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Shaun_131054

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Sharing sales on Facebook
Apr 14^th, 2010, 4:52pm

Hi Everyone,

Today we added a button to your Sale Notification emails that will let you post the card you just sold on Facebook.

Let us know if you come across any strange behavior when using this feature.

Please note that if you sell multiple cards in a particular order, the share button will only link to the first card listed in the email. In the future we'll likely add a button for every card contained in the email, but for now you can always click on the card and use the Facebook Share button that is included on the card details pages.

Shaun

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Beverly_133630 Ex Member	Re: Sharing sales on Facebook Reply #1 - Apr 14^th, 2010, 5:47pm Hi Shaun, I had a few sales today, but do not see a button on the Sale Notification emails. Too early for the change maybe. bev
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Shaun_131054 GCU Administrator artist Posts: 2482	Re: Sharing sales on Facebook Reply #2 - Apr 14^th, 2010, 5:54pm Quote from Beverly_133630 on Apr 14^th, 2010, 5:47pm: Hi Shaun, I had a few sales today, but do not see a button on the Sale Notification emails. Too early for the change maybe. bev That's very likely, this change went live around the time I made the posting. Shaun
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Sandra_133229 Gold Member artist Posts: 787	Re: Sharing sales on Facebook Reply #3 - Apr 14^th, 2010, 6:03pm I just had a sale and saw the share button. I'll test it out!
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Doreen_137017 Gold Member artist Posts: 5274	Re: Sharing sales on Facebook Reply #4 - Apr 14^th, 2010, 6:20pm What a great idea Shaun! Thank you GCU!!
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Janet_134086 Gold Member artist Posts: 610	Re: Sharing sales on Facebook Reply #5 - Apr 15^th, 2010, 12:12am Great idea indeed, Thank You GCU! Janet Lee
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Norma_133903 Senior Member artist Posts: 485	Re: Sharing sales on Facebook Reply #6 - Apr 15^th, 2010, 12:16am I tried it, it worked beautifully.
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Beverly_133630 Ex Member	Re: Sharing sales on Facebook Reply #7 - Apr 15^th, 2010, 6:03am It worked for me, Thank you Shaun! bev
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Sandra_133229 Gold Member artist Posts: 787	Re: Sharing sales on Facebook Reply #8 - Apr 15^th, 2010, 6:07am It worked for me yesterday, but today, when I went to share a sold card, no image at all showed up, like it did the first time. I tried it with 2 different cards, and neither one showed up. Any suggestions? Those who have successfully done this, did your card image appear? thanks, sandra
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Sandra_133229 Gold Member artist Posts: 787	Re: Sharing sales on Facebook Reply #9 - Apr 15^th, 2010, 6:16am Here is the link to my FB page. http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000409707198&ref=ts You'll see a Peace card with a daisy midway down, then above that "As a grandmother..," the newer post shows just the gcu link - no pic. SSSOOOOO much better with the card image!!!! Please help?
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Shaun_131054

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Re: Sharing sales on Facebook
Reply #10 - Apr 15^th, 2010, 10:58am

Quote from Sandra_133229 on Apr 15^th, 2010, 6:07am:

It worked for me yesterday, but today, when I went to share a sold card, no image at all showed up, like it did the first time. I tried it with 2 different cards, and neither one showed up. Any suggestions?
Those who have successfully done this, did your card image appear?
thanks,
sandra

Hi Sandra,
I've seen this happen a couple of times as well, and when I try again a little while later it works. I just tried posting your "As a grandmother..." card and the image did show up for me, can you try again when you get a chance and let me know if it works?

Shaun

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Sandra_133229 Gold Member artist Posts: 787	Re: Sharing sales on Facebook Reply #11 - Apr 15^th, 2010, 11:14am Thanks Shaun. Yes, it did work now. I tried 3 or 4 different ways with different cards today, but nothing showed a thumbnail. Now it did, so I posted the granddaughter baptism card with the actual image.!
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Reply #12 - Apr 15^th, 2010, 7:18pm

This is pretty cool, Shaun!

I tried it this evening and it worked perfectly!

I just wanted to throw out a question to anyone reading and interested in answering: How often do you (artist) think that you'll use this feature? Every card sale? Only on big sales of a certain amount? Only for a special card? Just curious.

I posted a 100 card sale, but, since I don't usually mention my sales here in the forums, or anywhere really, I felt a little odd about it. BUT, I really wanted to try out the new feature.

Share if you feel inspired to do so.

Penny

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Sandra_133229

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Reply #13 - Apr 15^th, 2010, 8:54pm

Wow, Penny! Cheesy

Congrats on your 100 card sale! That's terrific! I don't plan sharing every card I sold. I like to choose a card that I can tell people about - be it a short story about why I created it, a story someone shared with me, etc. I might just offer a note about it being a favorite card of mine, or an interesting location of the buyer.
Those are my thoughts, but I'm sure there are as many ways to share cards as there are people! Have fun with it. Wink

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Sandra_133229 Gold Member artist Posts: 787	Re: Sharing sales on Facebook Reply #14 - Apr 15^th, 2010, 8:56pm Shaun, I have a new question. When we share a card through the facebook share, and someone clicks through the card to make a purchase on GCU, do we get a seller's credit like we do when we use the code from a specific card?
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