It’s important to speak from the heart when asking for your friends for help. Starting today you can customize your requests for recommendations on Stik.com. It’s simple.

Visit your recommendations page and you will be prompted to create customized text for all future requests. We insert your friend’s individual name, provide some sample text and you write a message that your friends will recognize as uniquely yours. Your friends are more likely to respond when they believe the message came from you.

Here’s an example (see screenshot to the right):

Hi John – I really appreciate when friends are willing to vouch for me. Please visit my Stik profile where you can “Recommend” me as trusted realtor serving Oakland County. Thanks!

You can always go back and edit your customized request by visiting the  messages tab on your account page. There you can edit all of your custom requests (see screenshot below)

As always, the Stik.com team is here to help. Email us at support@stik.com.

You probably noticed that Facebook has converted your business page to the Timeline, like it or not. We’ve optimized the Stik.com tab to fit the new design. Just follow these simple steps to add your Stik.com recommendations and reviews to your Facebook business page:

(click on any of the screenshots to see a full screen version):

1. Visit Stik.com and click on the to-do item that says, “Add a Stik.com tab to your Facebook Page.”*
*If it already indicates this task is done then you should be set but you can always go back and configure again.
2. Choose the Facebook page to which you’d like to add the Stik App and click save.
3. Once you’ve completed these two steps go to your Facebook business page and you will see the Stik.com logo underneath the cover photo. 
4. Visitors who click on that link will see your Stik.com recommendations on you Facebook page. 

If you have any feedback on this feature, please send us an email at support@stik.com.  This is a new tool, so if you have a good idea we just might add it!

Stik to who you know!

*Unfortunately, you cannot add a tab to your personal Facebook profile, only business Facebook Pages.  Facebook used to allow tabs on personal profiles, but they have since discontinued that feature.  Sorry that we can’t provide a better solution — we would love to support personal profiles, but it doesn’t seem likely to happen in the near future.

Your Stik.com profile shows off personalized recommendations and reviews that help potential clients trust you and feel comfortable doing business with you.  But what if you want to share more information about your business?

Starting today, you can display updates from your Facebook fan page on your Stik.com profile.  If you’re already working hard to create useful content for people on Facebook, it’s a no-brainer to display your posts publicly on your Stik.com profile as well.

Here’s how:

Visit your profile and click on the “Recent Activity” tab. (Don’t worry — this tab won’t appear to others unless you have already connected your Facebookfan page.) Then, click on the link to “Display your Facebook content here” and choose the fan page you’d like to display. It’s as simple as that!

A few quick notes:

• If you receive a message that your fan page cannot be displayed, the problem is that page is not accessible to people who are not logged in to Facebook. To change that, go to your fan page in Facebook and click the “Edit Page” button. At the very top of the “Manage Permissions” tab on the edit menu you will see page visibility options. Make sure that your page is visible to people in all countries and people of all ages. If you have either “Country Restrictions” or “Age Restrictions” set then visitors to your Stik.com profile will not be able to view your fan page.

• Don’t have a Facebook Page but want to create one?  Go here to get started

• Still looking to build up your recommendations and reviews?  Go here to request recommendations or email us if you have questions.

You just registered as a professional at Stik.com. Congrats! (If you haven’t then do it now at Stik.com)

We’ve designed Stik.com to be a low maintenance tool for sales professionals to engage with consumers who already have a connection with them. However, here is one way to use Twitter to jumpstart the advantages that a Stik.com profile offers:

Tweet your profile. It’s easy and has real benefits.  You can use our Tweet button right from your profile and adjust the auto text as necessary.  Tweeting your profile will:

• Increase the number of visitors to your page, both to recommend you and to check out your services
• Build valuable links in search engines, increasing your search ranking on sites like Google

Google recently started integrating their social results with all other results. So now when your Google contacts search for realtor (see screenshot) they may see your result sooner than they would have pre-social search — but only if you get your Stik.com profile out in the social sphere.

So Tweet it today!