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So, you’re just ramping up your ecommerce stores Facebook business page or your page is already well-established – what’s next in your ecommerce social marketing strategy? Facebook offers various options to drive more traffic to your Facebook page, and consequently, to your website. Two options that are common and many small businesses to large corporations use are Facebook ads and sponsored stories. Both are viable and inexpensive options if you are looking to drive traffic to your ecommerce store.

You’ve likely heard that “social ads” are the future of advertising, and they are certainly on the rise. With Facebook ads, you have the opportunity to approach exactly the target group you want. Because Facebook users fill in information about themselves, including their basic demographic information and interests, you can be specific when deciding which audience to buy Facebook ads for. Facebook also incorporates users’ search inquiries into ads. For example, if someone was searching for cabernet wine glasses on Google, related ads will be displayed in that person’s Facebook ads column.

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The survey is a staple in our society and dates all the way back to 1824, when it was first used to gauge the public’s interest for the upcoming presidential election. Since then, surveys have been used to perform research, measure the efficacy of certain people, and gauge levels of customer satisfaction. The last one there in particular is most relevant to ecommerce. Surveys provide key pieces of information that can reveal a lot about the customer experience with your store. As a result, you can incorporate feedback into your store’s operations and improve them, ultimately netting you a better brand and sales figures.

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You’ve just posted your ecommerce stores new product line to your Facebook page, but only a small fraction of your fans actually will see it. We all know that Facebook is the most influential social media site, and with its various options for engagement, it’s a great way to interact with your customers, learn about your fan base, and find new leads. However, because there are so many posts a user could want to see in their newsfeeds—posts from friends, businesses they’re fans of, etc—most people don’t have enough time to see all the posts. Additionally, 90% of the people who click on your Facebook Page often don’t come back to your Page. They are more likely to read your content in their own Facebook newsfeed. That is, IF you know how to make sure it shows up there.

Using hashtags is a valuable way to get your tweets, Instagram photos, pins, and Facebook timeline posts in front of more people. It’s common nowadays to include a hashtag in a social media post, especially for ecommerce businesses. The concept was first introduced on Twitter in 2007 as a way to track conversations related to a particular topic. You can easily join or create any conversation made around that topic. As an ecommerce business, how can you leverage hashtags to enhance your marketing and sales?

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So you’ve heard the term ‘lifestyle entrepreneur’ and you’re intrigued. It sounds great, right? Location independence, financial independence and the ability to create something that has impact on the world, whilst living on your own terms. Who wouldn’t want those things?

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This past week, Fab.com made news once again after its co-founder Bradford Shellhammer stepped down. The departure is a bookend to the ecommerce store’s pivot away from flash sales and into the territory of standard online retail, a la Amazon. In its flash sale heyday, the company raised over $150 million in funding and was valued at around $1 billion dollars. Since the beginning of the year, Fab.com has been going through some rapid downscaling in an effort to be profitable.

Flash sales used to be the next big thing in ecommerce, but somewhere along the line, the business model’s wheels started to fall off. Surprisingly enough, Zulily, an ecommerce flash sale store for apparel designed for kids and mothers, is trying to launch an IPO north of $200 million total value. This seems to be an outlier though, as there’s a lesson to be learned from the Groupons, Fab.coms, Totsys, and the others out there. How did the flash sale business model fall apart?

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