Are you still shopping for holiday gifts? Why even bother going into the crowds of stores? 50% of holiday shopping is done online, now you can do it from Facebook.

You can find special promotions at these and many other stores on Facebook.

Cactus Thorn Trading Co.
Click “Like” for 15% off and FREE SHIPPING on beautiful Christmas decorations.

Everyday Energy Shots
FREE SHIPPING on energy shots for that special someone always on the go! A perfect stocking stuffer.

Purely Gadgets
Find all the best gadgets of the season right from Facebook.

“You Are a Wonderful Mother” by Grace McClure
Buy this great book for any of the most important people in the world, mothers.

Revenge Is
25% off and FREE SHIPPING on EVERYTHING. Buy fashionable ECO-FRIENDLY closes for the stylish people in your life.

Canadian Jewelry Exchange
Are you going to buy Jewelry? Why not receive 30% off of EVERYTHING?

Angels Fancy Dress
Great Christmas costumes! Receive 10% off when you use the coupon “FBXMAS”

Happy shopping from everyone at Zibaba. Have a happy and healthy holiday. Best wishes for 2012.

We at Zibaba want to make sure you make the most of this season as this is a great opportunity for you to drive more traffic to your Facebook store and to increase your sales and revenue.

Are You Offering A Holiday Promotion? Let Us Know…

We would like to take part in your store promotion activity and have decided to make up a list of stores offering holiday promotions.

If you are running any holiday promotion in your Facebook store, please let us know and we will be happy to include your store name in this list which will be promoted in our social media outlets.

We hope this will give your store more exposure and give you great gift ideas all at once!

For your store to be included please contact us at: Jordan@zibaba.com

5 Promotion Ideas For Your Facebook Store

1. Advertise On Facebook With Zibaba’s Ads Direct
To grow your fan base and increase sales for your business it is only natural to promote your Facebook store with Facebook ads through Zibaba’s Ads Direct.

With Ad’s Direct you can create customized ads for each and every product in your store. This platform enables you to create automated campaigns which are optimized according to conversions and social metrics to easily reach your promotion and advertising goals on Facebook. It’s that simple!

2. Set up Group Offers
Group offers are considered to be one of the best social media marketing methods to generate traffic and sales. They are a popular way of increasing sales, increasing brand loyalty and encouraging social sharing.
The Group Offer feature on Zibaba enables you to offer discounts on specific items in your catalog that go into effect once there is a minimum number of buyers.
Facebook is the ideal destination for these kinds of group offers. The extended networks of Facebook friends and fans sharing purchasing preferences make group offers easy to implement.

3. Offer Coupon Sales
Online coupon popularity is rapidly increasing. Research shows that over half of the internet users in the U.S. will redeem an online coupon in 2011 (eMarketer.com) so it is highly recommended to integrate online coupons into your overall strategy.
You can easily set up coupon sales in your Zibaba store, so take advantage of this great feature.

4. Offer Fan-Only Discounts
Set a fan-only discount in your Facebook store to grow your client base and build customer fidelity!

5. Offer Free Shipping
Free shipping is one major factor many shoppers are considering when paying for presents this holiday season. Research shows that this incentive has been used at record levels over the first few weeks of the holiday season.
In your Zibaba Facebook Shop you can offer free shipping to buyers whose shopping cart exceeds an amount set by you.

For further details and assistance please contact us at cs@zibaba.com. We are here to help!

The Zibaba team wishes you Happy Holidays!

As a community of over 750 million, it’s important for businesses to have a presence on Facebook. But if you build it, how can you get people to come?

To create a marketing solution that drives targeted visitors to Facebook storefonts, Zibaba is launching f-Commerce Ads Direct, enabling their several thousand Facebook storefront customers to easily set-up and run ad campaigns from their product catalog which are continuously analyzed and optimized according to conversations and social metrics.

This is the first advertising solution fully integrated with a Facebook storefront.

“Running advertising campaigns in Facebook has never been easier,” said Ronen Shlomo, CEO of Zibaba.  “Now that our Shop Manager has been fully integrated with the Facebook advertising API, all of our clients will be able to utilize the service and the value added functionality.  Campaigns can be setup and directed to individual products, the client’s Facebook store or any external URL of their choice, enabling the advertising to directly drive sales through one integrated solution.”

