How to set up a store front on Facebook

Here are three videos that can help you to set up a store front on Facebook.  You can feature your best selling designs or feature new ones.  For those of you who have design schools feature all of your up coming classes ... this tool can work with in the floral industry just as well as any commerce offered online.  Remember  promote your   business as many places as you can.  Every customer has thier favorite way to communitcate. Don't leave out any potential customer. Always remember:

Creativity + Business Sense + the 21st Century Floral designer =

Great Success! 

  

 

http://fanpagetoolkit.com/index/applicationsuite

by Charlie Brooks, Demand Media

http://smallbusiness.chron.com/open-own-boutique-facebook-29489.html

Open your own boutique and promote it using Facebook to harness the power of social media to increase your boutique's exposure. Although it isn't possible to do e-commerce directly on Facebook as of September 2011, creating a Facebook fan page to promote your boutique gives your business a presence on Facebook, whether you sell items on a website or only at a brick-and-mortar location.

Step 1

Sign in to your personal Facebook account, then scroll to the bottom of any screen and choose "Create a Page." Alternatively, visit the Facebook home page and click "Create a Page." Although it isn't necessary to create your Facebook fan page while signed in to your personal account, doing so allows you to administer the fan page from your personal account.

Step 2

Select "Brands and Products," then choose a subcategory for the goods your boutique sells. Upload a main photo to act as the profile picture for the boutique's fan page, then input basic details about the page and click "Finish" to be taken to the page. Click the "Invite Friends" link on the right side of the page, choose the names of all the friends you'd like to invite to become friends and click "Send Invite."

Step 3

Drag your mouse over the URL in the browser address bar, right-click and select "Copy." Paste the address into update messages you send out on other social networking sites such as Twitter, LinkedIn and Google+ to publicize the boutique there. Friends on other social networks need not be your friend on Facebook to "Like" your boutique's page.

Step 4

Post regular updates to the page's news feed regarding new items you add to your boutique, changes to opening hours, promotions and discounts and any other information that it's pertinent for current and perspective customers to know. If you operate your boutique online, whether in addition to or instead of in a physical storefront, paste links to pages on your site into the status updates you send out via the page to embed links to products and information pages in your fans' news feeds.