GCU Forum - Sharing sales on Facebook

DENISE_132110 Gold Member artist Posts: 769	Re: Sharing sales on Facebook Reply #15 - Apr 15^th, 2010, 11:07pm good question sandra... i wondered the same thing just now when i posted my latest sale
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Sandra_133229 Gold Member artist Posts: 787	Re: Sharing sales on Facebook Reply #16 - Apr 16^th, 2010, 4:34am Yes, Denise. If I am going to post a card, and this one doesn't potentially lead to a seller's commission, then, I could share a sale with the real card link on Facebook instead, and the share on FB link only will serve as a reminder. I wonder what Shaun has in mind for this?
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Penny_134243 Gold Member artist Posts: 1337	Re: Sharing sales on Facebook Reply #17 - Apr 16^th, 2010, 7:49am Thanks, Sandra! That's pretty much what I was thinking, too. Good question that you and Denise have about whether or not the links create a seller's commission. I'll wait for the answer with interest. Penny
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Re: Sharing sales on Facebook
Reply #18 - Apr 16^th, 2010, 4:04pm

Penny & All

Just thought I'd post this for grins...don't know if it is pure coincidence or a result from using the new posting tool I sold a Congratulations to Daughter and Her Husband card this morning, posted the sale on FB and then sold the same card again this afternoon. Now, I mention this because this is not your 'every day' card that sells...so it might be a result of posting the sale. My plan is to continue this fairly regularly to see if it does result in sales. I know for those of us who make several sales a day it may be boring to our connections, but then again, maybe they will go buy more cards Grin

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Shaun_131054 GCU Administrator artist Posts: 2482	Re: Sharing sales on Facebook Reply #19 - Apr 16^th, 2010, 4:51pm At the moment you are not getting seller's credit when using this button, but it's something that I can inquire about. Shaun
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DENISE_132110 Gold Member artist Posts: 769	Re: Sharing sales on Facebook Reply #20 - Apr 16^th, 2010, 7:31pm it seems like it should be like the other referral links... i think i will do what sandra i think said and post the stc link...to show the sold card, then it becomes another portal back with the info needed to be a referral.
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Reply #21 - Apr 17^th, 2010, 4:10am

It would be nice to have this for each card sold in the order. Right now it is only for the last card listed in the order - but it does work!

ALSO - to get the thumbnail to show I had to cycle through the various images associated with the card's page to find the thumbnail one before posting on FB. It would be nice to not have to do that.

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Lisa_131617

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Reply #22 - Apr 17^th, 2010, 10:49am

I wasn't able to get thumbnails to preview prior to posting into facebook or after posting but the link works nicely and I like that we can do a GCU blurb to accompany the postings. I expect the next posting will show thumbnails so thank you GCU for yet another means we have of promotion. Thanks Shaun for looking into sale's commission credited to link. All good, Lisa
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=709807377&ref=name (not sure if this shows to everyone or just to those currently listed as friends on facebook? but this is the link for recent sale posting and singing of GCU praises.)

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Penny_134243

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Re: Sharing sales on Facebook
Reply #23 - Apr 17^th, 2010, 10:57am

Good ideas and suggestions.

I've only had my FB account for about a month, so I'm pretty new there. I like the idea of using the $ link for the cards. I'm not sure how often I'll post. Doreen's point is a good one. I don't want people thinking that all I'll ever post are card sales.

Happy Saturday, if it's Saturday where you are!

Penny

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Cherie_131661 Senior Member artist Posts: 466	Re: Sharing sales on Facebook Reply #24 - Apr 17^th, 2010, 7:42pm Yay! I got to use it on my sale from GCU but not from my sale at BigDates! I just used the FB link on that individual card...but thanks! Great idea! Cherie
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Re: Sharing sales on Facebook
Reply #25 - Apr 18^th, 2010, 2:34am

I had a sale from Birthday-Reminders.com that didn't have the Flicker Thingy on it. Don't those notices play?

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Congratulations! The following order for your card(s) was placed on Birthday-Reminders.com

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Title: Heart and Angel Sympathy

Quantity: 1
Order Date: April 17, 2010
Mail Date: April 19, 2010

Ordered From: California, United States

Price: $2.79

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Total Quantity: 1
Total Price: $2.79

All Items
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Total Order Price: $2.79
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Sue_132963 Gold Member artist Posts: 1224	Re: Sharing sales on Facebook Reply #26 - Apr 18^th, 2010, 4:51pm Hi! I just found this thread today. So I tried the new tool to post our sales on Facebook. Worked like a charm once, but not the other two times. One of them, I tried 5 or 6 times and it finally worked. Wonder why the varriance... But a great tool. Thanks, GCU.
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Shaun_131054

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Re: Sharing sales on Facebook
Reply #27 - Apr 19^th, 2010, 3:51pm

Quote from Sue_132963 on Apr 18^th, 2010, 4:51pm:

Hi! I just found this thread today. So I tried the new tool to post our sales on Facebook. Worked like a charm once, but not the other two times. One of them, I tried 5 or 6 times and it finally worked.
Wonder why the varriance... But a great tool. Thanks, GCU.

I think this has something to do with Facebook crawling the page for images. If the thumbnails don't come up, you may need to try again after a few hours and it should work.

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Re: Sharing sales on Facebook
Reply #28 - Apr 19^th, 2010, 3:55pm

Quote from Tom_133317 on Apr 17^th, 2010, 4:10am:

It would be nice to have this for each card sold in the order. Right now it is only for the last card listed in the order - but it does work!

ALSO - to get the thumbnail to show I had to cycle through the various images associated with the card's page to find the thumbnail one before posting on FB. It would be nice to not have to do that.

In the future we'll likely add a button for every card contained in the email

We have no control over the order in which images are displayed, that's FB.

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Shaun_131054 GCU Administrator artist Posts: 2482	Re: Sharing sales on Facebook Reply #29 - Apr 19^th, 2010, 3:55pm Quote from Linda_132742 on Apr 18^th, 2010, 2:34am: I had a sale from Birthday-Reminders.com that didn't have the Flicker Thingy on it. Don't those notices play? Only works for orders placed on GCU at the moment
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