Click here to learn more about f-Commerce Ads Direct powered by Zibaba: http://youtu.be/KNOKB3KakiU

“If the launch of Zibaba’s easy-to-use f-commerce storefront created new and significant revenue streams for lookfantastic, Zibaba’s new f-commerce Ads Direct will exponentially increase our Facebook-driven revenue by reaching out and targeting our ads to the most relevant prospects among the social network’s 750 + million users,” said Sarah Jones, Social Media & Community Manager, lookfantastic.com. “This self-service solution with ads and campaigns continually analyzed and optimized according to performance will take our f-commerce efforts to the next level.”

Ads Direct Dashboard

As a Facebook Preferred Developer, Zibaba is one of only a limited number of development companies given permission directly by Facebook to integrate the advertising system into their social storefront offering.

f-Commerce Ads Direct powered by Zibaba includes informative analytics tools and dashboards to show Facebook store owners the exact performance of their advertising.  This will include the knowledge of how much has been spent in relation to the amount of new sales, customers, fans and individual product ‘likes’. Campaign optimization is based on the analytics tools, which enable optimizing campaigns according to target group, geography, day, product offering, and more.

“Many small and medium sized businesses who may have felt intimidated in the past when running Facebook advertising campaigns will find the Zibaba interface very simple and easy to use and navigate,” said Arie Fishler, CTO, Zibaba.  “But it doesn’t stop at small/medium businesses.  Utilizing the analytics tools that we are offering will give any business, regardless of size, the ability to fully optimize every advertising dollar spent and, in turn, provide a much higher return on investment”.

About Zibaba – http://zibaba.com.

Zibaba was founded in 2008 by Ronen Shlomo (CEO) and Arie Fishler (CTO) to offer marketing solutions that tap into the potential of social engagement.  The company has made ground breaking developments in the world of social commerce and has become a leading provider of f-commerce marketing platform solutions enabling anyone to manage online stores within the Facebook social media environment.  Zibaba is a Facebook ‘preferred developer’ company.

For more information, please contact us –

T: 1-887-889-1415
E: advertising@zibaba.com
www.zibaba.com

The event has been organized by Modified Ventures LLC, a post-internet market development company founded by Dutch business and retail industry journalist Peter Verkooijen.

If you are interested in meeting with CEO of Zibaba Ronen Shlomo or VP Business Development Michael Katz either in Boston (September 12^th to 14^th and 19^th to 20^th), New York (September 15^th to 16^th) or San Francisco (September 20^th to 23^rd), please send an email to bizdev@zibaba.com stating city, date and time preferences.

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Leading f-Commerce provider Zibaba has launched a unique lead generation solution for businesses enabling them to showcase products and services, and capture real time sales leads directly from their Facebook fan page.

“Millions of businesses are looking for new channels to generate fresh and relevant sales leads,” Ronen Shlomo, CEO of Zibaba, stated.  “With targeted advertising and social recommendations, businesses can now capture relevant and hot leads directly from their Facebook fan page.  Businesses such as auto dealerships, financial service providers and real estate agents can showcase their products and services on their fan page.  Then in the click of a button, relevant targeted leads can be collected directly from the items in which potential customers have shown an interest”.

Zibaba has added this new vertical in addition to its existing ‘Storefront for Facebook’ offering.  The new lead generation service will also utilize Zibaba’s state of the art f-Commerce platform and benefit from features such as Integrated Social Interactions, Social Affiliate Network and Facebook Targeted Advertising and Analytics. “It’s the law of supply and demand.  With more than 750 million users and the ability to target advertising to large groups of users with specific interests, more businesses are looking to increase their presence and advertising budget on Facebook” Stated Ronen Shlomo.

“It’s a great development that will be very useful to thousands of businesses,” said Michael Katz, VP Business Development, Zibaba.  “In addition to real estate agents and auto dealers, we believe that financial service industry professionals will benefit greatly from this new lead generation service.  Each product offered by these businesses can be displayed within their Facebook fan page and utilize the full social interaction features of our social lead generation solution such as ‘share’, ‘ask advice’ and ‘like’.  Businesses will now be able to generate qualified leads with much more relevance and accuracy and in turn, increase their sales”.

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Topman, one of the leading fashion retailers in the UK has entered the social commerce space and opened a store inside Facebook using Zibaba’s full featured f-Commerce platform.

