{"id":217,"date":"2012-08-22T17:09:24","date_gmt":"2012-08-22T11:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.bcwebwise.com\/?p=217"},"modified":"2024-11-28T13:46:47","modified_gmt":"2024-11-28T08:16:47","slug":"facebook-offers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bcwebwise.com\/blog\/facebook-offers\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook Introduces Offers, Share exclusive offers only with Facebook fans for free!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that in a bid to become advertiser friendly, and get closer to delivering ROI, Facebook has introduced Offers. With this option, brands can now provide exclusive offers to their Facebook fans via status updates. Facebook evidently also hopes that these posts will be further promoted by brands to reach a larger audience.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-11353\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bcwebwise.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/offers1.jpg\" alt=\"Facebook Offers\" width=\"640\" height=\"472\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bcwebwise.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/offers1.jpg 784w, https:\/\/www.bcwebwise.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/offers1-300x221.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bcwebwise.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/offers1-768x566.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-11350\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bcwebwise.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/fboffer0-300x66.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"66\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bcwebwise.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/fboffer0-300x66.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bcwebwise.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/fboffer0.jpg 430w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is how it appears on the page next to Status Updates:<\/p>\n<p>The way in which you post an offer further has 3 options:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-11351 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bcwebwise.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/fboffers2-300x135.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"135\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bcwebwise.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/fboffers2-300x135.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bcwebwise.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/fboffers2.jpg 424w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This appears to be in beta as not all brand pages have it, so don&#8217;t be surprised if your brand page is not showing up this option. May be you could contact your Facebook relationship manager to get this enabled for you.<\/p>\n<p>The brands we stumbled across using this feature is the etailer brand Fashionandyou.com and firstcry.com on its fan page.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-11349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bcwebwise.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/fboffers31-300x212.jpg\" alt=\"Fashionandyou.com Facebook Offers\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bcwebwise.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/fboffers31-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bcwebwise.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/fboffers31.jpg 429w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Once a fan avails of an offer, you get further visibility as their engagement becomes known to their friends.<\/p>\n<p>Clearly Facebook is exploring newer and relevant means to appeal to the brands that are using its platform to engage with an audience, and hoping that these measures will help to increase advertising spends on the social network. After all with <a title=\"FT on GM pulling out of Facebook &amp; Marketer's Reactions\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/8e1285f0-9ec6-11e1-a767-00144feabdc0.html#axzz24CsSp5TK.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">General Motors announcing that it was pulling out of Facebook<\/a>, did send ripples in the market questioning Facebook&#8217;s advertising&#8217;s efficacy.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-11352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bcwebwise.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/firstcryoffer-300x101.jpg\" alt=\"First Cry Offer on Facebook Availed By Fan\" width=\"300\" height=\"101\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bcwebwise.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/firstcryoffer-300x101.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bcwebwise.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/firstcryoffer.jpg 507w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Further unlike a <a title=\"Google Efficacy Case Study - Tanjore Paintings\" href=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google that has been focusing its sales pitch on ROI<\/a>, the social network has had done little to build and market advertiser-led case studies , even while it attempts to assist marketers with <a title=\"Facebook Insights\" href=\"http:\/\/www.insidefacebook.com\/category\/insights\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">analysis at a click<\/a> on the reach and engagement your Facebook initiatives have managed to achieve.<\/p>\n<p>But the real question is that just like <a title=\"Google's Practices, Are They Ethical?\" href=\"http:\/\/www.precursorblog.com\/content\/why-google-lost-formal-debate-over-its-ethics-and-a-compendium-googles-ethical-lapses\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google&#8217;s practices<\/a> that can be questioned particularly when it comes to PPC, and its <a title=\"New Google's Ranking Metrics\" href=\"http:\/\/www.seanhakes.com\/2011\/08\/05\/new-google-ranking-metrics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">algorithms can regularly challenge many an SEO expert<\/a> (search engine optimization) equally challenging is Facebook&#8217;s own mechanisms of ensuring that a limited number of users only can see your posting. Facebook has the Edgerank.<\/p>\n<p>Not more than <a title=\"How Many Fans Can See A Facebook Update\" href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2012\/02\/29\/facebook-post-reach-16-friends\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">16 per cent of your Facebook friends can see a wall post or status update<\/a>. While you can adopt various <a title=\"How To Overcome Facebook's EdgeRank limiations\" href=\"http:\/\/www.marketinggum.com\/what-is-facebook-edgerank-how-to-get-more-fans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">strategies<\/a> to try to increase the reach, fact is that all of this requires more hard work and resources, and use the `<a title=\"Facebook's Promote Feature\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.bcwebwise.com\/2012\/05\/30\/facebooks-promote-your-status-update-feature\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">promote<\/a>&#8216; feature and `offers&#8217; feature might just help you reach many more of those audiences faster!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook Has Introduced Offers In A Bid to Become More Marketer Friendly and Meaningful to Fan followers. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,12,26],"tags":[44,114,116,117,118,120,121],"class_list":["post-217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facebook","category-facebook-fans","category-roi","tag-advertising-on-facebook","tag-facebook-features","tag-facebook-marketing","tag-facebook-offers","tag-facebook-promotion","tag-facebook-shopping","tag-facebook-special-offers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bcwebwise.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bcwebwise.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bcwebwise.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bcwebwise.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bcwebwise.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bcwebwise.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11407,"href":"https:\/\/www.bcwebwise.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions\/11407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bcwebwise.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bcwebwise.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bcwebwise.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}