5 Tips for Optimizing Your Facebook Page for Product Sales
As people continue to spend more of their time online directly on Facebook, it makes sense to provide a variety of ways for your target customers to interact with your business on this platform. The specific interaction we want to focus on in this post is selling products directly through your Facebook page. Whether you’re already getting some sales but want more or are new to the idea of this type of selling, we’ve got five actionable tips to ensure your page is optimized: 1. Be Sure You Have the Right Page Type and Category Facebook provides a variety of page templates for different types of businesses. Their current options are services, shopping, business, politicians, venues, nonprofits and restaurants & cafes. Choosing the category that best matches your business will give you a template that Facebook has optimized based on the incredible amount of data the platform collects. While the services and shopping templates already include a shop section, you can add this section to any template by clicking Edit Page, scrolling down and then clicking the Add a Tab button. 2. Optimize Your Call to Action Button The call to action button you use will directly affect how potential customers interact with your Facebook page. You can choose from a wide variety of CTA buttons. As a rule of thumb, if the analytics data from your website shows that many customers buy after just one or two visits, it makes sense to use the Shop Now button. But if you have a higher-priced product that tends to require some