Sign-up for TabSite's "Getting Started" Webinar! (It's free!)
Wednesday, March 14, 2012 2:00 PM EDT / 11 AM PDT
Perfect for newcomers and those wanting a refresher on the tools and widgets in TabSite. Included will be a live demo on how to build a custom tab for your fan page and use multiple features of TabSite.
Addressed will be basics such as:
Adding Images to my Image Tray and tabs
Creating a ProductShow
Changing the Background Color
Adding a new Sub-Page to a fan page tab
Modifying a Template
Join TabSite co-founders, Troy Rumfelt and Mike Gingerich, for a fast moving and practical webinar.
There will be live demo in the TabSite Manager for approximately 30 minutes followed by a Question and Answer time block. Again, this is a good starter session for Fan Page Admins.
TabSite is pleased to announce a new addition to the VideoShow widget enabling users to set the videos in the show to auto-scroll to grab users attention and to quickly showcase all videos available for viewing.
The VideoShow widget has always allowed Silver and Gold Plan TabSite users the capability to setup a series of YouTube videos that users can scroll through to see a description of, then select and play in-line on the fan page. Now with the new enhancement, fan page Admins using TabSite can setup the VideoShow videos to auto-scroll at a set interval across the page.
This feature helps grab the attention of the visitor and enables them to quickly see there are multiple video options. The arrow functions to go left and right are still active for the user, enabling them to have power to review the videos of their choice while the auto-scroll draws them in and quickly shows them the videos available for viewing.
A key benefit of the VideoShow widget for your fan page is the ability to pick specific videos to add to the list rather than showing your full YouTube Channel. Each can have a unique description customized you the Page Admin or use the YouTube description with one-click import.
Now with auto-scroll, the VideoShow widget has even more customization power to enable you to showcase your best videos!
With a great turnout from our 636 webinar registrants, we had great engagement related to TabSite's new professional Templates, the coming Contests tool, Facebook's pending Timeline for Pages and our new PlanYourPost.com social media post planning system.
AND THE WINNER of the Free-For-Life TabSite Gold Plan is:
Easy post scheduling, monitoring, and analytics per post for Facebook and Twitter is here!
Plan Your Post allows you to pre-schedule posts to Facebook Pages, Profiles, and Groups, as well as Twitter. Plan Your Post also provides valuable analytics per post, a url shortener (pyp2.me), and the ability to track and monitor your brand and key terms.
Use Plan Your Post to manage your Facebook and Twitter posting for multiple social accounts!
Users of TabSite can integrate one-click back and forth toggling between the two services, giving you lots of power with the 2 platforms together.
PlanYourPost.com is a separate online platform from the developers of TabSite. You do need a unique login and account that is separate from your TabSite account. The two online social media platforms do work together enabling you to connect accounts and have 1-click access between the two systems.
Those with a TabSite Gold Plan are eligible for an enhanced FREE version of Plan Your Post that includes:
Add up to 5 Social Accounts (fan pages, Groups, a profile, and twitter accounts)
Unlimited Scheduled Posts
Option to get e-mail alerts when scheduled posts deploy
Analytics per posts including "Likes" and "Shares" (for Facebook), ReTweets (Twitter), unique views and total views
Archiving of sent posts for up to 60 days with ability to access
25MB Storage Quota for Images
One Click Connect
How to connect the two services: From TabSite, click the bar at the top of the Manager page to access PlanYourPost.com. On the initial connection, there is ability to connect any plan of Tabsite to PlanYourPost, or another option specifically for those with a Gold TabSite plan to click and get the enhanced FREE+ version of PlanYourPost.com.
TabSite Gold users can create a Plan Your Post Account and then within the My Account area of Plan Your Post there is a "Link to TabSite Gold" option. This gives any TabSite Gold Plan user a FREE+ (enhanced free version) of Plan Your Post!
TabSite is pleased to offer a requested functionality addition to the Master Admin role offered within the TabSite Manager.
TabSite users can add Master Admins to any TabSite Plan (Free-Gold) so that the Master Admin can access and manage the tabs and content on the tabs of that fan page. Now TabSite has added the ability for the TabSite user to grant Payment update access to Master Admins.
This new feature for Master Admins is an additional toggle that can be checked for Master Admins that will give them ability to see the payment status for that fan page and to be able to update the credit card that will be used for billing to one of their own credit cards on record. Master Admins never have access to the credit card number of the TabSite user that granted them Master Admin permissions so security is always maintained but this addition allows for the situations where one user creates a TabSite account but another person such as a Community Manager does most of the tab updating.
Now the Master Admin can ensure that the fan page service is current in the event a a credit card has expired.
Current TabSite plan users wanting to give this function to existing Master Admins should go to the Account Information area in the TabSite Manager and under "Administrator Manager", select the fan page to grant access to, add a Master Admin and check the "Payment Profile Access" box. Existing Master Admins would need to be removed and then re-added with the new feature to enable the functionality for them. This is per fan page.
It could become an exciting date for brands and businesses if the latest Facebook rumors are true!
Business Insider is reporting that Facebook is in the process of launching Timeline for Brand pages and that an official announcement will be made on February 29th, when Facebook holds its invitation only Facebook Marketers Council.
With the company making all users switch over to the new timeline format, the next potential step is to allow brand pages access to the same features. Considering the story-line style look of Timeline, companies will have different opportunities for engaging with their audience if the new format comes.
One source told Business Insider that, "Facebook pushed back the launch of Timeline for brands to the end of February....Those two pieces of information [the council and the pushing back of Timeline for brands] are too much of a coincidence."
The obvious big new feature of Facebook'sTimeline is the cover photo, but factors like the left-right presentation of posts and status updates, the chronological element of Timeline and the ability to find past moments or posts and highlight them on your wall, will certainly feature in the strategy of all social media marketers.
TabSite is staying tuned on any and all news in the Facebook developer areas and connections within Facebook to see what options there will be and how TabSite can be ready to assist our community with tools to work with Timeline.
Watch our fan page for updates and the latest information on these pending Facebook Timeline rumors. We'll also be addressing what we know and the latest Timeline updates in our February 16 TabSite Webinar.
TabSite is pleased to announce the release of templates for all TabSite users. Starting from the free plan level through Gold, TabSite makes it easy to select a pre-designed template that you can add, customize to your business/organization, and publish on your Facebook fan page.
New Templates will be added weekly!
Each template outlines the features and TabSite Plan level it is built with. During the selection process you have easy access to upgrade so that you get all features and widgets the template offers, or simply proceed and only the elements in the template available at your plan level will come across.
Example: If you have a Bronze TabSite and the template you select includes a PhotoShow (available at Silver and Gold), you would be offered the chance to upgrade to get all widgets in the template, or you can proceed and you would get all content, images, and other features minus the PhotoShow portion.
TabSite Fan Page templates range across many industries. Below is a small sampling of the templates, or click our TabSite.com/Templates link to view them all on our website.
To access the Templates, simply go to any tab in your TabSite manager and on the right where you access Widgets, simply click on the "Templates" tab (shown) and this will open the categories of templates.
Any templates you have saved using the "Save as Template" function appear under "My Templates" and then below this are the categories of templates that TabSite is offering.
Simply select a category and we will open the Template area where you can view all templates and get information on what each contains.
Upon finding the design that you want, simply click the 'select this design' button (shown below) and the template will be added. You would be prompted that your TabSite fan page plan does not include all widgets used in the template if that is the case. As noted, you can stop and go upgrade or you can proceed and get the template minus the widgets not at your plan level.
TabSite is pleased to offer pre-designed fan page templates to all users. Available at all TabSite Plan levels!
TabSite is pleased to announce a new feature to bring life and action to your fan page tabs!
AUTO-PLAY SLIDESHOWS! for PhotoShow and ProductShow
We've added features to our PhotoShow & ProductShow so that you can setup automatically rotating image slideshows! Setup the show, set the rotation duration to have images remain, and then grab user attention with automatically rotating images on your fan page TabSite tabs!
Now within both the PhotoShow and ProductShow widgets you can set the images to automatically advance on the timeframe you set. This feature is available to all TabSite users with Silver or Gold Plan TabSite accounts. Choose your image rotation interval from 1 second (fast!) to 7 seconds (slow) to capture the attention of your viewers!
See it in action on Facebook by clicking the image below...
Details on each TabSite Widget:
PhotoShow
ProductShow
- Add up to 30 images
- Add up to 30 images
- Link each image to a unique url
- Link each image to a unique url
- Set to Auto-Play or Manual advance
- Set to Auto-Play or Manual advance
- Great for showcasing staff, services!
- Great for selling products!
- Add a "Buy Now" button to each image
PhotoShow Widget Manager View:
So go ahead! Create awesome slideshows to showcase your business and team with PhotoShow, and create featured product slideshows with ProductShow!
With ProductShow you can easily link out each prodcut to a e-commerce store or PayPal purchase pages, enabling you to bring e-commerce to your fan page. As noted, PhotoShow and ProductShow are available to Silver and Gold Plan Tabsite users.
Addressed will be basics such as:
