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New ways to showcase your products this festive season

Facebook Business

September 11, 2018

While people are just beginning to write their Christmas shopping lists, many businesses are putting the finishing touches to their festive season strategies. And as we shared earlier this year, we're always working on new ways to help businesses visually merchandise their products – and the festive season is prime time to make products more visually appealing. In fact, last year on Facebook, there were more than 450 million views of Black Friday and other related videos over the Thanksgiving shopping weekend.1 That's why we're introducing new creative enhancements to help advertisers make their products shine this festive season.

Enhance your product ads with overlays

Last year, we launched overlays for dynamic ads, which let advertisers automatically add price and discount tags on creative assets for product ads. Today, we're expanding overlays so that advertisers around the world can build customisable creative templates for their dynamic ads to showcase products in more compelling ways. For example, if a retailer wants to create a Black Friday campaign with a product catalogue, they can now create their own Black Friday overlay to more visually promote discounted products. Two major retailers that tested the new decorative borders increased their return on ad spend by 40% each.2 While overlays for dynamic ads are a great idea for the upcoming festive season, they can also be customised to fit any holiday throughout the year and can be used in non-seasonal campaigns as well.

Experiment with holiday templates in the video creation kit

We recently launched the video creation kit to help make it easier for businesses to create mobile-first video ads, particularly for businesses that may not have production budgets to shoot custom Facebook video ads. In the coming weeks, we'll be adding new holiday-specific templates and stickers to the video creation kit to help businesses more easily create video ads that showcase their products with holiday-specific visuals.

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Create more engaging and relevant ads

Last year, we launched collection ads to help advertisers visually inspire mobile shoppers. Today, we're announcing two updates to make collection ads more immersive and personalised.

1. Soon, advertisers will be able to direct shoppers from the collection ad format to the updated instant storefront template, formerly known as the sell product template in Canvas, where they will have the option to automatically organise products from their catalogue into more personalised groupings such as "Suggested for you" and "Most viewed" to boost engagement and conversions. Early testers of the new instant storefront template have seen increases in their conversion rate as high as 9%.3

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2. Instead of having to upload your own videos into a collection, advertisers using the instant storefront template can now add a video that we'll automatically generate, personalised with relevant products from your business' catalogue. This makes the video creation process easier for advertisers and will help people see ads that are most relevant to them.

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How to customise your Instagram and Facebook Shop

3 min

This lesson will prepare you to:


Time to set up shop

Any customisations that you make to your shop will look the same across Instagram and Facebook. You can customise your shop by curating collections, choosing a layout, deciding which products to showcase and selecting a button style. When you update or make changes to your shop, the changes will appear across all of your selected platforms.

Collections help visitors browse and explore your inventory.

Organise products into collections themed around seasonal events, promotions, upcoming launches and trends. You can feature one or more curated product collections in your shop. Each collection will have a name, a description, a cover image and a selection of anywhere between 6 and 30 products.

Your shop visitors will see your collection first, and can click to see the products within them. On Instagram, people can swipe up to browse your collections.

How to create a collection

Use Commerce Manager to set up and customise your shop, and create collections to showcase your unique products.

Create

In Commerce Manager, select Collections to get started.

In Commerce Manager, select Collections to get started.

Add details

Enter your collection details:

Enter your collection details:

Feature items

Select the products that you want to feature in your collection. You can choose between 6 and 30 items.

Select the products that you want to feature in your collection. You can choose between 6 and 30 items.

Review collection

Review your collection details, and once it looks good to go, select Confirm Details.

Review your collection details, and once it looks good to go, select Confirm Details.

Publish

When you've finished, you can go on to create another collection or customise your shop. Click Publish when you're ready, and your customers will see the updates straight away.

When you've finished, you can go on to create another collection or customise your shop. Click Publish when you're ready, and your customers will see the updates straight away.

Customise your shop

Layout

Use the Layout tab to add, remove and arrange collections in your shop.

Featured collections

Choose at least one collection to feature at the top of your shop. This is a way to highlight the ones that you want your customers to see first.

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Customise the look and feel of your shop by changing the size, colour and appearance of the text and buttons in your collections.

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Facebook promotion: 10 post ideas and tips for page promotion

In this article I will talk about promotion on Facebook, one of the most capricious and complex social networks. I will show 10 successful posts with analysis and give advice on how to promote a page on Facebook.

Let's start with something tasty 🙂 The FRESH online store advertises a product using a recipe. Thanks to a good photo, the post is appetizing, I want to buy products and create the same dish - the recipe is right at hand. nine0004

The next is a post on the Facebook page of the MIF publishing house, advertising a course on self-acceptance. Here is a good illustration that captures attention - first you see the image, then you decide to read the text.

Read the post and see how it is structured. The text is short, but there is all the necessary information to interest a person. First, a short title, then an inspirational quote, and then technical details and a link to details.

Post from the Dominos pizzeria in cooperation with the quest company Mozgva. This is a great example of how brands can team up to promote on Facebook. Well, the space illustration with pizza and cats is good. nine0004

The LABA online educational platform has made a useful post - illustration cards with thoughts from the book. If you have a designer, take a look at this option - useful selections provide good audience engagement.

Another Facebook post with good text and a cool illustration is the announcement of the report from the 8P conference. The text is structured in paragraphs and emojis, the most interesting moments of the report are included in the announcement. The corporate bright style of the illustration will surely attract attention in the feed. nine0004

April Fool's post on the IKEA Facebook page. The company suggested using pictures with interiors for the background of video calls - the option to replace the background is in the Zoom service, which many companies have switched to due to remote work. The idea is great, even without jokes. By the way, the post got several times more likes than the average of any other post on the IKEA page.

Another interesting idea for promoting on Facebook is from the Webpromoexperts academy. The guys launched a series of “believe / don’t believe” posts - they tell some unusual fact about marketing, and subscribers need to guess if it’s true. GIFs for laughter and attracting attention in the feed. nine0004

Fitness does not lose heart during quarantine - training can also be done online. While the trainers are not busy with clients, you can shoot more training videos, they will come in handy for later. By the way, video is a good format for promoting a page on Facebook. Video content is gaining the most response here.

A useful detail in this post is subtitles. Many users turn off the sound of the video in the feed, so you can attract attention with the help of large subtitles. And spectacular girls in the background. nine0004 Video workout with subtitles to promote a fitness club on Facebook

To promote a page on Facebook, posts do not have to be unique and with super-cool design. If the material is useful to the audience, it will go well on its own. Here is an example of such a post from the page of the Ringostat company, which provides a call tracking, telephony and end-to-end analytics service.

The company collected data on demand in different market sectors for six months and made an interactive dashboard. The material got into the target audience - the post has 44 likes, while neighboring posts barely get to 10. Probably, the post was further promoted, but in any case, there is a very good ratio of likes and reposts. nine0004 A well-engaged post on the Ringostat page

And the last example is from the Skyscanner flight search service. Sometimes your followers just need to relax watching the sunset over Los Angeles. But the photo in this case should be really impressive.

Simple photo post on Skyscanner company page

Facebook promotion tips

Collected basic tips for promoting on Facebook - from page design to advertising requirements

nine0035 Create a business page

You need a business page to promote your company on Facebook. You won’t be able to work with a personal one - this is contrary to the rules for using Facebook, and there is a threat that the social network will block the account for this. In addition, business pages have advantages: you can view detailed statistics about users and posts, run ads, differentiate roles for page management.

To make a business page on Facebook, click on the "Create" button on the top panel and select the "Page" item:

Menu for creating a page on Facebook

Next, you will need to step by step configure the page for your type of business. Follow Facebook prompts and don't be afraid to make a mistake, you can edit and complete all the data later.

Please note! Read more about creating a business account on Facebook on our blog.

Design the page properly

Design in such a way that it is immediately clear where the user is and what he can do with your help. I will tell you what is most important when promoting a page on Facebook. nine0004

Make a cover and an avatar. Cover - large image on top, avatar - round image on the side. Use the png format for a clear image.

Please note! Facebook Image Cheat Sheets: profile and cover media sizes, post photo sizes.

This is how the avatar and cover look on the SendPulse page. In connection with the coronavirus, we decided to slightly change the images to suit the situation, but left the recognizable color, font and logo:

Avatar and cover on the business page SendPulse

The cover can be made animated, this will make the page more recognizable and memorable. Need video file length 20-90 seconds, the recommended size is 820 by 462 pixels.

Animated cover page on Facebook

Describe the business. Fill in the "Information" tab - briefly write information about the company, give contacts, describe the mission. If you want to make a detailed description, there is a section "History" for this.

Business information on Facebook

Set up a username for the page so you can be found quickly. The username is displayed below the page avatar. When you change the name, the link to the page will automatically change:

Page name and link

Consider link buttons. Buttons are important - they prompt the user to quickly contact you, perform the desired action. They are located under the cover on the right. The button can lead the user either to a communication channel — to Facebook or Whatsapp messenger, to dialing a number, to sending a letter, or to an internal or external link.

The message button will help you if the page has a chatbot configured. If the user has questions, he will first get to the chat bot, which can process simple questions about delivery time, products, and so on. This will save time for your support. If the bot cannot answer, it will automatically connect the employee to the chat - this function can be easily integrated into the bot if you create it on the SendPulse platform. I will tell you more about the capabilities of the chatbot later. nine0004 Link buttons on the page

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There is a small life hack for buttons. As you can see in the previous screenshot, there are two buttons. But when you customize your page, you only see one, by default it's a button to send a message to Facebook Messenger: The "Message" button is on the new page by default

In order for the second button to appear, you need to edit the existing one and select any other function for it:

The button on your Facebook page can be remapped

To check, switch to view the page as a visitor - click on the three dots to the right of the "Share" button and select the option "View as Page visitor":

Facebook makes it possible to look at your page through the eyes of a visitor

Both buttons are in place:

Two contact buttons can be created per page

Consider audience preferences

To promote on Facebook, like in any other social network, you need a strategy. You need to understand how the audience behaves, then you can effectively influence it. nine0004

Here are the main numbers that will come in handy (according to research by Popsters and MediaScope):

But do not rely on general figures. Study your own audience: