Posts Tagged ‘Facebook’
Selling through Facebook or Pinterest without a Web Site
Wednesday, May 23rd, 2012An entrepreneur in the ActSeed community recently asked if it was possible to sell a unique fashion accessory through Facebook or Pinterest with no traditional web site. Here’s what we told them…
Facebook and Pinterest are often great venues to market your product, but keep in mind you will need an ecommerce platform to actually transact business.
Have you considered eBay and Bonanza.com? You can open up storefronts on eBay and Bonanza for very little money. You can post your products there. You can even post on Craigslist and drive business back to one of the other sites if you want.
We recommend using Facebook pages and Pinterest as marketing and promotional venues to draw buyers back to your storefront(s). Don’t rule out the value of setting up a simple web site and unique domain name. For less than $100, you can have a domain and a WordPress web site where you can blog about your items, embed your eBay store and draw even more attention to your products, including a good ranking in Google’s search engine.
All in, you can get set up and manage this combination of social media and ecommerce for around $30 per month (plus listing fees on eBay). Just a few years ago, it would be unthinkable to build a good web commerce and marketing presence for anything less than a few thousand dollars a month.
If you really want to turn up your promotional engine and reach thousands of reporters and media outlets (and an amazing social media dashboard that puts your Facebook and Twitter “on steroids”), you can add the Vocus and PRWeb small business marketing suite for a few hundred dollars a month, which will pay for itself through the time it will save you in managing and optimizing your social media activity. The Vocus team will give you a great demo here.
ActSeed: Lots to Like and $Thousands$ to Give Away
Tuesday, November 30th, 2010GOAL: 10,000 Facebook “Likes” in 2010.
You are an important part of our achieving this milestone, and we’ve organized a fun contest to reward you for your help!
ActSeed’s commitment to helping entrepreneurs and small business owners seems to be resonating.
For this, we are grateful.
ActSeed quickly eclipsed 3,000 “Likes” on Facebook and the ActSeed.com community is benefiting as a result. Browse our Facebook Wall to see how together we are collaboratively sharing information and opportunities. Again, thank you for being part of this energy!
It’s an ambitious goal to reach 10,000 “Likes” before the end of 2010 and we’re ready to reward you for helping us.
FUN CONTEST. SIMPLE RULES.
- ActSeed will send $500 to the person who has the most Facebook Friends who “Like” ActSeed at the end of 2010. The arrow (see image) shows where you click to suggest ActSeed to all of your Facebook Friends. Tell your friends why small business success is critical to all of us. It’s that simple!
- If ActSeed achieves its goal of 10,000 Likes before 2011, another $500 will be given to a randomly selected follower of ActSeed’s Facebook page, so everyone has another chance for $500!
- Additionally, five randomly selected followers of ActSeed’s Facebook page will receive a free ActSeed Entrepreneur Group lifetime membership worth $468 per year.
HOW TO BE CONSIDERED FOR THE “MOST FRIEND LIKES” $500:
- When you visit the ActSeed Facebook page, you should see a box in the left column titled “[#] Friends Like This” (see image for example).
- Capture a screen shot (image) that shows how many of your friends like ActSeed and email it to 10k@actseed.com on or before December 31, 2010. Please include your Facebook link (found on your Facebook Info page) so we can contact you to verify the number of your Friend Likes.
Our focus is to help you establish a solid foundation on which to build your business.
No matter what you are building, you need a solid foundation: people, plan and process.
Big things are on the way throughout the ActSeed community and for you in 2011. We are committed to helping spur the greatest year for entrepreneurship and small business success in every corner of the US and globally and we’re glad you are joining us to be a part of this revolution!
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