There was an interesting press release from MarketPage a system that “allows anyone to have a shop on their Facebook Page and invite others to sell there.”
Its seems like a natural.
You have a fanbase that wants to connect with you and you allow people to sell merchandise on your page your fans would be interested in.
The first one out of the block is none other than Snoop Dog.
Melvin Tercan, the CEO of Tinypay, Inc. the start-up behind MarketPage is quoted as saying:
“We’ve quickly discovered that it doesn’t make sense to create a shop just for your friends.”
“People seem to be coming together at Pages that promote a certain artist, brand or community and attract a lot of fans.”
“That’s the place where you want to sell.”
We’ve made it possible for all the 850 million Facebook users to create a true e-commerce community,”
MarketPage launches today as a marketplace solution for Facebook Pages and hip-hop superstar Snoop Dogg is the first to use it.
Snoop Dogg will be the first to have his merchandise for sale on his “Snooper market.”
Over 15 million of his fans on Facebook will have instant access to his MarketPage.
He has invited other merchants to sell on his page and plans to open it up for everyone in the near future.
Snoop says he’s excited to let his fans “get all their Snoop swag on.”
Tinypay the company behind Marketpage, is yet another startup using the .Me extension for its website, so they are Tinypay.me
Far from it more like really old tech
Facebook stores on fan pages have been a big failure, been around for years
Peeps don’t go to a facebook fan page to shop
As “peeps” get more desperate to make a living they’ll try anything to make a buck but it will be another ‘preaching to the choir’ scenario as friends will be selling the same thing to friends a la Amway. And nobody wants that uncomfortable feeling.
Snoop Dick and all the other celebs will have success selling to the sheeple that are looking for acceptance but how many of thoses so called celebs actually follow back?
Close the book people!
The peeps vote is c-h-e-e-s-e !!!!!!
I can see some people getting unfriended over getting solicited. I think we are all suffering from info overload. Now “friends” will be pushing crap on us too?
Could be somewhat meaningful for small scale eCommerce.
I don’t know if it’s going to relate much to domains, since the sort of people who are going to be setting up facebook stores are the sorts of people who send the offers on domains that we all ignore.
Whether it has legs or not is yet to be seen, but it does have one huge baked in advantage.
Essentially all your potential buyers are already signed up for an account.
I’ve managed a few affiliate programs where we found partners offering superior pricing to ‘the majors’ on the same product, yet still saw conversion plummet since people weren’t comfortable buying from backwater sources, or weren’t comfortable signing up for a new account, or were more apt to impulse buy when they already had an account at a trusted source.
People don’t go to Facebook to shop but then again for the longest time, people didn’t go to Amazon to buy t shirts, either.
My bet is against this, but with an ear to the ground and no dogma-chanting to drown out the truth.