Face Book.....good For Marketing Your Leather Business?

[gicts]

It's a great way to advertise to the people who already 'like' you. You can post pics and sales to remind them of your shop/sales/services. The hard part is to get them to like you.

Edited January 27, 2012 by gicts

[UKRay]

I believe that the real value of FaceBook, Twitter and the other social networking sites is to provide links to an existing website. This helps to raise the site's profile to a wider audience and gives the search engines another kick to raise the main site's position in their listings.

I have sold a few things to my FaceBook visitors but I can't see it making me rich!

Ray

[Cobra Tom]

My mother used to say "There is one way to found out."

https://www.facebook.com/LeatherMachineCoInc

[cowboy bowhunter]

I have used facebook for buying and selling horses. It is great you can see what horses your friends are selling and they see what you are selling. It must work the same for leather.

[Mokosh]

It's been great for my business. I have gotten some really cool commissions from people I would never had met, had conversations about my work with people from all over the globe, and built an audience of over 1,800 fans. Facebook consistently ranks in my top 10 for referral traffic to my website. I think that is great proof that it works - well worth your time!

[Techsew Ron]

Facebook is an extremely important tool for marketing your business. Everyone should use it no matter how small or large your business.

Here's how to get started:

1) Create a business page

2) Fill out your business information, including business name, website, company history, hours of operation, products/services offered etc..

3) Update your page regularly with promotions, photos, advice or anything you think your customers or potential customers may find interesting.

The most important thing about marketing your business on Facebook is keeping your page up to date and posting regularly. If you want customers to interact with you, you need to engage them and encourage them to visit your page, leave comments etc... Post photos of your recent work. Post some nice reviews that you got about a certain product. Link to an interesting video you saw on youtube recently (keep it relevant!). Offer your customers a discount coupon. Most importantly, encourage people to share your page with their friends, who might share it with their friends, and their friends, and their friends.

For some examples you can visit our Facebook page at:

www.facebook.com/techsew

Good luck!

Ron

Edited August 10, 2012 by Ronnie

[Rayban]

Good info Ronnie...I'll have to learn to maintain my FB page better.

Thanks!

[badLoveLeather]

I have a Facebook page. I got tired of hammering m y regular friends list with my stuff. Besides the "Fan Page" has these cool stat's that you can access that show you how many people you reach and how many people see and interact with your stuff. Basically its a free web page. PLUS the pay per click ads I heard are a great deal too!

Heres my page:

Bad Love Leather Facebook

[Techsew Ron]

I have a Facebook page. I got tired of hammering m y regular friends list with my stuff. Besides the "Fan Page" has these cool stat's that you can access that show you how many people you reach and how many people see and interact with your stuff. Basically its a free web page. PLUS the pay per click ads I heard are a great deal too!

Heres my page:

Bad Love Leather Facebook

Looks good! Large and clean images are key . I added you to our favorite pages.

Do you have a website as well to show off your products?

Ron

[badLoveLeather]

Can be found here:

Bad Love Leather Etsy

and here:

Bad Love Leather - Official

Looks good! Large and clean images are key . I added you to our favorite pages.

Do you have a website as well to show off your products?

Ron