Selling on Facebook

Curious to hear about what solutions people are using for this. StoreYa is one of the offerings I have read about but I really have no knowledge in this area.

This Post is not answering the Question, merely expanding (?) on it,
In my opinion, is Facebook is becoming more and more relevant. Shopping carts have to have a Facebook presence.

My reading tells me you should post at least twice a week and four times before posting a buying post, its a lot of work. Schedule post are there but you (me) need to build up a following so I am posting currently to Groups to build up Followers. Scheduling posts to groups is still a mighty challenge . . .

There are a number of offerings out there that promise the World and a rapid increase in followers and schedule postings but very few have a researched reputation, those that do, are for me, very expensive ( our currency is weak and getting weaker ) this is similar to the people selling links for website authority

Also I am reading that Instagram is becoming the new facebook ?

Again, in my opinion, it is very important that my websites can interchange to my Facebook page , I have achieved this using this tool from facebook : https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/page-plugin

It generates some interesting code, similar to an Ifame that I have put into the Fly-Out from one of Anne's : picaflor-azul templates, I am of the opinion this generates more authority and trust.

If you interested, go take a look, fridgeschool dot co.za or solarfarm dot org.za both websites offer a service instead of a product. One website that I have selling products is due for and upgrade that I will be considering the facebook integration very carefully during the upgrade.

Its totally off topic but i feel I would be in remiss if I failed to mention that all my website I have had success with WhatsApp

Andy

AndyJordaan:

This Post is not answering the Question, merely expanding (?) on it,
In my opinion, is Facebook is becoming more and more relevant. Shopping carts have to have a Facebook presence.
Andy

Partly true - depends on what you are selling and to whom. Our core market (business and industry) comprises people who don't have time for the triviality and gossip of social media. They are busy professionals who manage large budgets and need quick solutions. Most people who fritter away their time on social media are people trying to escape the mundane, boring lives they lead, or have a lot of free time (suggesting they aren't very productively employed) and therefore not a lot of money to spend.
Additionally, we classify social media as "sit back behaviour" - people do NOT primarily go to social media to shop - they go there to waste away the hours seeing what their "friends" are up to, or watch a cat doing backward flips. Shopping is probably quite far from their intent. Most people using social media are irritated by adverts and posts that push a commercial intent.
"Sit forward behaviour" is the corollary - people are on the internet with a determined objective, and if that is to buy something, they probably know what they want before conducting a web search for it.

Also, Facebook is becoming increasingly irrelevant (go see their share price and why it's more than halved in value), and most high-value customers (which is where any sensible business aims) have either abandoned Facebook, or have never used it and have no intention to so do.

We have NO presence on Facebook, and only a perfunctory showing on a few other platforms. We focus on our websites, and seek for good rankings on major search engines (which we achieve). In the 15 years since we opened our first online retail outlet (we now have many more), we have steered clear of "sit back behaviour" platforms and focused on attracting people expressing "sit forward behaviour".