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The second type of f-commerce that takes place with Facebook is Facebook-Initiated Selling, which pretty much uses one of the tabs of a business’s Facebook page as a “Store” that links to a website that completes the sales transaction. The popular opinion of folks who specialize in Facebook Marketing says that you should always keep the user within the Facebook site, as users generally hate to leave it. 
Had any experience with Facebook-initiated selling? Tell us about it.
You can’t just jump onto Facebook, set up a Facebook page, and expect the money to start rolling in. A large part of the success (or failure) that a small business will face will come down to the investment of time and resources expended into developing relationships and engaging your customers on this particular platform. The following information will assume that you’ve done the necessary legwork to make Facebook work for you, and as such will show you how you can augment the great relationships you’ve built when it’s time to monetize these connections at your organization.
The first type of Facebook commerce is the Facebook-Facilitated On-Site Selling Method. With this method, a company brings an element of Facebook (usually the Like Box or Button) to their company website through social plugins. You may have noticed this if you’ve ever been logged into your Facebook account and visited a website like Chick-Fil-A.com. If you scroll down to the bottom of the website, you’ll see an integrated LIKE button, the number of people on Facebook who liked the brand, as well as a number of the Facebook friends I’m connected to that also clicked the LIKE button. The idea here, is if you’re on a company’s site, and can see what your friends think about them, you’ll be more inclined to shop there.
What are your thoughts about the future of Facebook for business?
With a purported 700+ million users, spending upwards of 700 billion minutes per month, with at least 130 friends, in the form of 90 pieces of published content per day, Facebook is now a formidable component of how people spend their time online and via mobile devices. The relaxed, word-of-mouth social networking site has become a key place for businesses to market their wares and connect with their stakeholders, and it has spawned a new phenomenon that’s been given its own term “f-Commerce” (short for Facebook Commerce).
The actual Facebook + Commerce mission is about “helping commerce partners use Facebook to create social and personalized shopping experiences” by sharing best practices and tools to help businesses increase registration and conversions, drive referral traffic, and deepen user insights on your site. Over the next few blog posts, I will break down in real terms, the potential that you have as a small business for using Facebook as a sales medium.
Specifically, we’re going to look at the four (4) type of Facebook Commerce that are out there:
Come back each week as we explore each topic.
Have you tried f-commerce (Facebook Commerce), what’s been your experience?
Online marketing, Search Engine Marketing, Search Advertising, Internet Marketing, and Pay Per Click (PPC) Advertising are different terms used to describe the activity of using the web to funnel qualified leads to your website. Though the names may vary, they all have one goal in mind: To attract new customers to your business by connecting you to the ones that are already searching for what you have to offer.
Google AdWords is the Pay Per Click Advertising program to the most popular search engine in the world that gets over a billion searches a day (yes, that's 1,000,000,000+). It's fast, easy, and flexible, and you get to decide how much you want to spend, plus the pay-per-click advertising model means that you don't actually have to pay unless someone clicks on your ad!
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Kindra Cotton, Small Business Survival Specialist
Today, June 30th is "Social Media Day". I'm not really sure what all that means, but I love Mashable and celebrating, so I'm going with it! LOL.
Mashable calls it "A day to celebrate the revolution of media being social", but I'm sure many others are calling it "an excuse to party!".
I thought today would be a great day to try and answer the question: "What is Social Media?". Even as a person that’s been doing this for some time, I can tell you that you’d be hard pressed to find a concrete answer to this question, and that’s because the term is so broad and the technology and mechanisms on which it works changes rapidly. Despite this, today I’m going to endeavor to explain what social media is, and how it works, and I hope that someone will find my effort to be useful.
A while ago, I came across an excellent video on YouTube by Common Craft called "Social Media in Plain English" that talks about this, and it sums of how social media works great. I really didn’t expect much, but much to my surprise this brief 4-minute video did an EXCELLENT job of explaining social media and how it works in terms that almost everyone can understand: Ice Cream. In this week's podcast, I do my best to try and sum up the video, but you're more than welcomed to watch it below, and leave your comments and let me know what you think about it or today's podcast.
Kindra Cotton, Small Business Survival Specialist