On social media, you can either selling your own products directly, or marketing your products and drive traffic to your store to generate sales. Some social platforms have “shop” feature that allows you to sell your products. For instance, on Facebook and Instagram, You can list your product for sale. This feature saves you form creating an online store on your website or third party marketplace. When you promote, either through you pages or through ads, you are basically trying to divert social traffic to your store.
Selling Through Social Media Vs. Promoting Through Social Media
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Selling's like making a direct ask for a purchase, think "Buy my shirt!" Promoting builds hype & awareness, like "Check out this cool shirt brand!" Both crucial, but selling feels pushy, promoting paves the way. Think long-term engagement, then close the deal
I use social media to sell my products directly. For this I purchase items from wholesale market and then give it's advertisement on social media, with my complete contact detail, soon people contact me we set a place to meet and then we meet and I sell my products.
That's nice , what social media do you use for advertising and what has your results been like so far? This year am planning on putting in more focus on advertising and promoting my business.
I experimented with selling and promoting through social media platforms. Initially, I used Instagram to sell my products, and now I am employing both Instagram and Facebook to promote my services.
Selling services is all about understanding what your customers need and want as well. You can focus on building relationships and providing value too and the sales will definitely follow naturally.
