profiles.17. Get business cards promoting your Facebook page

Business cards are cheap.

You can get 500 business cards from Vista Print for $1.99.

For this minimal investment you can get up to 500 new fans for your page!

Throw a link on your card and people will almost certainly check it out.

If you’re pressed for space in your design all page urls can be shortened from facebook.com to fb.me, or fb.com.

For example, www.facebook.com/TeeDhee, www.fb.me/SciFisFIlms, andwww.fb.com/BackToPakistan all point to the same page.

18. Fiverr

Fiverr is an online marketplace where services are sold for five bucks.

Check out their “Social Marketing” and “Advertising” section and here you will find some people who are willing to suggest your page to 5,000 of their friends for just $5.

You will need to make the person who will suggest your page to their friends an admin in order for them to do this for you, but if you are willing to place your trust in someone to do this and they come through for you this will allow you to pick up dozens if not hundreds of new fans.

19. Create a Landing Page with Static FBML

By creating a custom landing tab for your facebook page you can increase the conversion of visitors to fans.

20. Run a “fans only” contest

An excellent way to run a fans only contest is using wildfireapp.

There are rules and regulations around running a contest on facebook so be sure to check out the facebook Statement of Rights and Responsibilities (“Statement”) before you run one.

21. Link to your page from your profile

Edit your Facebook profile information to include promotion for your Fan Page.

At the bottom of the info section of your profile you can include links to any websites you are affiliated with.

The more links you can build to your Page, the more traffic you will be able to send to your Facebook Fan Page. I am constantly seeking new opportunities to build links that will send traffic to my Fan Page.

22. Blog Commenting

Comment on blogs and in the website section use a link to your fan page.

23. Link to your facebook page from your linkedin profile

Linkedin gives every user three slots for links to whatever you’d like right on your profile.

You can make the anchor text of these links whatever you like, so I recommend using a call to action such as: Join my facebook page.

24. Upload video to facebook

Facebook video is very underrated, and exceptionally powerful.

When you embed a facebook video on another website this video includes a watermark link in the top left corner to the fan page it came from.
 

25. Watermark your videos with a link to your website

Using a video editing program include a link to your website.

I use camtasia to add my watermarks, and to record any screencast I create, and this program comes with a free 30 day trial.

26. Create a memorable URL

If you go to facebook.com/username you will be able to create a custom URL for your page.

Remember that this cannot be changed once it is set, so choose wisely.

27. Deliver an exceptional experience

Although facebook pages are no longer officially considered “fan pages” if you work to create fans of your brand many of them will certainly seek out and join your facebook page.

Strive to deliver an awesome experience for those who interact with your brand. Go above and beyond when engaging with your community and they will spread the word.

A famous article called 1,000 true fans maintains that they are all you need to create a thriving business. Don’t try just to get people to click “like” but instead seek to create raving true fan who will spread your word far and wide.

28. Link it up

Hyperlinks are what weave the web together so use them often and every time you do you are opening up another gateway into your fan page.

29. Flip the funnel

Drive your fans back to your website for new blog posts.

Make sure that your blog has social sharing and many of your fans will “like” your blog posts and tweet it out to their followers on twitter as well.

30. Track your growth with Facebook insights

Facebook insights shows you how many fans you have over time, and some fairly detailed demographic information as well.

Using this knowledge you can analyze what activities drive the most growth, and then duplicate your success.

31. Analyze your demographics with insights

Facebook demographics are a powerful feature of insights that allows you to determine the gender and age of the people in your page.  Once you know this information you can focus your content to appeal to the age group and gender of your fans.

Here is the demographic information of the FacebookFlow fan page:

32. Talk and Blog about your page

Word of mouth does not start itself. Get the conversation going by mentioning your facebook page in blog posts and in every day conversation.

33. Learn more about Facebook

The more you know about facebook the more you can use this knowledge to drive the gowth your community.

