Facebook Claim a business page

A Facebook Page may exist for your business even if you or someone else from your business didn't create it.

Some reasons when a page is created without you creating it:

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  when someone checks into a place that doesn't already have a Page, a new Page gets created to represent the location.


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  When some of your employer tries to add his work details on the Facebook profile when the company page is not available.

You can either report the page or claim it, if it is not administered. To claim it:

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   From the Page, click the menu.


2. 
   Select Is this your business?.


3. 
   Follow the steps that appear on your screen. Add and verify information about your business like the address and website and click Continue.


4. 
   Next, Facebook will ask you to claim your Page to prevent other people from becoming an admin without your permission. Choose to verify your connection to the business by Email or by uploading Documentation:
   
   
   
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     Email: Choose this option if you have an email address associated with your Facebook account that is officially issued to you by your business. Email addresses from generic providers like Yahoo! or Gmail will not be accepted. The email address should correspond to your business's name (ex: jane.doe@acmeproducts.com).
     
     
   
   
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     Documentation: Upload a scan or photo of an official document that shows your business's name and address (ex: phone bill, business license, business tax file, articles of incorporation, etc.).
     
     
   
   
   
   


5. 
   Click Submit.

Most of the above content are from the Facebook Help Center page on How do I claim a Page that already exists for my business?

There has been a common issue that there is no option "Is this your business?" to claim a page.

Clicking on 'Do you know the owner' option can send an email to a person you wish. But there are no options on the email to claim the page either; rather it merely redirects to the same page again with no option to claim the page.

Contacting Facebook regarding this has not helped many businesses and still the issue persists.

Is the Facebook option "Claim a (business) page" glitchy?

15 years of Googling!

Happy birthday to Google!

Check out their Google Doodle - http://www.google.com/

Here are some of their recent updates to their services:

Comparisons and filters in the Knowledge Graph, Updated version of the Google Search app on iOS with notifications upgrade and unified design on mobile devices. Read about the update 

Fifteen years on—and we’re just getting started

 

A richer hashtag experience in Google Search https://plus.google.com/102280279666307949456/posts/SguigRGSUQE

If you’re not yet using a Google+ profile or page on YouTube, this is more likely the right time - Check out the update - We hear you: Better commenting coming to YouTube

Post your thoughts as comments on these upcoming updates.

SocialNetGate Primary Blog

What is a primary blog? What is the use of Primary blog?

Primary blog is the blog whose URL will be shared on the social media sites on a publish activity via SocialNetGate. By default, when you sign up with SocialNetGate, we create a blog for your business with the URL username.blog.socialnetgate.com. This serves as the primary blog.

How do I change it?

If you have already created a blog(Wordpress, Blogger, etc.) and want it to be your primary blog, you can make that with SNG. Let us know the blog that you want to use as primary and we will do the rest.

Your blog post URL will be shared on Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and all other social media profiles when you publish content via SocialNetGate.

Check our support forum to know more...

Contact us via email at support@socialnetgate.com if you have any queries..

Social Media is more of engagement...

Social Media is more of engagement platform rather than mere marketing platform.



Businesses started using Social Media to market their brands and marketing only; No encouragement seen to have conversation by brands nor do they converse. Many of the businesses fail to look at the fact that Social Media Can be the best used channel/medium for customer relationship, customer support, engagement and more similar purposes.



Consumers have the right to voice their opinions, feedback, ask questions, post complaints, etc. That is the difference between the other traditional media and Social Media. Businesses forget that and so Social Media becomes a major disaster for those businesses. When the resources are tapped optimally, the results will be more delightful.



Cheers to Social Media Success :)

Google Update on products menu

Google has updated the way Google apps/products are listed in the menu.

Earlier it was listed horizontally on the black tab at the top as shown below. What happened to the Google black bar on the top?

But now the option has changed. There is a grid button at the top right near the username replacing the Black bar. Clicking on that button lists the Google Products.

First is the list of products Google, Search, YouTube, Maps, Play Sttore, News, Gmail, Drive and Calendar with a More link. Clicking on More reveals Translate, Books, Offers, Wallet, Shopping, Blogger, Finance and Photos with 'Even more from Google' link which directs to the Google Products list page.



This has not been rolled out publicly to all. If it is active, the black bar at the top will be replaced by the grid and the message as below

Here is the Google Announcement on the same - Updating the Google bar: many products, multiple devices

This will be rolled out to all over the next few weeks. Many of them have already started noticing the change.

Let us wait and watch for the reaction from the users on this new update.

Yelp’s mobile application is used on...

Yelp’s mobile application is used on nearly 10.4 million unique mobile devices on a monthly average basis last quarter... http://officialblog.yelp.com/2013/08/oh-snap-yelp-app-now-post-reviews-straight-from-your-mobile-device.html

10 years of Delicious

Delicious is one of the top bookmarking sites in the Social Media Era. It was started in 2003 and still remains a free and easy tool to save, organize, and discover interesting links on the web.  

Delicious has started adding new features, improving current ones, and even bringing back a few old favorites.

The sneak peek of the updates can be seen at http://next.delicious.com/

Check out the Delicious Blog on this update -

Ten Years of Delicious – Same Ingredients, Brand New Flavor

Go through the Beta version and share your feedback.

Pinterest has updated their Mobile apps...

Pinterest has updated their Mobile apps with 'Invite friends' feature. You can now start inviting your family and friends on-the-go - http://blog.pinterest.com/post/60776875944/invite-your-pals-on-the-go

Facebook - Professional Skills

Facebook personal profile has a new addition to update your 'Professional Skills'. This feature is similar to LinkedIn's  'Skills & Expertise'

Facebook tried with BranchOut for Professional Networking and has started taking leaps towards professional networking.

As a Facebook user, start updating your skills and improve your professional touch on your profile.

Let us wait to see more such changes. Also there are more updates to the Facebook platform. Stay with our blog to know more...

Facebook Timeline collage

Facebook tried updating Collage style of photos on Timeline.

If there is a person/brand that posts 5 images as individual images on a frequent succession, they will be shown in a collage format on your timeline. This seemed to appear for a short period as a trial.

Did anyone see/notice this? or does anyone see this still?

Post your thoughts.

Facebook Shared Albums

Facebook recently released a new feature "Shared Albums"

When you are creating an album, you can have your friends' share their images in your album. They can also edit your album. The album will be available in their timeline as well.

You will be the creator of the album and your friends, you give access to, will be the contributors. Contributors will be able to add photos and edit only photos they added.

You can invite upto 50 users to your shared album and everyone of them can share upto 200 photos.

Check out more from Facebook Help Center - Shared Albums

Stay tuned to SocialNetGate blog to know how to use Facebook Shared Album for business and get better audience engagement.

Microsoft to acquire Nokia

Microsoft to buy all of Nokia’s Devices & Services business and license of Nokia’s patents EUR 5.44 billion. The transsaction will be complete by the first quarter of 2014.



Has the last ray of hope on getting Android powered Nokia Smartphones diminished?



Pour in your thoughts on this.

Twitter conversations

Twitter Conversations - It has been very hard to track a conversation on Twitter. With the new update it has become easier to track a whole conversation rather than just looking at tweets as open strings

Some important points to note are:

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  On the home timeline, upto 3 tweets are shown with blue dotted lines.


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  Tap on a tweet to see more tweets on the conversation.


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  Retweeting is old; you can now share the whole conversation via email from web and as tweets on mobile apps.

Check the updates and other mobile apps update on Twitter Blog - Keep up with conversations on Twitter.

This has seen a vast negative comments on the webosphere, check the changes and post your thoughts as comments below.