Facebook Fan Page is a free social media marketing tool which could help you to generate traffic to your Blog. Why Facebook? It is because Facebook is first ranking social media in the world and it is very popular. (Check the top site ranking at Alexa.com)

Below is various steps to guide you how to make facebook fan page for your blog, blogshop or business website:

Step 1:
Visit www.facebook.com and click “Create a Page” and follow the instruction to fill in all the necessary information.

Step 2:
You will have the page below once you have done all the registration. Please update picture and write something about your page.

Step 3:
Click on the “Edit Page” button, you will come to the page below. At your right hand bottom, you will see the button “Get Your Badge“. It will bring you to the page which will generate the embedded fan page code for your blog or blogshop webpage.

Step 4:
In the Fan Box Widget, Copy the embedded code for the fan box and paste it to your blog POST/Side Bar or webpage HTML, then you will be able to have a facebook fan page for your blog.

Done! (Note: At the beginning, you can use “Suggest to friends” to invite your facebook friends list Add Fan to your Blog.) Now you can enjoy the benefits of Facebook Fan Page which can assist you to generate more traffic to your blogshop.

At the same time, I have done a quick research for the current trend of Blog Shop. Let’s have a look for Google Trend for Blogshop and Blog shop. It shows the report below:

Base on the analysis of Google Trend, Google began to detect the blog shop in later part of 2005. and Blog Shop trend is increasing yearly. Therefore, Blog Shopping will be another trend for online shopping.

The Reasons why Blog Shopping is becoming so popular today

Blog is low cost pre-sales channel online and easily to start any times. For example, if you have a home-made sauces (example: http://blogshop.my/nice-sauces/ ). If you would like to promote it online, you can just register any BLOG service providers (such as wordpress, blogspot) to start write your blog post and public the photo and some introduction of products with simple contact information, without spending money to ask for new development of website. The next step you can decide to submit your blogshop to any Business Directory online. For example blogshop.MY

BLOG is pre-sales channel, and then we need to get some traffic online. Mostly people will use the Free Social Media Marketing Tools (such as Facebook, Twitter, Friendster) to start building the relationship online and making new friends. Building the trust through Social Media Marketing tool and also write a valuable BLOG will attract more people to visit your blog shop and shopping at your blog. Therefore it will build long term relationship with people and customer loyalty in the future.

In Malaysia, we have found that there is only small group of people is paying credit card and purchase online. These groups of online shoppers are most familiar with online shopping cart operation. How about for the non-online shoppers? So Blog Shopping can be another option for non-online shoppers. For example, blogshop owner just need to write a blog post with the product’s images, description, price, payment method, delivery terms etc. If a non-online shopper would like to purchase products from you. he/she will follow the contact information to email you or call you for any enquiry of delivery, pricing, product detail information. Without any advance technical knowledge, you can own your shop online very easily and simple. So WHY NOT to own your blogshop now ?

In Conclusion, Blog Shopping Trend is become more popular today and easily to implement. It benefit for non-technical people to start selling stuff online with just a BLOG. If you have any good suggestions, welcome your comments.

Related entries

• Free ebook for Blogshop (Chinese Version)
  This ebook is wrote in Chinese Language, it explain the Blog shopping trend in Malaysia.
• Blog shop Directory
  Submit your Blogshop to Blogshop Directory for free advertising.
• How to Write a Famous Blog
  You can start to write your blog with some guidelines for this website.
• Blog Shop Service Provider
  If you don’t know how to start a blogshop, you can find some professional blogshop service consultant to assist you.

So think differently and think out of the box will make your life different

Do not sell a “thing” to your customers. Sell “Something very useful” for them, simple and easy to use.