I’ve been searching high and low for an e-commerce front end for my upcoming online store.

After researching for months and building my own e-commerce store from open source codes and hiring a few freelancers, the project didn’t turn out as I had expected, and I decided to start from scratch through other sources.
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Facebook is a personal social network, it’s where friends and family stay in touch, connect, update each other, etc. It was never made for business (until not long ago). However many marketers and brands treat it as another advertising medium to promote their product. Ssssstoopp it..

Last week I wrote a post on how you can humanize your social media presence. One of the methods that I recommended was rewarding your customers. Sophia.C commented and shared her thoughts that rewarding customers is tough because small businesses have a limited budget.

True, you shouldn’t blow your budget. Little things means a lot in my honest opinion, its the small things that makes a big difference. Some ideas won’t cost you a lot, if they do, you could always do them on a smaller scale.

Here is a list that I have complied with the help of some of my friends from Google+, Facebook and Twitter.
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I had a conversation with one of my friends on twitter. We were discussing about the importance of humanizing a brand on the social web, sadly not many businesses are taking the opportunity to do it. Some of them treats it as another advertising medium to promote and sell their bad product.

Yesterday, I wrote a couple of methods that brands can use to humanize their brand on Facebook, so I decided to take them and convert it into a picture.  (my photoshop skills needs tons of improvement).
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