34. Drive more traffic to your website

Use these tips to get more free traffic to your website. Make sure that your “Like Box” is featured prominently, and plenty of this traffic will “Like” your page.

35. Produce Epic Content

If your blog content is epic this will drive the growth of your page in a serious way.

Epic content has the best chance of going viral and if a blog post goes viral this also causes it to move up in the rankings in Google, leading to even more traffic, a percentage of which will convert to fans.36. Install a like button into your posts

Installing a like button into your posts will help drive extra traffic to your posts and it will also show that facebook is an integral part of your brand.

If you have a self hosted wordpress blog I recommend installing the WP FB Like plugin.

The more you can integrate facebook with your site the more likely people will be to join your facebook page.

37. Make a Facebook like sign

Blue Sky Factory created a  Facebook “Like” sign tool that you can use to create a cool image that will help promote your facebook page.

38. Buy Them

Although I do not recommend this option, there are several services out there that sell facebook likes.

The first 1,000 fans are usually the hardest to get so a service like this might help you get the critical mass needed to get more genuine organic fans.

39. Run a targeted ad campaign

Facebook advertising is exceptionally powerful due to the ability it offers to hyper target your market.

Facebook ads can be targeted based on age, location, and interests.

40. Turn your customers into fans

If someone likes you enough to buy your product then there is a good chance that they will like you on facebook as well.

Rig up your “thank you” page with a facebook “Like Box” and you’ll be good to go!

41. Advertise your page

The more you advertise your page the more fans you will be able to achieve.

Facebook advertising is a smart way to promote since you can target specific demographic and interest groups.

You will need a sales funnel in place in order to justify an advertising budget and I recommend setting this up prior to advertising on Facebook.

42. Use Hoot-suite to manage your page

By using Hoot-suite to manage your facebook pages you can maximize engagement by scheduling your posts ahead of time to go out when they will get the most attention.

Facebook posts get the most engagement early in the morning and a few hours before bed.

43. Get an attractive profile picture

A picture says a thousand words, so to really optimize your business page you should use the largest profile picture possible.

Currently the maximum profile picture size is 200 x 600 pixels.

44. Do a “fan of the month” promotion

By highlighting one of your best fans every month you indirectly encourage fans to engage more, so that they can win the coveted fan of the month title the next month.

Offer a monthly prize, such as a cool free product or service related to your brand, and the competition for this title will only increase.

45. Message your friends and ask them to join

This tried and tested method takes more ground work, but this method will allow you to build relationships and target the friends that you think are the most relevant to your page.

46. Include a link to your fan page in your forum signature

If you are active in any forums you will have the option to attach a “signature” to every post that you write.

Throw a link in your signature to your facebook page, and it will be clicked.

Do your best to add value and answer questions with your posts, and people will be more inclined to click your link and join your page.

A link with a call to action is more likely to get clicked than a link alone, so go with “Join my Facebook Page: www.facebook.com/SciFisFilms” instead of simply: “www.facebook.com/SciFisFilms”

47. Create a redirect URL

Creating a redirect to your facebook fan page is one way to “presell” the people who click it on joining your page.

For example, if your link is: www.yourdomain.com/joinmyfacebookpage anyone who clicks it will probably join your page.

48. Give away fan page swag

Websites like Zazzle make it easy for people to customize swag, such as the nifty “you like this” t-shirt below.

If you gave away shirts (or mugs, or stickers) like this with your facebook url included you could easily amass an army of walking billboards for your facebook page.

49. Find more facebook friends

The more friends you have, the better your chances will be that some of these friends will join your fan page.

Facebook has a “Find Your Friends Tool” that allows you to import your contact list from a variety of email clients, or an email list.

This tool also displays “People you may know” which I have found is very good at suggesting people that have many mutual friends as me.

50. Share this article with your facebook friends

If you share this post with your facebook friends and it will become obvious to them that getting more fans important to you, and if you have included a link to your facebook page in your info box or the “Website” section of your website there is a good chance that they will click it.

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