Using Facebook

[Former_Member]

I'm sure everyone has a Facebook page to link to their Etsy shop, one thing that might be worth trying is promoting to friends of friends by getting them to get their friends to Like your page. Try offering a free gift to the person who gets the most likes to your page, have them post their name on the wall of your page, once you do this when you post your updates on new items, sales, etc you might get more traffic to your shop. Just an idea......

[BacktoBasicsbyYGG]

Good idea!

[Former_Member]

Great idea, Marsha. Have you tried this yourself? I have been thinking about offering a coupon code on Facebook - say 25% off to the first 5 people who go into Facebook, like my page ... Have you used coupons before?

[Former_Member]

I send special coupons to my facebook friends.

[Former_Member]

I have not tried the coupon codes yet, I was planning on giving it a try as pre-Black Friday sale...... Good Luck to all!

[Former_Member]

Great idea to pilot coupons as a pre-Black Friday Sale. Let us know how it goes!

[Former_Member]

I'm not sure how the coupons work. Do they just provide a discount code, and the buyer is responsible for including the code in the message at checkout, and the discount is refunded by the seller? Or, does the code automatically discount the selling price or shipping fee?

Thank you for this opportunity to learn more about Etsy!

[Former_Member]

I believe if I remember right you are given a code and pass that on to your customers and they use it at check out. You can click on the coupon link and it explains everything. Good Luck!!!

[Former_Member]

Awesome ideas! I'm still not using FB to its full potential; I think I now have the motivation I needed!