How do I write a recommendation on Facebook app?

Did you know Facebook allows you to ask your friends to recommend places to visit in specific cities (even your own)? For instance, if you’re planning a vacation, you may want to ask your friends for restaurant recommendations in the area. Or, you may be looking for a great mechanic in your own town. Whatever you’re looking for, our guide will show you how this feature works.

Note: These screenshots were captured in the Facebook application on iOS.

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Can one recommend your business or brand on Facebook when somebody asks where to eat or shop or party or something similar? If, yes then you need to enable Facebook Recommendations, which was earlier known as Facebook Reviews, on your page. Let’s learn how to enable Facebook Recommendations.

Why Facebook Recommendations?

By the time you must have noticed your friends or family members asking for a good Pizza Outlet, Restaurant, Dental Clinic, Photographer, Pre-School, Café, Jeweler, Bakery, Caterer, Event Manager, etc . OR Many of them when visit such places they check-in and they recommend the place. Right?

As per Facebook, today every third person on Facebook uses this platform to look for a recommendation or review about something or the other.

That’s a great opportunity for marketing and sales, as recommendations by a friend have more importance than the paid advertisement. To take an advantage of this, your Facebook Page must have enabled the Facebook Page Recommendations and Reviews.

How to Enable Facebook Recommendations?

Let’s take an example of a bakery, BonzerBites.

On the left side of your Facebook Page if Reviews tab is not appearing that means you have not enabled the same.

To turn on this feature, you need to go to settings and there click Templates and Tabs. Scroll down and click on the button Add a Tab.

Find Reviews and click on the Add Tab button.

Done you are good to go!

Now Reviews tab should be visible on the left side of the page. If there were any past reviews those should also be visible now in Recommendations and Reviews section.

Now your business is open for Facebook Recommendations and Reviews.

Remember You Cannot Delete Facebook Recommendations

While it’s good to receive recommendation and reviews, it has a flip side too.

You just cannot delete a Recommendation with a negative feedback. But, you can report it.

If you are sure that a particular Facebook Recommendations doesn’t follow Community Standards or don’t focus on the product or service offered by your business, you can report it to Facebook.

Reporting a recommendation is simple. Go to a particular Recommendation and click the exclamatory mark in the top right beside three dots.

That will open a POPUP with title What’s going on? You should see few tags such as Review not relevant, Unfair Review, Nudity, Violence, Harassment, Suicide, Spam, Drugs, Hate Speech, etc.

Select the appropriate tag and click send. Done.

Facebook will review your report and may remove Recommendations that don’t follow the standards.

For any reason till certain duration if you don’t want people to recommend your business, you can do it in few clicks.

Go to settings.  Click Templates and Tabs. Now locate Reviews and click settings. Just turn off the Show Reviews button. Now neither review will be visible nor will anybody be able to leave a new review.

Conclusion

If you have enabled Facebook Recommendations and Reviews, you stand a chance to gain new customers. If you have a great product or service which keeps your customers happy, they will certainly recommend your business in their community.

If you own or manage a business page on Facebook, you can use recommendations to attract more customers. Many marketing studies have confirmed that people trust word-of-mouth and recommendations more than other forms of advertising. When someone recommends you on Facebook, they vow for the quality of your products or services.

You can also use Facebook recommendations to brainstorm with friends for specific ideas. For example, if you don’t know what TV series you should start watching, you can ask for recommendations. Let’s explore how businesses and regular users can use this feature.

How to Set up Facebook Reviews

Follow the steps below to set up Facebook reviews or recommendations for your business page.

1. Go to Settings
2. Select Templates and Tabs
3. Select the template you want to use
4. Toggle on the Reviews tab

People can now recommend your products or services. Potential customers can check the Reviews section to learn more about your business.

How Do I Ask for Recommendations on Facebook?

You can create a new post and ask your friends for specific suggestions or recommendations. For example, if you want to go to an Italian restaurant but don’t know which one to choose, simply create a post where friends can suggest restaurants in a specific area.

1. Go to What’s on your mind?
2. Type your question and give people additional information about the recommendations you need
   
3. You can select Add a Location if you need location-based recommendations
4. Choose the audience of your post and hit the Post button

The stand-alone “Ask for Recommendations” option is no longer available under “What’s on your mind.” Alternatively, you can also add a poll to your story on Facebook. Ask your question, add the options and let your friends vote for their favorite option. Remember that you need to log into the Facebook app for iOS or Android to add a poll to your story.

Conclusion

To enable recommendations on your Facebook business page, go to “Templates and Tabs” and enable the Reviews tab. If you simply want to ask friends for recommendations for a specific activity, go to “What’s on your mind,” type your question and publish the post. Alternatively, you can also add a poll to your Facebook story.

Do you often rely on Facebook recommendations when making a purchasing decision? Do you think social media recommendations are relevant? Share your thoughts in the comments below.

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