Monday, July 25, 2011

Automatically promote your special offers on Facebook.

In this short article, we will see how easy it is to create and promote your special offers using the Facebook campaign feature.

VendingBox supports 2 ways of creating special offers. If you have imported your catalog from your Zen Cart or osCommerce store,  your special prices are automatically set up, so skip down to the Facebook campaign section below.

Creating special offers

Find the product you want to add as a special offer, using 'Manage Products -> Search ' as shown here.
Edit the product by clicking the little pen icon in the product row.




Scroll down and enter a date range for the special offer. Usually this is s short time that the item is avaiable!

In this case we will make some MMA gloves available for the crazy low price of 5.00





Apply details.

Repeat this for as many products as you like. Once done, you can then create the promotional campaigns.



Facebook campaigns


The following easy steps show you how to get started with Facebook campaigns.

1. Choose 'Facebook Campaigns' from the left menu.



2. Click the "Get Started" link , giving the application permission to make posts to your page.

  


3. Allow the page to reload, and 'Create a new Campaign'. 
Once created you will be ready to begin adding your special offers.



4. Search for products to add to this promotional campaign, and choose 'Add' for each one.


When done, go 'back to campaigns' and configure your schedule.
5. Choose a slogan and a schedule for your campaign

In this case it might be simply "Special Offer! Mad price for gloves." 


There are lots of schedules to choose from, ranging from hourly to weekly. If you want to repeat the campaign once all the products in your list have completed, simply tick the 'Repeat' option.

The system already knows all of the Facebook pages you own, so you can choose the page to post the products. Enable the campaign, save, and watch it all happen for you. 

So what does it look like once posted?





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