Dec 2, 2010 1
E-Commerce in Facebook
The E-Commerce in Facebook is one form of social e-commerce or social commerce evolving. Is the sale of products and services through catalogs and online payment services specific to Facebook? The f-Commerce is enhanced by the ability to pinpoint segmentations, the loyalty of fans, the degree of confidence in prescribing – particularly family friends and co-work involved, speaks for itself and recommends, “That the facebook has network more than 400 million members worldwide. In 2009, the revenues of Facebook is $ 635 000 for advertising. So far Facebook was an interesting choice for targeted advertising campaigns and geo-localized with the option to pay per click (CPC) or per impression (CPM).
The following shows how facebook helps for E- Commerce:
1. Facebook has also been characterized by allowing commercial communication, development of brand image (branding) and certain services to distribution, totally free.
2. The growth of Facebook has been exponential, and the age range of people with higher growth is 35 to 40 years, say the user is not only active a young person / a young but mature and economically stable and the network is gone from being a marketing tool into a tool of electronic commerce.
E-Commerce Applications for Facebook:
1. One brand that stands out for its tactics in the world of f-Commerce transaction is Levi’s. At the time of writing the brand has 320,000 fans and promoted the sale through a system of electronic commerce called Friends Store which is an application developed for Facebook, through which visitors can click the catalog button Me, recommend the product to friends or invite others to navigate the site of Levi’s. They can also buy online.
2. Another success story is Procter & Gamble with its aggressive discount policy to fans of its Pantene brand, for example. All websites have the button group so that the user of the site is made fan of the brand (Herbal Essences, Gillette, Olay, Pampers, etc…), but above all, Procter & Gamble have their own e-commerce tool sure is called E-Store.
3. The social network Facebook and e-commerce platform seems very close, especially when you know that the network is developing its own virtual currency, to move within the Open Graph environment, to be called Facebook Credits.
4. Systems of online payment such as PayPal have made available to retailers with a version of its application and certainly we will be adding other systems and mechanisms and credit financial transaction that will facilitate the deployment of f-Commerce.
