What are your thoughts on selling on Facebook?

[Graham Shand]

A few companies we have done work for have started a Facebook page, the whole idea is the more "likes" you get the higher up the google search engine you go, if you have something to show, sell or promote it seems like a very popular way to stay in touch with clients.

[David Rogers]

I researched web ranking strategy a while back and facebook likes do not impact rankings in any way…at least not on google.

If however you website domain is mentioned a lot in relevant text paragraphs on you facebook page it MAY show up in the natural listings.

Dave

ps. facebook business accounts are a good bit harder to like & get liked back as YOU can only ‘like’ other businesses’ not people which leads many people ot cheat and do business profiles on personal accounts.

we do a fair bit of gallery / updates on our page – works for in in that regard

[David Rowland]

well the benefit with FB is your friends might be customers, so that is useful if they "Like" something. We just started this and to be honest, it can be a struggle to get new customers to see it.

it has appeared in Google tho

[Lee Attewell]

We use it as an instant method to update folio stuff or interact with our clients.

Check us out

http://www.facebook.com/grafficjam

Like me and I’ll like you 😉

**Edit** I wanted to also say that we’ve picked up some good work from FB.

Hi Dave, I’m loving your FB page 🙂

[Martin Pearson]

More & more businesses seem to be using social media to sell, had a discussion a while ago with someone who wasn’t sure if it was a professional thing to do or not. I get emails regularly (well the spam bin does) from people offering to set me up a business facebook page so I am guessing in time it will be swamped with people all selling the same thing.

[Harry Cleary]

Those Farmville people keep selling me sheep and cows and stuff…..place is a menagerie here! 😮 😀

[David Rowland]

quote Harry Cleary:

Those Farmville people keep selling me sheep and cows and stuff…..place is a menagerie here! 😮 😀

on the top right of those post, there is a button… press it… it will offer to block "that post" or "all posts" related to ShiteVille… problem solved.

[Harry Cleary]

quote Dave Rowland:

on the top right of those post, there is a button… press it… it will offer to block “that post” or “all posts” related to ShiteVille… problem solved.

I would but I need the meat! Recession! 😀

[Lee Attewell]

Not very filling are they Harry?

Back on subject…it’s easy to set up a FB page, you just have to start.

The main thing is to get some likes so that it holds your page name. I don’t know how many you need to get the Facebook.com/yourpage address but I think every little bit helps.

Plus FB is easy to have a read of on a phone where a website isn’t.

[Hugh Potter]

I have a facebook page set up for the business but only to use as a portfolio, I don’t actively try and sell directly from it, I upload recent jobs I want to share, use it to show clients / friends, and customers / staff might be tagged in the picture so as their friends, colleagues and associates see it. have had some enquiries from it but like all free advertising, its just a little cog in a bigger machine for me.

[Gordon Galloway]

You can have a free online shop on Facebook using Vendorshop

[Denise Goodfellow]

quote Gordon Galloway:

You can have a free online shop on Facebook using Vendorshop

Thank you Gorden. I`m looking into it a we speak.

[Ian Pople]

Hi,

I have set up a selling page as a test been up for a few months but its hard for customers to find the link on FB because they are not used to buying of FB.

[Gordon Connelly]

I know a lot of people in the web and SEO industry who have wasted a lot of time on Facebook and Twitter stuff. I was nearly one of them myself but I struggled to see the potential as a marketing tool unless you were willing to pay someone famous to promote your brand or products… and in that narrow sense, I expect it has paid off for some but not many.

If you find it useful for communicating with clients and showing the pictures etc then I’d be happy at that and expect very little else from it.

Selling on there with "buy now" buttons etc seems a bit odd to me when you have a website for doing that? Why not do it on your website where you can push your brand (rather than Mark Zuckerberg’s) and control every aspect of the process?

If you want to avoid costs and do it yourself then you could install wordpress for free, giving you a complete Content Managed facility that you could update and manage from anywhere in the world.

I’ve never really understood the whole Facebook and Twitter thing so I could be the wrong person to talk about this; I’m probably anti-social or something…