“When a big brand such as Topman opens a Facebook store and chooses Zibaba it indicates two things,” Ronen Shlomo, CEO of Zibaba, stated.  “One is that the time is right to add a Facebook store to any existing online offering and secondly that Zibaba fully caters to the social commerce requirements of any brand, big or small”.

In addition to Topman, Zibaba has been the Facebook storefront of choice for many other leading fashion brands to launch stores inside the social network.  These include brands such as Bank, Uniqlo, Firetrap and and Fly53.  “It’s a level playing field right now in terms of Facebook storefront providers, but I feel that Zibaba is starting to lead the field in a number of verticals and fashion is just one of them.” Stated Ronen Shlomo.

“We are very excited that Topman has chosen Zibaba to power their Facebook store,” said Michael Katz, VP Business Development, Zibaba.  “In just a few months we have seen an incredible growth in the number retailers making the transition in Facebook.  For Zibaba our customer base is doubling month on month.  We believe that merchants are beginning to understand and realize the potential of being able to reach customers in their favorite social network.  Additionally they are also utilizing the full social interaction features of our stores such as ‘share’, ‘ask advice’ and ‘like’.  Customers are now able to have a two way communication with brands and the brands get a clearer picture of what consumers want, like and dislike”.

The social commerce solution offered by Zibaba includes the ability for merchants to run Group Offers, Flash Sales and Coupons directly from their Facebook store.  Zibaba also assists merchants to promote their Facebook stores by connecting them to online marketing professionals within the environment of a Social Affiliate Network.  “We don’t just give our clients a store and leave them to get on with it.  We want our clients to succeed and therefore we provide them with the tools to do just that” stated Ronen Shlomo.

Facebook Preferred Development Company Zibaba now enables customers of e-Commerce provider Magento the opportunity to open stores on Facebook. The development will allow Magento store owners to duplicate their complete existing shop and launch their Magento store inside their own Facebook fan page.

“We have made this development based on a huge number of requests from customers currently using the Magento e-Commerce solution,” Ronen Shlomo, CEO of Zibaba, stated.  “We live in an age where people need technical solutions that provide the fastest and easiest way to achieve their goals.  Now that we have developed this ‘bridge’ between Magento stores and Facebook, store owners can easily cross that bridge and launch a Facebook store directly from their own Facebook fan page”.

“It is an excellent chance for Magento customers looking to dive into social media,” said Michael Katz, VP Business Development, Zibaba.  “Social commerce is still in its infancy, but every day we are witnessing historic growth.  The reported numbers of new Facebook stores are soaring and being reported on by leading publications.  Customers of Magento will also enjoy the enhanced social marketing features of opening a Facebook store with Zibaba.  These include the ability to run Group Offers, Coupons and have their Facebook stores promoted by our Social Affiliate Network”.

Zibaba has witnessed the growth of Facebook stores firsthand.  Katz continued “Since we launched at the end of December 2010, our figures have doubled month to month.  The demand for Facebook stores is quite staggering but not surprising.  After all, with over 650 million potential customers, it’s only obvious that putting a store in front of this potential customer base makes solid business sense.”

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“In what is becoming a very competitive space, we have developed this application to enable Shopify customers a quick and seamless solution to take their Shopify store social,” Ronen Shlomo, CEO of Zibaba, stated.  “Customers will find that the transition to a Facebook store is not only simple, but with the improved design of our Shop Manager user interface, Shopify customers can be up and running with their Facebook store in minutes”.

“A great deal of time was spent on both the development and on the UI” said Arie Fishler, CTO, Zibaba.  “We wanted to ensure that Shopify customers are being offered the best solution for opening a Facebook store, from both an integration perspective and a usability perspective”.  Zibaba currently offers the storefront solution in over 13 different languages and is adding more on request.  Additional store features include Group Offers, Coupons, fan only discounts, checkout in Facebook and a whole array of marketing support tools.

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The study also revealed that links to Facebook in emails where “Facebook” is mentioned in the subject line, and is the main call to action, received 42.5% of all unique clicks.  This makes up 1% of unique clicks when only the Facebook icon is included in the email and is not a part of the main call to action.

In an experiment involving the use of the above two elements, two weeks following the sending of an email, 75% f brands analyzed experienced a 16% or more increase in Web traffic from Facebook to their websites.  Creating proof that consumer engagement is higher when combined with social media.