Those who use Facebook by managing the page of a shop or any other commercial activity, both real and online, can use the new Facebook Offers function on their pages. In fact, in the field of updating the status of a fan page, it is possible to activate an offer in the form of a discount or product promotion.
It is therefore a kind of Coupon that can be printed and presented at the shop or a code to be used for an online purchase.
This function is linked to that of advertising on Facebook and requires a Paypal account or a credit card for activation.
The first offer is free for all pages (offers can only be made on pages with more than 400 likes), while the subsequent offers will have a variable price, related to how many users will take advantage of the promotion.
In creating the offer, very simple, you can determine a budget and the duration of the promotion or discount as well as a description with all the details.
This new Facebook Offers feature has nothing to do with what was called Facebook Deals which included coupons that could be used on a mobile phone and no longer exists.
A simple Facebook user can check if, in the vicinity of the place where he is, there are promotional offers or free gifts (thanks also to Facebook Places ).
Just access Facebook from your mobile phone, with the iPhone application or, from your mobile or computer browser, going to touch.facebook.com, open the places section and browse the places near the point where you are.
If, next to the name of the shop or bar, there is a yellow square, it means that there is an active offer.
This offer can be a discount or a gift available for a short time or a charity offer.
After checking in on Facebook Places from your mobile phone, you can go to that store's checkout, show the screen and take advantage of the offer .
With Facebook offers, you can find new offers every day, in any part of Italy.
Facebook is independent of the advertising offers activated but now becomes a direct competitor of the Groupon site, which first invented this promotional method.
In another article, I talked about how to get discount coupons and gifts on the internet.
The traders and shopkeepers who want to activate and bid on Facebook, do nothing but register their shop or company on Facebook if it does not yet exist.
By accessing the touch.facebook.com website from a mobile phone or computer, you can register to an existing place or add a new one.
By going to normal Facebook and looking for the name indicated in Facebook places from the search bar, you access a page that has been automatically created for that place.
This page is similar to a fan page, only that it presents the map with the precise indication of that place and the information indicated during registration.
If it is your shop or your company, just press the " Is your company" button> After this step you can associate your official page with this one indicating the map and the indications to get to that place.
