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We have worked hard the last weeks and added many channels for you to connect with us. Now we want to show you all of these channels:

Our newest channel is our sweepstake, Win 1 Year Free Credit Card Processing.

Contact Channels

• Phone

You have general Questions about Social Business Bank, a product or a service?

Call (888) 255 4162

• Email
  

You don´t like calling? Just email your questions at sales@socialbusinessbank.com

• Apply Now -  Page

You want to apply for a Merchant Account for your Business? Great! Just fill out the form on our Apply Now Site. We can get you setup instantly!

• Online-Chat

You have a problem and need help immediately? Go to our website, and start typing your problem into the Chat-Box field. The next free Expert will answer you question immediately.

Information Channels

• Twitter

You love micro-blogging-systems like Twitter? You like to join conversions and chat with people? Follow sbbcorp on Twitter and keep up-to-date.

• Facebook

Need to know more about Social Business Bank? Become a Fan of Social Business Bank on Facebook to not miss the latest and greatest about Social Business Bank

• Newsletter

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• Merchant Guide – Feed

A new way of content delivering are feeds. Subscribe to our Merchant Guide Feed and add it on Google Reader or any other RSS Feed Reader.

Decide yourself how you want to contact us or inform you about Social Business Bank! And don’t forget to enter the Sweepstakes at http://www.SocialBusinessBank.com/win.
We are looking forward to answer your questions: (888) 255-4162. If you want to know more about Social Business Bank visit http://www.socialbusinessbank.com or follow us on Twitter (corporate account)!

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Facebook and its community is growing every day. When we can trust the numbers of Facebook´s statistics, there are more than 400 million active users on Facebook.What a great place for companies to interact with customers and to promote corporate/product branding.

In this arctile we want to show, how easy it is to create a Fan Page for your company and brand. So, let´s get started!

Common Mistakes

Many companies want to use Facebook for branding, that´s great, if you do it right! A very common mistake is to create a group or a private profile for your company.

Facebook has designed Fan Pages exactly for companies, so why not use them? There are many advantages we can extract from Fan Pages, which you’ll find outlined below.

How to create a Facebook Page

If you´re currently logged in to Facebook, log out now. Go to facebook.com, at the bottom on the right you can see “Create a Page for a celebrity, band or business.“. Click on it or use the link given here. Now you can select the category of your page and also the name of your page. If you select “Do not make Page publicly visible at this time.” no one can see your page now, you can design it and publish it, when you think you´re ready.

Info, Picture, Tabs and more

Info

Logo

To show your fans who you are, create an amazing logo, you can also add your phone number and your website to the picture. Not to small, but: your images should not be larger than  600px (height) x 200px (width).

Tabs

Beyond the standard tabs, like Wall and Info, you can create your own Tabs and also create your own content for this Tabs. Use this feature to build a well-designed landing page! Here´s a how-to guide which will help you with this steps: Mashable: Build a Facebook Landing Page

Share your content

So everythings fine, but your Wall looks like the Sahara dessert. If you have running a Business Blog or a Twitter account, connect them your Facebook Page to fill your Wall with great blog posts and tweets. To share your blog content add the app NetworkedBlogs and click on “Register a new Blog” and fill out required fields. To add your Twitter account to your page, use this link and click “Link to Twitter”.

You need Fans

First rule: Ask all your friends! Why not? It´s  your business which you want to promote. Also add a Facebook-Badge to your Blog, so every blog reader can also become your Faceook Fan. Some Forums also have groups called  “Facebook Fan Exchange”. That´s another way to get friend on you Facebook Fan Page.

And if you share high quality content, your Fan group will grow constantly.

Another hint: When you have reached 25 Fans you can create your own Facebook Fan Page URL. Goto http://facebook.com/username and click on “Set a username for your Pages“, but be careful, once created you can never change this name.

Here you can see the Social Business Bank Fan Page, hop on the link and become a fan now.

Good Luck!