Facebook Getting More And More Important If You Are Selling Online

Dec. 7, 2010 - PRLog -- Facebook Getting More And More Important If You Are Selling Online

Penang, Malaysia -- With the meteoric rise in popularity of the Facebook social networking service, merchants selling online need to integrate social network marketing if they want to succeed. Fortunately, some popular shopping cart software services such as InstanteStore.com (http://www.instantestore.com) are adding Facebook integration right into their software. This makes it easy to leverage the popularity of Facebook to drive more targeted prospects to online stores.

"You may know that Facebook.com has more than 500 million users spending an average of more than 7 hours every month. However, the biggest story for online retailers is that Facebook allows its users to 'Like' websites and share their recommendations with their friends", enthuses Charles Tang, the CEO of InstanteStore.com.

"The real power of Facebook for online sellers is that it gives traditional word-of-mouth marketing massive leverage. Just by clicking a Facebook 'Like' button, your visitor can recommend you and your products to everyone in their Facebook friends list. According to Facebook.com's published statistics, an average user has 130 friends. So, your website can get recommended to 130 people each time someone clicks the 'Like' button on your site."

Previously, adding the Facebook 'Like' button meant having to manually embed the code into website. However, InstanteStore.com, a shopping cart software provider that lets business owners build their online store using a point-and-click interface has added the Facebook 'Like' button and also Twitter.com's 'Tweet' button to every single product page created by the software. With this automatic integration, online store owners can leverage the popularity of Facebook and Twitter without making any code changes to their website.

"Especially with the Christmas shopping season in full swing, people will be looking out for ideas on what presents to buy for Christmas. This is when a well-timed product recommendation by a friend can really influence what they buy. By letting your visitors easily recommend your products to their Facebook friends and Twitter followers, it's another way InstanteStore is helping our merchants to sell more during this Christmas season", added Charles.

Facebook is getting more and more embedded in people's daily life. A recent news item on Facebook bringing awareness to child abuse and The Keystone Kid shows how ordinary people are using the popular social platform to get their message across to people all over the world. Savvy business owners can also leverage Facebook to get their marketing message spread via their existing customers and website visitors.

InstanteStore.com is a shopping cart software provider that lets business owners build online stores easily using their point-and-click software. They are offering a 30-day free trial of their software on their website. Visit http://www.instantestore.com/freetrial for more details.

Contact:
Charles Tang, InstanteStore.com
pr@instantestore.com
702-357-8767

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InstanteStore.com is a shopping cart software provider that lets business owners build online stores easily using our point-and-click software. Try our software free for 30-days at http://www.instantestore.com/freetrial